Trump, RFKJr. Deliver 100-Day MAHA Report on America's Health

The left was all-in on whole foods and health until Trump embraced it.

Now they're pro-pesticides and pro-artificial adulterants.

The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" or "MAHA" commission, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has published its first report on what it says are four leading drivers of childhood chronic disease.
"The report is the product of a consensual process, and it represents a collaborative effort of all the agencies and the White House. And it represents a consensus that is probably the strongest and most radical consensus by a government agency in history about the state of America's health," Kennedy told reporters in a call ahead of its release.
Thursday's release is the first in a process laid out by President Trump's executive order in February. By August, the commission is due to follow up with a policy strategy to address the findings raised in this report. Kennedy called the report a "milestone."
"MAHA's become hot," Mr. Trump told a roundtable that included Kennedy and other top administration officials at the White House on Thursday.

It's amusing that Trump calls it "hot."

The "chronic disease crisis" in children is described in the report as growing rates of a number of issues including childhood obesity, diabetes, autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, cancer, allergies and autoimmune disorders.
"More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition," Mr. Trump said Thursday. "Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50%. ... In the 1960s, less than 5% of the children were obese, now over 20% are obese. ... Think of this one, this is the one that gets me every time, and it seems to be getting worse -- just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism. Today it's 1 in 31."
Medical experts attribute much of the increase in autism to better and more widespread testing and diagnostics.

Some of it, yeah. What about the rest of it?

These are the people who will only buy food from Whole Foods (aka "Whole Paycheck") themselves but now that Trump is pushing for a more healthful food industry, they're intensely skeptical.

Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that the Trump administration was not seeking "a European, mandate-driven regulatory system that stifles growth" as a result of the process.
"It will happen through a renewed focus on improved science throughout the federal government and our partners. And through unleashing private sector innovation to produce better solutions for our children," Zeldin said.
Multiple current and former federal health officials criticized the report, which they said misrepresented several facts and left out other well-known drivers of childhood chronic disease.
"They're looking for specific causes and silver bullets to draw attention to. However, prevention is all about making it easier for people to make healthy choices," said one current federal health official in a message, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

It's just unbelievable. Every bit of commentary from CBS is negative.

The wide-ranging report is organized around four topics that it describes as the "potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress":
Poor diet, driven primarily by ultra-processed foods
Cumulative exposure to chemicals like food additives and pesticides
Lack of physical activity and chronic stress
"Overmedicalization" with too many prescriptions and vaccines
These largely reflect many of the themes that Kennedy has long spoken about, including as a longshot presidential candidate last year and as the head of the nation's public health agencies in recent months.
"It is very strong, it's very frank, and it is a clarion call to do something with utmost urgency to end this crisis. And that's what we wanted," Kennedy said of the report.
For example, under the heading of ultra-processed foods, the report echoes Kennedy's criticism of the shift from using "minimally processed animal-based sources like butter and lard" to seed oils like corn and canola. And it takes aim at the federal dietary guidelines process, which is due to release a major update later this year.
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It calls out the "growth of the childhood vaccine schedule," which Kennedy has long denounced, often with misleading claims about how vaccines were not sufficiently vetted for safety and efficacy.
"The number of vaccinations on the American vaccine schedule exceeds the number of vaccinations on many European schedules, including Denmark, which has nearly half as many," the report says.
The report also reiterates Kennedy's criticism of the CDC's vaccine safety monitoring efforts, like in the Vaccines Adverse Event Reporting System and Vaccine Safety Datalink, as well as the federal approach to compensating childhood vaccine injury.
It also criticizes groups like the American Medical Association for efforts to address disinformation about vaccines, saying it "undermines the open dialogue essential to protecting and improving children's health."

RFKJr. praised Trump for increasing the Hotness of MAHA.

The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
NOW: RFK Jr. Reveals Trump Made a MAHA Pledge--Before MAHA Even Existed.
This is the real origin story of one of the most powerful political alliances in modern history.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat beside President Trump, laid it out:
"I do want to say something," Kennedy began.
"Because I get a lot of credit for steering this administration toward the MAHA movement--but I joined the campaign in August."
"It was in June that he made a speech specifically on this issue."
"It was a MAHA speech--before MAHA existed."
Kennedy said that speech caught his attention.
"I took note of it at the time and thought: there's potential here for common ground."
Then he turned directly to Trump and said:
"I want to thank you for your vision, for your courage, for standing up... President Trump is a populist president."
"He is on the side of the middle class, the working class, the poor in this country."
The crowd erupted in applause.
And Kennedy closed with a statement few would expect from a Democrat:
"I've never seen a president--Democrat or Republican--that is willing to stand up to industry when it's the right thing to do."

Some of the presentation:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: At the MAHA Commission meeting, Trump just declared he will NOT stand down to the Big Pharma and Big Food lobbyists.
"Unlike other administrations, we will NOT be silenced or intimidated by the corporate lobbyists or special interests."
MUSIC TO MY EARS!
RFK Jr. and President Trump are on a quest to end the childhood chronic illness epidemic. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
"There's something wrong. And we will not stop until we defeat the chronic disease epidemic."
"Its first report on childhood health - here are just some of the alarming findings. And they really are alarming. It's unbelievable, terrible."
"More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50%."
"In the 1960s, less than 5% of the children were obese. Now over 20% are obese."
"Just a few decades ago, 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Today, it's one in 31. Last time I heard the number, was one in 34, right? Now it's one in 31."
"We're going to get it done. For the first time ever, this report examines some of the root causes that many believe are making our children sicker and our population sicker. It just doesn't stop with the children. It's our population also."
"Such as the ultra-processed over-medicalization and over-prescription, and widespread exposure to potentially toxic chemicals."

One of the downsides of Trump is that he has no regard for long-established Normzzz of DC -- the compromises and treaties that were signed decades ago, like about never crossing Big Ag, that still persist although no one remembers the conflict that caused the treaty.

Of course, that's simultaneously his biggest upside.

.@POTUS reads out the "alarming findings" of the MAHA Commission Report on childhood health:

- More than 40% of American children have at least one chronic health condition.
- Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared by nearly 50%.
- In the 1960s, less than 5% of… pic.twitter.com/U5SvbRkbQh
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

🚨 MAHA Report Reveals 10-Point Plan To Improve Public Health In America:

"It lays out the roadmap that @SecKennedy thinks federal agencies can use to reduce chronic childhood illnesses in this country."

"This report found that up to 70% of food that most children consume… pic.twitter.com/irsEG71mXb
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2025

The full 25 minute presentation is here.

Posted by: Ace at 05:42 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2025 05:42 PM (e5NfL)

2 Reports to America? What kind of representative bullshit is this?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2025 05:44 PM (ExV1e)

3 > Medical experts attribute much of the increase in autism to better and more widespread testing and diagnostics.
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From single digit percentages to what? 30 - 40%

Horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Q4IgG)

4 Called below.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2025 05:46 PM (VNX3d)

5 RFK Jr got the Donald to not eat McDonald's buns.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2025 05:47 PM (u82oZ)

6 This would explain the rather oddball ads that have shown up recently on YT pimping glyphosate. Anybody seen these? Some mid-looking chick looking into the camera eating a salad or something while the text talks about how glyphosate increases farm yields and lowers CO2 emissions?

Posted by: The herbicidal is political at May 22, 2025 05:48 PM (TbWk/)

7 My ex was using artificial adulterants.

Real ones too.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 22, 2025 05:48 PM (Y2E3/)

8 Gym class? F that. PT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 22, 2025 05:49 PM (dtAQJ)

9 The left was all-in on whole foods and health until Trump embraced it.
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Maybe that's what quieted the Evil Doctor Bezos down.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

10 Maha?

A ha.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (viF8m)

11 We have some sort of serious health problems in this country with kids. Half of our kids are clinically obese and pre or diabetic, and the fda was considering letting doctors prescribe ozempic to treat both conditions in kids as young as 10.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (e5NfL)

12 Our 23 year old granddaughter is seriously overweight and recently had pleurisy caused by vaping. I need RFK Jr to pay her a visit and explain the realities of killing yourself before you're 30. Hubby nec and I gave up saying anything to her parents years ago, they thought she'd grow out of her obesity.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (2NHgQ)

13 BREAKING: At the MAHA Commission meeting, Trump just declared he will NOT stand down to the Big Pharma and Big Food lobbyists.
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Fascism. Straight up.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)

14 If Trump and RFK Jr came out against taking fentanyl the entire left would OD to spite him. Hmmm .....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (Dh9UM)

15 I usually avoid so-called organic food if I can; too expensive. I lived eating food filled with pesticides, so why should I stop now?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (ynpvh)

16 Medical experts attribute much of the increase in autism to better and more widespread testing and diagnostics.
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From single digit percentages to what? 30 - 40%

Horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2025 05:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Everyone’s ‘tarded, dude. We just got better a recognizing it.

Posted by: American Psychological Association at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (l3YAf)

17 So anyway...

Jack could have fit on that door.

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 05:51 PM (0HaGk)

18 Besides, so-called organic food still uses pesticides...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2025 05:51 PM (ynpvh)

19
Reports to America? What kind of representative bullshit is this?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

He's ignoring the rest of the world!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2025 05:51 PM (63Dwl)

20 they thought she'd grow out of her obesity.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM

I think I see the problem, there....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 22, 2025 05:52 PM (dtAQJ)

21 It continues to amaze me that life-long Democrats, like RFK Jr, can find common-ground with Trump.

But "conservatives" like the NeverTrump can't find a single thing.

Not one policy, position or idea, whether conservative, centrist or populist, that they will work with Trump on.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2025 05:52 PM (rBL0n)

22 14 If Trump and RFK Jr came out against taking fentanyl the entire left would OD to spite him. Hmmm .....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (Dh9UM)

Do Fent. I did.

Posted by: Zombie George Floyd at May 22, 2025 05:52 PM (ynpvh)

23 So anyway...

Jack could have fit on that door.
Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 05:51 PM (0HaGk)
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LOL! (literally)

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 05:52 PM (krQz2)

24 This just dropped:

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/ 1925655011716940153

Peter McCullough: "In the largest autopsy series published today [we] examined [these] cases that came in for autopsy after vaccination, in 73.9% of individuals, it was determined that the mRNA vaccine was the cause of death"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (2VST1)

25 A couple of other factors:

Parents who would rather medicate a kid than properly, you know, parent.

The desire to get a kid eligible for "special" programs to get a leg up, which such programs rquire a medical diagnosis.

Posted by: RS at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (rk5vz)

26 So anyway...

Jack could have fit on that door.
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Yep. She was done with him. Her heart will go on...without him.

Posted by: Crusader at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (TN0g+)

27 When did they ditch the Presidential Fitness Test?

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

28 So anyway...

Jack could have fit on that door.
Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 05:51 PM (0HaGk)

That’s because he was slender and slight.

2025 Jack and Rose would weigh a combined 550 pounds and the door would be floating on them for safety.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (l3YAf)

29
Medical experts attribute much of the increase in autism to better and more widespread testing and diagnostics.
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From single digit percentages to what? 30 - 40%

Horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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The medicalization of every human imperfection. Tendency to overthink things? Fear of heights? Talkative? Fond of sugar? We've got a name for your ailment, and a treatment. It probably involves a drug and/or extra time to take the SAT.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (n7rxJ)

30 But "conservatives" like the NeverTrump can't find a single thing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2025 05:52 PM (rBL0n)
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Watch how many things "true conservative" Adam Kinsinger has compromised on. That is true conservativism!

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (krQz2)

31 25 A couple of other factors:

Parents who would rather medicate a kid than properly, you know, parent.

The desire to get a kid eligible for "special" programs to get a leg up, which such programs rquire a medical diagnosis.

Posted by: RS at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (rk5vz)

Adderall is basically meth...for Kids!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (ynpvh)

32 Harris Faulkner looks like one of those Siren Head monsters.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (7HV89)

33 Kraft American Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food hardest hit...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (GlyvH)

34 I'm hoping this will result in healthier convenience foods because I'm often lazy but I don't want to eat easy food that's junkier than necessary.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM (rF2iL)

35 14 If Trump and RFK Jr came out against taking fentanyl the entire left would OD to spite him. Hmmm .....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2025 05:50 PM (Dh9UM)

No no, wait, you're on to something here. Let's run with this.

Posted by: From your lips to Trump's ear at May 22, 2025 05:55 PM (TbWk/)

36 A couple of other factors:

Parents who would rather medicate a kid than properly, you know, parent.

The desire to get a kid eligible for "special" programs to get a leg up, which such programs rquire a medical diagnosis.
Posted by: RS at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (rk5vz)

Didn’t No Child Left Behind have an impact, too? Schools now want to get low-performing students diagnosed so they don’t drag down test scores.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 05:55 PM (l3YAf)

37 Peter McCullough: "In the largest autopsy series published today [we] examined [these] cases that came in for autopsy after vaccination, in 73.9% of individuals, it was determined that the mRNA vaccine was the cause of death"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (2VST1)
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Is this news to anybody on the board?

I mean part of this contains the time that I was still an ardent anti-conspiracy-theorist. And it's not news to me.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)

38 Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on....

Sure hope Biden's doctor and those White House staffers are beginning to sweat.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Vyll1)

39 We've just dropped in to reassure you that, despite what you have may have read, we're going to continue doing our thing.

Posted by: Joys Behar & Reid, AoSHQ Emergency Unwanted Tumescence Response Team at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (0sNs1)

40 These are the people who will only buy food from Whole Foods (aka "Whole Paycheck") themselves but now that Trump is pushing for a more healthful food industry, they're intensely skeptical.

Look, if every sister-humping redneck has access to less-processed foods, it won't be special anymore.

They have to only eat unhealthy stuff so I can feel superior!

Why do you oppress me so much?!

Posted by: Karen at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (hB7mE)

41 I went to Sprouts for the first time yesterday. Spent about 10 minutes looking around. My takeaway is that they put buzzwords like "organic" and "non-GMO" on all the labels and then jack up the price 50%-100% from what Walmart charges for a similar item. Maybe the virtue signal is worth it to some people.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Vj4xA)

42 Kraft American Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food hardest hit...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2025 05:54 PM

Guv'ment cheese.

https://youtu.be/kvLMH0wb_0k

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (dtAQJ)

43 "Didn’t No Child Left Behind have an impact, too? Schools now want to get low-performing students diagnosed so they don’t drag down test scores.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director "

Possibly. It really started to take off with the ADA.

MHO from observation. YMMV.

Posted by: RS at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM (rk5vz)

44 2025 Jack and Rose would weigh a combined 550 pounds

Kate Winslett was always a little chubby but not in a bad way. Now she's chunky and DiCaprio's head alone is half his body weight

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM (2VST1)

45 I used to be not very concerned about herbicides, assuming they were used for weed suppression, but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM (rF2iL)

46 "When did they ditch the Presidential Fitness Test?" - Orson

First thing I thought of when RFKJr was nominated.

It's not a central thing, but it dovetails perfectly with the obesity/exercise part of the program.

And his uncle instituted the thing. I recall I had the max score, 24 points, in 7th grade.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM (1m82a)

47

I asked my dietician why everyone is so fat. She started ripping into food companies that replaced women cooking for their families because they had to work. She also said she would go to work for RFK Jr.

She’s from Ann Arbor. So the message is sinking in in somewhat unlikely places.

Posted by: E Buzz at May 22, 2025 05:59 PM (et1vG)

48 Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on....

Sure hope Biden's doctor and those White House staffers are beginning to sweat.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (Vyll1)

Time to buy stock in Gatorade?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2025 06:00 PM (VNX3d)

49 Why do you oppress me so much?!
Posted by: Karen

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Ted Nugent will be by shortly to serve you some freshly cooked venison and wango your tango.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 22, 2025 06:01 PM (Vyll1)

50 Look, if every sister-humping redneck has access to less-processed foods, it won't be special anymore.
Posted by: Karen at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (hB7mE)

Next thing you know, I'll have to wait for a table at my favorite Paris restaurant because some plumber took their family on vacation. Like a plumber could appreciate fine French butt-crack cheese. -- hey, my name is Karen too

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2025 06:02 PM (ExV1e)

51 1. Poor diet, driven primarily by ultra-processed foods

2. Cumulative exposure to chemicals like food additives and pesticides

3. Lack of physical activity and chronic stress

4. "Overmedicalization" with too many prescriptions and vaccines

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#3 is the only one not directly targeting a big industry (#1 & #2 - Big Food & Big Ag; #4 - Big Pharma). Can just feel all those executives and their lobbyists watching this around a board room table, seething and sweating like they're in Sosa's (Scarface) living room...

Posted by: bearski at May 22, 2025 06:02 PM (Bhsk7)

52 From single digit percentages to what? 30 - 40%

Horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You've also got to look into the social aspects of it.

Nobody's taught formal manners - when formal manners were taught, the high functioning types could mask their oddity better.

It's also fashionable to have a kid "on the spectrum".

And then there are the educational plans. I'm told, though I don't know myself, that those plans are geared toward keeping kids as non-functional as possible.

Is there a nutritional component? Undoubtedly, if all the people saying "I stopped feeding my kid xy and z and all his behavioral problems disappeared!" is true
Is it going to be the same nutritional component for every affected kid? Not likely.

Posted by: Karen at May 22, 2025 06:02 PM (hB7mE)

53 My wife teaches moderate and severe autistic kids. They are heartbreaking to hear about.

And almost all are not the only ones in their families, and almost all have drug use that she knows about.

It’s almost like drugs f people and their kids up.

Posted by: The MewTwix at May 22, 2025 06:03 PM (l5yVc)

54 /off awfl sock

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 22, 2025 06:03 PM (hB7mE)

55 Noooooooooooooo!!!

Posted by: Michael Moore at May 22, 2025 06:04 PM (zdW7X)

56 Parents who would rather medicate a kid than properly, you know, parent.

Posted by: RS at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (rk5vz)

Sadly, I am watching a very sweet young mom who believes that it is mean to train a child in good behavior and healthy interactions with others and who instead is trying to medicate her kid into being a decent human being.

It's not working.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 06:05 PM (rF2iL)

57 I asked my dietician why everyone is so fat. She started ripping into food companies that replaced women cooking for their families because they had to work. She also said she would go to work for RFK Jr.

She’s from Ann Arbor. So the message is sinking in in somewhat unlikely places.

Posted by: E Buzz
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I'd have thought "Because they are lazy pigs" would be top of the list.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2025 06:05 PM (/lPRQ)

58 Trump needs to start pushing socialism and communism. That would completely destroy the left.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 22, 2025 06:05 PM (4uCIm)

59 "When did they ditch the Presidential Fitness Test?" - Orson

First thing I thought of when RFKJr was nominated.

It's not a central thing, but it dovetails perfectly with the obesity/exercise part of the program.

And his uncle instituted the thing. I recall I had the max score, 24 points, in 7th grade.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM

We had to exercise to that stupid mesmerizing chicken fat song first thing every morning when I was in grade school. I don't see a single fat kid in any of my grade school pictures.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2025 06:05 PM (e5NfL)

60 I have eaten government cheese. It is simultaneously plasticky and mealy.

And it tastes like shame.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2025 06:07 PM (wBaIH)

61 By the way, a bunch of the pro-Hamas nutjobs protesting in Philly... heavily vandalized the Liberty Bell with pro-Hamas graffiti

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:07 PM (2VST1)

62 My takeaway is that they put buzzwords like "organic" and "non-GMO" on all the labels and then jack up the price 50%-100% from what Walmart charges for a similar item.
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I think there's some of that.

I think there's also a LOT of mega-corporations that think nothing of just inserting anything into our foods that will make their bottom lines better. One example is the often-cited fact that what passes for bread/pasta in the US isn't allowed to be sold in Europe.

IF JFK/Trump could find a middle ground that eliminated that type of unhealthy manipulation while still allowing the free market to more or less work on its own I think it would be an amazing development for American health.

Posted by: Crusader at May 22, 2025 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

63 RFKJr needs to accept the truth:

We are all going to die.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2025 06:07 PM (bWcp9)

64 I used to be not very concerned about herbicides, assuming they were used for weed suppression, but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.
Posted by: Emmie

I've heard that too... well, not on the grains at harvest, but just before harvest to dessicate the stalks so they are all "ripe" at the same time.

Which sounds utterly bogus and like an excessive expense that most farmers wouldn't consider making, considering how low their margins are.

But I don't know how it is in other parts of the country.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 22, 2025 06:08 PM (hB7mE)

65 I have come to accept that KTE is on the autism spectrum.
It's goid to see RFKjr talking sbout it

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (OTdqV)

66 Health is on YOU,not on RFKjr, not on the government, not on anyone else….but YOU.

Take control of your own life.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (bWcp9)

67 RFKJr needs to accept the truth:

We are all going to die.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2025 06:07 PM (bWcp9)

RFK Jr. has far outlived the life expectancy for a Kennedy make, so he must be doing something right.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (l3YAf)

68 The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump to fire labor board members in a 6-3 decision.

How will the Left crank the cries of "fascism" any higher? Where have you gone, Nigel Tufnel? Our outrage meter needs to reach eleven!!!
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Here's a sober, reasoned, and well-grounded line from Kagan:
"The impatience to get on with things--to now hand the President the most unitary, meaning also the most subservient, administration since Herbert Hoover (and maybe ever)--must reveal how that eventual decision will go."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (rBL0n)

69 My takeaway is that they put buzzwords like "organic" and "non-GMO" on all the labels and then jack up the price 50%-100% from what Walmart charges for a similar item.

I've heard people say that "organic" just means applying the same 'cides in smaller amounts and more frequently.

Because government definition.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (hB7mE)

70 I have eaten government cheese. It is simultaneously plasticky and mealy.

The stuff we had in the 70s was okay, it had a decent flavor but it was really crumbly and had an odd texture.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (2VST1)

71 We are all going to die.

"not if we can help it!!!!"
--aging boomers

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:10 PM (2VST1)

72 You mean Trump and RFK want kids to get outside and move around and play and exercise…. Not eat Cheetos and have 14 hours of screen time a day??!! They’re so irresponsible; it’s scandalous!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2025 06:10 PM (YobFY)

73 I've heard that too... well, not on the grains at harvest, but just before harvest to dessicate the stalks so they are all "ripe" at the same time.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 22, 2025 06:08 PM (hB7mE)

That's what I'm talking about, but your description is better.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 06:10 PM (rF2iL)

74 "No one can really understand the political left without understanding that they are about making themselves feel superior. However much they may talk piously about what they are going to do to help others, the left's lack of interest in testing the actual results of their bright ideas against hard facts betrays what their real interest is" -- Thomas Sowell

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2)

75 Govt cheese is just a if handout to BigAg. The US Govt has billions of pounds of cheese stored in a cave and spends billions on buying milk to make cheese every year.

But, no, we can’t cut that spending! That’s too important.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 22, 2025 06:11 PM (4uCIm)

76 Government cheese is people.

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 06:11 PM (0HaGk)

77 >> Here's a sober, reasoned, and well-grounded line from Kagan:

They were going to let Sotomayor write the dissent, but her purple crayon broke.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:11 PM (l3YAf)

78 Parents who would rather medicate a kid than properly, you know, parent.

Posted by: RS at May 22, 2025 05:53 PM (rk5vz)

Sadly, I am watching a very sweet young mom who believes that it is mean to train a child in good behavior and healthy interactions with others and who instead is trying to medicate her kid into being a decent human being.

It's not working.
Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 06:05 PM (rF2iL)

Needs to start randomly beating them. Seriously thought the pendulum has swung too far for some. Taking your day out on your kids because they're little and can't fight back isn't OK, and neither is letting them run wild with no directions or consequences. Creating no structure for your kids but then drugging them for behavioral correction is just another form of abuse IMHO.

And just for the record I hate the "hur dur we just need to beat them autistic kids until they ain't autistic no more" mentality, but we do have unaddressed non-organic behavioral issues as well as definition creep making things an even bigger mess.

Posted by: Stupid assholes make everything worse at May 22, 2025 06:12 PM (TbWk/)

79 64 In the good old days, wheat was tainted with ergot. We'd dance for days. It was Medieval Coachella

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2025 06:12 PM (wBaIH)

80 Dear Secretary Kennedy

STOP MAKING ME LIKE A KENNEDY, YOU BASTARD!!!!

Regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2025 06:12 PM (2J/Lj)

81 Soylent Green is Government Cheese!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2025 06:12 PM (VNX3d)

82 I've heard people say that "organic" just means applying the same 'cides in smaller amounts and more frequently.

Because government definition.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (hB7mE)

It means using organic pesticides, mostly. Some of which are more harmful than synthetic pesticides, but they’re “natural”.

(Yes, small time gardeners/farmers may use no pesticides. But if you’re getting organic stuff from the store they probably used pesticides.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:13 PM (l3YAf)

83 Govt cheese is just a if handout to BigAg. The US Govt has billions of pounds of cheese stored in a cave and spends billions on buying milk to make cheese every year.

Yeah I do not comprehend the power that the ag industry has in America. Yes, its a major export and huge business but they see to utterly control legislation. Corn runs everything, Dairy isn't even that big and it has so much power

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:14 PM (2VST1)

84 I wonder if RFK Jr understood how toxic he would become to the left when he joined PDT?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 22, 2025 06:14 PM (tT6L1)

85 Take control of your own life.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2025 06:09 PM (bWcp9)
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Vegetable oils were developed as machine lubricants, which is why their industrial processes weren't problematic.

When the government granted temporary allowance to put them in foods during the WWII butter shortage, we run into trouble.

It's way past WWII. It's not temporary, and a top-down approach is a good way to get non seed oil options back into widely available things that claim to be food.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:15 PM (krQz2)

86 You mean Trump and RFK want kids to get outside and move around and play and exercise….

Didn't like Barry and Big Mike trying to be parents to the nation. Don't like this arrangement any better.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 22, 2025 06:15 PM (97hO8)

87 It means using organic pesticides, mostly. Some of which are more harmful than synthetic pesticides, but they’re “natural”.

People forget that nightshade, arsenic, and digitalis are all natural. Natural is not equivalent to healthy good or beneficial.

Posted by: Critical thinking is important at May 22, 2025 06:15 PM (TbWk/)

88 Posted by: Stupid assholes make everything worse at May 22, 2025 06:12 PM (TbWk/)

I'm not talking about beating. She doesn't help him with his self-control at all. She thinks that if everyone provided the perfect environment for her son, then he could behave.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (rF2iL)

89 from the CBS article -
"What does the MAHA report get wrong?

"Multiple current and former federal health officials raised a number of issues with the report, which they said misstated several facts and left out already well-documented drivers known to be causing chronic disease in children that health authorities are already working to address."

How are much money are Big Food and Big Chemical and Big Pharma paying the critics of MAHA? Follow the money.

Oh, one more question. How many current and former federal health officials are saying the old Food Pyramid is absolutely right? Any? All? What former Federal officials can you trust as far as you can throw JB Pritzker?

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (aBgBM)

90 Canola was given that name because it’s oil from Canada. The name of the plant is rapeseed .

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (4uCIm)

91 I wonder if RFK Jr understood how toxic he would become to the left when he joined PDT?

I doubt it. He's always been a bit of an outsider, but he's a Kennedy, so he was Democrat royalty. Now he's pariah

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (2VST1)

92 I used to be not very concerned about herbicides, assuming they were used for weed suppression, but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.
Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM (rF2iL)

It is called a "drying agent" and it kills the cereal crop so it will all be dry and ready for threshing at the same, predictable time, so they can harvest the fields on schedule.

It also means there is a lot of glyphosate in cereal based foods. Maybe an issue or not, but it is hard to get away from if you are concerned.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2025 06:18 PM (D7oie)

93 I haven't seen it mentioned here, but the Amazon series, "The Bondsman" with Kevin Bacon is pretty good.

Yeah, has some 1st season stumbles but, over-all, entertaining.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (rBL0n)

94 I'm not talking about beating. She doesn't help him with his self-control at all. She thinks that if everyone provided the perfect environment for her son, then he could behave.
Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (rF2iL)

I'm being hyperbolic for effect. And like I said I think that's child abuse in a different form. She is doing him zero favors and he isn't going to be able to function independently without a hell of a lot of difficulty.

Posted by: Setting him up to fail at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (TbWk/)

95 The story/tweet at Insty about the pos who killed the two people is right. Only the death penalty will do.

The girl was beautiful. Whole life ahead of her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (QxmxR)

96 Oh, one more question. How many current and former federal health officials are saying the old Food Pyramid is absolutely right? Any? All? What former Federal officials can you trust as far as you can throw JB Pritzker?

I thought the 4 food groups were so much better designed. Right or wrong they were pretty easy to remember and understand. The pyramid made the food that was bad for you were the best, because they were on the top, and it had too many categories.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (2VST1)

97 Dairy isn't even that big and it has so much power
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:14 PM (2VST1)

They’ve even got a Dairy Queen. I thought America was a democracy!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (l3YAf)

98 Canola was given that name because it’s oil from Canada. The name of the plant is rapeseed .
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (4uCIm)
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And if they didn't use chemicals like bleach to remove the smell, I've read you wouldn't ever have it in your house.

And then they have to use chemicals to neutralize those chemicals.

So if anybody likes the story about the old woman who swallows the cat to catch the rat, you're welcome to seed oils.

I'd like to see food become sane again.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (krQz2)

99 We have to BEG for antibiotics, even if we have a chronic condition, but the doctor, the pharmacy, everyone BEGS us to sign up for any new vaccine on the market.

It's BS.

Posted by: PJ at May 22, 2025 06:20 PM (RRCAT)

100 Can't spell MUAHAHAHAA without MAHA

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2025 06:20 PM (E0p3T)

101 Oh, one more question.
Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2025 06:17 PM (aBgBM)

I feel like I am on an episode of Columbo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (QxmxR)

102 The girl was beautiful. Whole life ahead of her.
Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (QxmxR)

Wasn’t she just a ditzy liberal working on global warming and environmental justice crap? Sounds like blue-on-blue violence to me.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (l3YAf)

103 Emmie when people don't socialize (ie dont disciple/ let them run amok) their kids, they wind up hating their own children, and so does everyone else.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (wBaIH)

104 I’m a parent and there’s nothing more humbling than bringing up kids. You make a thousand… a million small mistakes; you lose your temper and yell and make a fool of yourself. You never quite get on the right side of that fine line between helicopter and letting your kids breathe. Anyone who says they had zero problems is either lying or should play the mega lotto because they’re extremely lucky.

Yet I wouldn’t trade the experience for any amount of money. BTW… my kids ate too much junk food and played too many video games… sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (YobFY)

105 We had to exercise to that stupid mesmerizing chicken fat song first thing every morning when I was in grade school. I don't see a single fat kid in any of my grade school pictures.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2025 06:05 PM

Chicken Fat you say? Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/EFofqe26t-4

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (Wnv9h)

106 I wonder if RFK Jr understood how toxic he would become to the left when he joined PDT?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 22, 2025 06:14 PM (tT6L1)

I don't think he cares beyond needing support to get his agenda done. He was ringing the bell on pesticides and vaccines for quite a while, which is why he only was on podcasts, and none of the classy ones, for a long time.
He expressed surprise when Mikhaela Peterson told him she would put the entire interview out instead of editing it, and he said she would be as unpopular as he was for it.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (D7oie)

107 93 I haven't seen it mentioned here, but the Amazon series, "The Bondsman" with Kevin Bacon is pretty good.

Yeah, has some 1st season stumbles but, over-all, entertaining.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (rBL0n)

I saw this when it was called Brimstone. And RIPD.

Posted by: Derivative? Highly. at May 22, 2025 06:22 PM (TbWk/)

108 I swear there was a time not 15 years ago when the media hyped the hell out of Canola oil as a "healthy choice". Am I crazy? That happened, right? For a year or two? Because at the time Brit Lass was like "NO. Fuck that noise".

They are so fucking guilty, the rat bastards.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2025 06:22 PM (E0p3T)

109 2 Reports to America? What kind of representative bullshit is this?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2025 05:44 PM (ExV1e)

Good question. I don't recall any Reports to America during the Biden Regime. Was the Federal Govt not telling the citizens a damn thing about anything a Precious Norm that FJB restored?

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2025 06:23 PM (aBgBM)

110 We have to BEG for antibiotics, even if we have a chronic condition, but the doctor, the pharmacy, everyone BEGS us to sign up for any new vaccine on the market.

It's BS.
Posted by: PJ at May 22, 2025 06:20 PM (RRCAT)

To be fair, antibiotics are the only drug I want the government regulating, because overuse carries such steep external costs that can’t be borne by the abusers.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:23 PM (l3YAf)

111 I feel like I am on an episode of Columbo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:21 PM (QxmxR)
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I'll tell the wife. She'll get a big kick out of it!

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)

112 They’ve even got a Dairy Queen. I thought America was a democracy!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (l3YAf)

......

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2025 06:23 PM (E0p3T)

113 They’ve even got a Dairy Queen. I thought America was a democracy!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:19 PM (l3YAf)

Well, the Beef lobby has a Burger King.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2025 06:24 PM (VNX3d)

114 Take a look at some of the foreign corporations like Mondelez that has taken over many of our food companies. Since their takeover, they have loaded up the foods with cheap fillers, pesticide laden grains, HFCS, corn syrup and other garbage- all for a profit. They have built their companies on the backs of our children’s health. They are ultra processed and processed food pushers. Why do you have HFCS in Ritz crackers? Seed oils in Triscuit crackers? Tons of garbage in their Chips Ahoy and Oreo cookies. I could go on but you can’t even pronounce half of the ingredients.

Frankly, I’d like to get out the hanging tree again, but that’s just me.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 22, 2025 06:24 PM (dDxw5)

115 All of the vegetable/seed based oils, iirc.

Because they were not 'red meat' based, etc.

Saturated fated 'bad' Yada.

There has been so much contradictory guidance over the years, it is hard to keep track.

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:24 PM (QxmxR)

116 I swear there was a time not 15 years ago when the media hyped the hell out of Canola oil as a "healthy choice". Am I crazy? That happened, right? For a year or two? Because at the time Brit Lass was like "NO. Fuck that noise".

They are so fucking guilty, the rat bastards.
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2025 06:22 PM (E0p3T)

They told people butter and eggs were bad and to load up on heavily-processed, trans-fat-laden seed oils instead.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (l3YAf)

117 They’ve even got a Dairy Queen. I thought America was a democracy!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Well, the Beef lobby has a Burger King.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

And Bid oil has the Duke of Earl! No, wait...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (2VST1)

118 The REAL problem is American MENTAL health.

I any medium to large sized city, a ton of people are literally whacked out of their minds.

My apartment complex is surrounded by homeless people but the only difference between them and most of the people living here are that they sleep outdoors.

People be seriously crazy these days.

Posted by: pawn at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (QB+5g)

119 @andrewmgrossman

New: DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann's long-running libel action.

That's on top of the $530,000 Mann was ordered to pay to National Review in January.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (viF8m)

120 They’ve even got a Dairy Queen. I thought America was a democracy!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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*Shakes fist at Trump*

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:26 PM (krQz2)

121 I saw this when it was called Brimstone. And RIPD.
Posted by: Derivative? Highly. at May 22, 2025 06:22 PM (TbWk/)

I liked Brimstone. My mom said it best 'It's not just that it was good, but it said your actions had consequences. How did it get on the air?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:26 PM (QxmxR)

122 The "Food Pyramid" was a straight-up *scam*. I don't know how much General Mills and other companies paid in bribes to get that pushed thru, but it could have been BILLIONS and they *still* made out like bandits for such horrific advice.

Posted by: Crusader at May 22, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

123 OT
"Catturd ™ @catturd2· 34m
A billion to one.

American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot 2h
ALL 3 of Megan Fox’s sons are tr4nsgender..
What are the odds of that happening…??"

Cutting off kid's testicles and breasts ... also not healthy.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2025 06:27 PM (vbXSk)

124 The Blaze's Sarah Gonzales posted this video.

https://x.com/i/status/1925371849925357840

I do not recognize who is testifying, but he says (near the end) that "recently, animal studies show that the mrna vaccine causes the destruction of 60% of the ovarian reserve in rats."

I take this to mean that rats will have very early menopause due to severe reduction in eggs. Makes me also wonder about viability of remaining eggs.

This would be a very big deal if it also happened in humans. This really would be genocide. I wish I knew more details, like a link to the study, but I put this down as a marker.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 22, 2025 06:27 PM (uI5zG)

125 My parents raised three boys. We were each two years apart. I was the youngest. My Dad had a way to keep us straight.With just a look in his eyes. We did Not cross Dad. Now they were good parents, done all the right things but we also knew to do what we were told.

Posted by: Case at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (Qdqx6)

126 They told people butter and eggs were bad and to load up on heavily-processed, trans-fat-laden seed oils instead.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (l3YAf)

You know, I'm starting to think the media isn't completely on the level with everything.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (E0p3T)

127 New: DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann's long-running libel action.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (viF8m)
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It's amazing how long it takes for reality to have a word.

Mann clearly did everything people he has sued are "slandering" him about. But no, we have to wait this long to get a court to say these are frivolous law suits.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (krQz2)

128 I hope they also revise the food labeling so products Made or raised in the USA are highlighted and foods made elsewhere or in part, elsewhere require a label indicating country of origin

Posted by: Marcus T at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (dDxw5)

129
People can eat healthy if they choose to. Alot of eating unhealthy is because of laziness and the fast paced lives a lot of people live.

The stores aren't short of fresh vegetables and meat.

Husband I are guilty of grabbing something at the grocery that is quick and easy. The small town we live in has no places like McDonald's etc. That does make us eat healthier meals though. The nearest McDonald's etc. are an hour's drive, thank goodness. Kids here don't grow up eating fast food, which is good.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (3ek7K)

130 You know, I'm starting to think the media isn't completely on the level with everything.
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (E0p3T)
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Or knowledgeable about anything.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)

131 You mean Trump and RFK want kids to get outside and move around and play and exercise….

And they've got the market cornered on the M&M Blizzard. Vital to the strength and security of the Republic.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 22, 2025 06:29 PM (97hO8)

132 New: DC Court orders climate scientist Michael Mann to pay $477,350.80 to the @ceidotorg and @Rand_Simberg in Mann's long-running libel action.

That's on top of the $530,000 Mann was ordered to pay to National Review in January.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM

They are never going to see any of that money. He is broke and in debt from legal fees. I suspect he will be filing for bankruptcy soon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2025 06:29 PM (e5NfL)

133 My mom said it best 'It's not just that it was good, but it said your actions had consequences. How did it get on the air?'

I agree I liked it. And I loved the guy who played the devil, he was such an interesting actor and he was written so well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:30 PM (2VST1)

134 I, for one, am all for cutting Government cheese.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) at May 22, 2025 06:30 PM (elO/o)

135 People be seriously crazy these days.
Posted by: pawn at May 22, 2025 06:25 PM (QB+5g)

We have become less socialized, less social in general, more tribalized, more isolated, more compartmentalized, more dependent, less patient, less resilient and less self-controlled. It all adds up and takes a toll.

Posted by: Isolation and alienation can break anyone at May 22, 2025 06:30 PM (TbWk/)

136 84 I wonder if RFK Jr understood how toxic he would become to the left when he joined PDT?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 22, 2025 06:14 PM (tT6L1)

Probably. He's very smart and observant. He saw how the left reacted to Trump. He knew he was burning all the bridges.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2025 06:31 PM (2J/Lj)

137 134 LoL Fartwell

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2025 06:31 PM (/iXAp)

138 What exactly does 'processing' do to food and makes it 'bad'?

Posted by: Ciampino - steamed, frozen carrots are processed! at May 22, 2025 06:31 PM (sPQoU)

139 he was such an interesting actor and he was written so well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:30 PM (2VST1)

'The Only thing I loved was GOD- and that was a LONG time ago.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD workphone at May 22, 2025 06:31 PM (QxmxR)

140 "For example, under the heading of ultra-processed foods, the report echoes Kennedy's criticism of the shift from using "minimally processed animal-based sources like butter and lard" to seed oils like corn and canola. And it takes aim at the federal dietary guidelines process, which is due to release a major update later this year."

This means better, healthier pie crusts for all Americans. Just wait until Big Corn (AKA Senator Charles Grassley, R-Ag Lobby) hears about this!

Posted by: mrp at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (rj6Yv)

141 Wrong damn paste.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (97hO8)

142 People can eat healthy if they choose to. Alot of eating unhealthy is because of laziness and the fast paced lives a lot of people live.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2025 06:28 PM (3ek7K)
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I always read labels for clean ingredients. And while I believe over time this could affect the markets, in the short run we're allowing a lot of poison on the shelves marketed as "food".

Perhaps we should let grocers put rotting food at stores and it's only caveat emptor?

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (krQz2)

143 They are never going to see any of that money. He is broke and in debt from legal fees. I suspect he will be filing for bankruptcy soon.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving rat bastard.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (2VST1)

144 Yes people are lazy but some people, especially those with lower incomes have to buy the cheaper foodstuffs. That doesn’t mean you can eat salad and fresh vegetables. But if they do they can’t get organic where it’s required to be pesticide free.

I get that you can avoid a lot of the garbage foods and oils. But it’s not easy yet for a lot of people to financially navigate that yet.

If you must eat potato chips or even popcorn, find the new made with avocado oil or eaten virgin coconut oil, even olive oil.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (dDxw5)

145 RFK Jr got the Donald to not eat McDonald's buns.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2025 05:47 PM (u82oZ)

But when they get healthy again, look out!

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (8avO+)

146
Me? I feel fine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2025 06:32 PM (QnmlO)

147 Now they're pro-pesticides and pro-artificial adulterants.

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... and pro-Vaxx Experimental Non-Informed-Consent Jabs, especially for children.

Posted by: ShainS -- Hang 'Em Nigh! at May 22, 2025 06:33 PM (iopM5)

148 *Shakes fist at Trump*
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:26 PM

Hermanx!!!

Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground at May 22, 2025 06:33 PM (elO/o)

149 " pro-artificial adulterants."

I tried that once. The next day, somehow my sex doll had hung herself after stabbing herself in the back twenty seven times.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 22, 2025 06:34 PM (pIfcn)

150 Democrats are anti human. That explains their entire agenda.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 22, 2025 06:34 PM (dDxw5)

151 What exactly does 'processing' do to food and makes it 'bad'?
Posted by: Ciampino - steamed, frozen carrots are processed! at May 22, 2025 06:31 PM (sPQoU)
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They put preservatives in food.

Preservatives keep food from breaking down (Good), also in your stomach (not so good).

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)

152 126 They told people butter and eggs were bad and to load up on heavily-processed, trans-fat-laden seed oils instead.

Then we find out it's the hydrogenated shit that causes vessel inflammation. And that exogenous cholesterol has almost no effect on blood serum values.

Posted by: But it was settled SCIENCE™! at May 22, 2025 06:34 PM (TbWk/)

153 Doctor: Gotta get the new shingles vaccine! Two shots, easy peasy, very safe!

Doctor in Ten Years: Oh, you don't want that old shingles vaccine! Too many problems! The NEW vaccine is great, very safe -- gotta get it!

Posted by: Ghoulposts at May 22, 2025 06:36 PM (qUkBO)

154 RFK Jr. went to Trump camp when he realized how insane the Democrat Party had become by any standard.

His life was passing by and had had no shot for elected office with them, even with his family name.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2025 06:36 PM (yxhux)

155 People can go to Europe, eat bread and not feel bloated.

If you're on a diet in America, it is best not to eat wheat products.

That's just the way it is.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)

156 Processing to me basically means additives.

A three inch list of ingredients on the side of the package.

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (0HaGk)

157 122 The "Food Pyramid" was a straight-up *scam*. I don't know how much General Mills and other companies paid in bribes to get that pushed thru, but it could have been BILLIONS and they *still* made out like bandits for such horrific advice.

Posted by: Crusader at May 22, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)
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Well you just knew it was bullshit since it was recommending lots of starchy foods and sugary fruits FOR DIABETICS!

Posted by: Ciampino - we didn't have a food pyramid in the RSA at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (sPQoU)

158
Breakfast cereal. All the nutritional value of shredded newsprint or kitty litter. But there's an entire aisle at the store dedicated to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (QnmlO)

159 Perhaps we should let grocers put rotting food at stores and it's only caveat emptor?

As always - the devil is in the details. Who gets to pick whats "fit to eat" ?

It'll be whomever schemes hardest to get the job. And that person will either be in it for the bribes - or on some damn crusade to make everybody Crossfitters and vegans. Both will make life miserable.

Posted by: Mike Armstrong at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (97hO8)

160 I think we should rename "bacon strips" as "Gaza Strips" for, well, uhh, so many reasons.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (yxhux)

161 I think Sodium Benzoate is my favorite ingredient.

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (0HaGk)

162
Hadrian,

And almost of it is full of sugar. I like cereal, but the sugar is a turnoff.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2025 06:39 PM (3ek7K)

163
They put preservatives in food.

Preservatives keep food from breaking down (Good), also in your stomach (not so good).
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)

__________

My body is going to live longer than me!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2025 06:39 PM (QnmlO)

164 >>They are never going to see any of that money. He is broke and in debt from legal fees. I suspect he will be filing for bankruptcy soon.

Might be tough. He tried that in April and the judge said LOL, GFY.

He makes $200k/year just from Penn State. He makes more from his books.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2025 06:39 PM (viF8m)

165 "... overuse carries such steep external costs that can’t be borne by the abusers."

That may still be true, Disinterested FDA Director, but if I am being treated by immunologists for a chronic infectious process, I am not abusing them! And the doctor should decide, not the govt.

Posted by: PJ at May 22, 2025 06:40 PM (RRCAT)

166 Well you just knew it was bullshit since it was recommending lots of starchy foods and sugary fruits FOR DIABETICS!
Posted by: Ciampino - we didn't have a food pyramid in the RSA at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (sPQoU)

The American Diabetes Association still advocates a high-carb diet for diabetics.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:40 PM (l3YAf)

167 Well you just knew it was bullshit since it was recommending lots of starchy foods and sugary fruits FOR DIABETICS!
Posted by: Ciampino - we didn't have a food pyramid in the RSA at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (sPQoU)
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Yep. Best thing for diabetics ("type 2") is a low-carb diet. Their A1C will drop. Their insulin resistance will drop to near zero.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:40 PM (krQz2)

168 I got a Big Mac the other day, first one since the debut of the "new" Mac. Ate half and threw the rest. The original was half again as big I think, and tasted super, even if it was some kinda messy to eat. Everything else is downsized too, although the sausage biscuits kept their great taste, I still use them for a road breakfast.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 22, 2025 06:40 PM (hKoQL)

169 Go on YouTube and look at films of people walking the streets of New York in 1910. No one was fat. And there was no food pyramid.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 22, 2025 06:41 PM (yxhux)

170 I thought government cheese was supposed to be real good, to get you hooked on it. That’s what Rush Limbaugh said.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2025 06:41 PM (BHlFn)

171 156 Processing to me basically means additives.

A three inch list of ingredients on the side of the package.

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2025 06:38 PM (0HaGk)
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If any food has been analysed then you'd be amazed as to how many natural individual chemicals are in it.

Posted by: Ciampino - we didn't have a food pyramid in the RSA! at May 22, 2025 06:42 PM (sPQoU)

172 >>Probably. He's very smart and observant. He saw how the left reacted to Trump. He knew he was burning all the bridges.

They sued in multiple states to keep him off the ballot and protect Joe. He knows how vicious leftists are, he grew up with them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2025 06:42 PM (viF8m)

173 krQz2)

168 I got a Big Mac the other day, first one since the debut of the "new" Mac. Ate half and threw the rest. The original was half again as big I think, and tasted super, even if it was some kinda messy to eat. Everything else is downsized too, although the sausage biscuits kept their great taste, I still use them for a road breakfast.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 22, 2025 06:40 PM (hKoQL
McD snausage biskits for sunday school!

Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2025 06:42 PM (jgmnb)

174 Just got here and looked at the pick of Faulkner… she looks like an alien.. ducks and runs..

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2025 06:43 PM (PCK5/)

175 " "In the largest autopsy series published today [we] examined [these] cases that came in for autopsy after vaccination, in 73.9% of individuals, it was determined that the mRNA vaccine was the cause of death"

Seems significant, but need numbers on how many deaths after vax. Were a thousand "saved" for every vax death?

I doubt it, we know many died right after the vax. And we know many forced (for job or other) to get vaxxed while they were at low risk. But what are the other numbers?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2025 06:43 PM (vbXSk)

176 'Go on YouTube and look at films of people walking the streets of New York in 1910. No one was fat. And there was no food pyramid.'

It partly poor nutrition, but I would wager the majority of it is an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. It may well be that human physiology is simply not compatible with a high-technology society. The human evolved to be in motion--bad things happen when it is not.

Posted by: doc ock at May 22, 2025 06:44 PM (/vuFu)

177 People do sit around a lot more, and eat lots of empty carbs…

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2025 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

178
New one

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2025 06:45 PM (3ek7K)

179 It may well be that human physiology is simply not compatible with a high-technology society. The human evolved to be in motion--bad things happen when it is not.

Posted by: doc ock at May 22, 2025 06:44 PM (/vuFu)
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See Wall-E.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:45 PM (krQz2)

180 45 I used to be not very concerned about herbicides, assuming they were used for weed suppression, but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.
Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM

Herbicides kill anything green. I looked into this because I grow grain and we don't spray it with roundup to dry it out we cut it and it's drying right now and then we bale it. Some people, not all but some have to spray their crop because rain is imminent and it will make their crop moldy and no good. Spray is expensive and no one would use it if they didn't ahve to. I don't have an answer.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 22, 2025 06:48 PM (xHmR4)

181 The left, Big pharma , rinos and the medical establishment will never acknowledge the massive eff up that was COVID and the medical response to it. In the next couple of years I believe cancer rates will skyrocket due to the mRNA vaccine and it's alteration of our natural cancer fighting abilities. Only when the loved ones of the above groups started dying in drives will some reckoning be had

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2025 06:49 PM (Dh9UM)

182 I got a Big Mac the other day, first one since the debut of the "new" Mac. Ate half and threw the rest. The original was half again as big I think

Yeah its tough to adjust from youth but the "big" mac seems significantly smaller than it used to be. Not their best burger by any means. They have some new chicken tender things that are expensive and not great.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:49 PM (2VST1)

183 "Unlike other administrations, we will NOT be silenced or intimidated by the corporate lobbyists or special interests."

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What are we, chopped sushi?

Posted by: Big Penguin at May 22, 2025 06:49 PM (MnHeR)

184 Seems significant, but need numbers on how many deaths after vax.

Yeah I don't know how many autopsies they studied, not a lot of data there. But 78% seems higher than I expected.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2025 06:50 PM (2VST1)

185 166
The American Diabetes Association still advocates a high-carb diet for diabetics.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 22, 2025 06:40 PM (l3YAf)
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I lost all faith in expert associations when I read that Kellogg paid the Heart Association $$$ to be able to put the heart symbol on its cereals, and the American Chemical Society decided CO2 was a pollutant (I resigned).

Posted by: Ciampino - we can't afford beef at May 22, 2025 06:50 PM (sPQoU)

186 92 Million views can't be wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7T4aQMxTTM

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2025 06:51 PM (0sNs1)

187 doc ock

Also, look at 1980, like in Hoop Dreams. Very few fat people. I think a big culprit is free food, EBT, and lack of cooking skills due to chaotic family life.

Posted by: PJ at May 22, 2025 06:52 PM (RRCAT)

188 I used to be not very concerned about herbicides, assuming they were used for weed suppression, but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.
Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2025 05:58 PM

Herbicides kill anything green. I looked into this because I grow grain and we don't spray it with roundup to dry it out we cut it and it's drying right now and then we bale it. Some people, not all but some have to spray their crop because rain is imminent and it will make their crop moldy and no good. Spray is expensive and no one would use it if they didn't ahve to. I don't have an answer.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 22, 2025 06:48 PM

I don't know either. We have about 25 BILLION acres around us that is used to grow hay to feed cattle. We also have 3 crop dusters at the local town airport and they are busy from sunup until dark when it is dry and the wind isn't blowing hard They are spraying constantly.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2025 06:52 PM (e5NfL)

189 Posted by: Big Penguin at May 22, 2025 06:49 PM

Big Penguin is real, people!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2025 06:52 PM (0sNs1)

190 "but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.
Posted by: Emmie

For corn and soybeans here, there is a time after which there can be no more spraying (of herbicides on GMOs at least). I think for soybeans it is no spray past first blooms, and for corn ? not past first silking, maybe.

I've had so much Roundup on my hands and breathed some .... I should be dead ten times over if it had the effect many claim. I got my applicator's license a few years ago, and do try to be more careful now ... but mostly just for the other things in the chemicals.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2025 06:53 PM (vbXSk)

191 190 "but then just this past year I learned that they actually spray them ON the grains at harvest. Sounds nasty.
Posted by: Emmie

For corn and soybeans here, there is a time after which there can be no more spraying (of herbicides on GMOs at least). I think for soybeans it is no spray past first blooms, and for corn ? not past first silking, maybe.

I've had so much Roundup on my hands and breathed some .... I should be dead ten times over if it had the effect many claim. I got my applicator's license a few years ago, and do try to be more careful now ... but mostly just for the other things in the chemicals.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2025 06:53 PM (vbXSk)

The unofficial motto of the Operation Ranch Hand aerial spaying units was, "Only we can prevent forests"

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2025 06:57 PM (aBgBM)

192 151 What exactly does 'processing' do to food and makes it 'bad'?
Posted by: Ciampino - steamed, frozen carrots are processed! at May 22, 2025 06:31 PM (sPQoU)
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They put preservatives in food.

Preservatives keep food from breaking down (Good), also in your stomach (not so good).

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)
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preservatives usual prevent bacterial or fungal growth. Shouldn't affect digestion.

Posted by: Ciampino - wait it is later at May 22, 2025 07:01 PM (sPQoU)

193 167 Well you just knew it was bullshit since it was recommending lots of starchy foods and sugary fruits FOR DIABETICS!
Posted by: Ciampino -

There are low glycemic fruits and carbs that would be okay to eat with appropriate protein and fat ratios.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2025 07:02 PM (p4NUW)

194 NOOD

Posted by: ShainS -- Hang 'Em Nigh! at May 22, 2025 07:08 PM (8KRX+)

195 These are the people who will only buy food from Whole Foods (aka "Whole Paycheck") themselves but now that Trump is pushing for a more healthful food industry, they're intensely skeptical.

Look, if every sister-humping redneck has access to less-processed foods, it won't be special anymore.

They have to only eat unhealthy stuff so I can feel superior!

Why do you oppress me so much?!
Posted by: Karen at May 22, 2025 05:56 PM (hB7mE)

Whole Foods sells Oreo equivalent cookies. And caramel candies. Its a racket. It does sell a lot of grains/cereals and nuts in bulk, but that is just more candy really.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2025 07:09 PM (8avO+)

196 doc ock

Also, look at 1980, like in Hoop Dreams. Very few fat people. I think a big culprit is free food, EBT, and lack of cooking skills due to chaotic family life.
Posted by: PJ at May 22, 2025 06:52 PM (RRCAT)

I grew up with 3 of us in one tiny bedroom (same for the sisters) and no A/C. We'd kill to get out of the house for most of the day.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2025 07:11 PM (8avO+)

197 This would be a very big deal if it also happened in humans. This really would be genocide. I wish I knew more details, like a link to the study, but I put this down as a marker.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at May 22, 2025 06:27 PM (uI5zG)

start here

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40333243/

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2025 07:27 PM (D7oie)

198 79 64 In the good old days, wheat was tainted with ergot. We'd dance for days. It was Medieval Coachella
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2025 06:12 PM (wBaIH)

Exactly why I come to this blog. Right there. Blows a kiss and dances.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2025 09:40 PM (6PCLE)

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