You realize your Keto diet is killing you, right?

Sorry to write another Keto piece, but this week we had another wake-up call for western civilization. Per the Wall Street Journal on Oct 30, 2019,



Deaths from heart failure, one of the nation’s biggest killers, are surging as the population ages and the health of younger generations worsens. The death rate from the chronic, debilitating condition rose 20.7% between 2011 and 2017 and is likely to keep climbing sharply, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Cardiology. https://www.wsj.com/articles/heart-failure-deaths-rise-contributing-to-worsening-life-expectancy-11572411901?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3

Focus on Death Rate

Let’s look at this for a second, “The DEATH RATE…ROSE 20.7% in SIX YEARS”.

You have to realize that medical technology moves forward like a marching army. Hence this increase in death rate is being fought by better stents, safer bypass operations, better statins…YET, the death rate still increases. What is happening? I know exactly what is happening. It’s the obsession with eating animal products, and now all the blissfully ignorant in this country have the perfect excuse because they are “eating keto/low carb”. Geez.



Cholesterol Kills You

So here’s the truth you don’t want to hear. This entire country has been brainwashed by the animal agriculture industry that cholesterol does not kill people. Note, the research stating this is funded by animal agriculture. As I mentioned in my other post, there is no real “new research” on this topic, any more than there is new research on the effects of gravity if you fall off your roof. Cholesterol kills you. Have you ever witnessed a bypass operation and seen the white greasy substance pulled out of someone’s coronary artery? It looks like fat because it is fat. It got there from eating bacon and burgers. Period.



Do You Really Want to Do This?

Let’s Talk Heart Disease

Heart disease is the number one health problem in the United States today, and according to the American Heart Association, it is the single leading cause of death. Most heart disease is diet-related—caused by diets high in animal products.



Meat, eggs, and dairy products are high in cholesterol and saturated fat. (No plant food in the world contains any cholesterol.) As these fatty substances build up inside the walls of arteries as “plaque,” blood flow to all areas of the body is impeded. This artery damage is called “atherosclerosis.” When too little blood reaches various regions of the body, normal bodily functions are impaired, setting people up for a number of diseases, most notably heart disease.



There’s Hope Though

Here’s the good news: Now that we know what heightens the risk of heart attacks, we can take steps to prevent them. Studies have shown that a healthy vegan diet—rich in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables—can stop and even reverse heart disease. People following a plant-based diet have 2.5 times fewer cardiac events, including heart attacks, strokes, bypass surgery, and angioplasty.



Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, one of the world’s most respected nutrition experts, has been able to make patients who were suffering from clogged arteries virtually “heart-attack proof” by putting them on healthy vegetarian diets and getting their cholesterol levels down below 150. The average vegan cholesterol level is about 146, while the average vegetarian cholesterol level is 177. And the average meat eater’s cholesterol level is 194. Another nutritionist, Dr. Charles Attwood, points out just how strange it is that more is not done in light of this information: If people were being run down by trucks at the same rate that they’re dying from heart attacks induced by diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy products, drastic steps would be taken.



Framingham Study

William Castelli, M.D., director of the Framingham Heart Study, the longest-running clinical study in medical history, says of the heart disease epidemic, “If Americans adopted a vegetarian diet, the whole thing would disappear.” Castelli told PBS that Americans have been “brainwashed to eat meat.”



A major study published in February 2005 reconfirmed the link between animal products and heart problems. The study, which was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, concluded that among the 29,000 participants, those who ate the most meat were also at the greatest risk for heart disease. The researchers also reported that a high intake of protein from vegetable sources such as tofu, nuts, and beans lowers our risk of heart disease by 30 percent. Dr. Linda E. Kelemen, the scientist who headed the study, told reporters, “Not all proteins are equal”—while vegetable protein can help keep our hearts healthy, eating animal protein can put us in an early grave.



Why is all of this so hard? It’s because people love good news about their bad habits. Can you stop being stupid? Can you stop believing USDA check-off dollar funded fake research?



It’s the Meatanomics

A great book to read on how you are being tricked into killing yourself is Meatanomics. Read it, learn it, live it. Few Americans are aware of the realities of the economic system that supports our country’s supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in ways we can hardly imagine. Though we only fork over a few dollars per pound of meat products at the grocery store, we end up paying much more than that in tax dollar-fueled government subsidies. $38 billion more, to be exact. And that’s just one layer of hidden costs. This money funds all their “marketing” including their research and support of Keto advocates like Joe Rogan and other idiots.



Eat this, please.

OK, I’m going to breathe deeply now. I banged this out in record time. Let’s all be smart about believing what we want to hear. To your health….Simmons