Even When Kennedy Is Right, He's Totally Wrong By Joe Conason

[justaprogressive]

The publication last week of a new and innovative report on the causes of colorectal cancer could not be more timely, coming as it does when Americans are debating whether what we eat is killing us prematurely — and whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" slogan should qualify him to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services, with control over the government's critical scientific and medical research.

At first glance that study — published Dec. 10 by a team of doctors and scientists affiliated with the University of South Florida and the Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute — appeared to confirm Kennedy's charge that seed oils such as those derived from corn, canola (rapeseed) and sunflowers are causing an epidemic of chronic illness, from heart disease and cancer to obesity. Its findings showed excessive amounts of those oils in tumor samples from dozens of patients — and indicated that gut inflammation by those substances encouraged colon cancer, now the second-highest cause of cancer deaths and a rapidly increasing disease among younger people under 50.

"We don't know the full effects of these ultraprocessed foods on our body, but we do know that that's a major thing that's changed from 1950 onward," said Dr. Timothy Yeatman, one of the study's lead authors, speaking to Scientific American. "Young people today, particularly rural and impoverished people, are being exposed to more of these processed foods than anybody else because they're cheap and they're in all the fast-food restaurants."

Yet if this suggests that Kennedy is right about the dangers of ultraprocessed foods, the arrival of the colon cancer study also proved that he is absolutely wrong about the agencies that he will oversee if confirmed by the U.S. Senate. His standard indictment of the National Institutes of Health, for instance, is that its staff and its output have been "captured" by the food industry; it must be razed to the ground before it can be reformed.

https://www.creators.com/read/joe-conason/12/24/even-when-kennedy-is-right-hes-totally-wrong

[Deep State Witch]

1. That's The Problem With Bobby Brainworm

Some of what he says makes sense. Since I've eliminated seed oils and use primarily olive and avocado oils for cooking, I've felt a lot better. Especially my joints. But, there are many problems with what Brainworm wants to do:
1. The food industry is heavily invested in seed oils. They are in everything, just like High Fructose Corn Syrup. If you think people went apeshit when Michelle Obama wanted us to eat less processed foods, just wait until Brainworm wants to take away your Crisco!
2. While the US produces some avocados for avo oil, the lion's share of avocados come from Mexico. He wants to slap tariffs on food products coming from Mexico. So, it will become much more expensive and less attractive to consumers. Same with imported olive oil.
3. Anecdotal evidence about seed oils is just that - anecdotal. More studies need to be done.