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[fatsnotbad]

Skin cancer is two steps, and you have only ever been warned about one of them.

Initiation is the mutation. Ultraviolet writes it into a skin cell's DNA.

It writes it into everybody. The Greek fisherman, the Danish clerk, the Cumbrian shepherd.

A mutated cell is not a tumour. It is a cell the immune system finds and kills, thousands of times a summer.

Promotion is whatever stops that happening.

Sunlight on skin releases prostaglandin E2, and prostaglandin E2 tells the immune cells to stand down.

Prostaglandin E2 is made from arachidonic acid.

Arachidonic acid is made from linoleic acid.

Linoleic acid is sunflower oil, rapeseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, and every spread built from them.

One chain. One entry point. No linoleic acid in the membrane, no prostaglandin surge, no stand-down. The mutated cell dies like the rest.

Switch a transplant patient's immune system off with drugs and their squamous skin cancer risk rises 65-fold. Same sun. Same skin. The guard was removed.

Seed oil removes the guard chemically, every time the sun comes out.

A study took 76 people who had already had a skin cancer and halved the fat in their food. Two years later the control group had grown ten new lesions apiece. The other group had grown three.

Ibuprofen exists to jam the enzyme that turns arachidonic acid into prostaglandin. Regular users get fewer skin cancers. Nobody has ever asked why.

A saturated fat cannot enter that chain at any point. It has no double bond to convert. Beef fat, butter, lamb, dripping: zero.

Your grandmother worked the garden in a housecoat with no cream on, on a membrane built from dripping, and died with her own skin.

Every leaflet in the dermatology waiting room is about initiation. Hats, shade, factor 50.

Nobody in that room has been asked what they built their promotion out of.

The sun writes the mutation. The bottle in the cupboard signs it off.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Your body fat keeps a diary of everything you have eaten for the last four years, and doctors have been reading it since 1966.

Los Angeles. 846 men in a veterans' home, half of them switched from butter and lard to corn and soybean oil, with every meal made by the kitchen.

The researchers took fat biopsies as they went. A needle into the belly, a look at what the fat was made of.

At the start, linoleic acid, the seed oil fat, made up 11% of the men's body fat.

After five years on the oil it was 32%.

The men had not put on weight. Their fat had been swapped, molecule by molecule, for the contents of the kitchen bottle.

That is how the swap works in every human being. You do not burn today's oil and move on. You store it, and you build with it, and you draw it back out for years.

The half-life of linoleic acid in human fat is about two years. Eat it for a decade and you are carrying a decade.

Which is why the 6 week trial of giving it up shows nothing, and the 12 week study your GP quotes shows nothing, and the man who tried it for a month has an opinion.

The membrane rebuilds on the same clock. Two years for half of it. Four for most.

The Americans in that home were 32% seed oil by 1964. The average American today is not far off, and has never been in a trial.

You are what you ate in 2022. Choose accordingly for 2030.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Your cholesterol has a long list of things that will bring it down, and only one of them gets you congratulated.

Starving lowers your cholesterol.

Liver failure lowers your cholesterol.

Sepsis lowers your cholesterol.

An overactive thyroid lowers your cholesterol.

A severe burn lowers your cholesterol.

Cancer lowers your cholesterol, often years before anybody finds the cancer.

A statin lowers your cholesterol.

Every one of them moves the number the surgery wants moved.

Framingham followed 4,374 men and women free of heart disease for 30 years. Past 50, a high cholesterol did not predict death. A falling one did, and for every point it dropped each year, deaths rose 11%.

The number was going down because the person was.

Six of those get you a hospital bed. The seventh gets you a text from the surgery saying well done.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Full-fat ground beef is the best cut in the shop, and I'll go through it once.

- Cheapest beef in the aisle per calorie, and it isn't close
- The whole cow, every trim from every cut, blended
- Fat at the ratio the animal grew it, none of it wasted
- Collagen and connective tissue the steak counter bins
- Same iron, B12, zinc and creatine as the ribeye
- Fills you, which lean steak never quite does
- Cooks in 8 minutes, no skill, one pan
- Freezes flat, defrosts fast, feeds a family
- Nothing to trim, nothing to leave on the plate
- Sold in every supermarket in every country on earth

The ribeye is the same animal with worse economics and a better photograph.

Bottom shelf, plain label. Keep it that way.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

To protect you, America bans haggis. To protect you, America allows chlorine on the chicken.

To protect you, America bans a Camembert under 60 days old. To protect you, America allows a growth hormone in the cow that made the milk.

To protect you, America bans a jug of raw milk crossing a state line, as a federal offence. To protect you, America allows potassium bromate in the bread, which Britain banned in 1990.

To protect you, America bans the Kinder egg. To protect you, America allows ractopamine in the pork, which 160 countries will not touch.

To protect you, America bans Mimolette, a cheese with mites on the rind. To protect you, America allows atrazine on the corn and in the tap water, which Europe pulled in 2004.

To protect you, America bans foie gras in California. To protect you, America allows 6 hormones in the beef, banned in Europe since 1989.

To protect you, America bans beluga caviar. To protect you, America allowed brominated vegetable oil in the pop until 2024. Britain got rid of it in 1970.

One column is a farmhouse larder. The other column is a patent office.

Every food on the banned list was made by a peasant with an animal. Every substance on the permitted list has a manufacturer, a lobbyist and a fee.

The sheep's lung has been a crime since 1971. The yoga mat chemical in the bun is still fine.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Things you can legally buy in Britain today:

- Cigarettes.
- A litre of vodka at 9am.
- An energy drink with 13 teaspoons of sugar, at 16.
- Paracetamol enough to end a liver, across two shops.
- A scratchcard.
- A vape shaped like a highlighter.
- A loaf that stays soft for three weeks.
- A bottle of hexane-washed oil with a heart on the label.
- A month of weight-loss injections from a website that asked your height.

Things a Scottish dairy farmer cannot sell you:

- A glass of milk from his own cow.

Banned since 1983, on the grounds of safety.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

The French word for liver is the Latin word for figs, because the Romans knew the recipe for a fatty liver 2,000 years before medicine got round to naming the disease.

Iecur ficatum. Fig-stuffed liver. The Romans took a goose, pinned it in a pen so it could not walk, and pushed dried figs down its neck for weeks. The liver swelled to 6 times its size, went pale and buttery, and was carried to the table as the finest thing a kitchen could produce. Horace has a dinner party serving it. The Egyptians had been at the same trick on the walls of tombs at Saqqara 2,500 years earlier, funnelling grain into geese held by the neck.

The adjective ate the noun. Ficatum stopped meaning figged and started meaning liver, and it is still there: foie, fegato, hígado, ficat. Every time a Frenchman says liver he is saying figs.

Today the goose gets maize, because sugar and starch do the job faster than fruit. Nobody has ever fattened a liver on beef dripping. Nobody has tried, because every farmer since the pharaohs has known what makes a liver fat, and it is not fat.

In 1980 a doctor at the Mayo Clinic described the same organ, in the same condition, in people who had never touched a drink. He called it non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It now sits in about one in three adults on earth.

The patients had done to themselves, over 20 years, in a chair, on breakfast cereal and fruit juice and a snack for the road, what a Roman farmer did to a goose in a month. And they were sent home with a leaflet telling them to cut the fat.



Mike

 

[Medusa]

De dag van goed eten, volgens de klok.

6.45u: groene smoothie. Twee handenvol spinazie, halve banaan, amandelmelk, een scoop erwtenproteïne. De spinazie alleen al bevat meer oxalaat dan het lichaam op een dag kan verwerken. Niemand noemde dat in het recept.

7.00u: overnight oats met chia, amandelboter en bessen. Langzame afgifte, zegt de blog. De haver is suiker met vertraging. De amandelboter is een pot onverzadigd vet, en hij staat open sinds maart.

9.30u: hongerig. Verward. Ze had het goede ontbijt. Een handje gemengde noten, voor de gezonde vetten. Meer omega-6 dan een chip.

10.15u: haverlatte van de kar. Haver, water, raapzaadolie.

12.30u: quinoa-bowl. Geroosterde zoete aardappel, kikkererwten, boerenkool, tahini, een scheutje dressing dat voor 90% uit zonnebloemolie bestaat. Drie van de vijf dingen erin staan op de oxalaatlijst en de andere twee zijn olie.

1.20u: opgeblazen. Dit is de vezel die werkt, heeft ze gelezen.

3.00u: de dip toch. Die van de cornflakesmensen. Pure chocolade, 85%, voor de antioxidanten. Cacao is het oxalaatrijkste spul in de winkel.

4.30u: rijstwafels en hummus. De hummus is kikkererwten en raapzaadolie met een plaatje van een olijf erop.

7.00u: linzencurry, bruine rijst, spinazie erdoorheen geroerd, geroosterde amandelen erbovenop. Haar derde spinazie van de dag, haar vierde amandel.

9.00u: nog steeds hongerig, wat nergens op slaat bij 2.100 calorieën groenten. Pindakaas op een rijstwafel, staande.

23.30u: wakker. Haar handen en voeten zijn koud in een warme kamer. Haar knie doet pijn en ze geeft de hardlooptraining de schuld.

Zes eetmomenten, één lange crash, koude voeten, een knie, en een lichaam dat stilletjes oxalaatkristallen en ranzige zaadvetten stapelt op de plekken waar het ze bewaart.

Bij de dokter krijgt ze te horen dat haar dieet uitstekend is en de vermoeidheid vast stress is.

Ze deed alles goed. De instructies klopten niet.

 

[edwin]

Over koud gesproken. Sinds een paar maanden heb ik een collega die het wel erg snel koud heeft. Als het binnen 20 graden is en buiten 23 graden doet ze de deur dicht omdat het koud wordt. Lijkt me raar als het buiten warmer is. Nu heeft ze binnen al en trui aan en soms handschoenen.

Ik heb nu nog steeds korte broek en t-shirt korte mouwen.

Ze is veganist. Misschien heeft dat er iets mee te maken, of misschien niet.

 

[JVG]

Over koud gesproken. Sinds een paar maanden heb ik een collega die het wel erg snel koud heeft. Als het binnen 20 graden is en buiten 23 graden doet ze de deur dicht omdat het koud wordt. Lijkt me raar als het buiten warmer is. Nu heeft ze binnen al en trui aan en soms handschoenen.

Ik heb nu nog steeds korte broek en t-shirt korte mouwen.

Ze is veganist. Misschien heeft dat er iets mee te maken, of misschien niet.

Trage stofwisseling, ijzertekort, B12 tekort en waarschijnlijk ook nog eens de spiermassa van een selderstok.

Wel kortom, haar dieet is groen maar haar tenen zijn blauw.

 

[Godsgeschenk]

Wij hadden bij ons in de praktijk de week van de vitaliteit. Tja, daardoor wordt er beslag op je pauze gelegd omdat je een of ander gezond iets moet ondernemen. De laatste dag hadden we een fijne lunch. Altijd leuk toch. Hij was vegetarisch, gelukkig nog net niet veganistisch met 2 veganistische artsen die dat organiseren. Ik doe niet moeilijk, zo ben ik niet. Heb een broodje ei weten te bemachtigen. Verder allemaal bonen, zaden etc. veel smoothies. Tja, leuk idee, maar dat krijg je in een huisartsenpraktijk. Dat is namelijk gezond. Aan een statafel een rondje gesproken met de doktersassistentes. Ik zei dat ik wel een alleseter ben. O, dat klopt dus niet . Maar goed het ging over orgaanvlees. Bé, zeiden ze, dat eten wij niet.
Tja, dan maar een griepspuitje binnenkort. Ik dus niet, doe niet mee, heb mijn koelflesje met rauwe melk.

Dorothé

 

[fatsnotbad]

Kale, as advertised:
- Vitamin K
- Vitamin A
- Iron
- Calcium
- Protein
- Antioxidants

Kale, in reality:
- K1 only. Clots blood. The K2 that keeps calcium out of arteries is in cheese and yolk.
- Beta-carotene, not vitamin A. Most people convert almost none of it.
- Plant iron. Absorbed at a tenth the rate of the iron in a steak.
- Calcium, delivered with goitrogens that block the thyroid from using iodine.
- 3g of protein per 100g, and not the amino acids that build anything.
- Antioxidants: the plant's own pesticides, still active when they reach you.
- Thallium. Kale pulls it out of the soil better than almost any crop grown.
- Dacthal on 60% of it, a pesticide Europe banned in 2009.
- Mustard oils, assembled in your mouth on the first bite. That is the bitterness.
- The compound that gives cattle anaemia on a kale field. Farmers dose the herd first.

A cow cannot run away. A kale plant cannot either. So it did what every plant that is rooted to the spot does, and spent a few million years turning itself into something that hurts to eat. The bitterness is the warning. The goitrogen is the punishment. The thallium is what it found lying around and decided to keep.

An 88-year-old woman in New York ate a kilo of raw brassica a day for months to keep her blood sugar down. She was found in a coma with her thyroid shut off. Nothing had gone wrong with the plant.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Feed a zoo lion soya and the inspector calls it cruelty.

Feed a cat a vegan diet and the vet calls it cruelty, because a cat without taurine goes blind.

Feed a ferret bread and the rescue calls it cruelty.

Feed a snake a lentil and the reptile keeper calls it cruelty.

Feed an eagle oats and the sanctuary calls it cruelty.

Feed a calf no milk and the ministry calls it cruelty. The law says milk, in writing.

Feed a foxhound a plant-based kibble and the hunt calls it cruelty, and the dog calls it a Tuesday.

Feed a dolphin tofu and the aquarium calls it cruelty.

Feed a rescued seal pup anything but fish and the charity calls it cruelty.

Now the human child.

Feed him cereal at seven, a cereal bar at ten, pasta at twelve and a spread from a tub at six, with an oat drink to wash it down, and the dietitian calls it balanced.

Every captive carnivore in the country is protected by law from the diet the plate poster hands a five-year-old.

The RSPCA would take your cat off you for what the Eatwell Guide does to your son.



Mike

 

[fatsnotbad]

Things a supermarket will sell you without a second look:

- 2 litres of pop for £1.50
- A "protein" bar with 9 sugars in the ingredients
- 4 pints of milk with the cream removed and the price the same
- A litre of oil that went through a solvent
- A margarine with a heart charity's logo, for a fee
- A ready meal with 40 ingredients and a picture of a farm
- A bag of sugar labelled "raw" for double the money

Things it will not sell you at any price:

- Whole milk from the dairy 3 miles away, unpasteurised
- Mutton
- Beef fat, in a pack, as a fat
- Bones, unless it's for the dog
- Cream with the cream still in it
- A steak with the cap left on

Everything from the animal, as it came, is either banned, hidden or sent to the pet aisle.

Everything from the factory is on the end of the aisle at eye height with a heart on it.

The supermarket knows exactly what sells. It also knows exactly what it's allowed to say, and those aren't the same list.



Mike