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Next Time Government Gives You Dietary Advice, Consider Doing the Opposite

Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 9 months ago to Philosophy
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Philosophy: Philosophy is the study of the general and fundamental nature of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language.

How do you obtain your knowledge? Is it government's job to give us any knowledge? Do you even know how to apply logical reasoning to alleged knowledge, at least for your own benefit? Or are you so committed to your belief systems that you can't help but listen to what the idiots in government tell us?

So, is there anything government tells us, (allegedly) based on science, or the best science, about anything other than conditioning us to being controlled by lying about the science? When are we going to stop being such fools?
From the article:
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"We already know that government recommendations regarding health are often driven by a bunch of Chicken Littles. The leading organ of American scaremongering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has gotten so much wrong over the years. There was the outrageous contention that 400,000 Americans were dropping dead from obesity every year. (They weren't.) And then there were all the over-the-top warnings about the alleged risks of secondhand smoke. (They don't really exist.)

Earlier this year, the bureaucrats behind the government's dietary guidelines finally admitted there was "no appreciable relationship" between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. After years of warning Americans that high-cholesterol foods would kill them—eggs, shrimp and so on—the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will no longer list cholesterol among its "nutrients of concern" for overconsumption. Now some scientists argue that the state's obsession with scaring citizens about fat may actually have made our health worse."
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"There is no longer any valid basis for the current salt guidelines," said Andrew Mente, one of the authors of a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. "So why are we still scaring people about salt?" (emphasis added)

Well, because that's what government does best."
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Who on this site are willing and ready to take the responsibility for their own lives and the knowledge required to live all of it that's possible?


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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually just their purpose is power. Best defense is make up your own mind based on facts presented. Ignore their manipulative conclusions
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The purpose, my friend, as I have observed, is for 'Them' to stay in power. They can not exist without you, they cannot create nor produce value and at their core, they hate you.
    Goes back to the fall of Babylon when the rulers (not like us at all) notice something was happening to us that threatened their status quo; hence their statement: "We must go down and confound their language, lest Nothing be impossible unto them". We at that time were beginning our transition into conscious awareness but what the rulers noticed is our level of cooperation and mutuality. They decided to divide us otherwise they would soon become irrelevant. This is why we have in many ways, been kept down. Allopathic medicine and false nutritional information is just another way to keep us at bay.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 9 months ago
    No you can not listen to anything government or govern[mental] agencies dish out...here is why: There is an old axiom that states; The people are only as good as they are allowed to be. Meaning, empowered with knowledge, truth or at least the best we know and understand at the time, the people will use and integrate that knowledge to the benefit of the whole. The achieve opposite effect, However, and here is the ruse; Government kakistocracies do not dole out truth. They dole out quite the opposite, most times, 180° away from truth and knowledge.
    I've coined it and expressed it many times...progressive speak means the exact opposite of the words they use. So too, the knowledge, (we call it propaganda) they dole out. Health care, diet, climate are just the tip of their iceberg.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, they did do a hit on him, and he was right. Now, we're supposed to eat lots of eggs and drink a ton of coffee everyday to stay healthy. It wouldn't surprise me to find that a Twinkie and a bottle of cola will be considered a good breakfast one of these days. Eat what you want in moderation and get on with your life. Someday, no matter what you do, you're going to die.
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  • Posted by Flootus5 8 years, 9 months ago
    The spike in obesity in America corresponds with the federal food pyramid. Atkins figured it out and boy, look at the smear campaign they did on him!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are only two legitimate functions of government. 1. maintain a militia, for the protection of its citizens. 2. Provide courts. Everything else can be handled privately. The government should only tell us one thing: Behave! A good dose of MYOB wouldn't hurt, either.
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  • Posted by conscious1978 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Or, is it as simple as the old adage to "follow the money" and see what kind of crony connections are stealing taxpayer money?
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  • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 9 months ago
    Hah, yeah, a few months ago my doctor gave me a great bill of health except my cholesterol was actually too low so I should eat more steak and eggs and even chase it all down with a Guinness from time to time. OH, hurt me some more, doc, pleeeeease!!!
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 8 years, 9 months ago
    Maybe the government should tell us about crimin-
    als and suspects prowling around the neightbor-
    hoods, and that's about all. I don't listen to all those health recommendations all that much. But
    then, I don't have a weight problem.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Does it, or does the scare about it sell more books for Drs like the guy in the youtube, or provide more reason for more control of what people consume for NYC mayors?

    Saying that, it's pretty evident to anyone with any sense that over consumption of anything on a continuing basis is not good.
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