Even if RFK Jr forces Coca Cola and Pepsi to use cane sugar, I'm still going to support the little guys who have been doing it since the beginning.

@xianc78 i don't know anything about this but my new favorite conspiracy theory is the government is going to force you to eat real and healthy food

@icedquinn RFK Jr is right about almost everything related to food, but I feel like people are putting way too much faith in him. There are plenty of alternative food and drinks that don't use seed oils or beet sugars and they aren't that expensive. You don't even need to go to a farmer's market or health food store to buy them, just shop in the outer perimeter of your store. Meijer has a huge selection of cane sugar sodas.

@xianc78 i think the problem here is that line go uppers are obligated to absolute minmaxing society against the bottom line. so it doesn't matter if beet juice causes less diabetes, because beet juice costs more than grinding baby skulls.

There's been a lot of propaganda too that supports waste products being dumped into our food supply. People really believe putting Fluoride salts (industrial waste products) somehow strengthens teeth. I knew one guy who even said it was the cheapest thing we could do for poor kids dental health.

But the trouble is, those people who have been taught to believe the religion of fluoride will not be willing to even entertain the idea they could be wrong, and Orange Fascists + Scratchy Voice Anti-Vaxer supporting the idea that maybe we shouldn't be putting medication directly in the water supply just re-enforces that religious belief that they are the ones who are trying to kill us all ...

@djsumdog @icedquinn @xianc78 with the nonstop lying and fraud coming out of the medical industry, at this point it's worth reconsidering our previously held assumptions of what's safe and effective vs what's a scam at best and dangerous at worst. if they've been fudging the data for the past couple decades, why not the previous few decades too?

@skylar @icedquinn @djsumdog @xianc78 The problem with being skeptical of certain medical practices is that you will inevitability find yourself in the company of crackpots and grifters. There are reasonable things to be wary of in the modern, chemical and microplastic-laden foodscape, for example, but it has a habit of getting lost in the autistic screeching of people who believe in medbeds, raw water, and chugging Ivermectin by the bucketload.

I think SSRIs are in the range of totally worthless to causing way more problems than they're suppose to solve. They should have fallen out of use decades ago.

At the same time, one of my best friends needs an anti-psychotic. One pill allows him to keep a job, keep his friends, be a functional member of society and not have the sheriff called on him. He was off his meds for a few months and it was not a fun time. He fully apologized to everyone; defending nothing of what he did. He remembered doing all of it and felt terrible for being off his gourd.

So yea, I agree. Throwing everything out can be a disaster. We don't have any real informed choice or consent for what does work, why it works and what doesn't.

@djsumdog @icedquinn @skylar @H_A_Copington I think the real solution is to get the right amount of vitamins in. Vitamin B6 + Magnesium can produce serotonin naturally.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33864354/

@xianc78 @djsumdog @icedquinn @skylar @H_A_Copington in terms of magnesium, green vegetables are the best source like lettuce and broccoli.