Guest Post by
Warren Buffett’s vertically integrated investments in the production of high fructose corn syrup — a key ingredient in highly processed foods and contributor to obesity in kids — generates massive profits for himself and Bill Gates.
Childhood obesity rates could double among boys and increase by 125% among girls by 2035, according to a new global report by the World Obesity Federation.
In the U.S., childhood obesity rates tripled in the past three decades, increasing kids’ risks of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses.
A report last month by The Hill cited multiple contributors to the obesity epidemic, including too much screen time, lack of access to healthy food and socioeconomic factors. Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals is also known to play a big role in childhood obesity, studies show.
There’s one thing most experts agree on: Increased consumption of highly processed foods is a leading contributor to the childhood obesity epidemic.
But here’s a lesser-known fact: High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is the lynchpin of the processed food industry — and the HFCS industry has generated massive profits for Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, two of the world’s richest men.
AAP misses real culprits behind obesity epidemic. Buffet + Gates vertically integrated corn syrup by investing in food processing(ADM) fertilizers Oxy, Chevron) pesticides(Monsanto) silos(CTB) railroads(BNSF) processed+fast foods(Kraft,Mondelez,McDonald's)https://t.co/e3TxYSNVkm
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) February 7, 2023
‘Is the world’s richest man made primarily out of corn syrup?’
In 2015, New York Magazine ran an article — “Is the World’s Richest Man Made Primarily Out of Corn Syrup?” — in the Intelligencer’s “Diets” section.
The article told a light-hearted story about how Warren Buffett loves Coke, potato chips and other foods with high quantities of corn syrup so much — just like he did when he was a kid — that he bought up the companies that made them.
Buffett is the fifth-richest person in the world with a net worth of $108 billion. His wealth comes from investments in Berkshire Hathaway, the publicly traded multinational conglomerate company of which he has been CEO and chairman since 1970.
Berkshire Hathaway’s investment strategy is to identify valuable companies and acquire increasingly large portions of them.
A look into the history of Berkshire Hathaway’s holdings reveals the deeper truth behind the New York Magazine article showing that for more than two decades, Berkshire Hathaway acquired large stakes in all stages of production in the HFCS industry, from farmland to processed food companies.
This vertical integration investment strategy means that a substantial portion of Berkshire Hathaway’s profits is linked to the proliferation of corn syrup in the food system.
Buffett and his family own farmland where they grow corn. Berkshire Hathaway has a major stake in fossil fuel companies like Occidental Petroleum and Chevron that power industrial agriculture and make chemical inputs for farming.
It owns a company that makes grain storage silos for selling corn. It owns the largest railroad in the U.S., which moves grain and processed foods across the country. It also owns a commercial trailer rental company — the other major means of transportation for grains and processed foods.
Buffett’s company invested in seed and pesticide giant Monsanto, and for a short time, invested in Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which does the chemical processing to make corn syrup.
Berkshire Hathaway also owns major stakes in some of the largest processed food companies — like Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz — that use HFCS and other obesogens in their products, which they directly market to kids.
These companies profit off of rising food prices, while consumers’ food bills soar. Kraft Heinz’s quarterly sales rose 10% to $7.38 billion in the last quarter of 2022, beating Wall Street’s expectations, the Wall Street Journal reported. The food conglomerate raised prices 15% last year.
They also benefit from close relationships with organizations meant to protect people’s health — and particularly children’s health — from the damage associated with commodities like HFCS.
For example, peer-reviewed research reveals Coca-Cola’s “close collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) … The Obesity Society (TOS), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).”
Here’s how Berkshire Hathaway corn syrup supply chain holdings generate profits for Buffett:
Farmland/grain production: Buffett owns a 1,500-acre farm in Pana, Illinois, and three foundation-operated research farms — including 1,500 acres in Arizona and 9,200 acres in South Africa.
Grain storage: CTB, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 2002, manufactures supply chain solutions for the grain, poultry, pig and egg sectors. This includes Brock Grain Systems, which produces grain storage bins and has made considerable profits by making it possible for farmers to hold crops so they can drive up grain prices.
Oil, energy and agrochemicals:
- Occidental Petroleum: Berkshire Hathaway owns a 21% stake in Occidental, which it began purchasing in 2022. Its subsidiary, OxyChem, is the second-largest producer of potassium hydroxide, or caustic potash, a key ingredient in chemical fertilizers.
- Chevron: Berkshire Hathaway has held more than 8% of the company since 2020. In addition to producing oil, Chevron’s major chemicals subsidiary, Chevron Phillips Chemical, makes chemical inputs for all aspects of the agricultural supply chain — from agrochemical intermediates to flavor and fragrance enhancers to food packaging.
- Berkshire Hathaway Energy: Berkshire Hathaway has owned a controlling stake in this energy conglomerate, formerly MidAmerican Energy, since 1999. It is a holding company that controls power distribution in parts of the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
- Monsanto: Berkshire Hathaway purchased 8 million shares of Monsanto in the fourth quarter of 2016 after the announcement that Bayer would acquire it, merging two of the world’s top suppliers of seeds and pesticides. Buffett increased his stake in Monsanto in 2018 and Bayer fully purchased Monsanto in June 2018.
- Merck: Berkshire Hathaway held stock in Merck from 2020-2021. Merck became a pharmaceutical giant in part because it was also formerly a maker of agrochemicals. It sold its agrochemical business to Novartis in 1997, for just under $1 billion.
Transportation:
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF): Berkshire Hathaway partially purchased BNSF in 2007 and fully purchased it in early 2010. BNSF is the largest U.S. railroad by freight volume (15% of all non-local ton-miles) and owns 23,000 miles of track in 28 states. It transports chemicals, fertilizer, grain, and processed foods, among other things.
- XTRA Lease: Berkshire Hathaway acquired all assets of this commercial trailer leasing corporation in 2001.
HFCS processing:
- ADM: Berkshire Hathaway purchased a stake in ADM, one of the largest agricultural companies in the world, in late 2012 and sold it in the first quarter of 2013.
Processed food production and distribution:
- See’s Candy: In 1972, Buffett purchased the company for $25 million, his “dream business.” By 2019 it had brought in “well over” $2 billion, an 8,000% return on investment.
- McDonald’s: In 1994, Berkshire Hathaway purchased a 4.9 million share stake in McDonald’s, which was not revealed until a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing document was unsealed in 1996. Berkshire Hathaway no longer owns shares in McDonald’s, but Warren Buffett said he regrets selling it.
- Coca-Cola: In 1988, after Coca-Cola began using 100% HFCS as its sweetener in the U.S., Buffett started investing in the company and it has been one of Berkshire Hathaway’s top holdings ever since — today it is its fourth largest holding.
- Kraft Foods/Heinz: In 2007, Berkshire Hathaway first invested in Kraft and in 2013, it purchased Heinz. Buffett orchestrated Heinz’s merger with Kraft in 2015. Today Berkshire owns over 26% of the company.
- Mondelez International: Mondelez is a packaged food company that makes Oreo cookies, Cadbury chocolate, Halls cough drops, Trident gum and Triscuit crackers. Originally Kraft was part of this brand, but it was spun off as its own company in 2012.
When Berkshire Hathaway profits, Gates profits
Warren Buffett isn’t the only one of the world’s richest people to make his fortune from Berkshire Hathaway. It is nearly impossible to separate Buffett’s wealth from that of his friend and business associate of 32 years, Bill Gates.
Gates, the fourth-richest person in the world with a net worth of $133 billion, holds much of his wealth in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Berkshire Hathaway is the foundation’s largest holding.
Gates served on the board of Berkshire Hathaway from 2004 to 2020. Since 2006, Buffett has given $45 billion to the Gates Foundation and he served as a member of the three-person board of directors of the foundation until Bill and Melinda Gates split up in 2021.
So Berkshire Hathaway’s profits have been Gates’ profits.
The Land Report also reported that Gates quietly made himself the largest owner of U.S. farmland. His portfolio now comprises about 242,000 acres of American farmland and nearly 27,000 acres of other land across Louisiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, Arizona, Florida, Washington and 18 other states.
Media coverage about the relationship between Buffett and Gates, their investments, the work they fund and their businesses is largely favorable.
According to a 2020 investigation published in the Columbia Journalism Review, media coverage that tends to depict billionaires like Buffett and Gates as leaders, geniuses and benevolent stewards of society is linked to the fact that as funding for media collapsed over the last decade, the Gates Foundation stepped in to fill the gap.
In 2020 alone, for example, the foundation gave more than $250 million to news organizations including BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, BBC Media Action and the New York Times’ Neediest Cases Fund.
The money comes with strings attached, limiting the reporting it funds to issues it wants to be covered.
So, while billionaire philanthropists like Buffett and Gates finance media coverage that celebrates them for bankrolling public health initiatives and paints their critics as conspiracy theorists, they continue to make massive profits off the destruction of the food system — and the corresponding destruction of public health.
Obesity makes kids sicker — pandemic lockdowns made kids more obese
Gates and Buffett profited massively from the COVID-19 pandemic because they “bet on Big Pharma” to yield major profits from vaccines.
But the pandemic they profited from was made worse by the obesity epidemic their investments in corn syrup helped drive, according to numerous studies.
Peer-reviewed studies published in major journals like The BMJ established early in the pandemic period that obesity was a major risk factor in poor COVID-19 outcomes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization from a COVID-19 infection.
Obesity is a major COVID-19 risk factor even in young people who are much less susceptible to severe disease.
Systematic reviews and meta‐analyses found that children with obesity are at a higher risk of both severe respiratory disease and multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID-19 relative to healthy children.
The CDC also reported numerous studies showing children diagnosed with obesity may suffer worse outcomes from COVID-19.
Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., and others advocated early in the pandemic in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine for dietary interventions to fight the negative effects of COVID-19.
But billionaires and politicians ignored these calls and instead promoted pandemic mitigation measures like lockdowns and school closures that increased rates of childhood obesity to unprecedented levels and made COVID-19 outcomes worse.
Research shows lockdowns and school closures increased childhood obesity because they reduced physical activity, worsened children’s mental health leading to over-eating and increased levels of food insecurity, which is linked to increased processed food consumption.
Coca-Cola, Mondelez and others ‘COVID-washed’ processed foods to grow profits
Peer-reviewed research shows that processed food corporations used the pandemic as a marketing opportunity to promote their unhealthy products to vulnerable populations during a time of increased stress and hardship — what researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand call “COVID-washing.”
The CEO of Coca-Cola told investors at the start of the pandemic in 2020 in “every previous crisis, military, economic or pandemic, in the last 134 years, the Coke Company has come out stronger.”
A report by researchers from the Global Health Policy Unit at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, working with the NCD Alliance, found that major processed food corporations like Coca-Cola were able to “adapt quickly and exploit new opportunities” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
They wrote:
“This is illustrated via the pivoting of marketing and promotions to leverage both the pandemic and associated policy responses. For example, snack manufacturers Mondelez [a Berkshire Hathaway company] quickly recognised how lockdown led to increased in-house consumption whereby ‘more grazing, more continuous eating, and snacking takes up a much bigger role.’”
Processed food producers sought to “present themselves and their employees as heroes in the context of the pandemic,” they said.
The report linked to a Kraft Heinz video promoting “everyday heroes” in their processed food supply chain emoting “We Got You America” while visibly promoting core products such as Heinz Tomato Ketchup.
Heinz also partnered with food banks in its Kraft Heinz Project Pantry and Twitter campaign, invoking national solidarity to bring processed foods to low-income people.
According to Paula Johns, director general of ACT Health Promotion, Brazil, quoted in the report during the pandemic, “Unhealthy commodity industries have taken advantage of an adverse environment to sell their products and improve their image in the eyes of consumers.”
For example, Coca-Cola rebranded bottles and cans in Mexico to invoke COVID-19 solidarity, promoted the fact that it shifted advertising budgets to “fight COVID-19,” partnered with the United Nations Development Programme in several countries, funded Red Cross initiatives to link its brand with COVID-19 aid and partnered with the Gates Foundation to promote COVID-19 vaccination in Africa.
Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Donuts gave away free donuts to people who showed their vaccination cards in 2021.
This branding was supported by the highest levels of government. In May 2021, McDonald’s and the Biden administration partnered to promote COVID-19 vaccines by advertising together on billboards and on McDonald’s cups and other items.
HFCS is as bad as you thought
Strong and consistent evidence links high sugar consumption and obesity in children and adolescents, with many studies pointing specifically to the role of sugary drinks like Coca-Cola.
Excess dietary sugar adds “empty calories” to the diet, affects hormone and blood sugar levels, stimulates appetite and overeating and replaces healthy foods in a child’s diet.
In the U.S., sugar in processed foods often takes the form of HFCS, a processed sweetener with high levels of fructose — which is harder for the body to break down than natural glucose.
HFCS is cheaper, sweeter and more quickly absorbed into the body than regular sugar. Eating too much can lead to insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.
It can trigger processes that cause liver toxicity and a host of other chronic diseases, and it increases appetite and promotes obesity even more than regular sugar.
But fructose is not the only driver of obesity in HFCS. Virtually all corn grown in the U.S. is genetically modified and grown with pesticides and herbicides — making it almost certain that HFCS is a GMO product laden with chemicals.
HFCS also contains mercury, a fact hidden by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Renee Dufault, Ph.D., an FDA whistleblower, left the organization when it blocked her from publishing her research on mercury in HFCS.
HFCS is so notorious for its negative health effects, that the Corn Refiners Association petitioned the FDA to change its name to “corn sugar,” claiming its long name is what gives consumers a bad impression of it. The FDA turned it down.
Despite all this, HFCS is ubiquitous in processed foods — used as a thickener, a sweetener and a humectant to retain moisture and the appearance of “freshness.”
In the 1970s and 80s, when sugar prices were skyrocketing, the corn industry — which had a glut of corn starch — jumped into the sugar market. By the mid-1980s, HFCS had captured more than 50% of the market, and by 1984 it replaced sugar in Coca-Cola.
Corn syrup is primarily derived from a corn variety called yellow #2 dent corn, largely grown in the Midwestern U.S.
To turn corn into corn syrup, the corn goes through a mechanical process to separate cornstarch from the corn. The cornstarch then goes through a chemical process involving either sulfur dioxide or hydrochloric acid and heat to convert it into corn syrup.
Finally, another industrial process called enzyme conversion turns the processed corn into HFCS.
Medicalization of obesity market will generate massive growth for Big Pharma
In January, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued controversial new clinical guidelines — its first update in 15 years — for treating childhood obesity that recommend prescribing weight loss drugs for children as young as 8 years old,
As The Defender reported in August 2022, as obesity rates rise — in children and adults — Big Pharma can expect windfall profits, creating a new node in the HFCS supply chain.
According to Fierce Pharma, analysts at Morgan Stanley Research told clients last July, “Drugmakers like Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk are poised to unlock a global obesity market that could be worth more than $50 billion by the end of the decade.”
Wegovy, one of the drugs approved for obesity in kids, helped fuel the forecasts.
It is not just high drug prices that make obesity a hot market. Since obesity in 2013 was officially classified as a chronic disease, it is now “on the cusp of moving into mainstream primary care management,” said Morgan Stanley — because it can be treated directly instead of treating its consequences, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
“Therefore we expect excess weight and fat loss to become treatment targets for obesity and for treatment guidelines to adopt obesity as a primary target ahead of other associated diseases,” wrote Morgan Stanley analysts, who predicted a $54 billion market within seven-and-a-half years.
As obesity shifts from an aesthetic market to a medical one, J.P. Morgan forecasts “this could be an over $30 billion annual opportunity,” according to Chris Schott, senior analyst of U.S. Major and Specialty Pharmaceuticals for J.P. Morgan Research.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
See if government really cares about the health and safety of us the FDA would ban high fructose corn syrup. Instead they push gmo foods, masks and fake vaccines.
Fat makes you thin. Sugar makes you fat.
Nick Newport loves hfcs:
Awesome!!!!!
Growing evidence that sugar and HFCS also increase cancer risk.
At levels pushed by the USDA they are neurotoxic.
It is mind blowing how many toxins are banned in the EU but not by the FDA, and the EU doesn’t love its people either.
The EU was created to abuse the people of its member states … nothing less …
I forget, did the EU bans on toxic materials come out before or after Europeans had been dumping toxic waste everywhere on the continent since before the industrial revolution?
As long as no one ever has to take responsibility for their own behavior, I guess it’s the next best thing.
True. The sad part is, kids don’t feed themselves…and the cycle continues. Buffet knows this.
Of course. I met someone at a dollar store to buy something and I went inside just to see what’s in there. Several aisles of poison marketed as food. It made my head swim.
Double take worthy comment!
I have a solution to this: Parents, stop feeding your children crap, make an effort to cook proper meals, stop buying this junk for them to eat, get them to move a little. Government shouldn’t be regulating food intake, we should have the god given sense to eat whole natural foods everyday. A little junk food once in while isn’t a bad thing, moderately.
Given the millions of children eating 2 or so meals a day at schools on the taxpayer dime … a big question is regarding that ‘food’, too …
Without having read the post, in a quick Evelyn Wood style of sped read,
what comes to mind is how all the rules and guidelines that were demanded by
the sick care industry as the latest bug to threaten humans,
they never mentioned the following advice, excellent guidelines on how to ensure
good bodily health and a strong immune system…
-natural, healthy diet;
-outdoor fresh air for the lungs;
-strenuous activity which benefits and improves bodily strength;
-exposure to sunshine, for vitamin D uptake;
-activity that catalyzes bodily perspiration, quite possibly the body’s most efficient
means of eliminating toxins and waste, ingested via poor nutrition, poor air quality, and tainted water.
-and many more good habits that require a disciplined routine, that far too few adopt.
Instead, we were instructed (force fed mandated compliance) to:
-cover your face; (a loss of friendly facial gestures, vital for toddlers mental health)
-hinder breathing of fresh air, and invite CO2 and accumulated bacteria into one’s lungs;
-isolate from others; even close family members to prevent a fictitious spread threat;
-cease work and business transactions, in the quest to stop the spread;
-maintain an arbitrary distance of 6 feet, determined by a 15-year old girl, in an imaginary doom and gloom scenario, where a scamdemic appears to threaten the greater good;
-march in lockstep obedience, with the threat of exclusion in most life liberties;
-ignore previous inexpensive anti-parasitical drug ingestion with a proven track record, in favor of new pharmaceuticals, unproven and ridiculously expensive, besides being horrifically ineffective against ‘the bug’
-implement incorrect medical treatments like ventilators, for essentially a blood borne problem, in its hindering of delivering vitally needed oxygen to the organs and extremities of the human body;
-ignore experienced, relevant physicians and virologists with excellent credentials, since they were in disagreement with the above protocols.
-dismiss said professionals who fought the narrative, and brand them as radical conspiracy theorists, by celebrating and spreading the unjust treatments of ostracism, censorship, and burial of the information, advice, and data interpretation experience they provided.
-bury and hide any and all information that doesn’t fall into line with the evil agenda plans.
Nevertheless, the movement is growing, in stark opposition.
Intelligent opinions are gaining more ground, with each passing day,
as the battle rages on.
Most important to health is the mental, emotional and spiritual health (positive emotion).
Then good sleep, and then quality food.
I don’t disagree with you. Jist add some (and less stress).
maintain an arbitrary distance of 6 feet
Staying 6 feet apart prevents toxic load shedding entrainment between biomes.
Anything but arbitrary, it’s a fact.
Also Canola oil is in everything now. Very bad for the gut.
https://thetrailtohealth.com/blog/toxic-seed-oils
Always interesting that the big investment houses like Berkshire and Blackrock draw so much ire when they are mostly just moving other people’s money into other people’s businesses.
Sure, there is a power issue just as there is a wealth concentration/disparity issue, but this article lists blue-chip stonks that employ hundreds of thousands but some guy running regulatory capture in Omaha is the problem? What about the guy running the forklift in the Coke distribution plant? The salt of the earth corn farmer?
In my old evil corp days there were only a handful of people invited to the volcano lair to coordinate. The rest of us just chased “deals and yield” much like a regional sales manager for some mid-market industrial supply company would do. So what if that company’s biggest client was Monsanto?
Meanwhile, millions of other people not working for Berkshire or Cascade but in one of the hundreds of portfolio companies in which they invest asking without even realizing they are asking: how am I supposed to retire / collect my pension / my 401k sailboat if muh portfolio of titans of the consumer economy can’t vertically integrate, LBO competitors, labor cost arbitrage to foreign subsidiaries, lobby for protectionist regulations and favorable tax and “accounting” treatments, and blanket mass media with legal lies called “marketing”?
Everyone wants to scrape profits from the system. Compound interest their way into “financial security”. Get something for nothing. Easy to prepare meals so they can watch their shows.
Everyone wants to outsource the responsibility for their lives to systems and operators who care not for them while also retaining the right to complain when that arrangement plays out predictably.
The obesity – especially in the kids is tragic. The solution is bottom up. Those kids in the wally dollar general with their chain smoking single mom are not being killed by corn.
Working out and eating healthy is racist. Being morbidly obese is normal. Stop with the false narrative and eat your Fruit Loops.
Let me take it out for a spin…
Working out and eating healthy is racist. Being morbidly obese is normal. Stop with the false narrative and eat your fried chicken.
Maybe?
Maybe not?
If that pos buffet didn’t get insider trader info he’d be flipping burgers at McDonald’s
When I was a kid I only could get soda on holidays. Sugar sweetened cereal was not allowed in the house. Meat at every meal.
There were only three tv channels with boring soap operas on during the day. Spent most of my time outside playing.
Now there are kids in the neighborhood we never see. Just staring at their dopamine machines (“smart” phones) all day inside. We used to call TVs boob tubes.
Every bit of that is true. Our grands play outside here every weekend and off school days. They are generally the only ones outside roller blading around, chasing each other. It draws out one other little girl to come out and play.
A house was bought by some city folks two doors down. Met the parents and told’m our grands are here all the time and when here, send their kids out, they’ll all have fun. It’s been a year now and not once have we seen or heard their kids outside.
Many times a big Christmas present for us kids was a case (remember the old wooden cases?) of various flavors of sodas.
We only were allowed it on rare occasions because “it will stunt your growth”. I did grow to be almost 6’2″. I lost more than an inch since my peak, though.
It’s all about the money ! Create and promote foods that have an addictive nature and market it to an ignorant public at a price target market .
Now you invest in diabetes treatments and other medications.
Make them sick disgusting FATBODIES scarfing down junk food then sell the treatments for the illness created and everybody makes MONEY 💰
Except for the morbidly obese individuals with no self control .
Humans have a widespread problem of addictive behavior that is easily capitalized upon from street level drug dealers to investors in junk food products!
Some get rich some get fat drunk and stupid !
WELCOME TO AMERICA
Since the beginning of time it’s always been about the money
Since the beginning of time it’s always been about the money
I have so many questions….
Did you meet Jesus?
Or George Washington?
Or have you just been keeping a low profile since the beginning?
Ha!
It was just a goof…I’m a short fruit picking kinda guy.
Older than dirt I am
Looks like Big Mike Obama’s “Let’s Move! campaign wasn’t the success it was touted as.
Is there any more proof needed that Satan runs planet earth 100%. While they poison our children they live a long very prosperous life. Satan rewards his minions well on earth. But they will pay deeply for their crimes.
No one mentions another link to not only childhood obesity, but to hypothyroidism … fluoride that is added to drinking water in many cities across the United States …
The fifth most prescribed drug in the US is Synthroid (synthetic thyroid hormone for low-functioning thyroid) … and many have linked fluoride to that fact, too …
Hypothyroid (low-functioning thyroid) results in a very low metabolism, in brittle nails and hair — and in significant problems with weight control.
Growing up (born in ’47) I don’t recall many overweight children … but since the ’80s or so I’ve seen young children 30-50 pounds overweight by age 10 … and not just the wetbacks from mexico that were so ubiquitous in Southern California during that timeframe.
Thats interesting.
We don’t have fluoridated water where I live and spent most of my life not on any fluoridation. But in the last 10 years or so my metabolism did a complete crash’n burn. Going from eating anything with near zero weight gain to basically, two pieces of toast in the mornings and little else, and little weight shedding .
Fluoride is also used as a pesticide.
Food stored in bulk warehouses can be treated multiple times with fluoride pesticides.
None of this info makes it onto the
final product’s ingredients lists.
___________
Also See:
Fluoride: The Aging Factor
All animals, including humans, are made up of cells. The cell, the basic unit of life, can be identified under a microscope by its outer membrane and a nucleus within the membrane.
Some cells are able to produce a protein called collagen. In this book, the term “collagen” refers to collagen as well as collagen-like proteins. This process occurs inside the cell. Little globules called vesicles carry the collagen from the inside of the cell to the cell membrane where it is released to the outside of the cell. There, the collagen thickens into fibers.
The five different types of cells capable of producing and releasing collagen in this way are:
fibroblasts, which produce collagen for the structural support of skin, tendons, ligaments and muscle;chondroblasts, which produce collagen for the structual support of cartilage;osteoblasts, which produce collagen for the structual foundation and framework upon which calcium and phosphate are deposited, giving rise to bone;ameloblasts, which produce collagen for the structural foundation and framework upon which calcium and phosphate are deposited, giving rise to tooth enamel.odontoblasts, which produce collagen for the structual foundation and framework upon which calcium and phosphate are deposited, giving rise to the inner part of the tooth. This material is called dentin.
Like other proteins, collagen is composed of amino acids linked together in a chain. However, collagen contains two additional amino acids, hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine, not found in other proteins. Thus when collagen breaks down, the hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine levels in the blood and urine increase.
_____
Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health knew in the 1960s that fluoride disrupted collagen synthesis. It was not until 1979-1981, however, that a new flurry of research activity in this area began.
In 1981, Dr. Kakuya Ishida of the Kanagawa Dental University in Japan reported the results of studies in which he fed laboratory animals 1 part per million fluoride in their drinking water and analyzed the urine for hydroxyproline. He found that urinary hydroxyproline levels increased in those animals. This indicates that as little as 1 part per million fluoride interferes with collagen metabolism and leads to its breakdown.
Dr. Marian Drozdz and co-workers from the Institute of Bioanalytical and Environmental Studies in Katowice, Poland found increased hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine levels in the blood and urine as well as a decrease in skin and lung collagen levels in rats fed 1 part per million fluoride in their drinking water.
Dr. Anna Put and co-workers from the Department of Pharmacology of the Pomorska Akademy of Medicine in Szczecin, Poland also found that fluoride increased hydroxyproline levels in urine.
Drs. A.K. Susheela, Y.D. Sharma and co-workers from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences found that fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lung, kidney, and trachea.
Source
http://whale.to/a/fluoride_the_aging_factor.html
I suggest buying the book.
Usually less than $10 on the electronic bay.
Euddolen – Thx for the info. Like I said we don’t have fluoridated water and produce or foods get washed. I think I’ll look at detoxing or boosting thyroid function as a means to a healthier outlook. These asswipes won’t ever stop trying to poison us peons.
Anon moose
CANCER AND GREEN TEA
While there can be no doubt as to the beneficial effects of individual antioxidants found in green tea, the same cannot be said about green tea as a beverage. Existing studies tend to concentrate on active ingredients of green tea, such as epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a compound that belongs to a family of antioxidants known as polyphenols. EGCG and other polyphenols are constituents of tea – especially of green tea.
However, no studies exist investigating the effects of fluorides on these anti-oxidants. Existing studies involving other antioxidants and fluoride compounds give evidence that fluorides can adversely affect the action of antioxidants(27). Thus, while isolated antioxidants may slow down the development of some forms of cancer in experimental studies, their effect may be annihilated in their complex natural environment (as a sum of the action of all the substances present).
Source
Green Tea, Fluoride & the Thyroid
https://poisonfluoride.com/pfpc/html/green_tea___.html
Branch – Good thing I don’t drink that shit. I take my coffee with a 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and black, lately with a little cream to muddy it up. new things.
You can be poisoned by living 9downwind from a number of industries which emit fluoride pollution.
Aluminum smelting.
Clay tile, brick and block manufacture
Uranium mining,
Fertilizer production..
Also, pretty sure, that fluoride pesticide probably contaminates many of your grain
products.
I was in the bulk warehouses.
I saw the spraying and the poison labels.*
Its in a lot……of processed food.
And its definitely in the grain
based pet food.
And I never saw any of this “ingredient” listed on the final product package “ingredients list”.
*sulfuryl fluoride.
We have no heavy industry in my area. Mostly just agriculture, vine yards and fruit trees. I’ve never seen fluorides in any of the sprays used here in these applications. Times change tho, maybe they are here now.
We just don’t eat processed foods and the grains amount to flour for bread. Thats about it. The only source of fluorides I can see is the sodium fluoride in the tooth paste. Thats it, the question is would that be an issue?? I don’t think so but who knows. I thinks its more age related so if I boost thyroid function I should see improvements.
Moos,
Another pathway to symptoms is emf.
So, cordless phones,cell phones, wifi routers, microwaves, cycle electric current flow…
If we could literally see electromagnetic pollution in the air as if it were dirty oil?
Many people would think twice before buying a wifi air purifer or garbage disposal.
________
The invisible Rainbow
Prologue
ONCE UPON A TIME, the rainbow visible in the sky after a storm
represented all the colors there were. Our earth was designed that way. We
have a blanket of air above us that absorbs the higher ultraviolets, together
with all of the X-rays and gamma rays from space. Most of the longer
waves, that we use today for radio communication, were once absent as
well. Or rather, they were there in infinitesimal amounts. They came to us
from the sun and stars but with energies that were a trillion times weaker
than the light that also came from the heavens. So weak were the cosmic
radio waves that they would have been invisible, and so life never
developed organs that could see them.
The even longer waves, the low-frequency pulsations given off by
lightning, are also invisible. When lightning flashes, it momentarily fills the
air with them, but they are almost gone in an instant; their echo,
reverberating around the world, is roughly ten billion times weaker than the
light from the sun. We never evolved organs to see this either.
But our bodies know that those colors are there. The energy of our cells
whispering in the radio frequency range is infinitesimal but necessary for
life. Every thought, every movement that we make surrounds us with low
frequency pulsations, whispers that were first detected in 1875 and are also
necessary for life. The electricity that we use today, the substance that we
send through wires and broadcast through the air without a thought, was
identified around 1700 as a property of life. Only later did scientists learn to
extract it and make it move inanimate objects, ignoring—because they
could not see—its effects on the living world. It surrounds us today, in all of
its colors, at intensities that rival the light from the sun, but we still cannot
see it because it was not present at life’s birth.
Perhaps I should get into this Death Economics thingy. Seems ruining health and genocide pays well. Follow the money they say.