Gang, as a fat person who struggles with arthritis badly- 3 surgeries - read that chronic inflammation I found this quite interesting. I have no idea if it's true, but it sure sounds right lol - I hijacked it from another site I follow. The crazy thing is we have really been trying to clean up and eat healthy - the wife is one of those folks who just doesn't change, never has to watch what she eats, but not me.. I can look at food and pick up 3 pounds.

But cleaning out processed junk, refined sugars and such, eating real home made sour dough bread and exercising has sure made a big difference the last year. I've not lost much weight, but feel so much better and can actually walk a good bit now pain free. I've picked up a good bit of muscle tone from riding the bicycle so that's a plus. 8 miles this morning and it wasn't a struggle and no pain. I also did a 3 month ivermectin protocol in January and started on marshmallow root tincture and nascent Iodine. Been an absolute game changer for my back, hip and knee pain. FWIW.. Lot of us on here are getting older and stiffer, might give you all some relief..

But this excerpt blew me away when I read it.

The FDA didn't fail — it was never designed to protect you. Since 1958, the GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe) loophole has let food corporations self-certify their own ingredients as safe without a single federal review. The result? Thousands of chemicals, banned across the civilized world, remain legal in American food. This is not negligence. This is a business model that monetizes your slow sickness. The same companies that poison your bread, your soda, your snacks, and your kids' cereal fund the studies that exonerate them, write the regulations that shield them, and pay for the ads that gaslight you into believing this is normal. They engineered a food supply that hijacks your biology, overrides your satiety signals, and keeps you hooked, inflamed, and exhausted — then they call it "personal responsibility" when your body breaks. You are not weak. You are a survivor of a deliberate, decades-long assault on human health. So reject the lie. Read every label as if your life depends on it — because it does. If an ingredient is banned elsewhere, it doesn't belong in your body. Eat food that rots, not food that resists decay. Filter your water, cook on cast iron, refuse the thermal receipt, and for God's sake stop microwaving plastic. The system will not save you. So save yourself — loudly, stubbornly, starting right now.

what a damning commentary on our food supply and government..

Interesting. Would like to see the source of this.

I believe nearly every word of that. Big pharma has a similar MO in my opinion.

Absolutely I believe it.

Try cutting carb. My wife was geting insulin resistant. They wanted her to start taking the shots or cut carbs to less than 40 a day.. it was rough at first. I cht carbs to suport her. That was w years ago. She lost 35 lbs fixed her insulin resistants and I also lost 25 lb I didnt realize I had to loose.

All the added sugar and processed food is not natural and bad for you.

I try to eat stuff with only 3 ingredients, lol, can't always do it but you gotta try...and stay far away from fake sugar!

Weight loss is simple in theory. Burn more calories than you take in..... but, people find it hard to lose weight even when working out. Why? American diet and carbs. When these people exercise, they burn the carbs which is in the form of sugar in their blood steam from the high carb intake and never burn enough to get to their fat reserves. Then they replace that burned off sugar with their next high carb meal. The cycle continues. They may even keep calories low, but the sugar is the problem. Of course there are people with other health issues that cause their weight problem, but for most, eat clean, reduce carbs and sugar and the weight will come off. Also make sure your protein goals are met eat day. Protein plays a big part in weight loss.

The average American gets far more protein than they need. Fiber...not so much.

Our health is very related to the gut organisms we maintain. Lots of refined foods, (sugars and starches) and you have the ones responsible for more inflammation in your system. Lots of veggies, fruits, and whole grains (read that high quality fiber) and you get the ones that tamp down on inflammation.

Eating right is the first step, the next is exercise, exercise and exercise
Get off of your far arse and do something, anything to get the blood flowing
I have some fat friends that have developed health issues from just sitting around feeling sorry for themselves.
That only makes the problem worse and the end closer

A few of my friends don't like that I tell them the truth
Just like on this site also, some don't like me because I tell it like I see it

You guys do realize the extra years added to your life are not years when you are active and bullet proof. They get tacked on to the years you are in the nursing home. I try to eat healthy, but I also like to enjoy what I am eating so I do not have all the answers either. I do know what people older then me have said. Pete told me "Eat right exercise..... still die." And my 106 year old neighbor Lily said. " Living a long time is a blessing, but it is also kind of a curse." She passed away recently reading her obit where it said she buried all of her kids and a grand kid or two. I started to realize what she was referring to. G.

This is my great grand daughter at her first horse show. No point in deliberately destroying your health either. Don't have to get old to go through a few tragedies.

How do you feel when you sit down and eat a nice fresh steak? I'm guessing pretty good, atleast I know I do. I don't feel "Bloated" or "stuffed" despite eating a good amount of protein and calories.

Now how do you feel when you eat a bunch of cheap Pizza?

My wife recently made Pizza. Homemade crust, homemade tomato sauce my mom canned from her garden. Homemade cheese made from the Milk from our cow. Sausage my dad made. I ate a ton of that Pizza as it was excellent. After eating I looked at my wife and said "I feel great, like I just ate a steak". It made me a bit of an instant believer in "real" food.

All you need to do is read the ingredients in anything you buy.
Natural food has no additives.

Thought I missed a word or two but, no. Where did I say "destroy your heath" I said I try to eat healthy and did not encourage anybody to eat anything they were opposed to eating. Just stated a few bits of info shared with me by people with more experience then I have had. G.

Not true. It's all a crapshoot. Genetics plays a role too. However, I'd rather live without type 2 diabetes and that's pretty easy to not get if you eat healthy.