Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
High doses led to:
☆ 36% drop in carotid plaque area
☆ 21% decrease in carotid intima media thickness Nattokinase acts by being proteolytic – it shreds up certain proteins and:
☆ Improves blood flow (critical for endothelial health)
☆ Prevents blood clotting
☆ Has antioxidant properties ☆ Reduces lipids for an overall cardioprotective effect.
…and artists and plumbers and sparkies and chippies and… …in fact respecting everyone and valuing each for what they are and do is a good way to change the world.
Halloween night. You’re handing out candy. A piece falls. You don’t notice.
I do.
I’m a fox. I eat it. It tastes amazing. My body shuts down.
What Halloween candy does to wildlife:
Chocolate = toxic (theobromine poisoning causes seizures, death)
Xylitol (sugar-free candy) = lethal to canines (foxes, coyotes, dogs)
Wrappers = intestinal blockages
Sugar overload = diabetes, liver failure in wild animals
The Facts:
Halloween is the #1 day for wildlife poisoning incidents
Veterinary ER visits for wild animal ingestion spike 400% Nov 1-3
Even small amounts of chocolate can kill a fox or raccoon
Animals can’t process artificial sweeteners
What happens after Halloween:
Kids drop candy on sidewalks
You throw leftovers in outdoor trash
Wind scatters wrappers into parks and woods
Wildlife eats it
What you should do:
Pick up dropped candy immediately
Secure outdoor trash cans
Don’t dump leftover candy in parks/woods
If you see a sick animal, call wildlife rescue (not animal control)
Your “fun-size” candy bar is a lethal dose for me.
– The Fox Who Ate Your Snickers
Back in the 1970s, Dr. John Yudkin warned that sugar, not saturated fat, was the true dietary villain behind rising rates of heart disease.
His message was buried by the sugar industry and overshadowed by Ancel Keys’ “diet-heart hypothesis,” which blamed butter, eggs, and red meat.
Now, decades later, modern research confirms what Yudkin tried to tell us — that fructose and refined sugars drive metabolic dysfunction:
Insulin resistance
High uric acid and hypertension
Lipid overproduction and inflammation
All of which fuel atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
Despite lower dietary fat and cholesterol intake since the 1970s, heart disease rates haven’t fallen — but our sugar consumption has skyrocketed.
Turns out the problem wasn’t the steak on our plate… it was the sugar in our cup.
Source: Ting KKY. “John Yudkin’s hypothesis: sugar is a major dietary culprit in the development of cardiovascular disease.” Frontiers in Nutrition (2024).
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.” Thomas Jefferson (June 11, 1807) – Principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd, President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
A great reminder of a very good operating basis to have in life.
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And berries should not be consumed with cheese either.
