This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh (Jeremiah 17:5). Do not put your trust in the rulers of this world kings and princes. Do not expect any rescue from mortal men (Psalm 146:3).
Calley Means, a former pharma lobbyist, and Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-trained physician,[1] revealed how the food industry prioritize profit over health, and have even changed the national food pyramid to sell risky manufactured foods. They revealed the problems with manufactured foods are the cause extreme weight gain, cardiovascular disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. Calley and Casey Means document the negative effects of seed oils and advised we should avoid hydrogenated Industrial Seed Oils[2] a common ingredient in many processed like-foods. They are Soybean Oil, Corn Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, Safflower Oil, Canola Oil (Rapeseed), Peanut Oil, and Palm Kernel Oil. (look at the ingredients) These industrial seed oils are processed fats, the main ingredient in margarine and hydrogenated vegetable oils. One 16-year study in nearly 85,000 women found that those who consumed the highest amount of trans fats, which are a byproduct of hydrogenation, had a significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes.[3] Trans fats, like Crisco are made from manufactured seed oils, have replaced natural animal fats, and cooking oils over the past 80+ years. Trans fats are low cost, high profit, long shelf life (synthetic products take forever to mold) and convenience to use. The American Heart Association recommends avoiding trans fats altogether to protect cardiovascular health.
Most of the Manufactured Food Industry was created by the cigarette industry. The two largest food companies in the world were previously the largest cigarette companies, RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris. After the surgeon general said way too late that cigarettes caused cancer. These two were some of the largest companies in the world with the largest cash piles. They used their piles of cash to buy food companies.
Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds was the first that led the transition to synthetically sweetened beverages in 1963 when it purchased Hawaiian Punch from Pacific Hawaiian Products Company. RJ Reynolds bought Nabisco Foods and Philip Morris bought General Foods then purchased Kraft Foods making Philip Morris the largest food producer in North America. “Executives in the two largest U.S.-based tobacco companies RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris developed colors and flavors as additives for cigarettes that can be cancer causing and used them to build major children’s beverage product lines including Hawaiian Punch, Kool-Aid, Tang and Capri Sun.”[4] This is leaving the business of food manufacture in the hands of the same corporations who helped addict Americans to tobacco. They are using the same techniques they used to promote tobacco. They are peddling a diet of addictive ultra-processed synthetic oils, trans-fats, stabilizers, and products not found in nature such as high fructose corn syrup, chemical additives and preservatives, all masquerading as food.
These cigarette companies strategically did two things to push their manufactured food products. First, they shifted their thousands of scientists who were experts in making cigarettes addictive to the food departments of their newly purchased companies. This produced the rise of addictive ultra processed foods. Ultra processed food is defined as industrial synthetic formulations of food that typically contain 5 or more ingredients. This is the category of food that drives insulin resistance. Insulin resistance in foods can be catastrophic to the human body because it causes obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. In particular they add excessive sugar amounts (i.e., sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, etc.). This is the prevalent and egregious component of ultra processed food that drives the risk of addiction. The consequence of eating ultra-processed synthetic foods, the consumer is faced with foods high in trans-fat, sugar, and salt, which are mass produced mainly by global multinational cooperations. These so-called foods are designed to be cheap, have long shelf-life, addictive, and should be banned from human consumption.[5]
Second, they created a new food pyramid. The cigarette industry through their new food companies allegedly paid off the FDA, the USDA, and colleges like Harvard to create reports saying sugars and trans-fats are not the cause of obesity. They wrongly claimed, with success, animal-based fats are bad and carbs are good. Carbs turn to sugar when eaten, and more sugar is added along with trans fats to addict people to their products. They lobbied Congress and changed the food pyramid in the 1990s. Now basically the baseline of the new food pyramid has shifted from good dietary patterns to the catastrophic. Today a normal child’s diet is 70% ultra processed like-foods, filled with synthetic sugar and additives. The truth is this is a for profit science experiment going very badly.
The baseline condition of health in the United States. 74% of American adults now are overweight or obese. Close to 50% of children are overweight or obese. 77% of young adults are unfit to serve in the military because of issues like obesity. Now consider diabetes, a full 50% of American adults have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, and 30% of teens now have prediabetes. We have 18% of teens with fatty liver disease, a disease that used to be a late-stage alcoholics cancer. Rates are skyrocketing and children and young adult cancers are up 79%. In the 1960’s the above sicknesses were less than 10% across the board. Then consider Autism rates are up to 1 in 36 today, when in 1966, researchers estimate 1 in 2,500 children.[6] This is the first year in American history, where it is estimated to have over two million cases of cancer.
25% of American women are on an antidepressant medication. 40% of 18-year-olds have a mental health diagnosis. America has the highest infant mortality rate in the entire developed world and the infertility is at peak rates. Infertility is going up 1% per year and sperm counts are going down 1% per year since the 1970s. When almost none of these health conditions existed in the 1960’s and 70’s.
Every American family needs to understand the above conditions are caused or driven by the exact same thing, ultra processed foods we eat and drink. 90% of the ultra-manufactured foods cause metabolic dysfunction. Metabolic dysfunction involves at least three out of five health conditions that increases the risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.
To eat healthy, we must delete Industrial Seed Oils, and ultra processed synthetic foods from our diet. Also, stay away from restaurants because they use these inexpensive ingredients. To eat healthy use more animal fats like lard, tallow, and real butter to cook with, and eat more meat, eggs, vegetables and other natural unmanufactured foods and drinks.
David Howard Foxhole Ministry
[1] https://rumble.com/v5b73od-calley-and-casey-means-the-truth-about-ozempic-the-pill-and-how-big-pharma-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
[2] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/hydrogenated-vegetable-oil
[3] N Engl J Med. 2001 Sep 13;345(11):790-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa010492.
[4] https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/cigarette-giants-bought-food-companies-used-cartoon-characters-colors-flavors-boost-sales-sweetened-beverages
[5] https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(22)12987-2/fulltext
[6] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-real-reasons-autism-rates-are-up-in-the-u-s/