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I just talked to a friend of mine, a nurse. She actually leads "healthier living" groups at a VA hospital, trying to help people eat healthier and get more exercise.
She was pretty skeptical about the changes. "Whole fat milk!", scary!
Yes, we've had the carnivore discussion. I don't engage on that topic anymore.
I think ESPECIALLY if people work in health care - unless they're skeptical, open-minded and curious - they've had 50 years of propaganda telling them that whole milk, meat, butter, etc, are unhealthy. They're not going to turn on a dime, or indeed ever.
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To me, the best thing about RFK being in this position is that now people that vote Democrat are questioning the health advise handed out by a monopoly and deeply flawed system of health over-sight.
The people should not be listening to some politically appointed doctors (compromised at that) telling them what to do. It should be a market and competition based system where no one entity makes decisions for the nation.
It wouldn't be perfect but this monopoly approach has massive problems. Problems that RFK has discussed for years. But since RFK is a democrat he thinks the best action is to take over the institution instead of destroy it.
Sometimes I feel like we learned nothing from Covid. We still have all the same government systems that were able to lock down trade and free movement. Virtually no one gets that the root issue is centralize power and trust in authorities.
Even those that seem to get it don't really seem to get that if a local health department can shut down a business... they can shut all of them down...
Voting doesn't fix this. We live in a time where we already have competing ways of keeping companies responsible that are far faster acting than these old systems. But since most people don't understand market forces and have this religious belief in the state and democracy they just fall for the same trap.
I'm glad the food recommendations are better but the root issue is that we have an FDA/CDC. They should be competing with alternatives and held to account by everyone. Not politicians who sell the positions for support. Not by companies who buy their approvals.