When Trust Goes Bust

August 24, 2026 Leave a comment

Public trust. Is it engendered or eroded when elites, experts, and egos generate and double down on “dead right” narratives that distort and even deny reality leading to deception, disorder, dysfunction, and even destruction of life and do so for dubious and decidedly power-hungry and vainglorious ends?

You know the answer but here are few recent examples that answer this question:

Public trust in higher education eroded when Claudine Gay, the first black woman to become a (DEI-hire) president of Harvard, was forced out over plagiarism allegations after only seven months in the post.

And again, public trust in higher education eroded when elites at Cambridge University failed to do its due diligence and DEI-hired the youngest Black professor in the university’s history and described the plagiarist as a “respected scholar.”

Public trust in the Supreme Court eroded when the Joe Biden-nominated and DEI-hired Ketanji Brown “black girl magic” Jackson, a woman who would not define what a woman is and does not understand the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, was seated on the highest court in the land.

Public trust in the Supreme Court eroded when the Barack Obama-nominated Sonia “wise Latina” Sotomayor, a vocal political partisan and a woman who “gruesomely compared babies in the womb to being brain dead during oral arguments,” was seated on the highest court in the land.

Public trust in major institutions and professions, and especially the legal profession meant to support the rule of law, erodes as female participation increases and feminine patterns of behavior are applied: “prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition.”

Public trust in a brand eroded when a company’s female marketing executive ignored customers and partnered with a trans-activist to suit a woke agenda and almost single-handedly destroyed the brand.

Public trust in a brand eroded when a company’s female CEO ignored customers and redesigned the company’s logo to suit a woke agenda causing shares of the company’s stock to drop like a rock as customers vowed to never step foot in the store again.

Public trust in the church and church leadership eroded when Sarah Mullally, another preachy Progressive who is a self-declared feminist and supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and activism and who has strongly backed asylum and migration, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury on January 28, 2026.

Public trust in the church and church leadership and the transcendent eroded when The Church of England covered the interior of the oldest cathedral in England in graffiti in order to represent the world to the world.

Public trust in climate experts eroded with the climate alarmism claims of Al Gore and with the scientific consensus predictions of climate doomsdays that never happened.

Public trust in the media and journalism eroded with the fawning over the DEI picks Claudine Gay, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and fabulist Jason Arday, and with the whack-a-doodle nonsense of climate experts.

Public trust in the MSM erodes every day with its talking heads calling people “election deniers,” (nee “COVID science deniers” and “climate science deniers”) for questioning the integrity of the 2020 election – “the most secure election in history” – and for questioning anything that comes out of their mouth.

Public trust in scientific authority has gone bust with the exposure of a public health official with a God complex – the man, the myth, and the legend who calls himself “the science” . . . the vainglorious Anthony Fauci.

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The misanthropic handling of COVID by public health “experts” caused public trust to go BUST . . .

When medical freedom was ignored. . .

When Americans weren’t fully informed about natural immunity. . .

When Americans weren’t allowed fully informed consent about the COVID vaccine. . .

When Americans weren’t fully informed about adverse events from COVID vaccinations from each of the three vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. . .

When siblings who had received the COVID jab to keep their jobs now have serious physical issues and the siblings who hadn’t received the jab have none. . .

When pregnant women weren’t fully informed about the possibility of a miscarriages following the COVID vaccination. . .

When Americans weren’t informed about the prophylactic benefits of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin so that an mRNA vaccine with a spike protein could be rolled out and tested on the public . . .

When the FDA and the media ridiculed the use of Ivermectin for treating COVID by saying “You are not a horse” . . .

When the unvaccinated were made social pariahs and scapegoats and their livelihoods threatened for not taking the mRNA vaccine for a flu-like virus that has over a 98% survival rate . . .

When service members in all branches of the military who refused the vaccine were discharged and lost pensions, military housing and medical benefits for their families. . .

When, during lockdowns, Black Lives Matter was OK’d to gather and march for a political social justice cause but churches could not gather. . .

When anyone – especially Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist – thought that a mass protest would bring an end to “systemic racism” . . .

When schools, businesses, and churches closed but not liquor stores and cannabis shops during the 14 days “to flatten the curve” . . .

When “two weeks to flatten the curve” extended into months during the spring of 2020, and schools remained closed for the following year and most students had to endure virtual learning as teachers’ unions demanded that schools remain closed . . . (See PDF below.)

When children, who have a 99%+ COVID survival rate, were made to take the untested vaccine . . .

When the “science was settled” and science shapeshifter “Fauci routinely replaced one narrative with another, contradicting what he had previously insisted was true” . . . (See PDF below.)

When the highfalutin Anthony Fauci “became the “’infallible leader’ whose words could never be questioned and whose lies were turned into a functioning reality” . . . (See PDF below.)

When a man so full of himself – a Mao of a man with a diary instead of a Little Red Book – was given totalitarian authority over science and public health . . .

When Mao’s mass murder legacy based on “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” became Fauci’s gain-of-function mass murder legacy based on “personal power grows out of the needle of a syringe.”

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams

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If I had one-trillionth the ego of Princess-Diaries Anthony Fauci and one-trillionth the gall of the talking heads of legacy media and of the politicians and celebrities who worshipped Fauci and themselves worshipping him, I would say “I told you so” about that pompous ass. But I’ll let the record speak for itself.

In a December 29, 2020 post My Unmasked Hero, I wrote

“Are you angry yet?

“Why is Anthony Fauci, a media hog, goal post mover, and dangerous buffoon, telling us how we should live our lives?

“Why are hydroxychloroquine and alternative COVID19 treatments blacklisted? Do you think Big Pharma and Big Tech oligarchs and their foundations have something to do with that?

“Did you know that “the country’s lockdowns were meant to emulate those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party  – modeled to strip civil liberties and exert authoritarian control over citizens?

“Why are all deaths reclassified as COVID-19 deaths?

“Why are healthy people being masked and locked down?

“No more studies are required. I am angry (and mask less)!”

My Unmasked Hero does not refer to Anthony Fauci.

My Unmasked Hero refers to a woman who stands her ground in a CVS store when being confronted by an employee and customer about being maskless. The woman adamantly declares that she is “done” with being a sheep and blindly following COVID-19 orders that restrict her freedom:

“I am a healthy person. I am not crazy.”

“I’m not saying COVID’s not real. I’m just saying, I’m not sick. I’m not sick and asymptomatic spread has been shown to be a myth, so why am I going to be treated like a sick person?

“Do you know that there have been fewer deaths in [2020] than in [2019]? All they’ve done is recategorize all the deaths. This is not what they’re telling us it is. It’s a lie. This is a lie, I’m telling you.

“It’s a lie and everyone’s buying it. And it will go on, and on, and on as long as they feed us this lie and we comply with it, and I am done. Tonight, I’ve reached a breaking point, I’m done. I know I’m not reaching any of you in here, I don’t care.”

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Thousands of people from all over the world read my posts during COVID. With dozens of posts I warned readers about the fiendish Dr. Faustus Fauci and about his scientism sorcery.

I warned readers in dozens of posts and short stories about the authoritarian ways people were being dealt with under Fauci’s flip-flopping-keep-the public-on-the hook public health decrees.

I warned readers about the effects of lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, and about vaccination requirements that included vaccine passports and a possible roll out of a digital social credit system to control the public.

In my April 11, 2021 post Are We to Be Their Playthings? I noted the disdain for the unvaccinated in a NYT article (White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort): “Distrust of scientists has become part of cultural identity, of what it means to be white and evangelical in America.”

And, I asked

“So, we are to trust Anthony Fauci, who with Francis Collins of the NIH, was behind the gain of function experiments gone awry in Wuhan China? Are we to trust scientism – scientific claims devoid of empirical evidence and debate and derived from ideology?”

I warned readers in an October 17, 2021 post about the adverse effects of the COVID vaccine. Here’s an updated summary: (UPDATED) Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns | Sharyl Attkisson

In my September 26, 2020 post Tales from the Lockdown Crypt I warned about the increase of suicides and opioid overdoses due to COVID lockdown policies. And I posted The Great Barrington Declaration:

“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.”

I warned readers about good people being canceled on social media and in MSM for speaking out.

I warned readers about the CDC-planned quarantine camps (for a flu-like virus!).

I warned readers about the NIH’s devious Dr. Francis Collins colluding with Fauci to create the gain-of-function virus and to hide its Wuhan lab origins.

I warned readers about the untested COVID vaccine and the suppression of any talk of natural immunity by public health officials under the back-room direction of the self-enamored Fauci. We now know that lockdowns were enforced and any talk about natural immunity was delayed so that the vaccine might be rolled out.

I wasn’t alone in my warnings about the dangerous effects of the untested vaccine:

Fauci Privately Said Covid Shot Could Be Associated With Miscarriage Before Publicly Claiming “No Red Flags” | Evie Magazine

Fauci Privately Flagged Miscarriage Risk Before Telling Pregnant Women There Were ‘No Red Flags’ | ZeroHedge

Fauci privately raised miscarriage risk from mRNA vaccine dose two | Fox News

‘Error in Judgment’: Former CDC Director Says it Was ‘Mistake’ to Recommend Covid Vaccine to Pregnant Women

On November 7, 2021 I provided a document which says . . .

We conclude that the claims made using these data on the safety of exposure of women in early pregnancy to mRNA-based vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are unwarranted and recommend that those policy decisions be revisited.

In my January 2, 2022 post Mysteries of the Known Knowns I asked

“Why are we being used as lab rats?

“How is it that government entities demand our accountability about all things COVID BUT the manufacturers of the vaccines are NOT held accountable for what they dispense? If the risks are not discussed, how can there be informed consent?”

And

“If it can’t be questioned, is it science?

Bureaucrat overlord Anthony Fauci has effectively declared “I am the Way, the Science and the Life. No one comes to COVID freedom except by me.””

And

“Is COVID Absolutism behind the Current Psychic Epidemic?

“How is it that countries with the majority of their populations vaccinated are in panic mode? Why are there calls for more panic, lockdowns, passports, and mandates? Is science, logic or even altruism behind this? OR, is the desire to create a new social order under totalitarian control behind creating a fear-based populism?

“Why are people going along with the manufactured panic? Why do “the masses whole-heartedly accept everything that Dr. Fauci or other national and global health officials proclaim”?

“Why the collective psychosis?”

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On March 5, 2023 I posted this video:

In a May 19, 2024 post I wrote:

“As we saw during COVID, the collusion of science and state powers forms a dangerous mix. We were told and made to “trust the science” about masks, lockdowns, social distancing, and the COVID vaccine for a flu virus that was 99.9 % survivable for healthy adults who were not very elderly.

“The elites of public health central planning lied to us about immunity so that the vaccine could be pushed by the medical-industrial complex. They told us lies about hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin so that the vaccine could be pushed by the medical-industrial complex. They told us lies about the origins of COVID to protect the medical-industrial complex that created a gain-of function virus.”

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I warned readers about scientism – the deadly admixture of science and politics to produce the transfer of power into the hands of a few elites. And now that Anthony Fauci’s diaries and emails and texts have been exposed, COVID scientism can be described as the deadly witches’ brew of science and egotism.

Anthony Fauci epitomizes what the elites and experts of the Ruling Class, of Progressivism, of socialism and communism are capable of: draconian measures to ensure compliance to massive egos

Long time readers will know that I have warned against the totalitarian impulse so prevalent in misanthropic group above. For, they deem the public as eggs for their glorious omelets.

As a reminder, the nature of totalitarian ideologies include

Simple, Irrefutable Beliefs (the “science is settled”)

Promise of Utopia (“two weeks to fatten the curve” & “vaccinations will stop COVID”)

Blame and Persecution (“the unvaccinated are the cause of increased cases and the need for continued lockdowns”)

Concentration of Power (Fauci: “I am the science.”)

The Means Displace the Ends (the Big Pharma-sponsored Pravda media censoring opposing voices and posting daily death counts to produce mass fear and compliance with COVID scientism)

The Illusion of Perfecting Humanity (“We’re all in this together.”)

The above is taken from Totalitarian Ideologies 101: We need to start teaching students to recognize totalitarianism so they can resist it. (See PDF below.)

With this post and the many I’ve written, I am pointing out that there is information that the Pravda media (MS NOW, CNN, NYT, etc.) never gave the public, information that would have engendered public trust and saved lives.

History and current events reveal that anything can be rationalized when politics is everything and power its ultimate goal. Public trust erodes when elites, experts, and egos generate and double down on “dead right” narratives that distort and even deny reality leading to deception, disorder, dysfunction, and even destruction of life and do so for dubious and decidedly power-hungry and vainglorious ends.

“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.” – Edmund Burke

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Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo Codevilla had this to say about America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution:

“This dismissal of the American people’s intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its principal article of faith, its claim to the right to decide for others, is precisely that it knows things and operates by standards beyond others’ comprehension . . .

“Because ordinary people will pervert reason with ideology, religion, or interest, science is “science” only in the “right” hands. Consensus among the right people is the only standard of truth. Facts and logic matter only insofar as proper authority acknowledges them . . .

“That is why the ruling class is united and adamant about nothing so much as its right to pronounce definitive, “scientific” judgment on whatever it chooses . . .

“The fact that the “hockey stick” conclusion stands discredited and Mann and associates are on record manipulating peer review, the fact that science-by-secret-data is an oxymoron, the very distinction between truth and error, all matter far less to the ruling class than the distinction between itself and those they rule.”

https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class

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“When the anointed say that there is a crisis this means that something must be done —and it must be done simply because the anointed want it done.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Vision Of The Annointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

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“Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”
—Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals

(Replace “liberty” with the Left’s “crisis of Democracy!” and you will understand what they are after.)

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Hannah Arendt’s Resonant Warning About Public Lying in the Age of Anthony Fauci _ The American SpectatorDownload
Totalitarian Ideologies 101 – American ThinkerDownload

Doc>>> Totalitarian Ideologies 101

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I Read 1000 pages of Fauci Diaries. It’s Bad. | Dr. Vinay Prasad

In late July, Senator Rand Paul publicly released over 1,000 pages of notes that Fauci had kept—on a government server—during his time as Covid-19 czar, between 2019 and 2022. Shortly thereafter, Fauci was forced to testify before the Senate, on July 29. Then in early August, Paul and fellow Republican senator Ron Johnson released a set of texts, obtained from Fauci’s government-issued cell phone, between him and other health officials. In the following weeks, the “Fauci Diaries” sparked a new debate over Dr. Fauci’s legacy.

The pages, as well as Fauci’s testimony and subsequently released text messages, revealed an alarming gap between what Fauci told the public and what he told others privately and admitted to himself—about the virus’s possible origins, concerns over vaccine safety for pregnant women, the effectiveness of boosters, the efficacy of school closures, and more.

Dr. Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist who broke early with conventional wisdom on how to handle the pandemic and later became the FDA’s top vaccine regulator. He has also read the Fauci diaries in full, and he’s here to break down every revelation.

I Read 1000 pages of Fauci Diaries. It’s Bad. | Dr. Vinay Prasad – YouTube

COVID: The Cover-Up & Crimes Against Humanity with Sen. Ron Johnson

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Nothing to hide . . . but the truth.

Damning clip of Fauci that makes Swiss cheese of his ‘Fifth Amendment’ scheme… – Revolver News

Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed | ZeroHedge

Tim Robbins tells Joe Rogan — ‘Ivermectin cured me during Covid.’

Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Strategy May Not End the Investigation | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The Princess Diaries of Anthony Fauci – The American Conservative

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Jeffrey Tucker interviews Dr. Naomi Wolf, author and early public intellectual who first raised the alarm in May 2021 about COVID injections and severe menstrual disruptions in women. They discuss her rapid cancellation, the Missouri v. Biden discovery showing CDC and Biden administration officials circulating her tweet as an example to suppress, the FDA’s attempt to seal Pfizer documents for 75 years, and the crowdsourced work of 3,500+ doctors and scientists through Daily Clout that uncovered high miscarriage rates, ovarian and placental damage, and drops in sperm counts buried in those documents. (Emphasis mine.)

Sounding the Alarm on Women’s Health: Naomi Wolf on the COVID Shots & Cancellation

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Republicans make their first move against Fauci… – Revolver News

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Flattening the Fauci Ego Curve:

Legal Experts Explain How States Can Hold Fauci Accountable

Anthony Fauci and the Collapse of Scientific Authority

Fauci’s Personal Diary Just Got Released and It’s Brutal – Self-Absorbed, Fame-Seeking, Celeb Worshiping, Power Mad Liar

Anthony Fauci Celebrated ‘Flattering’ Press Stories in Diary

Check out some of these Fauci quotes, incredible.

Rand Paul has everything organized here, including Dr. Baric.

This entire diary thread is wild.

BOOM: Ugly truth about Jake Tapper just revealed, thanks to Fauci’s private diary entries… – Revolver News

Journalists Are Still Defending Fauci Because They Spent Years Dehumanizing Covid Dissidents Based On His Lies

Fauci’s Diary-Uh: ‘Science’s’ Biggest COVID-Era Lies Thus Far – PJ Media

Vinay Prasad: Anthony Fauci’s Vaccine Deceptions

Watters: Fauci knew he BLEW IT

BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci pleads the Fifth Amendment in Senate hearing bombshell…

The Rise and Fall of Anthony Fauci › American Greatness

Watch: Fauci shakes uncontrollably while reading his opening statement…

Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies at Senate hearing on COVID-19 origins…

Rand warns Fauci he’s playing with fire…

The Ivermectin Question Heard ‘Round The World…

Fauci told on himself…

Never forget what this man did…

Revolvers 5-year-old investigation on Fauci still holds today…

The Ivermectin Question Heard ‘Round The World…

Never forget what this man did…

Mike Benz explains why Fauci pleaded the Fifth and how it can’t save him…

These Newly Released Texts Prove What a Monster Fauci Really Is – PJ Media

A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to Shame

Top 27 Revelations in the Fauci Diaries | The Epoch Times

Fauci In Hiding As ABC Censorship Bombshell Explodes | ZeroHedge

Ex-ABC News Reporter: Fauci Whined and Killed Our COVID Story

An unanswered first-order question from the COVID-19 pandemic is this: Why was America’s pandemic doctrine in 2020 apparently so lacking after nearly forty years under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership and after spending more than $60 billion preparing for the next inevitable outbreak? (Emphasis mine.)

Fauci And The Pandemic Playbook That Wasn’t – American Thinker

In May 2021, Janet Woodcock, the Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, expressing concern about the large number of adverse events she was hearing about following COVID vaccinations. . .

Woodcock said she had personally received reports from people, including many healthcare professionals, experiencing hard to classify adverse events that were not being captured by existing surveillance systems like VAERS.

She said all three of the vaccines— Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson—were resulting in these injuries. (Emphasis mine.)

In May 2021, Acting FDA Commissioner Emailed Fauci With Concerns About COVID Vaccine Injuries, Said ‘No One Takes Them Seriously’ › American Greatness

[David] Morens and his co-conspirators also used his Gmail account to share nonpublic information from the NIH about COVID-19 and “back-channel” information to an unidentified senior NIAID official, who appears to be Anthony Fauci, the institute’s former director, according to court filings.

David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme – CBS News

Fauci diaries, released by Sen. Rand Paul, touch on COVID origins and tense relationship with Trump – CBS News

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“That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.”
-Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad

“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.”

-Mark Twain, Official Physic

Day of Reckoning

We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. . .. If the foundation be firm, the superstructure will stand.

Calvin Coolidge, Vice presidential address at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, June 19, 1923

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What the Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis tells us about where our society is today…is pretty dark.

Check Out Spencer Pratt’s Brutal Takedown of the Left’s Defense of Lindsay Clancy – PJ Media

Added 8-30-2026: Elites and Experts talking Climate Catastrophe

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O Happy (& Healthy) Day?

May 3, 2025 Leave a comment

O Happy Day?

Researchers at the University of British Columbia, using data analyzed from a American Time Use Survey,  came up with the components of a “better than typical” day.

From the Economic Times report Can every day be a perfect day? Scientists reveal the surprising formula for happiness:

Led by Dunigan Folk, a social psychologist and PhD candidate, the team at UBC used data from the 2013 and 2021 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS). These surveys collect detailed information about how Americans spend their days, from working and socializing to leisure activities and commuting. By analyzing this data, the team employed AI to pinpoint the activities that most significantly contribute to a “better than typical” day.

Talker Research surveyed 2,000 Americans. The survey was administered and conducted online between December 13 and December 19, 2024.

Per their findings, there’s a formula for a truly joyful day:

BDE = 6h family + 2h friends + 1.5h socializing + 2h exercise + 1h eating/drinking – work >6h – TV >1h – commuting >15min

OR

BDE = FAM₆ + FR₂ + SOC₁.₅ + EX₂ + EAT₁ – WRK₆ – TV₁ – CMT₀.₂₅

(All variables measured in hours or minutes. “–” denotes tipping points where enjoyment decreases.)

OR

That’s Best Day Ever = 6 hours with family + 2 hours with friends + 1.5 hours of extra socializing + 2 hours of exercise + 1 hour of eating and drinking – with less than 6 hours of work, indulging in only 1 hour of screen time, and a 15-minute commute.

And, per Talker Research: “When asked if they felt they’d experienced any perfect days in 2024, the average respondent had enjoyed 12 (12.6).”

Huh. I can’t recall any perfect days as formulated above. I’ve lived alone for the past 25 years. A good day for me would include any of the following: being outdoors, exercise, walking, discovering beauty in nature and art, wondering at things beyond my understanding, creating something, writing, spending time with my kids, expanding my personal bandwidth by reading books, and enjoying the life lessons of Calvin and Hobbes.

I don’t know of any use for the findings and the formula as days and people are subject to other factors. No doubt, one’s temperament and personal bandwidth would influence one’s expectations of a “better than typical” day.

For example, someone may be Eeyore-like: “I was so upset, I forgot to be happy”; “If it is a good morning, which I doubt”; “It’s the only cloud in the sky and it’s drizzling, right on me. Somehow, I’m not surprised”; The sky has finally fallen. Always knew it would.”

(Anton Chekhov wrote a short comedic take on human temperaments. He divides them into four major categories – Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic, and Melancholic – and further bifurcates them into male and female varieties. The Temperaments is a hilarious account of personalities.)

Others may not enjoy the present because they are worrying about the future and dwelling in the past.

And some, as clearly evident, spend hours looking at a screen to know what kind of day they must have, e.g., Trump Derangment Syndrome (TDS).

Do some choose the simple daily outlook of the old English proverb “Whoever will rise early shall be holy, healthy, and happy?”

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O Healthy Day?

I’m Still Standing. I never received the COVID-clot shot or the flu shot or the RSV shot or any vaccines since my mother took me to the doctor before entering kindergarten in the 1950s. During annual checkups, my doctor in Chicago has pushed the three vaccines above. I have refused each time.

When he suggested the COVID vaccine I told him that I wouldn’t inject myself with an untested mRNA vaccine that had a spike protein and who knows what else in it for a flu-like virus that was 99.9% curable with  a regimen of vitamin D & C, sunshine, exercise, and the availability of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. I would let T cells do their thing.

(Why did the Biden regime inject a country with 12-20 million undocumented and unvetted (legally & health wise) aliens into it?)

During a recent checkup my doctor told me, attempting to alert concern, that several of his patients had developed severe RSV and needed hospitalization. He proposed that I should be vaxed against it. I did not the shot. I should have asked if those patients had received previous vaccines from him.

Why no vaccines? I have had childhood infections such as measles, mumps, and flu. I sweated through the Asian flu with a 106-degree fever (our Swedish doctor made a house call). My body’s T cells have worked to fight infections. Why should I inject a big pharma substance into my body when my body heals itself? And why should I blindly trust anything the government or a government-licensed doctor say?

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You may want to read and listen to all of the following:

Adverse effects of Covid mRNA vaccines

“Soon-Shiong, founder of ImmunityBio ($IBRX) and owner of the Los Angeles Times, claims that the COVID-19 pandemic, and the very vaccines developed to fight it, may be contributing to a global surge in “terrifyingly aggressive” cancers. In the nearly two-hour conversation, the Los Angeles Times owner leveraged his decades of clinical and scientific experience to outline why he suspects an unprecedented cancer epidemic is unfolding. This report examines Dr. Soon-Shiong’s background and assertions, the scientific responses for and against his claims, new data on post-COVID health trends, and the far-reaching implications if his alarming hypothesis proves true.” (Emphasis mine.)

“This Is Existential”: Billionaire Cancer Researcher Says Covid & Vaccine Likely Causing Surge In Aggressive Cancers | ZeroHedge

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a surgeon who made billions inventing cancer drugs. He says that Covid, and the vaccines that didn’t stop it, are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers.

(0:00) Why Are Cancer Rates Rising in Young People?
(6:16) What Is Causing This Cancer Epidemic?
(14:52) Is There a Connection Between Covid and Cancer?
(25:33) Why Dr. Soon-Shiong Never Got Covid
(39:36) How Big Pharma Tried to Undermine Dr. Soon-Shiong
(47:35) Dr. Soon-Shiong’s Analysis of RFK Jr.
(1:02:47) The Healthcare Industry’s Conflict of Interest
(1:05:51) How to Strengthen Your Immune System
(1:10:32) What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About How to Fight Cancer
(1:20:58) Why Hasn’t Anyone Faced Consequences for These Crimes?
(1:33:59) Why Dr. Soon-Shiong Bought the LA Times

Surgeon who invented cancer drugs believes COVID vax caused ‘terrifyingly aggressive’ cancers… – Revolver News

Doctor: For the first time in my career, I’ve seen an 8, 9 and 10-year olds with colon cancer… – Revolver News

BREAKING: Study Finds COVID-19 mRNA Booster Shots Decrease Pancreatic Cancer Survival by 50%

A world-renowned immunologist is sounding the alarm after his peer-reviewed research uncovered a devastating surge in a deadly heart condition among people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”

Dr. János Szebeni, an internationally recognized European immunologist, issued a stomach-churning warning to the world after confirming that the injections have caused a staggering 115,100% surge in myocarditis. (Emphasis mine.)

Deadly Heart Condition Surges 115,100% in Covid mRNA-Vaccinated – Slay News

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COVID Vaccine “Safe and Effective” Narrative Collapses On Camera

The “safe and effective” narrative collapsed on camera during Senator Ron Johnson’s explosive Senate hearing on COVID-19 vaccine injuries Wednesday afternoon.

OB-GYN Dr. James Thorp delivered one of the most haunting moments of the hearing.

He said the COVID shots “MIRRORED” the effects of chemical abortion drugs—and the government knew what it was doing. (Emphasis mine.)

Dr. Thorp pointed to the now-infamous Shimabukuro study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which claimed a 12.6% miscarriage rate following COVID vaccination.

But when you isolate the data for women vaccinated in the first trimester, the miscarriage rate rises to 82%, Dr. Thorp said. This 82% claim remains a topic of debate within the scientific community.

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A group of Italy’s leading scientists has issued an alarming warning of the devastating long-term health risks faced by those who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”

The experimental medicine researchers found that people who received the injections face persistent neurological symptoms.

The study found that mRNA injections alter human biology to create long-term spike protein production that increases over time.

The scientists warn that the Covid mRNA vaccines alter T cell immunophenotypes, which triggers VAIDS – or “vaccine-induced AIDS.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made the explosive admission that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are spiked with contaminants that triggered a global surge in cancers.

The federal agency made the admission after an FDA study confirmed that Pfizer’s Covid mRNA “vaccine” contains dangerous levels of excess DNA contamination. (Emphasis mine.)

Major Study Warns Covid-Vaxxed Face Long-Term Brain Damage Risk

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From Dr. McCullough reveals cancer-fighting drug Big Pharma hopes you never hear about…

Medical leaders like Dr. Peter McCullough, who fought tooth and nail to expose the COVID lies, are now digging into a groundbreaking new approach to cancer treatment: repurposing safe, affordable medications like ivermectin and mebendazole to fight cancer.

According to the McCullough Foundation’s latest research, ivermectin shows incredible promise:

-It’s already been proven safe in humans, even during chemotherapy.

-Preclinical models show a wide range of anti-cancer effects.

-Anecdotal cases are pouring in, showing real-world improvements.

Mebendazole is another time-tested antiparasitic, and it’s also showing the same exciting potential. And when combined with ivermectin, the results could be even more powerful.

Dr. McCullough reveals cancer-fighting drug Big Pharma hopes you never hear about… – Revolver News

Ivermectin+Mebendazole– The Wellness Company

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Five years after the greatest crime in American history, the only people who’ve been punished are the ones who told the truth about Covid. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden is one of them.

Chapters:
0:00 Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Was Right All Along
6:19 The Origin of the Government’s Propaganda Campaign
17:57 How the Medical Establishment Tried to Destroy Dr. Bowden
22:30 How Much Money Was Made From the Pandemic?
24:17 How Effective Is Ivermectin?
20:24 When Did the Healthcare Industry Become Politicized?
39:26 The Health of Dr. Bowden’s Patients Compared to Others
49:04 Does the COVID Shot Need to Be Pulled From the Market?
50:06 They’re Giving Babies the Covid Shot
53:33 The Link Between Cancer and Covid
1:00:25 The Legal Protection of Vaccine Developers
1:09:48 Why Is There So Much Secrecy Around Covid Data?
1:13:01 Will Medicine Get Better Because of This?
1:20:00 How to Fix the Healthcare Industry

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden: How Vaccines Got Politicized and the Medical Industry Lost All Credibility

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The Flu Vaccine

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Diagnosing ADHD

‘The diagnosis can create an identity that enhances prejudice and judgment which are associated with even greater feelings of isolation, exclusion and shame.’

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? – DNyuz

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Steve Templeton, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine – Terre Haute, writes:

I set out to understand why people were behaving in a way that would’ve been seen as unhinged just weeks before. I could see everyone becoming germophobes, and I wondered if that behavior, once ingrained in the population, would ever go away. Could I reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into? Probably not, but there were other people I admired trying, and I couldn’t just stand idle. So I decided to write a book, an idea that became Fear of a Microbial Planet.

“Fear”: One Year Later ⋆ Brownstone Institute

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The pandemic response exposed a systemic rot in US federal agencies that operate in a politicized environment with perverse incentives that favor pharmaceutical companies and powerful wealthy individuals at the expense of the public interest. Very few were courageous enough to stand up for the truth when the vast majority of the public and media were supportive of these agencies, even when their recommendations, authorizations, and mandates were clearly not backed by evidence or driven by minimum standards of ethical behavior that existed before 2020. (Emphasis mine.)

Florida Still Stands Alone ⋆ Brownstone Institute

On December 13, 2022, Florida Governor DeSantis asked for a statewide grand jury to investigate how actions of pharmaceutical companies and federal agencies had ultimately harmed the public. He also appointed seven people to a public health integrity committee to advise him and the Florida Surgeon General Joe Ladapo. I was happy to be named a member of that committee. (Emphasis mine.)

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Measles

Measles and Measles Vaccines: 14 Things To Consider | GreenMedInfo

Kennedy then delivered a devastating jab at the dominant measles narrative, putting everything into perspective and leaving the panel silent.

“I want to say this,” Kennedy began.

“We’ve had four measles deaths in this country in 20 years. We have 100,000 autism cases a year. We have 38% of our kids now are diabetic or pre-diabetic. That should be in the headlines,” he said.

*Applause erupted*

When I was a kid, there were 2 million measles cases a year and none of them got headlines. And we had 400 deaths. We had deaths between 1 in 1,200 and 1 in 10,000. We have so many kids now who are afflicted by chronic disease. And the media never covers them. They only want to cover measles,” he added.

“And what I’ve been saying to people is, let’s pay attention to other illnesses as well—illnesses that are really, really damaging our country, that are existential for our country. We now spend almost a trillion dollars a year on diabetes and metabolic disorder,” Kennedy explained.

Then he drove the point home, contrasting the media’s obsession with measles to its silence on autism. (Emphasis mine.)

RFK Jr. Shatters The Measles Narrative With One Brilliant Point

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Mind Blowing CV19 Bioweapon Vax Still on Market – Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

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à votre santé

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For years, we were told to avoid butter because it “clogs arteries,” and instead use margarine, loaded with processed seed oils. Now we’re seeing rising inflammation, cognitive decline, and even links to cancer.

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DITCH these so-called “healthy” oils:  Soybean, corn, cottonseed, canola, margarine, vegetable shortening (loaded with hidden trans fats)

Storage Tips:
Keep EVOO in dark glass
Refrigerate animal fats like tallow and lard to prevent oxidation
 Bonus Tip: Mix ghee + avocado oil for ultra-stable high-heat cooking.

 3 Rules to Avoid Toxic Oils
 Never Smoke Your Oil → If it’s smoking, it’s harming you.
 Avoid Processed Seed Oils → Chemically extracted, often GMO, highly inflammatory.
 Store Oils Correctly → Light, heat, and air = oxidation = rancid fats.

 Focus on real, nutrient-dense fats—your body will thank you.

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23 insights and reflections from “Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution

Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side Of The Wireless Revolution: Camilla Rees, Magda Havas: 9781441458797: Amazon.com: Books

The electromagnetic radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, and cell towers is like those overwhelming, discordant sound waves – invisible but physically impactful, drowning out our bodies’ natural electromagnetic symphony. Some people, like trained musicians with sensitive ears, notice the disruption immediately (the electrically hypersensitive), while others don’t consciously perceive it yet still experience the biological effects. The book’s message is that we need to turn down this electromagnetic noise and create spaces where our bodily instruments can play their natural melodies again, before too many instruments are permanently damaged beyond repair.

Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution (2009)

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How can you consent to paying for something if you don’t know the price? In today’s podcast, AnneMarie Schieber of Health Care News and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Care Blog talk about New York State’s decision to ban “consent to pay” forms at medical practices. Also on tap: reforming health care without a political fight, the RESULT Act being reintroduced, which fast-tracks successful treatments in trusted countries but comes too late for one Alzheimer’s patient, “Name it to tame it,” is over-diagnosing symptoms driving up health care utilization?—and has private equity ruined the doctor-patient relationship?

The Consent Trap: Agreeing to Medical Bills Without Knowing Prices

The Consent Trap: Agreeing to Medical Bills Without Knowing Prices

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In this episode Dr. Karyne Messina, a New Books Network host, and Dr. Harry Gill discussed the negative effects of excessive screen time on young adults’ mental health and development, emphasizing the importance of face-to-face interactions and shared experiences. They focused on Erik Erickson’s first phase of adulthood which is the Intimacy versus Isolation phase from neuroscience and psychoanalytic perspectives.

They both talked about the benefits of turning off phones and televisions early in the evening so that a person, couple or family can have quality time participating in some type of meaningful activity versus watching or reading what people on screens are saying or doing. The also discussed how blue light emitted by screens interferes with the production of melatonin which prevents people from falling asleep.

Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)

Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4) – New Books Network

See also One In Four Young People In The World Feels Lonely

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From Exclusive Interview: Steve Bannon Interviews Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò:

Archbishop Viganò: The modus operandi is the same: the deep state finances ideological movements and social pressure groups through USAID and other government agencies to simulate dissent against the Magisterium of the Catholic Church and thus be able to put pressure on the hierarchy to adopt reforms, always in a “progressive” sense. 

Archbishop Viganò: This coup is part of a wider global coup organized by the subversive lobby of the woke left (on the ideological front) and the World Economic Forum (on the financial front). Its aim is the destruction of every form of resistance against the establishment of the New World Order, the establishment of governments totally controlled by an elite of technocrats, and the establishment of a new Religion of Humanity that gives doctrinal and moral foundations to the globalist dystopia. In the minds of these criminals devoted to the Antichrist – because it is the kingdom of the Antichrist that we are talking about – Bergoglio was to be the first “pope” of the new ecumenical and synodal church prepared since Vatican II. And it is precisely because of this total heterogeneity even with respect to his immediate predecessors (and even with respect to the most progressive of these) that Bergoglio cannot be considered to have been pope of the Catholic Church.

Exclusive Interview: Steve Bannon Interviews Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò – Stephen K Bannon’s War Room

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Added 5-13-2025:

Dangerous ticks, green tyrants and the new biological war on red meat…

There’s a tick spreading across the US that’s giving people an allergy to red meat. No, this isn’t some fringe conspiracy theory; it’s actually real, and it’s called Alpha-gal Syndrome. It starts with the bite of a Lone Star tick, and for some people, it ends with a permanent allergic reaction to beef, lamb, pork, even dairy and gelatin. Some farmers and ranchers who get it can’t even go near their own livestock without reacting.

At the exact same time this bizarre red meat allergy is sweeping across the country, we’re also being hit with a coordinated media and political campaign to convince us that meat is killing us, making us sick, destroying the planet, and needs to go. The timing isn’t just strange, it’s downright suspicious…

Red meat is one of the most nutrient-dense, healing, anti-inflammatory foods on the planet. It’s packed with glutamine and contains the nutrients your body needs to fight inflammation and support everything from mental health to cardiovascular function. Yet it’s been falsely demonized for decades in the name of the Marxist “Green” agenda.

Added 5-20-2025:

The MMR vaccine

“I Saw What The SHOT Did” – Michael & The Vaccine Dissident | Dr. Andy Wakefield

Shining a light on the MMR shot: More combos, less choice.

Choice is taken away from parents by combo shots. Making MMR a combination shot, and removing the availability of the individual measles, mumps, or rubella vaccines, was a policy and profit decision

Shining a light on the MMR shot: – Health Freedom Institute

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Nobody Does It Better

October 27, 2017 Leave a comment

 

It was almost 5 AM when Carl finished his workout. Carl headed for FoodNation to buy groceries for the day. Once inside, there was no mistaking the smell of freshly baked carbs. Carl smiled. He remembered an old cartoon where an enticing aroma was shown to lift a character off of his feet, draw him along and then place him in front of its enticing source. Carl decided not to be a cartoon character today.

Carl walked past his wafting imagination. He walked past the aisle of styrene-encased carbs and the men in knee pads reshuffling and restocking dated poly-packaged carbs. He walked past the sugar-covered carbs.

Carl walked past the frozen carbs, the cryopreserved carbs.

Carl walked past the aisle of processed ethnic food stuffs. Carl walked past the aisle of colorful billboard-boxed carbs. Each box proclaiming vast health benefits with every “great” bite. Carl walked past the cardboard-boxed dried carbs. Carl walked past the aisle of unembarrassed in-the-bag sugar. Carl walked past the aisles of incarcerated-canned vegetables and the hitting-the-bottle jars of preserved condiments.

And Carl walked past the fashionable colors of carbonation in the liquid sugar aisle.

Carl reached the water aisle and pulled a bottle of drinking water off the shelf. He smiled. Like James Bond he would live to die another day.

 

Carl had come to his health care senses a while back. At that time, he didn’t feel good or look the part of 00Carl. So, there was no doubt – he had to make some changes. And beside his own topology concerns there was one, no, there were many other prompters that changed his health habits.

Carl couldn’t help notice that many men and women were no longer walking. Instead, they were waddling. To go forward they would rock back and forth, shifting weight from one bad knee to the other in a slow, plodding fashion, as if pulling a sled full of lumber. Some of the living dead weight moved though FoodNation driving their immense form around in the motorized shopping carts with the appearance of a parody parade float.

When Carl reached the checkout counter that day he waited while up ahead liters of soft drinks, boxes and boxes of cereal, bags of treats and goodies and packaged preservatives force-fed the conveyor belts.

Once the motorized cart had been emptied of its contents, Carl placed the divider down on the conveyor. Behind the divider he placed his bottled water, a bag of walnuts, a carton of eggs, a bag of mixed greens and a salmon fillet for dinner. Carl had decided to invest in his future. He needed his legs to make a go of it.

 

The end. (But not for Carl.)

 

 

 

© Jennifer A. Johnson, 2017, All Rights Reserved

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When will a grocery store be designed for health instead of consumerism? Along the same line, have you noticed the horrible and often offensive background music?

Mission Impossible Theme>>>

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What Your Gut is Telling Your Brain and Other True Stories

February 8, 2014 Leave a comment

no bread

Growing older I have become more food aware.  Not because I watch the Food Network or Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (which is rather fun to watch). But rather because I am more conscious of what my body is showing me and telling me. And, because of what I see around me every day. It’s not a pretty sight.

 At work, I sit in a cube. The cube is in a quad.  There are two other women in the quad and one open desk.  Of the three of us, I am the only one that drinks water all day long.  The other two women, one who is about my age and the other who is much younger but very old-looking from cigarette smoking, both drink Mountain Dew and all day long.

I only ever see The Smoker eat bagels and cream cheese and crackers.  The other woman eats pretzels from the vending machine.  The smoker is thin, of course, and no doubt malnourished.  The other woman is extra-sized and seems to be aging quickly.

 Now I don’t judge them. I just observe them. It’s not my place to say a word about eating habits.

 Another observation:  I walk to and from work every day from the train station. What I see is that at least one in ten people on the street is obese. I don’t mean heavy I mean obese.  They waddle down the sidewalk with knees that will buckle at any moment.

 Mirror, mirror on the wall:  I see a woman in her early sixties with some facial wrinkles but most people tell me that I don’t look my age when they find out.  I believe this has to do with the fact that I changed my diet a couple of years ago.

 First off, I drink lots of water and an occasional soda drink. I drink wine only the weekends and have stopped drinking beer, except, again, occasionally.  Beer has gluten and I try to avoid all the gluten I can.

 I don’t eat bagels, muffins, oatmeal, cereal or toast in the morning. I eat yogurt, eggs, nuts, and different proteins, including red and white meats and fish. I eat a lot of nuts. I don’t eat peanuts because they are legumes and do not qualify as nuts. I eat salads with olive oil dressings containing almost no carbs or sugar. I always find a good tasting dressing and eat a lot of salads at night.

 I steer clear of gluten, which for me means carbs like breads and pastas and also fruits and sweets. I made other changes as well but let’s move on to how I came about this change. It began when I started reading the following book Wheat Belly. 

 At that time I knew that I never felt good, that I was often depressed and especially after eating a meal I really wanted to eat. I did not sleep well and my belly was an emerging market.

But there was more.  My doctor, after he and I reviewed my bi-annual blood tests found that my Triglyceride number was always above the ‘safe’ level.  My body was turning carbs into fatty cells that would eventually give me heart problems. I need to make some health-smart changes.

 I began noticing that the supermarket seemed to be packed with carbs. Take a look at the frozen food section, the cereal aisle and the snack aisle. Even many condiments have gluten and sugar in them. I learned to be discerning and no longer lazy. I read the labels.

Also, I watched what restaurants offered on their TV commercials.  i don’t have to tell you that all of them offer up all varieties of breaded, carb-ed up, sugared-up filler that is not worth partaking of. I have, infact, learned to think of this ‘kind’ of food as mostly ‘cardboard’ filler and not comfort food.

Now, if you are like me you just might benefit from the following books.  à votre santé

 From the Introduction of Dr. William Davis’ book, Wheat Belly:  Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back To Health:

“You will see that what we are eating, cleverly disguised as a bran muffin or onion ciabatta, is not really wheat at all but the transformed product of genetic research conducted during the latter half of the twentieth century.  Modern wheat is no more real wheat than a chimpanzee is an approximation of a human.  While our hairy primate relatives share 99 percent of all genen found in humans, with longer arms, full body hair, and lesser capacity to win the jackpot at Jeopardy, I trust you can readily tell the difference that 1 percent makes.  Compared to its ancestor of only forty years ago, modern wheat isn’t even close.

I believe that the increase consumption of grains ~ or more accurately, the increased consumption of this genetically altered thing called modern wheat ~ explains the contrast between slender, sedentary people of the fifties and the overweight twenty-first century people, triathletes included.”

 From Part One: Wheat: the Unhealthy Whole Grain, Chapter One, What Belly?:

 “A wheat belly represents the accumulation of fat that results from years of consuming foods that trigger insulin, the hormone of fat storage. While some people store fat in their buttocks and thighs, most people collect ungainly fat around the middle.  This “central” or “visceral” fat is unique:  Unlike fat in other areas, it provokes inflammatory phenomena, distorts insulin responses, and issues abnormal metabolic signals to the rest of the body.  In the unwitting wheat-bellied male, visceral fat also produces estrogen, creating “man breasts.

The consequences of wheat consumption, however, are not just manifested on the body’s surface; wheat can also reach deep down into virtually every organ of the body, from the intestines, liver, heart, and thyroid gland all the way up to the brain. In fact there’s hardly an organ that is not affected by wheat in some potentially damaging way.”

 Heads up:  This brings me to the Introduction of Dr. David Perlmutter’s book, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar ~ Your Brain’s Silent Killers:

“I’m here to tell you that the fate of your brain is not in your genes.  It’s not inevitable.  And if you’re someone who suffers from another type of brain disorder, such as chronic headaches, depression, epilepsy, or extreme moodiness, the culprit may not be encoded in your DNA.

 It’s in the food you eat.

 Yes, you read that right:  brain dysfunction starts in your daily bread, and I’m going to prove it.  I’ll state it again because I realize it sounds absurd: Modern grains are silently destroying your brain.  By “modern,” I’m not just referring to the refined white flours, pastas, and rice that have already been demonized by the anti-obesity folks;  I’m referring to all the grains that so many of us have embraced as being healthful ~ whole wheat, whole grain, multigrain, seven-grain, live grain, stone-ground, and so on.  Basically, I’m calling what is arguably our most beloved dietary staple a terrorist group that bullies our most precious organ, the brain.  I will demonstrate how fruit and carbohydrates could be health hazards with far-reaching consequences that not only will wreak physical havoc on your brain, but will also accelerate your body’s aging process from the inside out.  This is science fiction; it’s now documented fact.”

 He goes on to say that “Brain disease can largely be prevented through the choices you make in life…This (book) is a game-changer.”

From the book’s cover jacket:  “The cornerstone of all degenerative conditions, including brain disorders is inflammation, which can be triggered by carbs, especially those containing gluten or high in sugar.”

 The book discusses a host of health problems generated by our unhealthy diet:  a low cholesterol number (perhaps due to meds w/statins) has been shown to correlate to depressive mood disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, diabetes, digestive disorders, memory dysfunction and so on.

 Do you think you should read this book?  You better before you lose your mind!no-Grains

 My son gifted me a book this past Christmas:   Death By Food Pyramid:  How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Ruined Your Health…and How to reclaim It! by Denise Minger.

 From Denise’s blog Raw Foods SOS, “About:”

“This site isn’t specifically low-carb or high-carb, vegan or carnivore, raw food or cooked food, or anything else that could be neatly labeled. My own experience as a (recovered) raw vegan taught me that diet-dogma is killer, so the emphasis here is on unraveling research rather than building an ideology. My goal is to make nutritional science accessible and non-boring to those who really care about their health”

Denise takes on the well-known food pyramid that most of us were taught as school kids.

 “Though my faith in white coats would eventually crumble, I started in the same place most people do:  a state of blissful ignorance.  We grow up thinking nutrition is a fine-tuned science ~ one carefully guarded by the National Institutes for Health, the American Dietetic Association, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and other big-name authorities with clout and confidence far beyond our own.  We spend our lives soaking up their ubiquitous advice, filing it away in the brain cabinet where true things go.

Saturated fat clogs your arteries.

Whole grains are heart-healthy.

Lowfat dairy makes your bones strong.

White meat is better than red.

Vegetable oils are healthier than butter.

High-cholesterol foods cause heart disease.

In most cases, we can’t pinpoint where we first heard these things ~ we just know they must be right.”

As usual I am reading several books at the same time. So, I am just getting into Death By Food Pyramid.  And, as usual, I will question what I believe to be factually true against further evidence or knowledge. More food for thought.

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Flowers of the Field

April 13, 2013 Leave a comment

I went for a mammogram on Good Friday.  This was my first mammogram even though I am about ten years from retirement.  I put off health tests ( I tell myself)  because I am so busy.

 After the images were taken I was told that a radiologist would review my scans and send a report to my doctor. This would take about a week.

 The following week I waited anxiously because of what happened as I left the medical office: 

 I opened the door and walked over to the elevator.  There a few feet away were two women facing each other. One of the women, clutching papers in her hand, turned away when I came out the door.  Waiting for the elevator I could hear the other woman, perhaps her mother, comforting her:  “It will be OK.  You will be alright.” I quickly realized that the woman had received some bad news from the radiologist’s report. She was quietly sobbing.

 A lot of things go through your mind when you are in medical limbo. For me there was fear, then anger and then calm took over as I give the matter back to the Lord.

 The next Friday I came home from work and found the report in my mail box.  I wondered why they sent me the report.  They told me that my doctor would get the first look.

 Well, I was relieved to find that the mammogram was “normal.” The staff wanted to let me know right away. 

 The tentative calm became a sigh of relief and then a prayer for the woman at the elevator:  “Lord, please remove all cancer from this woman’s body. I ask this in the name of Jesus.”

 Maybe five years from now someone will pray for me as I stand by the elevator crying. Life is like that.

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 It was during this time of waiting for the radiologist’s report that I heard the shocking news that a coworker had died overnight. 

 This man was slightly older than me.  He died of a brain aneurism ~ in an instant without any warning.

Something like this gives one pause:  How close to death am I?

 Yet, I do not fear death.  It is a matter of perspective.

 I know that even though the dust I am made of will crumble and return to the earth I will live on within the dancing embrace of the Trinity ~ as a flower of the field that never withers or dies.

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