Diabetes in America (comic) - Commentary by Mike Adams, the creator of this cart

[Guest guest]

Do you remember when you were a kid and your mother said to finish

eating, as " there are children starving in China " ?

But ................. do you know .... what they say in China?

see the cartoon at this webpage! http://www.newstarget.com/021505.html

blessings

Shan

Diabetes in America (comic)

by Mike Adams, Dan Berger

http://www.newstarget.com/021505.html

 

Commentary by Mike Adams, the creator of this cartoon:

 

I don't know what things were like when you were growing up, but when I was a

kid, I often heard the statement that if you didn't finish the food on your

plate, it was some sort of humanitarian crime since there were " children

starving in China! "

Fast forward to 2007. Children in China are now adopting western diets by

consuming more red meat, more dairy products, more processed sugars and refined

white flour. The result? They're not starving anymore; they're suffering from

diabetes!

 

The United States is the world's leading exporter of disease. We not only

export sugary sodas that cause diabetes and fast food chains that sell french

fries loaded with acrylamides and trans fatty acids, we actually have

corporations that continue to export pesticides, pharmaceuticals and industrial

chemicals

that have been BANNED in the United States. They're too toxic for Americans,

but perfectly safe to sell to small African nations, it seems. The FDA, by the

way, actually allows this practice.

 

And so America's trading partners around the world are getting clobbered with

the same neurological disorders, birth defects, cancer rates and obesity

problems that were once largely confined to America and the UK. It is no

exaggeration to say that the more any country in the world engages in so-called

" free

trade " with America, the worse their health gets. In a single generation,

smaller nations that once had healthy, sane populations have been reduced to

Pepsi-drinking, cookie-chomping, insulin-pumping junkies of western culture.

 

And that doesn't even include Big Tobacco. When tobacco companies were

slammed hard in the United States (after addicting children and destroying the

lives

of millions of their " best customers " by giving them cancer and heart

disease), they masterminded a strategy to export cigarettes to other nations.

Countries like Taiwan that tried to ban tobacco advertising in order to save the

health of their people were threatened with section 301 trade sanctions. (This

was

all under the Clinton administration, by the way. Things are even worse now.)

 

 

Smart nations around the world are increasingly rejecting America's culture

of disease and death. American burgers may seem trendy and cool at first, but

when your nation is buried under an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and

increasing crime due to mental instability (caused by dietary imbalances), it

suddenly

doesn't seem so cool to wear American blue jeans. Especially when they no

longer fit your rapidly expanding waistline.

 

I lived in Taiwan for two years, and it was Chinese culture that finally

broke me of my atrocious American dietary habits. It was in Taipei that I

finally

freed myself from a soda addiction and learned to drink unsweetened green tea.

(I also learned to use chopsticks in record time -- about two meals. Hunger

has a way of motivating you to learn essential skills.)

 

I also learned to respect the dietary practices of Asian cultures. I can say

from direct experience that any self-respecting traditional Chinese mom would

never let her kids indulge on American sweets (which are so loaded with sugar

that they are actually considered offensive by the older generation of Chinese

and Japanese citizens).

 

The traditional Chinese diet would be a huge step up for most Americans. It

contains almost no dairy, very little red meat, and lots (I mean LOTS) of

cooked vegetables. There's also very little oil and sugar in real Chinese food,

unlike the Chinese restaurant food you get in the United States (which has been

all sugared up for American customers who, apparently, even need sugar in their

Kung Pao chicken!).

 

What's lacking in the Chinese diet is a better selection of raw foods. The

Chinese diet is also a bit high in carbohydrates for more protein-oriented white

folks like me (blood type O, especially). But there's a whole lot of wisdom

in the Chinese diet. The traditional beef noodle soup (which I used to eat when

I actually ate beef) is made with a special combination of spices containing,

believe it or not, the herb used to make the Tamiflu anti-viral drug now

being stockpiled against bird flu. Star anise is the name. Most Americans have

never tasted it, but it's a mainstay of Chinese cuisine.

 

Anyway, to get to the comic here, I constructed this in order to contrast the

parental dietary advice of Americans ( " Eat more! " ) with the parental dietary

advice of Chinese ( " Don't be such a glutton! " ) For some reason, it has become

politically incorrect to tell someone in America they're eating like a

glutton. We even have huge establishments dedicated to challenging Americans to

see

just how much of a glutton they can be at one sitting -- they're called

all-you-can-eat buffets. The more you eat, the better deal you feel like you

got,

right?

 

The official dietary advice of the USDA, by the way, remains stuck in the

1930's when nutritional deficiencies were commonplace and people really did need

more food in America. That message continues to this day, where the USDA

actually encourages all Americans to guzzle more milk, eat more refined grains,

sugars and processed foods.

 

Welcome to America. EAT MORE! (And you'll look just like us.)

 

By the way, if you're personally offended by these statements, don't get mad

at me, get mad at those monster-sized servings at your local diner. Get mad at

your stupid parents for stuffing sweets down your throat as a kid if you

want, or get mad at your genes for giving you appetite hormones that never seem

to

quiet down. But don't get mad at me. I'm just the messenger here. There's

nothing wrong with facing yourself in the mirror one day and admitting you're

too

fat, then finding a way to do something about it. The problem is when people

deny it and think being overweight is normal. Obesity in America has become so

commonplace that thin people are actually considered diseased!

 

If you're obese, it may not be entirely your fault, either. The food

companies actually load up their products with artificial chemicals that

stimulate

hunger and fry your appetite control regulation system, causing you to feel

hungry ALL the time, even when you shouldn't. Those chemicals include Monosodium

Gl

utamate (MSG), Aspartame and Yeast Extract (sometimes labeled as " autolyzed

yeast extract " ). They're found in snack chips, soups, salad dressings, veggie

burgers, breakfast sausage and literally thousands of grocery products. If

you're overweight and you can't figure out why, it might be because you've been

poisoned by the food companies who have discovered a devious way to sell more

food to more people -- make them hungry all the time!

 

Big Tobacco did something similar by spiking their cigarettes with nicotine.

Food companies do it by spiking their foods with hunger-inducing chemicals and

refined sugars and carbohydrates that imbalance your blood sugar and actually

promote feelings of hunger.

 

Pretty clever scam, huh? And it's made in America, too. When it comes to

exporting disease, nobody beats us. Nobody! Sure, other countries may make

better

cars, better electronics, better airplanes and even better kitchen appliances,

but nobody can compete with U.S. corporations when it comes to spreading

disease and death around the world.

 

We have masterminded the use of free trade as a dietary weapon of mass

destruction.