Excerpted from
Knee Deep in Pain Chapter-9; a book on Knee Osteoarthritis.
ut first; Why is the earth tilting?
Not too many
people know about this but there is a sinister plot underway put in place by
powerful business and political interests in North America.
[An investigative report filed by the ‘Christmas
in July Desk’ staff at Faux News Center. In
other words this is a strictly fictional account presented here only to
underscore the seriousness of a global epidemic]
[Figure-1. Hunter-Gatherer Image-Adapted from Scientific American February 1922 Cover. Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Waddler-Hoarder Image- Adapted from © Willie Lunchmeat Flickr Photostream.… © 2013 NovelleSante.]
It is being planned and executed by
major energy and agricultural corporations. These mega companies are investing
heavily in solar energy and buying up vast tracts of desolate, uninhabited land
in remote areas of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon in Canada and also in
southern parts of Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia, Chile and Argentina.
Why?
We all know the top soil in major
agricultural producing regions is now pretty much depleted. Crop yields are
falling and food production is down. It is taking more and more fertilizer,
chemicals, and energy to maintain high agricultural output.
But don’t shed any tears for the food
industry; thanks to explosive increases in world population and resulting price
hikes, they are awash in profits. The tons of monies being made by agriculture
companies did not go unnoticed. Where ever fresh money is being born energy
companies swarm to that opportunity. They have this innate ability to smell oil
and money equally well, much like predators in the wild smell newborns and
quickly move in for the kill.
As anyone can tell, it takes sun, soil
and water to grow crops. Sunlight, for now, is free but soil and water are
getting expensive. The 3% or so, of fresh water that has been frozen at the
poles is an invaluable resource even though it is starting to crumble and drop
into the oceans. Also land masses near the ice caps are worthlessly cheap. No
one lives there and no one has any desire to move there to live. Hence real
estate is worthless for all intents and purposes. So while this land may be dirt
cheap, that dirt lies under several meters of ice. Nothing can grow in it given
its current state.
Well, with untold wealth and rising
profits at their disposal the energy and food conglomerates, seeing common
interests, quickly got together. Was Shell Oil there? Was Cargill, the food
giant present? No one will confirm it but the name for the syndicate was chosen
to be Schmell. It’s anybody’s guess what the name of the syndicate would have
been if Kellogg had shown up before Cargill did, but quite likely the group
would not have been allowed to operate in Israel.
Wasting no time, sparing no
expense, and acting like a true syndicate, Schmell brought together the world’s
most brilliant evil minds under one roof to work on strategies to further
consolidate money and power for themselves.
And thus, elite teams of super
smart scientists and engineers have worked diligently and relentlessly over the
past so many years on this top secret project which they have come to call
‘Tilting to Perpetuate Solar Yields’, code named TIPSY so outsiders don’t have
a clue of this top secret, highly
classified undertaking.
The solution, the evil geniuses
came up with, was to tilt the earth just enough so the areas closest to the
poles get a lot more sun in the summers. Of course that would mean longer
winters for the other side of the earth, but by owning land in both hemispheres
close to the north and south poles the Schmell syndicate will be able to
produce food and energy all year round. It will always be spring or summer some
place in the world. And with its proximity to melting ice caps at the poles
there will be plenty of clean, fresh water to catch before it gets polluted by
the oceans.
This was Phase I of the plan
and the acquisition of land in the Yukon, the southern
tips of Chile and Argentina, Tasmania, and New Zealand appears to
have been essentially completed by now.
This was the easy part. But to
their surprise what they thought would be an impossible feat; Phase II seems to
be a piece of cake too. May be the entire cake!
Tilting the earth in favor of
the Yukon and Tasmania would require
placing infinitely massive amounts of weight on the land masses in the U.S.
Canada, and Mexico.
Looking to construction would
not solve the problem since colossal office towers and apartment complexes have
already been built around the world over the last 100 years in major cities,
and it would be financial suicide, in this day and age, to attempt to build up
more in the face of non-existent demand.
A thing about dirty politicians;
whenever and wherever there is an opportunity for quick money or kinky sex, a
dirty politician can usually be found lurking in the shadows, somewhere nearby.
One of the members of the
syndicate was an ex-politician from a Midwestern state who made his money
lobbying congress for his friends in the conglomerate. He came up with a novel
idea; it was sheer genius.
Under his scheme people will
actually pay Schmell money while furthering its goal for world domination.
How sweet can it get? It was quickly
and unanimously accepted. Given the enthusiasm, implementation teams
energetically went to work implementing Phase II, code named SCROO. Needless to say success was
imminent.
In the hallways of this most
secret of organizations inside highly classified buildings, it was not uncommon
to hear agents high fiving each other exchanging victory information, and
claiming such and such community had been scrood.
The state that fell hardest and
fastest for this diabolical scheme, was Mississippi, followed soon,
by West Virginia and South
Carolina. Other states succumbed steadily
enough. Soon most communities around the country had been scrood. But Colorado seemed to
still be somewhat of a hold out being a bit tough for agents to crack. 1
After much clandestine,
undercover work, our investigative reporter was finally able to unearth details
about SCROO. The code name stood for
five S foods; Sugar, Sodium, , Soy oil, Starches, Syrups, Corn Oil (and other corn based products),
and other vegetable Oils. Someone
on the project with a dark sense of humor added the R.
The syndicate’s plan was to
place as much scroo ingredients as
possible, in processed foods for consumers.
As expected, and clairvoyantly
foretold by the corn belt politician, the junkification
of natural foods was warmly received, not just by grocers but even consumers.
Large grocery stores rushed to
dedicate up to 70% or more of their floor and shelf space to endlessly stack
processed and packaged foods sky high.
And for their VIP customers
they made the aisles wider to allow for a freer, unrestricted waddling gait.
For the supreme, most exalted customers they brought in
battery powered riding shopping carts.
Some Schmell agents wanted to
introduce turbo charged gas powered engines so patrons could charge certain
aisles at great speed before all the ‘goodness loaded’ boxes were raided by
someone else. That idea was quickly squashed for fear of carbon monoxide fumes
and other exhaust gases.
Besides, next thing you know
people will be clamoring for traffic lights at major aisle intersections inside
huge food stores. Then there will be cops directing traffic to the pasta,
candy, or soda lanes in the event of an in store special being announced on the
overhead PA system; and soon enough you will have DUI violations inside grocery
stores.
Who needs all that?
Cereal companies were the first
ones to step up to the plate, or bowl, if you will. Thus, it is rare to find a
cereal box on grocery shelves which does not have at least three, if not all
five, of the ingredients.
One company used slick midriff
images of slim, female models on their cereal boxes, somehow trying to convey
subliminal messages ‘the more you eat of it, the more weight you will lose’.
Obese people with ‘Shallow Hal’ 2 syndrome bought it and still continue to buy
it by the ton load.
Also quickly jumping on board
was the fast food industry with ‘fried everything’ and if that was not enough,
using high fat, corn fed, meats to make burgers. Sugar loaded sodas would round
off the calorie bombs one would buy at a restaurant. Staff were so nice, just
in case you felt a 1000 calories were not enough to make you happy, they would
supersize both the fries and soda for a mere 50 cents or so. Better get melted
cheese on your fries too.
To make life easier fast food establishments
put in drive in service to make ordering and pickup easier for consumers who
would like to conserve the 0.5 calories that would be terribly wasted on that
useless trip to the inside of the restaurant.
Team leaders on the scroo project were admirably focused.
When they discovered Mexican agents walking in the august halls of the TIPSY
buildings high fiving each other, were shouting greetings of Arriba! Arriba!
they asked that agents to shout Uribe! Uribe!, instead. (To get the really big picture, readers are encouraged to Google Manuel Uribe for details as public
domain images are not available at time of writing).
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Figure-2.
Toronto, Canada
street scene. Flickr Photostream. © 2012 Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin
Rose 4
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The beauty of the plan was it
was devilishly simple; if people voluntarily consume scroo based foods first
thing in the morning, then there are another sixteen or so hours during the rest of the day for them to repeat
the experience.
Scientists not affiliated with
the syndicate were to later find out there was a connection between eating soy
oil based products and then having uncontrollable urges to eat more. (Please
see below for Gus). You could
practically gorge yourself to death with the vicious circle created by scroo consumption. The more you ate, the
more you wanted.
This is exactly what the syndicate had hoped for.
Schmell could not be happier or prouder.
With 2/3rds of the population
in North America being voluntarily overweight, many of
them obese,
success was near. Even if each
person is overweight by just 20 pounds then 2/3rd of the NAFTA
population of 444 million 3 would mean an incredible impact
of an extra 3 million ton load on the ground in the northern hemisphere.
Only scientists on the project
would know what would be the tipping point before the world would finally tilt
by enough of an angle to meet the nefarious ambitions of the syndicate. Looking
at obesity trends it would appear the TIPSY project is closer to realizing its
goal than we would like to admit.
There are reports some energy
companies jumped the gun in their haste by breaking ranks with the syndicate
and started ‘fracking’ (Definition: Forcing water at very high pressure in
underground rock formations to release trapped gas deposits). The syndicate had
advised them if they waited a little longer millions of obese people pounding
the earth every day, (please see Table-3 below for BMI 40) would
create enough vibration to have the same effect in releasing trapped subterranean
energy.
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It
is not clear if the desired tilt will get underway because of excessive obesity
in North America but NASA scientists say the earth
does change its tilt, currently at 23.5 degrees. In reality it is supposed to
vary from 21 degrees to 25 degrees and back to 21 degrees over a 41,000 year
cycle. 5
Meanwhile
cereal producers insist the sugar, per serving, in their products is really not
that much. They compare their offerings to higher sugar content foods and point
out it is much better to consume their
‘healthy’ alternatives.
Besides downplaying sugar content, some cereal manufacturers also make
outlandish health claims that can land them in trouble with regulators and
oversight agencies.
There are
times it feels really good to see our tax dollars being put to good use.
Thankfully and admirably, the FTC and the FDA, do have our backs. Case in
point; the Federal Trade Commission got a little miffed by Kellogg’s
advertising claims over Rice Krispies’ “contribution to immunity” and Frosted
Mini-Wheats “increased attentiveness” in
children and in 2010, using some choice words, the regulatory agency openly
reprimanded the company:
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| Figure-3. Flickr Photostream of Ben + Sam © Ben+Sam. Rice Krispies are a trademark of Kelloggs Inc. 6 |
“We
expect more from a great American company than making dubious claims – not
once, but twice – that its cereals improve children’s health,” said FTC
Chairman Jon Leibowitz. “Next time, Kellogg needs to stop and think twice about
the claims it’s making before rolling out a new ad campaign, so parents can
make the best choices for their children.”
Apparently
Kellogg Co had been feeding its coporate staff plenty of Frosted Mini Wheats.
They were attentive enough to listen
to the commission 7 and pulled the claims from their
products after a short period following FTC action.
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| Figure-4. Source: FTC, Exhibit C. FTC File No. 082 3145. Frosted Mini Wheats are a trademark of Kelloggs Inc. |
Not to be
outdone, General Mills, the maker of Cheerios
and other leading cereals, almost became a pharmaceutical company without even
trying. At least that is what the Food and Drug Administration’s complaint implies.
Figure-5 Cheerios
is a trademark of General Mills.
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Essentially the FDA complaint made the point “look here
guys, if you want to sell
Cheerios as a food, we don’t have a problem
with that. But when you start making it sound like some kind of a drug, what
with lowering cholesterol and all, you need to apply for registering it as a
medicine”. Calling it an ‘Unapproved New Drug’ the operative phrase used in the
FDA notice was “prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease”.
Here is the
actual wording on the FDA action 8:
Imagine
the possibilities if General Mills actually got away with its cholesterol
labeling. Next thing you know we could have Cheerios
in gel caps available without prescription and sold in a bottle instead of a
cereal box. Even healthier and more compact would be ‘Oil of Cheerios’. Pour it
on your salad and lower your cholesterol even further.
Clearly
the folks at General Mills may have also been eating plenty of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats as they were quite attentive. They too,
changed the wording on Cheerios cereal boxes rather promptly.
As
they say in Canada; “Pretty
clever, Eh!”
But
if the 3 million tons of extra fat this side of the Atlantic seems to be
large it pales in comparison to the massive CO2 footprint of our heavy
relatives based on actual scientific evidence in the following section.
Using
disconcerting language for the title, The Sun (U.K.) carried this story in June
2009. While the reporter could have used more appropriate words, the spirit of
the story was sincere. Not only overweight people drive larger cars and drive
more than walking, they consume more food, and the extra food production over
that consumed by a thin person, dumps about a ton of CO2 in the environment.
Scientists 9, 10 estimate a billion extra tons of CO2
annually are created by obese people, exacerbating global warming resulting in
a faster meltdown of polar icecap, rising water levels, destroying rain forests
and wreaking havoc on the lives of 375 million people globally who will become
victims of climate related disasters in the next few years.
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Figure-7.
Copyright 2009 The Sun, U.K.
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Being
overweight comes with a host of social and health problems. Not only does it
cause 11 Heart Disease, Stroke, Metabolic Syndrome, Sleep
Apnea, Osteoarthritis, Gallbladder Disease, and Fatty Liver Disease, it can
make getting pregnant more difficult and complicate birth. It is also complicit
in causing Cancer. There is hardly any known disease which cannot be further
exacerbated or made more difficult to treat in the presence of excess body fat.
One such disease, aggravated by excessive weight, and the one affecting our
knees, is arthritis.
If
humans are piling on the pounds, domesticated animals like cats and dogs, are
now considered to be facing obesity risk, through no fault of their own. A 2009
study conducted in the Netherlands 12 concluded
dogs of obese owners tend to be obese as well. There might be some explanation
for that as overweight owners are less likely to go running or exercising with
their dogs. However the study did not find the same relationship between owner
obesity and cats.
It
would be a worthwhile pursuit to find out if any animals in the wild, other
than bears that have to build fat reserves for winter hibernation, gain
excessive weight. Survival theories require fitness for all species, well may
be all, except one. Bears thin down dramatically by mid spring as they must be
agile and swift to chase and kill their prey. Humans, interestingly, eat like
bears in the fall and winter but continue to pig out for the rest of the year.
As
long as there are mega food grocers and the motorized ‘buggy’ is available to
facilitate the ‘consumption experience’, humans can chase any different
varieties of food in massive quantities without expending even a minimum amount
of calories. The hunter-gatherer has
given way to the waddler- hoarder.
In
its service to obesity, vegetable oil production and availability, a phenomenon
made possible by powerful business interests in the 20th century, have had
profound and pervasive influences on our health.
What
if animals, naturally programmed to stop eating when satiety centers in their
brains signal them to stop, were fed like humans? What if we could identify and
use changes in nutrition in the human diet in the 20th century, and apply them
to animals?
Well,
this is the question, CAPT Joseph Hibbeln,
M.D, a psychiatrist and lipid biochemist by training and acting chief of the
Section on Nutritional Neuroscience, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and
Biophysics, NIAAA, wanted to find answers to. He has done extensive research on alcoholism, violence, depression, and anxiety
and has attributed much of learning deficiencies and behavioral disorders to
inadequacies of essential fatty acids, such as DHA and EPA in the
human diet. Working with scientists from Norway, Denmark and Japan the team
modeled human consumption and applied it to lab mice: 13
“During the 20th century, elevations in Arachinoid Acid-PL
have been estimated from the dramatic increase in dietary LA (linoleic acid)
resulting from a more than 1,000-fold increase in the estimated per capita
consumption of soybean oil from 0.006 to 7.38% of energy. Here, we modeled
these ecological dietary changes in mice to determine if increasing LA as a
controlled dietary variable could elevate AA-PL composition, increase
endocannabinoid levels, and induce metabolic and phenotypic changes consistent
with obesity.”
For this study, researchers took rodents that were given specific diets for 14 weeks, consisting of 1% energy provided by linoleic acid (LA) typical at the turn of the century (1900s) and compared them to other rodents that were fed a diet of 8% LA energy reflecting end of century (1999) consumptions of soy and other vegetable oils....... End of Excerpt
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