We’ve all heard that old school phrase before, “you are what you eat.” Surely somebody’s mother if not your own or a teacher or television character somewhere on down the line in your life must’ve uttered the phrase, “you are what you eat” in your presence , no? But let me ask you something. What in the hell have you been eating? Ya know, I’d actually always known that I had been eating bad for for a long time, I really did. But like an STD, everyone thinks it’s okay to go rough-riding Johnny Bareback with their talan-talans all willy-nilly, thinking it won’t happen to them just before they get burned. Well the same applies after a lifetime of Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, KFC, Burger King, Domino’s, Wendy’s, Popeye’s, Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, 7-Up, Mountain Dew, Snapple, Gatorade, Sobe, Campbell’s, Sara Lee, Cheeto’s, Doritos, Frito’s, Tostito’s, Snickers, Twix, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and M&Ms, supplemented by arsenic infused mass produced factory farmed chicken that’s further complemented by genetically engineered and hormone injected beef and pork, and cheese, cheese, more cheese, and before I forget, cheese whiz. But it will happen to you eventually and probably is already is happening to you currently whether you’ve realized it yet or not. Everything that you are eating is specifically designed to kill you slowly, and slowly but surely indeed it will kill you if you aren’t eating correctly. I know very few people with the personal discipline to take total control of their food intake to ensure that they’re truly eating clean It’s not cheap to eat healthy, but at the end of the day your health is essentially all you’ve really got in this world. It’s your primary asset unless you’re one of those people with the mind that can function beyond the necessity for functional mobility, and still, who wants to be that guy? Nobody I know, surely not me. What is the point of achieving the height of wealth, personal fulfillment, and success, if you won’t live it comfortably in good health? Why get rich or successful at all if all you’re going to end up doing is having a bunch of doctors, pharmacists, and health insurance cartels literally eat you up like a school of hungry piranhas? Ask yourself, is the food that you eat actually eating you from within?

For me, it all started a long time ago when I was bar-tending at an Italian restaurant in Manhattan Beach. I have a certain charm that would magically award me a big piece of tiramisu from the pastry chef almost daily when my back was turned. I had ballooned up to an unforgivable 196lbs, which at just under 5’6″ is more than a little thick. I had heartburn all the time, waking up nightly with stomach acid splashing the lower extremity of my esophagus, eating an unconscionable number of Tums or Rollaids on the regular.  I wanted to lose weight.  Before this job at the restaurant, I worked at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, which was an experience in which a random job saved me from myself only to get myself caught up in shenanigans stemming from my sudden popularity with the local cougar community, but I digress.  I realized at the time that I was a soda addict and that I was drinking more soda than water. I weened myself off of soda by buying Perrier or Pelegrino sparkling water and mixing it in with a splash of cranberry juice cocktail. It took about a month, but that was my first step in weening myself off from my soda addiction.

The USA is under a severe healthcare services affordability crisis right now. Had you ever entertained the notion that perhaps the system is acutely strained with rising costs in everything from visits, to treatments, to tests, to prescriptions, to insurance, to imaging, to even so much as talking to a person live on the telephone, because the American public doesn’t eat actual food? The road to salvation lies within recognizing the fact that this is no accident. If you ever find yourself wondering how to control 300,000,000+ people with access to firearms, just remember that more often than not it’s our vices that kill us in the end.

MORE TO COME!!

Surely by now if you’ve already read more than one of these “health” category blog posts, you would’ve seen the question by now.  Have you asked yourself yet? If not, I’ll ask again.  How do you control 300,000,000+ people with access to firearms?  Well, in the spirit of intellectual honesty, allow me to concede that by no means are there 300,000,000 gun owners.  Only 3% of the population own 1/2 of the 310,000,000+ guns in the USA, and the actual gun-owning population still doesn’t exceed 40% of the US population.  But this is a post, not about gun control nor gun rights, but about controlling a population with unprecedented freedom and liberty among all other nations.  It’s not as difficult as one might assume, probably because any notions of liberty and freedom in the USA being preserved simply because we’re allowed to purchase, own, possess, store, and shoot firearms of numerous varieties from coast to coast plus 2 are naively motivated in false senses of nostalgia over past historical events that the majority of us didn’t participate in or were manipulated or coerced into participation.  But again, I digress, because this actually is a post about health.  My health, your health, the health of your friends and family, the health of the nation, up to and including the people that we may or may not like individually.  The answer to my question is actually in the painting at the top of the page, can you see it? It’s the system that’s staring you right in the face every single day, calling out to you all day long.

NEWSFLASH, it’s not a conspiracy, but at the same time it’s not, not a conspiracy.  It’s been a long standing joke at our home, “if you ever wanted to see what the Anglo American Establishment is up to, just watch television.  They’ll tell you.” If you hadn’t already read my previous essay on how you could apply that joke to real life, >>CLICK HERE << because our television lineup isn’t just national and geopolitical narrative based but also market based.  But let me ask you something, how many times have you seen this commercial on the telly?

To tell you the truth, it’s been my observation and experience that most Americans take their “freedom” and liberty for granted and tend to place limitations on the liberties and freedoms that we really do possess in this country of ours, despite all the politically motivated restrictions, regulations, and self-imposed limitations.  But rather than truly exercise them, Americans mostly limit their freedoms and liberties to the right to all-you-can eat, the right to watch TV as late as they want, and the right to get drunk. Anything beyond that, well after opining about their rights to own firearms to protect themselves and their families from the government, if you ask about marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, or LSD, they’ll remind you that it’s against the law and the law is the law.  But all day long, over and over again, somebody like Larry the Cable Guy might appear on your television (or device) to remind you that in America, we have choice and that freedom of choice is what makes America American.

Immediately after Larry the Cable Guy just told you that America’s awesome, and that you can eat all you want if you just take the little pill, you won’t get heartburn in the first place, what comes on next?  Oh you know this one…

quickly followed by a reminder that your appetite is absolutely insatiable, but if you go to one of their other restaurants, you can eat as much as your growing belly can be stuffed with so that the $21.99 you just blew on that Prilosec OTC that Larry’s jury-rigging cable-thieving ass just sold your fat ass only two commercials ago will come to good use.  So eat all you want, they’ll make more…

What’s more American than apple pie?  Oh that’s right, BEER!  Just what the body needs to go with all them baby back ribs, pasta, and those bread-sticks that Olive Garden’s so famous for.  Interestingly enough, nobody plays the ‘Murica “patriot” card more than the All American King of Beers, Budweiser by Anheuser-Busch InBev

As if it weren’t already bad enough that we’re giving our children immune system compromising and mucus making milk in this country, which is only supposed to be consumed by baby cows, incidentally.  Why not feed your developing child some behavior modifying and immeasurably addictive sugar with some equally addictive added chocolate which was ironically was harvested by enslaved children, to further make parenting easy?  Here, check it out!

No, you’re not fat, you’re just big boned.  Here, have some of this deliciousness from the actual “#1 Mexican restaurant in America”, just watch what they’ve got in store for you!

I could go on and on, but ultimately all these commercials lead right here.  You can deny it if you wanna try it, but just like all roads lead to Rome, all roads lead to your ultimate enslavement to the system, their system. It’s all about control.  When I repetitively asked, “how do you control 300,000,000+ people with access to firearms?”, I’m hoping that by now you’ve figured out that this is pretty much precisely it.  These are the chains that you simply do not see in a system of control that offers unprecedented freedom and an illusion of security. But there is no security and all security systems were nothing more than systematically normalized systems of coercion that we didn’t notice because we were too busy looking for other bogeymen that we failed to notice that those systems of surveillance and control weren’t put into place to protect us from terrorists but to protect the controllers from us.

I don’t propose that I have all the answers, but one thing’s for sure.  Their system of control is pretty much based on turning Americans into livestock by making them fat, sick, tired, lazy, fidgety, drunk, and broke or just two paychecks from ruin at all times.  There’s a reason individual health insurance coverage that offers right and proper protection is more than your rent or mortgage. Just like there’s a reason that you have no choice but to sell out any and all hopes and dreams to the slave and grind of a 9 to 5 at a big company with great health insurance, as opposed to being able to purchase great insurance at an affordable rate.  It’s about control, and your physical health is their hostage, the chains that you cannot see.