So what the hell does “epidemiological” mean?
epidemiology ep·i·de·mi·ol·o·gy (ěp’ĭ-dē’mē-ŏl’ə-jē, -děm’ē-) n.
The branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations. (The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary)
I submit to you that the grandest epidemiological experiment ever conducted is ongoing on before our very eyes. Every experiment has a premise. It has a hypothesis to prove or disprove or a question to answer. This one is no exception:
How far you can push the average human into food-related disease before they die?
This study is going on right outside of your door in our society in general. We the public are the unknowing subjects. We should just consider ourselves “human lab rats”. This experiment actually happened entirely on its own. The perpetrators of this experiment include the following:
- Modern food industry
- Medical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Our government
(I would include the diet and fitness industries, but their common methods to keep us
lean and healthy are so absolutely useless they are pretty much inconsequential here)
Before you write this off as conspiratorial, please hear me out. All of the basic elements of a meta-analysis are here. We have the subjects (us) and we have the folks conducting the experiment listed above. What about the control group? No problem, got it – anyone eating the evolutionary diet of our ancestors, that could be a hunter gatherer tribe in the wild (they actually still exist) or modern folks who have chosen to eat that way. Ted Nugent comes to mind, there are thousands of others lucky enough to have the knowledge to remain in the control group. I thank God above that I am one of them.
This isn’t as wild and wooly an assertion as you might think. Who is keeping track of this experiment? What about the measurement of the results? We have a ton of that! We have an abundance of accurate governmental and institutional statistics; literally numbers on top of numbers. This analysis is constantly recorded by departments like the CDC (Center for disease control) among many other institutions. Disease, obesity, cancer, mortality rates and statistics are all carefully recorded. Surgeries and the number of people on specific pharmaceuticals are all accurately tracked. There are even separate organizations for each new disease as it is identified which provide even more reporting and data collection. If you are looking for a time line we’ve got that too. It starts with the beginning of the modern recording of any data related to any human disease. Most of that stuff started after the industrial revolution and in the early part of the last century.
The motivation behind this whole accidental experiment has always been money. That is what keeps driving the folks behind it; pushing us, to further and further physical limits. They literally get paid to see how far they can push us until disease caused by their food causes our deaths. This experiment gets more interesting as food gets cheaper to produce; more processed and further and further away from the natural diet of humans beings. Unfortunately, as these things happen things go horribly sideways for us – the test subjects. This is because the pharmaceutical and medical industries constantly push the limits even further by creating new solutions to keep us alive even longer to consume this garbage. They all make money doing this, the food guys and drug and medical guys.
The results get more and more grotesque as every day passes. The most ill-affected by this ugly experiment end up morbidly obese and in hospitals, unfortunately resembling something akin to “Jabba the Hut”. Those of us at this “end limit” of this experiment are fighting a plethora of chronic diseases in a battle that we cannot win. Still, our huge, punished and tortured bodies somehow continue to breath and pump blood. We resemble over-sized, beaten up old cars almost out of fuel, struggling up a steep incline with the gas pedal glued to the floor. They push us further with drugs, surgeries, and drugs for the side effects of the other drugs. Even in our hospitals, there is no escape from the cause of our ills – they feed us the same crappy, government-sanctioned industrial food. Eventually our bodies give out. Diabetes, heart disease, cancers, etc. and the horrible complications from their many combinations inevitably end this experiment on an individual basis with our deaths.
If you want to see the many stages leading up to the horrible end that many of us will endure, just look outside your door. Those well on the way are already on mobile scooters readily supplied by the medical industry, because even walking has become impossible. Surgeries, drugs, medical equipment and solutions of all kinds are supplied as fast as these problems arise. To fuel this experiment we are constantly driven to “Eat more industrial fats, sugars and chemicals!”. The perpetrators will simply give us some pharmaceuticals to thin our blood and deal with sugar levels that have turned our blood into something resembling corn syrup. Little children are absolutely vital to this experiment. They are now showing signs of obesity as young as 2 and 3 years of age. Type II diabetes and all of the other usual suspect diseases now increasingly afflict our children. They become addicted for life to this garbage food, pushing the experiment to even greater, more diabolical lengths. They will suffer further than we ever have.
Our government ensures the whole keeps rolling right along. Government “food guides” literally include and even promote the low-grade, dangerous foods created by our modern food industry. When laws are required to help out either the industrial food producers or the medical and pharmaceutical corporations, they snap to it and make sure they are created and enforced. I wish I was wrong, but I don’t think Monsanto or McDonalds are having a tough time against any small farmers or members of the public who would dare stand up to them. I don’t believe any of the big pharmaceutical companies are quivering in their boots at that thought either.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell touched on this topic when he wrote a great book called the China Study which outlined the results of another huge epidemiological study involving the deleterious health effects of milk protein. He and others allied with this information were immediately vilified by the medical establishment and became a pariahs for proving statistically that the vast majority of our heart disease and many cancers are entirely avoidable by simply eating lots of fruits and vegetables and avoiding dairy and processed, fatty animal proteins. The medical establishment – primarily very wealthy heart surgeons – apparently did not like this information. In an ironic twist, some of those very doctors “quietly” came to a private clinic to receive the proven, healthy and non-surgical treatments discovered in the study. The clinic was created in light of the truth exposed by Dr. Campbell and other honest doctors.
This grand experiment I speak of may be entirely inadvertent. Regardless it’s going on before our very eyes. It is also getting worse with strange and confusing mutations and challenges that perplex even our medical and pharmaceutical industries. Rates of dementia, autism, cancers and many other diseases we don’t necessarily relate to our chemical-based industrial food are rising through the roof. Worse, because this whole thing is powered by money, it will not stop.
What about the control group? Those folks are lean, healthy, happy, cogent and functional well into old age. There is plenty of unassailable science and research to back this up and even to explain why. The only good news I can give you is that you still have the ability not to participate in this grotesque experiment. Find and eat your natural evolutionary foods. This simple, elegant solution will provide you with a 100% exclusion from this ugly, twisted and miserable process.
