You can join my Naive Idiots™ club. I'm a long time member.
That reminded me of that flash game where you could press buttons on a Bush action figure to hear some bushisms (like "when we're talking about war, we're really talking about peace" and "there's an old saying in Texas, I know it's in Texas, probably Tennessee" and "peeance freeance"?) and there was one button to make him spit out a pretzel he was choking on. I tried to look it up but I can't find it :(
Read The China Study and the work by Dr Neal Bernard. Type 2 diabetes can be reversed (not always, but it can be) or reduced. My mum had her dose of type 2 meds reduced by about half when she went on a plant based diet, because her blood sugar went too low on her regular dose.
Someone on Lemmy once calculated that he could lose 99% of his net value, then lose 99% of what's left and he'd still be a multimillionaire. From the 320B, that would still leave him with 32M.
I literally just looked up the swastikar hashtag on Mastodon 🤭
Mine, when I blocked grad and hexbear.
Is the hate more of an American thing because of the association with MLMs and their inflated claims?
Here in the UK, they're used for minor ailments, relaxation and general fragrancing. If you tried to advertise them as a cancer cure, you'd get into a lot of trouble. I don't like the smell of lavender, but I love how good it is for sore throats and minor burns (stops blistering and scarring if you put it on as soon as you've finished cooling it).
Speaking of burns, I only got the memo recently, so for those who also missed it, the advice is now to use tepid water to cool a burn rather than cold (apparently because colder water will make the blood vessels constrict so the heat doesn't leave as quickly).
We can only dream.
We have family back in India and someone died from covid, but that still wasn't enough to convince the antivaxxers in my family here in the UK.
My mum ended up on a ventilator, because she got brainwashed by them into thinking it's no big deal and covid isn't even real, it's just a cold (she was in the shielding group). Then one of the most insane members of my family tried to convince my dad to tell the doctors to take my mum off the ventilator, because the ventilator is a big conspiracy and will kill her. Luckily another family member got wind of it and intervened. My mum pulled through but was weakened by long covid.
Some of these people are truly unhinged. They're so detached from reality, it's unbelievable.
Another example is the YouTuber Sheeps and Neeps. He was a flat earther, so of course it followed he was into all the anti-science stuff. He got cancer, put his money where his mouth was, and did his own "natural" treatment. He died.
Does that mean he's toast?
Traditional Indian omni diet. You don't need to go low carb. In fact the desired ratio is 80% carbs, 10% protein, 10% fat. She still had grains and other carbs. It's about the type of carbs (slow digesting). For example bread will nearly always be high GI because the yeast has done the digestion for you. Whereas white pasta will be lower, because it takes a long time to digest. Carbs are good, as long as it's the right type of carbs.
People who say they've reversed their diabetes by going low carb haven't reversed it, because it would come right back if they ate carbs. It's like saying I made my arm fireproof by not holding a flame to it. Whereas going high fibre, low fat, low GI will allow you to still eat carbs without sugar spikes.
As I said, look into the work of Neal Barnard, who has reversed type 2 diabetes without cutting carbs and without any other lifestyle changes besides diet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPSvcv8GXk
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