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Mike
Mike
"How have you got any energy if you haven't had breakfast?"
I've got about two months of fuel strapped round my middle. I'm just using a bit of it.
"I thought fat was hard to get at."
It is if you keep posting sugar through the letterbox every three hours. The body never has to go to the tank, so it forgets where the tank is.
"So you just don't eat at all?"
Not until I'm hungry. About one, two o'clock. Then I eat like it's about to be discontinued.
"Don't you get shaky?"
No. Shaky is what happens when you've had a bowl of cereal at seven and you're coming down off it by ten. I never went up, so there's nothing to come down from.
"What about your metabolism, though?"
It's a body, not a boiler. It doesn't go out because you missed the toast.
"It just sounds a bit disordered, if I'm honest."
You eat six times a day, you've got a biscuit drawer, there are cereal bars in your glovebox, and you panic if the eleven o'clock snack is late. Which one of us sounds like he's on a drip?
"My dietician says breakfast is the most important meal of the day."
Your dietician's quoting a cereal advert from 1917. I'm quoting a lion. The lion skipped breakfast and ate the dietician.
Mike
I've got about two months of fuel strapped round my middle. I'm just using a bit of it.
"I thought fat was hard to get at."
It is if you keep posting sugar through the letterbox every three hours. The body never has to go to the tank, so it forgets where the tank is.
"So you just don't eat at all?"
Not until I'm hungry. About one, two o'clock. Then I eat like it's about to be discontinued.
"Don't you get shaky?"
No. Shaky is what happens when you've had a bowl of cereal at seven and you're coming down off it by ten. I never went up, so there's nothing to come down from.
"What about your metabolism, though?"
It's a body, not a boiler. It doesn't go out because you missed the toast.
"It just sounds a bit disordered, if I'm honest."
You eat six times a day, you've got a biscuit drawer, there are cereal bars in your glovebox, and you panic if the eleven o'clock snack is late. Which one of us sounds like he's on a drip?
"My dietician says breakfast is the most important meal of the day."
Your dietician's quoting a cereal advert from 1917. I'm quoting a lion. The lion skipped breakfast and ate the dietician.
Mike
The supermarket chicken is 42 days old, and it's had a hard 6 weeks.
Chicken:
- 6 weeks in a shed, 19 to the square metre
- 2.5kg, legs buckling under its own breast
- Over a quarter walk badly by catching day
- Fed soy and maize, never a blade of grass
- Fat about 5x higher in omega-6
- Breast tastes of whatever you marinated it in
- Needs a sauce, a rub and a sprinkle of creatine
Mutton:
- 5 years on a hill, in all weathers
- Walked for every mouthful
- Made its own fat from grass
- Gram for gram, about 4x the iron, 5x the zinc, 10x the B12
- Fat that stays solid in the pan and crisp on the plate
- Tastes of the hill it grew on, with salt
- Needs nothing but an oven and time
Only one is on the dietician's list, and it's the one that struggles to walk.
Mike
Chicken:
- 6 weeks in a shed, 19 to the square metre
- 2.5kg, legs buckling under its own breast
- Over a quarter walk badly by catching day
- Fed soy and maize, never a blade of grass
- Fat about 5x higher in omega-6
- Breast tastes of whatever you marinated it in
- Needs a sauce, a rub and a sprinkle of creatine
Mutton:
- 5 years on a hill, in all weathers
- Walked for every mouthful
- Made its own fat from grass
- Gram for gram, about 4x the iron, 5x the zinc, 10x the B12
- Fat that stays solid in the pan and crisp on the plate
- Tastes of the hill it grew on, with salt
- Needs nothing but an oven and time
Only one is on the dietician's list, and it's the one that struggles to walk.
Mike
1908: a Smithsonian doctor examines around 2,000 Native Americans still living on game and finds exactly two cases of cancer, in a population where a modern doctor would expect hundreds.
1913: a missionary doctor arrives in Gabon, examines thousands of patients a year living on fish and game, and reports he could not find a single case of cancer.
1920s: a doctor working among Labrador's Inuit on seal, fish and caribou sees no cancer, no appendicitis and no heart disease in a decade, and then watches all three arrive with the trading post.
1935: the first cancer in a Canadian Inuit population is recorded at that post, within a generation of the shop opening.
1964: a cardiologist tests 400 Masai warriors on milk, blood and meat and cannot find a single heart attack, in men eating more saturated fat than anyone in America.
1990: a Swedish doctor examines every adult on the island of Kitava and finds not one stroke, not one heart attack and not one case of diabetes among 2,300 people who have never opened a packet.
2026: half of British people born after 1960 will get cancer, and heart disease kills more people than anything else on earth.
The diseases we're told are the price of living longer were so rare in people living on the animal that doctors crossed oceans to confirm it, and came back with the same empty notebook every time.
Each of them was told it was a coincidence, and each of those populations was then given the shop.
Nobody has ever had to ship cancer to a people. A sack of flour and a drum of seed oil are lighter, and between them they do the job.
Mike
1913: a missionary doctor arrives in Gabon, examines thousands of patients a year living on fish and game, and reports he could not find a single case of cancer.
1920s: a doctor working among Labrador's Inuit on seal, fish and caribou sees no cancer, no appendicitis and no heart disease in a decade, and then watches all three arrive with the trading post.
1935: the first cancer in a Canadian Inuit population is recorded at that post, within a generation of the shop opening.
1964: a cardiologist tests 400 Masai warriors on milk, blood and meat and cannot find a single heart attack, in men eating more saturated fat than anyone in America.
1990: a Swedish doctor examines every adult on the island of Kitava and finds not one stroke, not one heart attack and not one case of diabetes among 2,300 people who have never opened a packet.
2026: half of British people born after 1960 will get cancer, and heart disease kills more people than anything else on earth.
The diseases we're told are the price of living longer were so rare in people living on the animal that doctors crossed oceans to confirm it, and came back with the same empty notebook every time.
Each of them was told it was a coincidence, and each of those populations was then given the shop.
Nobody has ever had to ship cancer to a people. A sack of flour and a drum of seed oil are lighter, and between them they do the job.
Mike
A cow and the activist trying to ban her have been emitting since 2002. Only one of them has made any progress.
2002
Daisy I: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 0: driven home from hospital in a diesel Volvo. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2008
Daisy II: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 6: first flight, Majorca. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2014
Daisy III: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 12: half-term in Dubai. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2020
Daisy IV: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 18: glues himself to a road in a fleece made of oil. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2026
Daisy V: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 24: flies to Turkey to tell the UN about Daisy. Carbon: 100 million years old.
Every burp in that family tree was grass the summer before. The methane breaks down in about 12 years, the grass takes it back in, and the next Daisy eats it. Five cows, one field, the same carbon going round and round, and not a gram added to the sky.
Jasper's carbon spent 100 million years underground bothering nobody. He dug it up and set fire to it, and a good chunk will still be up there when Daisy the 170th is eating the same field.
Daisy hasn't changed a thing in 24 years. According to Jasper, that's the problem.
Mike
2002
Daisy I: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 0: driven home from hospital in a diesel Volvo. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2008
Daisy II: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 6: first flight, Majorca. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2014
Daisy III: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 12: half-term in Dubai. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2020
Daisy IV: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 18: glues himself to a road in a fleece made of oil. Carbon: 100 million years old.
2026
Daisy V: eats the field, burps the field. Carbon: 1 summer old.
Jasper, 24: flies to Turkey to tell the UN about Daisy. Carbon: 100 million years old.
Every burp in that family tree was grass the summer before. The methane breaks down in about 12 years, the grass takes it back in, and the next Daisy eats it. Five cows, one field, the same carbon going round and round, and not a gram added to the sky.
Jasper's carbon spent 100 million years underground bothering nobody. He dug it up and set fire to it, and a good chunk will still be up there when Daisy the 170th is eating the same field.
Daisy hasn't changed a thing in 24 years. According to Jasper, that's the problem.
Mike
Your stomach runs at a pH of about 1.5, which is the acidity of a scavenger, and it does that on purpose.
That acid kills most of the bacteria that arrive with your dinner.
That acid prises B12 off the protein it comes in, so the body can collect it.
That acid releases the iron, calcium, zinc and magnesium locked inside your food.
That acid switches on the enzyme that breaks protein into the amino acids you're built from.
That acid is the signal that tells the rest of the gut the meal has started.
A lion makes it. A vulture makes it. A newborn baby makes it by the first week.
Then we declared war on it.
England now writes well over 60 million prescriptions a year for pills that switch it off, mostly for heartburn from a diet of bread, pastry and seed oil.
Around 15 million Americans are on the same pill.
Low B12 is now so common in long-term users that the regulators warn about it.
Hip fractures rise in people who take it for years, because calcium stops being absorbed.
Gut infections rise, because nothing is killing what comes in.
A fifth of users were never told to stop, so the war on stomach acid has become a lifetime subscription.
The stomach spent two million years learning to make it, and we switched it off for a sandwich.
Mike
That acid kills most of the bacteria that arrive with your dinner.
That acid prises B12 off the protein it comes in, so the body can collect it.
That acid releases the iron, calcium, zinc and magnesium locked inside your food.
That acid switches on the enzyme that breaks protein into the amino acids you're built from.
That acid is the signal that tells the rest of the gut the meal has started.
A lion makes it. A vulture makes it. A newborn baby makes it by the first week.
Then we declared war on it.
England now writes well over 60 million prescriptions a year for pills that switch it off, mostly for heartburn from a diet of bread, pastry and seed oil.
Around 15 million Americans are on the same pill.
Low B12 is now so common in long-term users that the regulators warn about it.
Hip fractures rise in people who take it for years, because calcium stops being absorbed.
Gut infections rise, because nothing is killing what comes in.
A fifth of users were never told to stop, so the war on stomach acid has become a lifetime subscription.
The stomach spent two million years learning to make it, and we switched it off for a sandwich.
Mike
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Jeroenski
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Popeye is ook geen mens maar een tekenfilm figuur.Geloof er niks van, Popeye wordt toch sterk van spinazie.
In January 1961 Time put Ancel Keys on its cover, took its readers to dinner at his house, and let him tell America to cut its fat by almost two thirds before his own great study had produced a single result.
The dinner was the sales pitch. Brahms on the record player, candles on the table, a meal that could run two hours, martinis or negronis to start. Veal scallopine in Marsala with fresh green beans. A thousand calories, the magazine reported, and only 20% of them from fat.
That was how Keys wanted the country to eat. Fat down from about 40% of America's calories to 15%, and saturated fat from 17% to 4%. "Eat less fat meat, fewer eggs and dairy products," he said, and more fish, chicken, Canadian bacon, and Italian and Chinese food.
"People should know the facts," he told Time. "Then if they want to eat themselves to death, let them."
The facts that winter were thin. The study of seven countries that was meant to prove him right had only started its surveys in 1958 and had years left to run. What he had was a chart of six countries, picked from the 22 he could have used, and a seat on the American Heart Association committee that had just turned his idea into its first official advice on fat.
The cover did the rest. A physiologist's hunch went into American homes with a playlist and a cocktail menu attached, and it went in as settled science.
In 1965 his own equation for predicting blood cholesterol gained a term for the cholesterol in food. In 1968 the Heart Association told Americans to eat no more than three whole eggs a week. In 1984 Time ran another cover, two fried eggs and a rasher of bacon arranged into a frowning face. For decades American dietary advice held the country to 300mg of cholesterol a day, less than two eggs, until the government's advisers recommended dropping the limit in 2015.
In 1997, aged 93, Keys gave an interview to a food magazine.
"There's no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in blood," he said. "And we've known that all along. Cholesterol in the diet doesn't matter at all unless you happen to be a chicken or a rabbit."
We've known that all along.
Thirty-six years earlier he had told Time to tell America to eat fewer eggs, by candlelight, with a negroni in reach.
Mike
The dinner was the sales pitch. Brahms on the record player, candles on the table, a meal that could run two hours, martinis or negronis to start. Veal scallopine in Marsala with fresh green beans. A thousand calories, the magazine reported, and only 20% of them from fat.
That was how Keys wanted the country to eat. Fat down from about 40% of America's calories to 15%, and saturated fat from 17% to 4%. "Eat less fat meat, fewer eggs and dairy products," he said, and more fish, chicken, Canadian bacon, and Italian and Chinese food.
"People should know the facts," he told Time. "Then if they want to eat themselves to death, let them."
The facts that winter were thin. The study of seven countries that was meant to prove him right had only started its surveys in 1958 and had years left to run. What he had was a chart of six countries, picked from the 22 he could have used, and a seat on the American Heart Association committee that had just turned his idea into its first official advice on fat.
The cover did the rest. A physiologist's hunch went into American homes with a playlist and a cocktail menu attached, and it went in as settled science.
In 1965 his own equation for predicting blood cholesterol gained a term for the cholesterol in food. In 1968 the Heart Association told Americans to eat no more than three whole eggs a week. In 1984 Time ran another cover, two fried eggs and a rasher of bacon arranged into a frowning face. For decades American dietary advice held the country to 300mg of cholesterol a day, less than two eggs, until the government's advisers recommended dropping the limit in 2015.
In 1997, aged 93, Keys gave an interview to a food magazine.
"There's no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in blood," he said. "And we've known that all along. Cholesterol in the diet doesn't matter at all unless you happen to be a chicken or a rabbit."
We've known that all along.
Thirty-six years earlier he had told Time to tell America to eat fewer eggs, by candlelight, with a negroni in reach.
Mike
Medicine prescribed going without food for 2,400 years, and then a cereal company bought a magazine.
400 BC: Hippocrates tells the sick to stop eating. Feeding an illness, he says, is how you keep one.
100 AD: Plutarch writes that a day without food beats a day of medicine. Nobody in Rome finds this controversial.
200 AD: Galen, physician to emperors, puts fevers on a fast and gets paid in gold for it.
1025: Avicenna writes the textbook Europe will teach from for six hundred years. His cure for most things is three weeks without dinner.
1200s: the Church takes meat, butter and lard off the table for a third of the year and calls the result a healthier soul. The lord keeps the venison. The peasant keeps the fast.
1527: Paracelsus calls fasting the greatest remedy, the physician within. He is drunk for a lot of his career and still right about this.
1742: Benjamin Franklin prints that the best of all medicines are rest and fasting. Poor Richard sells ten thousand copies a year.
1880: Dr Henry Tanner goes forty days without food in New York, under medical watch, with newspapers printing his weight daily. He walks out and lives to 1919.
1900: Dr Edward Dewey, a working physician in Pennsylvania, publishes a book. Its title is The No-Breakfast Plan. It goes through many printings. Patients get better. Nothing is sold.
1911: Upton Sinclair tries fasting on himself, feels extraordinary, and writes The Fasting Cure. It is a bestseller.
1917: a nutritionist called Lenna Cooper writes that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The magazine is Good Health. The magazine is published by the Kellogg family. The Kellogg family sells breakfast.
1925: a public relations man called Edward Bernays is hired by a bacon company. He writes to 4,500 doctors asking whether a hearty breakfast is healthier than a light one. They say yes. Bacon sales rise. The hearty breakfast is now science.
1965: a Scotsman called Angus Barbieri walks into a Dundee hospital at 33 stone and fasts for 382 days on water, tea and vitamins, with the doctors taking bloods throughout. He leaves at 12 stone and stays there. It goes in the record books and out of the textbooks.
1990s: the gym decides that three hours without protein destroys muscle. The protein is for sale at the desk.
2003: a study finds that people who eat breakfast are leaner. The people who eat breakfast also tend not to be shift workers, smokers or hungover, and nobody reads past the headline.
2016: a Japanese biologist wins the Nobel Prize for showing what a cell does when you stop feeding it. It cleans house. The prize is given in Stockholm with a banquet.
2024: a conference abstract announces that intermittent fasting is linked to a 91% rise in heart deaths. It is based on two days of food recall from a decade earlier. It is on every front page by lunchtime.
2026: the surgery hands you a sheet that says skipping breakfast is a risk factor, next to a bowl of cornflakes in the illustration.
Twenty-four centuries of physicians starving the sick and watching them get up.
One century of a bacon firm, a cereal firm and a protein desk, and the oldest cure in medicine is now a thing your doctor has been trained to warn you about.
Hippocrates had no funding. That turns out to have been his only error.
Mike
400 BC: Hippocrates tells the sick to stop eating. Feeding an illness, he says, is how you keep one.
100 AD: Plutarch writes that a day without food beats a day of medicine. Nobody in Rome finds this controversial.
200 AD: Galen, physician to emperors, puts fevers on a fast and gets paid in gold for it.
1025: Avicenna writes the textbook Europe will teach from for six hundred years. His cure for most things is three weeks without dinner.
1200s: the Church takes meat, butter and lard off the table for a third of the year and calls the result a healthier soul. The lord keeps the venison. The peasant keeps the fast.
1527: Paracelsus calls fasting the greatest remedy, the physician within. He is drunk for a lot of his career and still right about this.
1742: Benjamin Franklin prints that the best of all medicines are rest and fasting. Poor Richard sells ten thousand copies a year.
1880: Dr Henry Tanner goes forty days without food in New York, under medical watch, with newspapers printing his weight daily. He walks out and lives to 1919.
1900: Dr Edward Dewey, a working physician in Pennsylvania, publishes a book. Its title is The No-Breakfast Plan. It goes through many printings. Patients get better. Nothing is sold.
1911: Upton Sinclair tries fasting on himself, feels extraordinary, and writes The Fasting Cure. It is a bestseller.
1917: a nutritionist called Lenna Cooper writes that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The magazine is Good Health. The magazine is published by the Kellogg family. The Kellogg family sells breakfast.
1925: a public relations man called Edward Bernays is hired by a bacon company. He writes to 4,500 doctors asking whether a hearty breakfast is healthier than a light one. They say yes. Bacon sales rise. The hearty breakfast is now science.
1965: a Scotsman called Angus Barbieri walks into a Dundee hospital at 33 stone and fasts for 382 days on water, tea and vitamins, with the doctors taking bloods throughout. He leaves at 12 stone and stays there. It goes in the record books and out of the textbooks.
1990s: the gym decides that three hours without protein destroys muscle. The protein is for sale at the desk.
2003: a study finds that people who eat breakfast are leaner. The people who eat breakfast also tend not to be shift workers, smokers or hungover, and nobody reads past the headline.
2016: a Japanese biologist wins the Nobel Prize for showing what a cell does when you stop feeding it. It cleans house. The prize is given in Stockholm with a banquet.
2024: a conference abstract announces that intermittent fasting is linked to a 91% rise in heart deaths. It is based on two days of food recall from a decade earlier. It is on every front page by lunchtime.
2026: the surgery hands you a sheet that says skipping breakfast is a risk factor, next to a bowl of cornflakes in the illustration.
Twenty-four centuries of physicians starving the sick and watching them get up.
One century of a bacon firm, a cereal firm and a protein desk, and the oldest cure in medicine is now a thing your doctor has been trained to warn you about.
Hippocrates had no funding. That turns out to have been his only error.
Mike
Medusa
Well-known member
Een dooier bevat alles wat nodig is om een hele kip te bouwen, en niets anders in de winkel kan dat claimen.
Hij bevat choline, het ruwe materiaal dat je brein gebruikt om het chemische middel voor geheugen te maken.
Hij bevat de choline die een lever nodig heeft om zijn eigen vet te exporteren, en daarom vult een choline-arme lever zich ermee.
Hij bevat kant-en-klare vitamine A, niet de plantaardige versie die je lichaam moet omzetten.
Hij bevat vitamine D, een van de weinige voedingsmiddelen op aarde die dat doen.
Hij bevat K2, de vitamine die calcium naar je botten stuurt en uit je slagaders houdt.
Hij bevat luteïne, het pigment waarvan je netvlies is opgebouwd.
Hij bevat elke aminozuur waar jij uit bestaat, in zo'n perfecte verhouding dat wetenschappers ooit elke andere eiwit daartegen scoorden.
Een zwangere vrouw heeft meer choline nodig dan bijna iedereen die leeft, en een dooier is de goedkoopste bron die er is.
Toen, in 1968, zei de hartstichting ons om het bij drie per week te houden.
Het eierverbruik in Groot-Brittannië daalde ruwweg met de helft in de decennia die volgden.
Nu komt ongeveer 9 op de 10 mensen tekort aan de choline-doelstelling.
Vette lever, de ziekte van een lever die zijn vet niet kan exporteren, ging van anoniem in 1980 naar een derde van de volwassenen.
In 2015 werd de cholesterolgrens stilletjes geschrapt, zonder excuses aan de dooiers.
Niemand belde de miljoenen mensen die veertig jaar lang eiwit-omeletten hadden gegeten.
De kip stopt nog steeds alles in de dooier. Hij is nooit verteld over de richtlijnen.
Hij bevat choline, het ruwe materiaal dat je brein gebruikt om het chemische middel voor geheugen te maken.
Hij bevat de choline die een lever nodig heeft om zijn eigen vet te exporteren, en daarom vult een choline-arme lever zich ermee.
Hij bevat kant-en-klare vitamine A, niet de plantaardige versie die je lichaam moet omzetten.
Hij bevat vitamine D, een van de weinige voedingsmiddelen op aarde die dat doen.
Hij bevat K2, de vitamine die calcium naar je botten stuurt en uit je slagaders houdt.
Hij bevat luteïne, het pigment waarvan je netvlies is opgebouwd.
Hij bevat elke aminozuur waar jij uit bestaat, in zo'n perfecte verhouding dat wetenschappers ooit elke andere eiwit daartegen scoorden.
Een zwangere vrouw heeft meer choline nodig dan bijna iedereen die leeft, en een dooier is de goedkoopste bron die er is.
Toen, in 1968, zei de hartstichting ons om het bij drie per week te houden.
Het eierverbruik in Groot-Brittannië daalde ruwweg met de helft in de decennia die volgden.
Nu komt ongeveer 9 op de 10 mensen tekort aan de choline-doelstelling.
Vette lever, de ziekte van een lever die zijn vet niet kan exporteren, ging van anoniem in 1980 naar een derde van de volwassenen.
In 2015 werd de cholesterolgrens stilletjes geschrapt, zonder excuses aan de dooiers.
Niemand belde de miljoenen mensen die veertig jaar lang eiwit-omeletten hadden gegeten.
De kip stopt nog steeds alles in de dooier. Hij is nooit verteld over de richtlijnen.
Surgeon: "Gallstones. Until we take it out, I want you on a low fat diet. Nothing fried, no cheese, no cream, skimmed milk."
Patient: "What does the gallbladder do?"
Surgeon: "Stores bile. Squirts it out to digest fat."
Patient: "When?"
Surgeon: "When fat arrives."
Patient: "And if no fat arrives?"
Surgeon: "It sits."
Patient: "Full of bile. Not emptying. For months."
Surgeon: "That's the idea. Rest it."
Patient: "What do stones form from?"
Surgeon: "Bile that sits too long and thickens."
Patient: "So the treatment for a bag that's gone solid from not emptying is to stop emptying it."
Surgeon: "The fat triggers the pain."
Patient: "The fat triggers the squeeze. The pain is the stone in the door."
Surgeon: "Which is why we're removing it."
Patient: "What was I eating when the stones formed?"
Surgeon: "I'd have to look."
Patient: "Low fat. Since 2019. The slimming club."
Surgeon: [does not look]
Patient: "I've been resting it for six years. It's the best rested organ I own."
Mike
Patient: "What does the gallbladder do?"
Surgeon: "Stores bile. Squirts it out to digest fat."
Patient: "When?"
Surgeon: "When fat arrives."
Patient: "And if no fat arrives?"
Surgeon: "It sits."
Patient: "Full of bile. Not emptying. For months."
Surgeon: "That's the idea. Rest it."
Patient: "What do stones form from?"
Surgeon: "Bile that sits too long and thickens."
Patient: "So the treatment for a bag that's gone solid from not emptying is to stop emptying it."
Surgeon: "The fat triggers the pain."
Patient: "The fat triggers the squeeze. The pain is the stone in the door."
Surgeon: "Which is why we're removing it."
Patient: "What was I eating when the stones formed?"
Surgeon: "I'd have to look."
Patient: "Low fat. Since 2019. The slimming club."
Surgeon: [does not look]
Patient: "I've been resting it for six years. It's the best rested organ I own."
Mike
Director: "Rolling. What's the secret to living to a hundred here?"
Shepherd: "Lamb."
Director: "Cut. We're going to say beans."
Shepherd: "I don't eat beans."
Director: "You eat them sometimes."
Shepherd: "When the lamb runs out."
Director: "Great. So the beans keep you going. Hold this bowl of lentils."
Shepherd: "Where did those come from?"
Director: "The airport. Hold it a bit higher."
Shepherd: "My wife will see this."
Director: "She'll love it. Rolling. How old are you?"
Shepherd: "The paper says 103."
Director: "And you are?"
Shepherd: "Nobody wrote down the year. My cousin's paper says 97. It's said 97 for a while."
Director: "We'll use the paper. Now, the olive oil. You drink a lot of olive oil."
Shepherd: "I drink the milk from the sheep."
Director: "We'll shoot the oil. Can somebody get that lamb out of shot?"
Shepherd: "That's my dinner."
Director: "It's in the way of the message. Stand next to the vegetables, look wise, and don't mention the sheep."
Mike
Shepherd: "Lamb."
Director: "Cut. We're going to say beans."
Shepherd: "I don't eat beans."
Director: "You eat them sometimes."
Shepherd: "When the lamb runs out."
Director: "Great. So the beans keep you going. Hold this bowl of lentils."
Shepherd: "Where did those come from?"
Director: "The airport. Hold it a bit higher."
Shepherd: "My wife will see this."
Director: "She'll love it. Rolling. How old are you?"
Shepherd: "The paper says 103."
Director: "And you are?"
Shepherd: "Nobody wrote down the year. My cousin's paper says 97. It's said 97 for a while."
Director: "We'll use the paper. Now, the olive oil. You drink a lot of olive oil."
Shepherd: "I drink the milk from the sheep."
Director: "We'll shoot the oil. Can somebody get that lamb out of shot?"
Shepherd: "That's my dinner."
Director: "It's in the way of the message. Stand next to the vegetables, look wise, and don't mention the sheep."
Mike
Your body has a dial for every nutrient you were told to fear and no dial at all for the one you were told to cook with.
Your body has a thermostat for cholesterol. Eat more and the liver makes less.
Your body has a thermostat for vitamin D. Stand in the sun too long and the skin destroys the surplus.
Your body has a thermostat for iron. Take in too much and the gut simply stops absorbing it.
Your body has a thermostat for salt. Too much and you drink, the kidney dumps it, and the matter is closed by morning.
Your body has a thermostat for protein. The surplus goes through the liver, out as urea, no harm done.
Your body has a thermostat for glucose. One teaspoon in the blood, insulin on standby, the rest put away.
Your body has a thermostat for water. It is called thirst, and it has never once needed an app.
Your body has no thermostat for seed oil. Linoleic acid goes into your fat and sits there for about two years.
Your body has no thermostat for fructose. The liver takes the lot, no questions, and turns the overflow into fat.
Everything with a dial was there for two million years, and the body built a dial because it expected plenty.
The two with no dial arrived last century, and the body never saw enough of either to bother.
They told you to fear the nutrients with a thermostat and to fry in the one without.
Mike
Your body has a thermostat for cholesterol. Eat more and the liver makes less.
Your body has a thermostat for vitamin D. Stand in the sun too long and the skin destroys the surplus.
Your body has a thermostat for iron. Take in too much and the gut simply stops absorbing it.
Your body has a thermostat for salt. Too much and you drink, the kidney dumps it, and the matter is closed by morning.
Your body has a thermostat for protein. The surplus goes through the liver, out as urea, no harm done.
Your body has a thermostat for glucose. One teaspoon in the blood, insulin on standby, the rest put away.
Your body has a thermostat for water. It is called thirst, and it has never once needed an app.
Your body has no thermostat for seed oil. Linoleic acid goes into your fat and sits there for about two years.
Your body has no thermostat for fructose. The liver takes the lot, no questions, and turns the overflow into fat.
Everything with a dial was there for two million years, and the body built a dial because it expected plenty.
The two with no dial arrived last century, and the body never saw enough of either to bother.
They told you to fear the nutrients with a thermostat and to fry in the one without.
Mike
A restaurant makes more on the pasta than the steak, and the entire food system worked that out before you did.
The ribeye is £42 on the menu. It cost the kitchen about £14 to put on the plate.
The pasta is £18. It cost about £2.50, most of which was the parmesan.
The salad is £14. It cost about £2, and the lettuce was the expensive bit.
The risotto is £19. It is rice, stock and a knob of butter, and the stock was free.
The steak returns twice what it cost. The pasta returns six times. The salad returns six times.
So the chef's special is the pasta, the salad gets a paragraph on the menu, and the steak sits at the bottom with no adjectives.
Now scale the restaurant up to a country.
A box of cereal is 20p of grain and £3.50 on the shelf.
A plant-based burger is pea flour, rapeseed oil and a red dye, and it sells for more than the beef one it is pretending to be.
An oat drink is oats and water and sells at twice the price of the milk it replaced.
Every tier of the trade makes its margin on the plant, because a plant is nearly free and an animal takes two years of grass.
Bill Gates owns more farmland than any other man in America, holds stakes in the fake meat firms, and told the rich world to switch to synthetic beef.
The pattern in the restaurant and the pattern in the policy are the same pattern. Talk down the expensive ingredient. Sell the cheap one at the expensive price. Keep the difference.
The advice you were given about meat was written by people who make eight times more when you order the pasta.
Nobody is giving you a diet. They are giving you the menu with the margins folded over.
Mike
The ribeye is £42 on the menu. It cost the kitchen about £14 to put on the plate.
The pasta is £18. It cost about £2.50, most of which was the parmesan.
The salad is £14. It cost about £2, and the lettuce was the expensive bit.
The risotto is £19. It is rice, stock and a knob of butter, and the stock was free.
The steak returns twice what it cost. The pasta returns six times. The salad returns six times.
So the chef's special is the pasta, the salad gets a paragraph on the menu, and the steak sits at the bottom with no adjectives.
Now scale the restaurant up to a country.
A box of cereal is 20p of grain and £3.50 on the shelf.
A plant-based burger is pea flour, rapeseed oil and a red dye, and it sells for more than the beef one it is pretending to be.
An oat drink is oats and water and sells at twice the price of the milk it replaced.
Every tier of the trade makes its margin on the plant, because a plant is nearly free and an animal takes two years of grass.
Bill Gates owns more farmland than any other man in America, holds stakes in the fake meat firms, and told the rich world to switch to synthetic beef.
The pattern in the restaurant and the pattern in the policy are the same pattern. Talk down the expensive ingredient. Sell the cheap one at the expensive price. Keep the difference.
The advice you were given about meat was written by people who make eight times more when you order the pasta.
Nobody is giving you a diet. They are giving you the menu with the margins folded over.
Mike
India is the plant-based diet sheet followed to the letter by 1.4 billion people.
- Meat: 4kg a head a year. Lowest of any big nation.
- Vegetarian on principle: a third of the population.
- Base of the plate: rice and chapati, every meal.
- Protein: more lentils than the rest of the world combined.
- Fruit and veg: second biggest grower on earth. Five a day, sorted.
- Saturated fat: ghee swapped for hydrogenated tin fat in 1937.
- Cooking fat: more imported seed oil than any country on earth, up fourfold since 1990.
The result:
- Diabetics: 101 million.
- Prediabetics: 136 million.
- Diabetes in 30 years: tripled.
- Women anaemic: half.
- Children stunted: a third.
- Overweight line: lowered, because they get diabetes thin.
And inside India:
- Punjab and Haryana: most milk drunk, tallest people in the country.
- Kerala: fish and beef on the table, fewest stunted children, fewest anaemic women.
The sheet did not fail. This is what it looks like when everyone obeys it, and the only ones thriving are the ones who did not.
Mike
- Meat: 4kg a head a year. Lowest of any big nation.
- Vegetarian on principle: a third of the population.
- Base of the plate: rice and chapati, every meal.
- Protein: more lentils than the rest of the world combined.
- Fruit and veg: second biggest grower on earth. Five a day, sorted.
- Saturated fat: ghee swapped for hydrogenated tin fat in 1937.
- Cooking fat: more imported seed oil than any country on earth, up fourfold since 1990.
The result:
- Diabetics: 101 million.
- Prediabetics: 136 million.
- Diabetes in 30 years: tripled.
- Women anaemic: half.
- Children stunted: a third.
- Overweight line: lowered, because they get diabetes thin.
And inside India:
- Punjab and Haryana: most milk drunk, tallest people in the country.
- Kerala: fish and beef on the table, fewest stunted children, fewest anaemic women.
The sheet did not fail. This is what it looks like when everyone obeys it, and the only ones thriving are the ones who did not.
Mike
Activist: "Lab-grown meat will put you out of business inside ten years."
Farmer: "What's it grown in?"
Activist: "A bioreactor. Cells in a nutrient solution."
Farmer: "What's the solution?"
Activist: "Sugars, amino acids, growth factors."
Farmer: "Foetal bovine serum. Blood drained from the heart of an unborn calf when the pregnant cow goes through the abattoir. Three hundred to seven hundred pounds a litre, and for ten years it was the only thing that made the cells grow at all."
Activist: "They've replaced it now."
Farmer: "Some have, in a few places, with a soup it took a decade of chemists to invent. The cow does the same job with grass, in a field, for nothing, and the by-product is a cow."
Activist: "It's cleaner."
Farmer: "It's a stainless steel vat kept sterile with antibiotics, because the day a single bacterium gets in the whole batch is bin. Mine's got a bacterium in it the size of a Hereford and she's fine."
Activist: "The first burger cost a quarter of a million. The price is falling."
Farmer: "The first burger was eaten in London in 2013. Twelve years on, the one country that sells it is Singapore, and this country's first approval was for dog food."
Activist: "It's the future."
Farmer: "It's my calf's blood in your bioreactor and an electricity bill. When they grow one without a cow in the recipe, send me a cutting. Until then I'm the supplier."
Mike
Farmer: "What's it grown in?"
Activist: "A bioreactor. Cells in a nutrient solution."
Farmer: "What's the solution?"
Activist: "Sugars, amino acids, growth factors."
Farmer: "Foetal bovine serum. Blood drained from the heart of an unborn calf when the pregnant cow goes through the abattoir. Three hundred to seven hundred pounds a litre, and for ten years it was the only thing that made the cells grow at all."
Activist: "They've replaced it now."
Farmer: "Some have, in a few places, with a soup it took a decade of chemists to invent. The cow does the same job with grass, in a field, for nothing, and the by-product is a cow."
Activist: "It's cleaner."
Farmer: "It's a stainless steel vat kept sterile with antibiotics, because the day a single bacterium gets in the whole batch is bin. Mine's got a bacterium in it the size of a Hereford and she's fine."
Activist: "The first burger cost a quarter of a million. The price is falling."
Farmer: "The first burger was eaten in London in 2013. Twelve years on, the one country that sells it is Singapore, and this country's first approval was for dog food."
Activist: "It's the future."
Farmer: "It's my calf's blood in your bioreactor and an electricity bill. When they grow one without a cow in the recipe, send me a cutting. Until then I'm the supplier."
Mike
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