I recently had a discussion with my wife about how healthy eggs are. We both agreed that they’re good for you – go eat some eggs – but my wife insisted that all the good stuff in them was in the yolk. As a kid, I remembered the recommendations being that you avoid the yolk and eat more of the whites. Then that changed, flipped actually, to the exact opposite, and now we’re to the point that it’s recommended that you just eat the whole thing. I don’t tell you this to start a debate about eggs, but a discussion about food and health, because everything has pretty much changed over the course of my life and then back again, but now it seems to make some sense.
The reason people were told to avoid egg yolks was cholesterol – the yolks have quite a bit of it, the white have none of it. And we were told cholesterol was bad for you, would kill you, in fact. Then came the idea that the cholesterol you eat doesn’t have all that much to do with the cholesterol in your blood…etc.
In other words, things changed. Not just a little, but completely.
This isn’t the only thing that has changed, to one degree or another pretty much everything has changed over time. Don’t eat butter, it’s bad for you – eat margarine because reasons. Sugar is bad, eat these chemicals blended together to taste like sugar, that’s better! Avoid fat in steaks, eat lean because eating fat makes you fat.
If you’ve been paying attention, pretty much everything we consume (aside from simply, unambiguous junk food) has been praised and condemned at some point. All of it by the government.
I still remember as a kid eating something like Captain Crunch with the picture on the side of the box that said something like, “Part of this balanced breakfast.” What was the picture of? A bowl of mouth-slicing Captain Crunch, eggs, waffles or pancakes, bacon and/or sausage, a glass of milk and a glass of orange juice. I remember wondering who the hell has that much for breakfast?
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No wonder we got fat as a nation.
The government was suggesting more servings of bread than a sandwich factory would churn out, made with ingredients stripped of their nutritional value to elongate shelf life. It was crazy. The food pyramid seemed designed by the Diabetes Industrial Complex.
Now, thanks to Robert Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, the pyramid has been flipped to include things that make sense; things like “eat more natural foods with less fake garbage stuffed in them.”
How is this controversial? Who gets upset over the concept of making America healthy again? Is there anyone arguing that an obesity rate above 40 percent is a good thing? How riddled by Trump Derangement Syndrome does your brain have to be to argue against common sense in the best interest of everyone?
“Eat what you want, but you should try to avoid things that only exist because machines and chemicals churned them out” isn’t partisan or crazy. You’d think people trying to ban plastic and paper bags “for the environment” wouldn’t freak out over someone suggesting you’ll be better off without dyes and artificial flavors dominating your diet.
But leftists freak out about everything, it’s their go-to move on all issues these days.
The new guidelines for alcohol consumption has the party of Kamala “Box of Wine” Harris clutching their pearls. The party that doesn’t know what a woman is now finds itself upset over the differences for suggestions of alcohol consumption between men and women removed, creating one common sense standard of “don’t drink like camel” (fish don’t actually drink that much) and be responsible.
It shouldn’t be controversial to advise people to “limit” consumption on a regular basis, but also recognize that drinking alcohol is both fun and leads to meeting future spouses more often than any of us would ever like to eventually admit to our children. Life happens, a couple of beers now and then makes it more enjoyable.
Responsible adults don’t need government to tell them what to eat or drink – we do not need a nanny government, just some common sense guidelines actually based on science and not whims or lobbying by various parts of industries (which is how we ended up with that old food pyramid in the first place) or controlling AWFULs tisk-tisking if we choose to spend our Friday nights with friends and some adult beverages.
MAHA is a major component of Making America Sane Again. Unfortunately, far too many Americans will prove to be immune to it. But don’t let that stop you from enjoying a big, juicy steak and cold beer. Let everyone else be miserable.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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