In a poll conducted in the spring of this year, researchers uncovered that just over 53% of unvaccinated Americans answered that “nothing will change my mind” regarding their decision not to receive the jab. Although the survey was conducted before the announcement and implementation of mandatory vaccination measures, 20% of the U.S. adult population remain unvaccinated. The Mail has the story.
Researchers in Boston, New York and Barcelona surveyed about 6,000 adults, including participants from across the country – roughly 21% of whom said they did not want to receive the Covid vaccine.
More than half of those respondents said “nothing will change my mind” about the vaccine while 13% said that advice from a family member or close friend might help convince them.
9% said that a recommendation from a family doctor would be beneficial.
Conservatives, people living in poverty, and those who worked outside the home were more likely to be against vaccination, the survey data showed.
The survey was conducted in April 2021, before the Delta variant surge in the U.S., vaccine incentive programs, mandates, and other initiatives. Still, about 20% of U.S. adults remain unvaccinated.
More than 220 million Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine as of November 3rd, representing about two-thirds of the population.
About four in five adults have received at least one dose, as well as almost all seniors at 98%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Younger children – ages five to 11 years old – are now eligible to get vaccinated with Pfizer shots as of this week.
At the same time, more than 20 million Americans have received a booster dose.
While attention is now on boosters and children, the millions of adults who remain unvaccinated are still vulnerable to Covid.
Newly released survey data shed light on the motivations and demographics of those Americans who are opposed to Covid vaccination.
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It is my lived experience that drastically less carbohydrates, more meat (red if possible) and more fat will change your health and life for the better. This is contested by nutritionalists as expected, but I suspect they’ve never tried it and are still living by the catastrophically bad food pyramid. Plus I suspect the usual ScientismTM ego has the hooks in.
Even a shallow glance at the literature will tell you that carbohydrates should be strictly reduced and fat should be increased.
I genuinely think that if you have a mild ailment, or are looking to generally feel better (much better) first look into the way carbohydrate (glucose, fructose, lactose) affects insulin levels and then how the body uses fat. Next take a look at intermittent fasting. Combine the knowledge of insulin control and how to use fat properly, and your sleep, weight, joints and mental clarity will thank you.
Without sounding patronising or click-baity, everything we’re taught about proper nutrition is largely wrong… If we were taught about how bad too many carbohydrates are, diseases would surely reduce.
I have to agree! The best diet I ever went on was Keto, lost weight and felt better and that’s all fat and no carbs.
Like with most diets I couldn’t keep it up but it is the only one I’d recommend if you have more will power that I have
I’ve been doing a bit of an experiment with the carnivore diet since new year. It’s like keto on speed, in terms of health benefits so far, although I’m only 11 days in so nothing conclusive yet…
Loads of steak, eggs and cheese though. Yum!
I totally concur. The wife was watching some bs for TV scientific experiment on Netflix praising a higher carbs vegan diet to the heavens. Strangely they didn’t test a high protein low carbs diet.
Strange isn’t it… I did read some of the sites reviewing keto, paleo and carnivore diets. Of course they were the ones pushed by Google and featured absolutely no known experiences by the authors, just echoed opinion.
Around 3 or 4 ‘pros’ with about 15 ‘cons’, stating that a balanced diet should favour carbs.
Obviously, one of the ‘cons’ was “…increased meat production is the lead cause of extreme climate change” lol…
My wife watched it as well I said ‘they will start pushing the global warming bollocks in a minute’ low and behold off they went. What started off interesting turned into a complete propaganda piece. What would you expect from Nutflix
Before anything else, the government and it’s NHS/UKHSA arm need to stop consulting with the food industry before telling us what we should eat.
I wish I’d known 30 years ago what I know now. I might have been spared a lifetime of weight problems. I hate to think how many gallons of PUF/ seed oils I’ve glugged down after being assured that butter etc was a heart-attack in waiting.
Spot on.
same here i listened to prevention magazine and used canola oil ate soy everything ,i should have known better looking at all the ads , and we ate margarine for years.
but now i drink raw milk every day,[ from local farmer, meat chicken eggs etc. organic everything and lots of delicious butter.
still a lot of bread and cookies though!
Talked to a friend about health and seed oils, she said she’d been cooking with lard. She really regrets taking the gene therapy.
My take? Ignore the ‘experts’. Eat and drink what you want. Embed yourself in nature as much as possible (it’s weirdly rewarding). Make time for proper friends. Make time for your family. Make time for yourself. Die happy… as short or long as your life may be.
In 2020, I developed a sudden and very painful problem with a broken tooth I had carelessly left sitting in my mouth for some years. I first contacted a NHS dentist about this who told me I’d have to wait for at least 9 months and would need to travel to a different town for treatment. I then obviously went private or at least tried to. Due to a history of panic attacks, I was insisting on being treated under sedation and specifically, as least invasive and unhealthy method, oral sedation. This means taking a single benzodiazepine pill whose effects will – except in the halluciverse of the so-called medical profession – be completely gone within a few hours. The NHS managed to stall this for about 2 months nevertheless I spent in near constant pain and – in the end – on regular medication with some seriously unhealthy stuff (beta blockers and codine painkillers). As icing on the cake, a so-called dentist told me (or rather e-mailed me) after the initial consultation that he refused treat me because of the pills I was forced to take because treatment was refused to me.
Insofar I’m concerned, that’s conclusive evidence that the NHS – as health system instead of as money sink and employment opportunity for a lot of people not overly keen on doing any actual work – has already failed. I had a similar problem in Germany about ten years earlier and got treatment for it, on nothing but that it was obviously medically necessary and I had the usual type of public health insurance – within days.
I concur with the idea of drinking milk. I don’t claim there’s a scientific reason for that, I’m just doing it because it feels as if it was a good thing to do. I’m absolutely unconvinced of the bad health effects of smoking. Smoking tobacco was originally something Europeans discovered in America. It turned into an essentially general habit in the centuries that followed. From about the middle of the 20 century, health hysterics started a correlation crusade against it. After about half a century of relentless correlating, they finally managed to get it more-or-less banned in parts of the so-called Western world. Most aggressively in the USA, pretty aggressive in the UK and rather lenient in Germany: Smoking in pubs is still legal there and the decision is up to the owner.
I also remember a conversation with some moron during an youth environmental congress in the early 1990s where the moron tried to convince that it drive-by shooting of smokers was not only morally accetable but actually, morally called for, due to the health damage they were doing to others. I don’t buy into the rationality of this kind of people.
“I don’t claim there’s a scientific reason for that…”
The reason is, if a mammal doesn’t drink milk, they die after a couple of days.
Only when they are young.
I think smoking is harmless. Until you research it you have no idea how bad the science behind the anti-smoking movement is. There are huge differences in rates of “smoking related disease” between genetically different population, no plausible dose-response relationship, and all contrary evidence is simply relegated to the status of “paradoxes”. It is all easily as bad as climate science, if not worse.
The statement that we should eat more white meat than red meat is hugely contentious and in my view not remotely supported by evidence.
Most nutrition science is junk science or more accurately not science at all and the claims about the harms of red meat or the comparison of white meat with red meat are all based on this non- science.
Typically such claims are based on asking people what they eat perhaps once at the beginning of a 10 year period and once at the end, good luck in remembering what you ate and reporting it accurately. And those people who own up to eating red meat (other health conscious people will eat it but won’t want to admit to it), do other unhealthy things like smoking. And the red meat they are eating might be consumed in Macdonalds with chips cooked in seed oils in an unhealthy bun. The associations between red meat and poor health assessed this way in the big food funded studies are weak and easily explained by healthy user biases and confounders.
When you look for the real evidence that red meat is worse than white meat it doesn’t exist. But if the media parrot this nonsense coming out of these poor and biased studies over and over again without ever looking at how these studies are done, then this myth that red meat is bad becomes the ‘truth’. There is agreement that covid vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ too that’s not contentious either is it? If the evidence doesn’t support something that those who are given the platform to talk about the subject agree on, and those who don’t agree are deplatformed or sidelined, then it doesn’t make it true.
There are lots and lots of cases where individuals have switched to a carnivore diet, in some cases eating a diet of almost exclusively red meat, who have have cured auto-immune conditions. One of the most well known of these is the case of Michaela Peterson. Another good example of someone putting their MS symptoms into remission is set out in Cabana Chronicles. I particularly like her channel as she approaches things in an open-minded way. She films her appointment with her consultant which is quite eye opening. The lack of curiosity from the consultant as to why the carnivore diet is working for her, and cognitive biases to deny her experience are reflective of most in the health services.
These stories usually get ignored as anecdotes, but when over and over again the same thing happens then these anecdotes form strong evidence. And of course people try it and it works for them.
The evidence is usually rubbished; ‘where is the list of randomised controlled trials showing red meat is good for you?’. Of course if you don’t do any of these trials and there is no way you could ever get funding for these expensive trials from big food you can be left in the position that red meat is good for you but you will never get the randomised controlled trial evidence to back it up. Does that make red meat bad for you or is it reflective of a system that is never going to get at the truth?
An example of the silliness out there was the recent study that red meat causes diabetes. So a disease based on too much sugar in the blood which insulin can’t control over time is caused by a food that doesn’t raise blood sugar?
For those without autoimmune conditions then a more mixed diet, excluding the processed food and seed oils and starches, and concentrating on meat, fish, eggs, full fat dairy and if you can tolerate the plant toxins some vegetables, and perhaps a bit of fruit, seems to time and time again work for people switching to it. Eating that way becomes effortless as the hunger and satiety hormones tell you when to eat. But the point is if eating red meat is curing people or improving symptoms for those with the worst health conditions, perhaps it might be good for the rest of us too?
Agreed. I’ve been on and off strict keto for a few years now and I’m currently experimenting with carnivore diet myself. Every meal has been red meat, cheap ribeyes I managed to find online. Eggs and the occasional avocado for extra fat and fibre.
So far I have no issues at all, sleep, energy, clarity, motivation and blood pressure have all improved. My weight lifting routine hasn’t suffered at all either.
I’ve been low carb high healthy (saturated) fat real food for 5 years now. I like the occasional drink of real ale but otherwise fairly strict because it suits me to be strict.
It’s been great to enjoy my food and not feel continually hungry, and just to feel healthy, and have my weight completely under control. The taste of food just seems much better than it ever used to.
I do a lot of cycling and it’s good to be able to just go out with a bottle of water and not get the hunger knock, because my body is adapted to be fuelled by fat. I recover very well from exercise also, burning fat is a cleaner way to burn energy it appears, and I very rarely get any stiffness at all.
I’m moving towards carnivore. I’ve cut out nuts and nut flours and vegetables, and now eat meat (mainly red including at least one steak a day), fish. eggs and dairy and a few berries.
It’s naturally a low fibre diet, and I don’t think fibre serves any purpose when eating this way; Zoe Harcombe and Dr Paul Mason have some good content on the lack of need for fibre. Just means you poo much less volume because you are absorbing most of the food you eat because it is so nutrient dense.
Thanks for sharing that, Freecumbria. Could I ask why you have cut out nuts and nut flours? Thanks
It was as a result of cutting out almond flour. I made almond flour buns on a very regular basis.
I had a one off kidney stone episode about 10 years ago. A CT scan showed they were calcium oxalate in nature
But then last year I had some similar pain in my side although not quite as nasty. I don’t have any health problems these days so this was a bit of a mystery, but I guessed it was something I’d eaten that was high in oxalates given the pain similarity. I’d had a number of almond flour buns the day before. Having researched what I’d been eating I realised that almonds are very high in oxalates and I guessed this was the cause. There was another time where I had some buns and snacked on a large quantity of almonds where I had some similar pain.
I read Sally Norton’s book Toxic Superfoods about oxalates and resulting oxalate damage and it seemed pretty convincing.
I can’t say for sure it was the almonds that was the issue, but I’d clearly had an oxalate problem in the past and so reasoned to continue to eat a food high in oxalates didn’t seem a good idea regardless of whether it had caused the recent pain.
I gave up other nuts at the same time, there are other toxins in nuts, and they were the one food in my LCHF diet which I found slightly addictive. And having given them up I lost all cravings to eat them. I also gave up dark chocolate (90% cocoa) as while that’s quite low carb it’s also high in oxalates.
I do very occasionally make some buns from coconut flour, which isn’t high in oxalates, but I only do that once in a while.
We are here because our ancestors ate red meat which allowed higher brain function development, enhanced muscle development and muscle tone, and why we are top of the food chain.
So-called ‘white meat’ such as chicken or maybe pork, is genetically modified by breeding from animal ancestors whose meat was dark so in fact is not what our digestive system developed to deal with.
Have you read up about the aquatic ape theory? Our ancestors also ate a lot of shell fish which is very high in minerals and other nutrients which are also good for higher brain function. Today much of the world’s population still eat a lot of fish. (Just because we no longer do doesn’t mean that we should ignore its benefits and assume it is all about red meat.)
The flawed premises of the NHS were:-
a) that ‘access’ for more people to healthcare would make an overall healthier population, requiring less medical intervention. The principle of the NHS was based on prevention not intervention, at a time when most people died before age 70.
b) socialised healthcare via a State funded and provider was the best model to deliver this fantasy.
As modern medicine advanced many who would have died lived to get other diseases requiring treatment and thus increased the portion of the population requiring medical intervention, and new treatments emerged to treat hitherto untreatable diseases, reducing the attrition.
This is an ongoing situation, because the principle of healthcare these days is to eliminate death. See the CoVid calamity.
Since more people will live longer (average age now about 81), clearly more medical provision is going to be required and this will require more investment in that provision. The NHS State dinosaur is cut off from private, global investors so must rely on plunder taken from the population at large. This is never going to be ‘enough’.
Furthermore ALL resources are scarce and require rationing and to be used efficiently. The proven best and fairest rationing is via a price system… user pays… and profit.
Those who think people shouldn’t have to pay for their own healthcare (and here we can play the Poor Card) therefore the cost should be socialised, are too slow witted to realise that also means socialising the cost of individuals’ lifestyles which might lead to more medical intervention. And too slow witted that many will abuse the service because it’s ‘free’.
If nobody should make a profit out of healthcare, tell the doctors and nurses to work for no pay. Profit is the reward for investment, investment provides the service.
If the answer is to force people to change their lifestyle to serve Leviathan, or be denied treatment, well don’t stop there, Mein Führer, just euthanise people over the age of 75.
And I have left the topic of the Tsunami of immigration for others rage about.
Over 1.4 million people are employed by the NHS. One in 40something of the population. They should be begging to treat us, with that proportion. Trouble is the majority are managers lording it over the patients and actual clinical staff. And doing diversity. Every aspect is set up to prevent a patient getting treatment, it’s evil.
As for sicker population, stop jabbing babies with 60plus vaccines, ban the manufacture of highly processed foods, eat red meat, animal fats, dairy and veg, take vitamins, and we will all do fine. Serve proper food in schools and nurseries, not carb based rubbish with nothing of nutritional value. Stop with the lies that skimmed milk is “healthier”, the vitamins are in the fatty part of milk! Give full fat milk out in schools. Hand out vit D in schools.
In some parts of the world it is common to add vitamin D to milk (“fortified milk”), but not here in the UK. In the 1960s it was common to dish out small bottles of milk to pupils at school.
Reduce the burden of DEI, bureaucrats, language translators or the NHS will die.
BTW, I had a cardio appointment this week. Took the opportunity to drop off wifey’s crutches she no longer needed. Northampton General didn’t want them back. ‘Oh no, we don’t use them again ‘ I was told.
I’ve worked in manufacturing most of my life. I estimate the cost of a pair of aluminium crutches somewhere £50-100.
Multiply that by the number issued.
Wasted, when all they need is a wipe with disinfectant.
I worked for a clinical waste collection company driving on of their artics and I loaded quite literally tons of perfectly good surgical instruments to go into landfill. This happened every year when they were due for money. To avoid cuts they worked up to and beyond their annual budget. I saw beds that cost upwards of a thousand pounds thrown out because they needed a good clean. Appalling.
I’m with the author on milk.
Just to add to the arguments of the various contrarians, about the 2 healthiest indigenous populations (before welfare & alcohol ruined it), were Inuit & Masai. Inuit lived virtually entirely on blubber & fatty fish, loads of vitamin D. The Masai lived, virtually entirely, on blood and milk, grew 6ft + & could run all day.
Poor diet is doubtless the reason behind the various lunacies, lockdowns, masks, vaccines for the common cold, nut zero etc., inflicted on us by utterly useless, perspiring, overweight, politicians.
The Prime Minister is, of course, not overweight but he struggles under two other conditions lethal for sanity: vegetarianism, teetotalism.
No wonder the country is in ‘another fine mess’……..
‘Applied psychopharmacotherapy and psychotherapy do not always bring the expected results in the treatment of mental disorders.’
The literature search yielded 3,473 records, from which 356 sources directly related to the topic of the study were selected, and then those with the highest scientific value were selected
The highest therapeutic potential is seen in the rational diet, physical activity, use of psychobiotics, and consumption of antioxidants. Research also shows that there are nutritional interventions that have psychoprotective potential.’
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9441951/
So primates historically used to meandering the forest floor eating a variety of fresh foods, including meat, are doing what is best for their health……except Homo Sapiens.
Remind me: which is the only primate that receives government medical advice?
No doubt you’re referring to Sunak, but what did become apparent was that old Johnson probably was overweight, by dint of the fact that the actual value was reported (perhaps accidentally, some might say) by one of the employees at the London hosp that he was in for a few days as the panic emerged. Must have paid for a good tailor, so he didn’t look as fat as he really was. Not good for one’s health. At the time, if he was in better shape, he might not have gone down the route we were dragged on to.
Nutrition has always seemed to me to be highly ideological. Doctors receive very little training so I would imagine that the field is dominated by nutritionists, who tend to parrot a received wisdom rather than conduct investigation and research. Add to this that there is no incentive for drug companies to involve themselves in research then it is no wonder we don’t really know where we are. Finally it seems to be becoming increasingly clear that vegetable seed oils are as much of a culprit as excessive sugar in poor health, but again you can find as many views online as you have time to read.
Recent experience indicates to me that the state should be kept as far away as possible from “healthcare”, “public health” and any attempts to “nudge” the population in any specific direction.
As and when the state is able to protect our borders, keep electricity running at reasonable cost, catch and lock up criminals and provide roads that are not full of potholes, they can beg us to let them do a bit more. Until then, they cannot be trusted and should be focusing on other things, like getting the bloody hell out of my life.
There is a difference between pasteurised milk and raw milk. You can argue over which is better or worse, but they are not the same.
In the 1960s, when I was growing up, we used to have bottled milk from a local farm, which was actually “raw”. Not treated at all, just bottled, so the cream used to settle on top in the bottle. On reflection, the farmer wasn’t in the dairy trade selling cream separately to make butter or cheese, so the whole lot was sold to the locals.
It was delivered 5 or 6 days a week, with the glass bottles being collected and used again.
Actuaries call those born between the wars “the golden generation”.
And for good reason –
One – Few pesticides/fungicides and healthier soil.
Two – Few vaccinations.
Since the early 80’s we’ve had vaccines on steroids, USA especially.
So it’s either 1 and/or 2.
Personally I’ll go with 2.
http://vaccinepapers.org/
An astonishing rise in chronic auto immune type “disease” since the late 80’s.
Just look at the data/research on aluminium adjuvants and the role played by Dr. Paul Offit.
And now we have the miraculous mRNA gene therapies. Soon all vaccines will be made this way and likely forced on us.
Why?
The vaccine mandates is a good reason not to raise kids in the US (unless you can home school). I wonder why this took off in the “land of the free” when it’s less common in Europe.
It was a bad mistake on the part of the medical profession and since the 1960s consumption of liquid milk has fallen and disease in the young has risen.
Experts, eh..?
No problems arising from ever more vaccines then? I would refer everybody to Suzanne Humphries’ book – Dissolving Illusions. Also see comparison of vaxxed against unvaxxed (https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Vaxxed-Unvaxxed-Parts-I-IX-1.pdf)
As for milk, the pasteurised milk is stripped of all the good bacteria. See how long it lasts beyond its sell-by date. I was brought up on raw milk and few if any vaccines.
Milk has gotta a … lot of bottle
This is one of the advertising slogans from my youth. At school in the 60s we used to have these 1/3 pint milk bottles at morning break, I remember having milk drinking contests. We all seemed to survive and indeed flourish, as it happens and to give it context, I was at school with Michael Portillo.
Also, as it happens; it was ” Maggie Thatcher – milk snatcher” who ended this school milk drinking activity. Even now, if I am out and about and thirsty, I tend to prefer a carton of milk to any sort of fruit drink. And so I can vouch for 3 score years and ten of high milk consumption and it is so far so good. Another advertising slogan I recall was ”drink a pint of milk a say” well that approach has worked for me and I do not intend to stop now.
Also at school back in the 50s/60s we were given cod liver oil and tablespopon of malt. The malt I loved, the cod liver oil not so much!”
I know it is a rather tiresome subject but thanks to recent events I now question the purpose of any vaccine. I/we were all brought up to accept vaccinations as something normal and necessary for continued good health, but many old and new (prior ‘pandemic’) reports point out that particularly the various adjutants are pure poison, e.g. https://expose-news.com/2023/12/04/the-doctor-that-sacrificed-his-career-his-reputation-and-ultimately-his-life/. So how about rethinking the idea of pumping various poisons and disease extracts directly into our bloodstreams?
The second point which nobody appears to address is the suitability of having a single employer of all medical staff in UK, which has now become a bureaucratic monster. Many (most?) countries in the world have a health system based on private insurance, where you can choose any doctor/dentist according to your convenience and his/her reputation. Nobody appears to be addressing the ‘elephant in the room’, namely the NHS itself.
Our immune system is our best friend – look after it and it will look after you! We stay well away from the NHS, the kitchen cupboard serves all our medicinal needs, my husband and I (in our 70s) are healthy and do not take any prescription drugs and that includes any jabs they try and coerce us into having!! Many years ago a friend who worked in a laboratory told me if we knew what went ito the flu jab we wouldn’t have it, so I’ve never had it! Now I hear flu jabs are mRNA based – even more reason not to have them.
Oh come on: we all know what the real problem is…..
