Health Tips From the American Disease Association

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Go to URL at end for links and photo. Very much my opinion of the

American Dietetic Association. Back when I was diagnosed with

diabetes, I went to a nutrition class given by a nurse connected with

the ADA. I was told to eat a bananaa day for Potassium, and a glass

of orange juice daily to get vitamin C. I asked the nurse about

taking Potassium supplements and a vitamin C tablet instead of banana

and orange juice. She dismissed me out of hand, without giving any

real reasons why.

Alobar

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Health Tips From the American Disease Association

Posted by De Coster on May 9, 2011 07:35 PM

Indeed, I have a fondness for attacking the fraudulent health and

wellness paradigm, especially those omnipotent, quasi-government

organizations that parade around claiming to be America’s health

saviors while they are, in reality, the shameless whores of the

corporate-socialist medical establishment, Big Food, and Big Agra.

Here is my most recent post on the intellectually bankrupt American

Heart Association and their corporatist Big Food-Big Pharma sponsors.

In March, it was National Nutrition Month, a campaign created by the

American Dietetic Association (ADA), perhaps one of the most political

and amoral quasi-governmental arms from Big Government’s food machine.

Some ADA propagandists were invited into my corporate workplace to

share their “healthy tips” with employees. They had a big table set up

by the busy escalator that joins the parking garage to the main

elevator banks, with all kinds of “stuff” (giveaways), so I had to go

check it out. They were handing out flyers spreading this trash: “Eat

Right Nutrition Tips.” Reading the flyers, you note that healthy

snacks in the ADA world include anything low-fat; everything with

cereal (rolling a banana in crushed cereal; in other words, rolling

nature’s fructose in man-made high-fructose corn syrup); bread, a

bagel, dinner rolls, graham crackers, pita bread, or corn tortillas;

processed toaster waffles; marshmallows; modern yogurt (Big Brand cup

of sugar); waffle cones, as long as it’s filled with fruit; processed,

sugar-loaded granola bars; instant oatmeal (sugar on top of sugar),

etc., etc.

If you read the flyer, “25 Healthy Snacks for Kids,” you realize #1)

that Americans are obsessed with turning meals into virtual puerile

games to get children to eat, and #2) why obesity and/or being fat is

no longer remarkable, and why diabetes is accepted as a garden-variety

condition.

Getting back to my visit with the two ADA hacks, was I supposed to not

notice that one of the gals, who was not even thirty years old, was

hyper-inflamed and running 40–50 pounds overweight? Yet she was

advising employees on diet, health, and losing weight? Has it become

too politically incorrect to say that perhaps a professional

“credentialed” consultant needs to look the part and walk the talk?

There were snack giveaways all over the table: everything bread,

grain, fruit candy, granola, sugar, and ‘diabetes-here-I-come.’ The

medical establishment loves diabetes because it makes a lot of very

powerful people wealthy and influential. At this time, I had been on

my way out the door, going to lunch with a colleague — the poor gal

almost had to restrain me before I could dial up a heated debate with

the two vapid airheads peddling misinformation for the ADA. One

“healthy” snack they were peddling was this schlock:

Ingredients: corn syrup sugar, modified corn starch, citric acid,

lactic acid, carnauba wax (a “shiner” that is great for car and shoe

polish, but a bit problematic for the human body), and all the usual

food dyes, etc., etc. Unfortunately, Americans are so saturated with

simpleminded fables about food that are carried out by the Food

Establishment and its government enablers, they actually believe that

these chemical-and-sugar concoctions are “healthy” because they, ahem,

“have no cholesterol or fat.” (See this blogger’s pathetic exultation

over giving her kids “healthy” waxed sugar balls dipped in FD & C Blue

No.1.)

Before I wrap this one up, I want to point to this blog post from Dr.

ny Bowden, who describes the ADA as a group that has “never met a

government policy they didn’t like.” To be sure, the ADA is a sinister

consortium that is very adept at mandating credentials (its own

credentials) in order to keep independent nutritionists and wellness

consultants from dispensing nutrition advice (i.e., blocking superior

competition with unbiased ideas and advice divorced from the

Food-Medical Establishment). Read Dr. Bowden’s entire post on ADA exam

preparation and policy. The ADA is a seriously malignant racket that

gets far too little critical attention. Follow me on

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