Chronic Illness is something that has taken an unprecedented exponential rise over the last few decades in America with now a majority of Americans being considered overweight and suffering with ever growing healthcare costs which now take a sizeable amount from our deficit spending. Many Americans including myself think this problem can be curtailed with calculated and driven change to reform the dated bureaucratic institutions which have for too long have cut corners around the average mans health. Below I would like to list some proposals that I think would cascade in bringing down healthcare expenditures in the medium to long term freeing government spending while also curtailing the obesity and chronic disease epidemic for current and future generations of Americans. If you have any criticism please leave a reply so we can Make America Healthy Again!
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Invert The Food Pyramid
MyPlate who informs the department of agriculture with models like the food pyramid calls for Americans to eat around 30 to 50 percent of their daily diet in heavily processed and enriched grains, things such as cereal, white bread and junk food, spiking their insulin near constantly on top of informing their daily eating habits in places like supermarkets or the dinner table. In the 1950’s the sugar and corn lobby railed heavily against healthily sourced saturated animal fats which act as a natural detox to the animal fats we are all composed of. This culture shift to a high ultra processed carbohydrate diet and the adopting of cooking in polyunsaturated fatty acids is something we can reverse! I would recommend essentially a inversion of the current food pyramid to reflect that of infamous alternative nutritionist Ray Peat, who has a much better pyramid in maximizing for longevity and health of the individual. Other notable figures include Alternative dietician Aajonus Vonderplanitz, or the Weston A Price foundation both who have done amazing work in uncovering governmental roughshod over pubic health. By changing the food pyramid we set a precedent for change in not only our institutions but in hearts and minds and allow a new generation of American parents to make better informed dietary decisions for their children for years to come. For Reference to a pre existing pyramid I would recommend the “Nourishing Traditions” model set by the Weston Price Foundation. -
VAT Tax Ultra Processed Foods At Each Point Of Alteration
The modern American is faced with a library of options when it comes to choice. Even disregarding fast food almost 90 percent of foods in supermarkets have undergone drastic and unrecognizable change from their original state, even something as simple as milk pasteurization must first be homogenized, bleached in peroxide, added to a molasses base and super heated in vats that reach 3000 degrees and kill any naturally occurring micro nutrients or enzymes like lactase, for which the lactose intolerant must take separate pills for, and all of this exists as a workaround because factory farms would rather feed cows grain based feeds as apposed to grass which in turn weaken their overall health and turn the raw form of their milk toxic requiring pasteurization, another example eggs used to self preserve outside refrigeration! . This proposal would largely curtail ultra processing of foods, It should be common sense that the product with fewer and more organically sourced ingredients is the healthier a product. Denaturing spanning back to the Victorian era companies were known to have cut sawdust and paint into bread to sell at a higher weight, now instead of sawdust we have red 40, yellow 5, soy protein isolates, refined sugars, and hydrogenated oils with unprecedented obesity and cancer rates as companies expand their ever growing margins, thus we should not appeal to liberty or empathy in managing trans national operations that in turn control what we eat and how long we live. If enacted correctly this policy would see a slashing of the laundry list of ingredients found on most everyday products and would force the hand of companies in adopting more healthier business models rather than false health advertising.Part of the revenue could also be used to subsidize products contained in glass rather than plastic lined aluminum cans known for microplastics and heavy metal poisoning in items such as canned fish, as well as farms which pasture raise and grass feed their animals. -
Federal Legalization and Standardization of Raw Grass Fed Milk In Supermarkets
Prior to the 1950’s essentially all food was organic, milk men used to deliver cream top milk straight to your door! Milk is a perfect example of an industry monopolized and over regulated by the federal government and in a state by state basis is harder to obtain than most recreational drugs, previously mentioned Aajonus Vonderplanitz lobbied its legalization in supermarkets to then governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger who refused to sign it into law despite his consumption in youth fearing falsely promoted health concerns. Now in states like Florida in order to buy you must drive out of your way to on farm retails and have it be labeled as “pet food”, many other states require you to buy into expensive and complicated farm share systems effectively gatekeeping the average joe from health in exchange for convenience. Not only this but in recent years the Amish of Pennsylvania have been subject to numerous federal raids and seizes of property by the federal government most notably the case of “Amos Miller Farms” simply for even selling perfectly sourced raw products from their on farm retails, this is a direct attack on not only Americans health but their freedom and autonomy in choosing what goes in their body, legalizing raw milk to a federal standard in supermarkets would be akin to the banning of leaded gasoline, it would not only promote health but freedom! -
Pressure Sysco and Fast Food to Adopt Healthier Policies
Here are a couple of bulletins for what I think could vastly improve quality and health of domestic fast food in America.
- Replace Plastic Utensils with biodegradable alternatives (Bagasse, Wood)
- Replace commonly used Corn and Sunflower oil with Beef Tallow/Coconut oil/Virgin Olive oil (Ex. Mcdonalds Pre 1991)
- Incentivize the removal of syrups and artificial sweeteners in soda with cane sugar
- Encourage glass , paper , and cardboard packaging as opposed to vacuum sealed plastic ones
- Encourage use of cast iron pans as opposed to non stick Teflon
- Remove fluoride from the water supply
- FDA standardization allowing companies tax incentives or fines for complying or refusing with all the above
- Remove Big Agriculture Corn and Soybean Subsidies
Ever since the subsidization of corn and soybeans from little over half a century ago we have seen a marked increase in the aforementioned chronic illness and disease that plagues young Americans today, it has slowly become so pernicious that it infects itself silently into every facet of American life. One cannot think of a world with ought ethanol in our gasoline,plaque in our arteries, and everything from drywall to toothpaste utilizing corn based products. In large part the pervasiveness of these hydrogenated oils can be attributed to the government’s billions of dollars in subsidies over the latter half of the 20th century. In removing or slashing the subsidies efforts could be made in supporting programs for local homesteaders and family farms the people who truly struggle to make a living in producing non gmo, locally sourced, pesticide free products for everyday Americans. In part also allowing wealth to be built and flow back into those rural communities who would otherwise have to compete with transnational corporations and factory farms who can borrow at little to no expense to the lay man.
This is just a start and I encourage anyone with further nuance to please reply and like this proposal, thank you and MAHA!