HEALTH: But I like hot dogs and sausage … …

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/05/13/ultraprocessed-foods-cardiovascular-deaths.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20250513&foDate=false&mid=DM1746242&rid=291736034 

Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to 4 in 10 Cardiovascular Deaths and Increased Mortality Risk
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola   
May 13, 2025

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Story at-a-glance

  • Nearly 38% of cardiovascular deaths in Canada are linked to ultraprocessed foods. These products contribute to 96,000 new heart disease cases and 17,400 deaths each year
  • Eating just one additional daily serving of ultraprocessed food raises your risk of obesity by 7%, abdominal fat by 5%, and Type 2 diabetes by 12%
  • Ultraprocessed foods increase cognitive decline risk by 16% and stroke risk by 8%, with the strongest effects seen in Black participants
  • Processed meat products like hot dogs and deli meats are linked to a 43% higher risk of death from neurodegenerative diseases and a 13% higher all-cause mortality risk
  • Even small amounts of ultraprocessed food trigger inflammation, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction that accelerate aging and drain your energy daily

Ultraprocessed foods dominate grocery store shelves today in the form of frozen dinners, packaged snacks, and fast-food items. While they offer convenience, they are engineered to hijack your appetite and flood your system with harmful compounds. These products, stripped of real nutrition and loaded with additives, trans fats, and artificial ingredients, are slowly clogging your arteries and setting you up for a heart attack or stroke.

According to a recent study, nearly 38% of all cardiovascular disease deaths in Canada are directly linked to ultraprocessed food consumption. 

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OK OK ok, I am a believer.  But I still like hot dogs.  Don’t eat them anywhere as near as used too but old habits are hard to break.

Luckily my significant other is pescatarian who likes to cook; so I get lots of “good for me food” that’s very tasty.

We’ll see if that helps me make it to 132 (to steal back all the social security dollars “they” stole from me  — ignoring the time value of money!).

Diet-wise I’ve been doing better and losing some weight and keeping it off.

My target is 175  — the weight I was in the military  —  so I have long way to go but I have all the time in world.  Laugh!  Or so I think.  (Remember the fellow who said “think of your age in decades?  So I’m only 7!)

YMMV but what’s the harm in trying to avoid soda and UPF (ultra processed foods)?

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HEALTHCARE: Time to repeal ’86 SHIELD ACT

Thursday, May 8, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/05/04/whats-the-real-story-behind-vaccines.aspx

What’s the Real Story Behind Vaccines?
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola  —  May 04, 2025

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The 1986 Act shields vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits, which may reduce their incentive to conduct thorough safety testing. This could influence your health decisions, encouraging you to research vaccine safety independently to protect your well-being.

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“MAY”?

Are you kidding me?

It’s apparent that “ACT” alone is responsible for BIG PHARMA’s failure to do ANY safety testing.

And the number of childhood vaccinations “required” has exploded from a few to almost 100.

Sorry, but RFK jr, for all his wild ideas, is NOT automatically wrong to point out that AUTISM rates are skyrocketing and COVID vaxes are killing us.

Time to repeal ’86 SHIELD ACT.

Let the vaccine injured have their day in court.  Where’s an “Erin Brockovitch” bitching about the fate of all those harmed?

Argh!

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HEALTHCARE: C-Sections, home births, and a sprinkle of medical correuption make for a complex decision

Monday, March 31, 2025

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/03/28/risks-of-c-sections.aspx?ui=f9839516412491bb1e06c9e47058c6fb81b9b9b6acedf03e65e93dfdb263c1b9&sd=20210317&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20250328_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1725282&rid=258510807

What They Don’t Tell You About C-Sections

Analysis by A Midwestern Doctor  —   March 28, 2025

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  •     For more than a century, there has been a push to medicalize childbirth and transform it from a natural life event to something requiring major interventions so nothing goes amiss
  •     Many of the standard procedures done during hospital births increase your risk of needing other invasive interventions, eventually cascading into requiring a cesarean section
  •     Like other major abdominal surgeries, C-sections expose mothers to significant risk, require a prolonged recovery, and leave large scars which can cause a wide range of chronic issues
  •     C-sections also expose infants to real risks and predispose them to a variety of chronic autoimmune and neurological issues
  •     This article will discuss the risks of C-sections, the situations where they are necessary, and some approaches that can be used to recover from them

Many traditions throughout history have come to view one’s birth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found that doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility1), the same issue also exists with childbirth.

Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing process chose to skip it and give birth at home (along with many more doctors featured in a 2016 documentary2).

Conversely, a minority of childbirths do need advanced medical care. For those mothers, access to a hospital greatly benefits them, particularly if actions are taken to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of hospital birth.

As such, childbirth occupies a similar place as many other medical controversies; neither side of the issue is entirely correct. However, the data clearly shows the risk of routine C-sections outweighs their benefits so this article will attempt to expose what they aren’t tell you about them.

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I was particularly interested in all the stats that were provided.  As well as the anecdotal evidence from the New Zealand Maoris, “getting a spark”, and the old practice of doctors would wack a baby’s soles to trigger a vigorous cry.  I thought it was a smack on the butt.  

In survival school, one of the mandatory lessons was about emergency child birth.  The essence was to do as little as possible until real help arrived.  Keep patient level, legs elevated, clean newspapers to keep the area as sterile as possible, get the baby crying (really), on mom’s chest, and don’t touch the cord.  And to ignore everything we’d seen on TV.  Laugh!

Came close twice, but no cigar.  In the closest case, commuting into NYC on a train, after the paramedics took her away, the old gent came up and complimented me on doing everything right.  Even mentioning the newspaper bedding and “sheets”.  He said he a was the head of obstetrics at Saint Vincents and would have intervened if I was doing anything wrong. His reticence was due to the malpractice law that rendered me immune but made him libel.  Dumb law.  I was almost pooping MY pants  that I might have to deliver.  Labor pains were a minute intervals.  But Saint Simeon the Holy Fool was with me that day.

Glad I never had to make any of these hard decisions as outlined in the article.

I would hope that the incentive structure for “health care” gets straightened out.

Argh!

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