. The Food Pyramid Is a Scam
Many people are waking up to the fact that Americans are getting sicker and sicker each year while spending more time and money than taxpayers in any other country on health care. Clark began by explaining how the food we eat is poisoning us. She calls the food pyramid a “manipulated work of fake public health.”
The food pyramid was created in the 1970s and adopted by the United States in 1992. It has had disastrous results for American health, particularly by minimizing the role of healthy fats and proteins and increasing low-nutrition carbs.
Nutrition expert Dr. Paul Mason has an excellent video detailing the history of the food pyramid. It was created by flawed and inaccurate studies, and heavily influenced by politics and not research. Since the food pyramid was set as a guideline, the average American adult weighs 30 pounds more than Americans did previously!
Secondly, the pyramid’s suggested protein intake is much too low, even though protein is necessary for maintaining and growing muscle, can help decrease unhealthy weight gain, regulates blood glucose, and so much more. Finally, the pyramid’s neglect of healthy fats has led to a misunderstanding of dietary fat, causing many to avoid beneficial fats even though unsaturated fats help lower the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in America.
These are just a few problems with the food pyramid. It has had devastating effects on the health of this country.
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
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