Alan Zweibel

Where did I claim to be an expert? Another stupid loaded question from you.

The Japanese also consume a lot fewer calories than do Americans.

Yes. Doctors don't get enough training in helping patients live healthier lives.. That doesn't mean that the deficit should be filled by information peddled on youtube.

Were those the youtube videos you linked to? If so, is that your idea of scientific evidence?

How did you come up with that notion?

Safer and easier to buy bonds from a country that isn't headed by a rampaging ignoramus.

He congratulated a restaurant chain for using beef fat to make its French fries.

Actually, it's pretty tightly controlled and banned in some places: Country-specific examples Countries with controlled availability Denmark, Finland, and Sweden: Shops are not permitted to sell raw milk. All three countries allow limited "barn door" sales, but under strict controls. England, Wales, and Northern Ireland: Raw milk can be sold directly to consumers on farms or at farmers' markets but is illegal to sell in shops. All bottles must include a health warning. France: Raw milk and raw milk cheeses are common. However, reports suggest that retail sales of raw fluid milk are rare, with many consumers buying directly from farms. Germany: Packaged raw milk, known as "Vorzugsmilch," is available in some stores under stringent quality restrictions. Unpackaged raw milk can only be sold directly from the farm where it was produced, with a label advising it be boiled. Ireland: Since 2015, raw milk production and sale have been regulated and are legal, provided farmers meet registration, inspection, and sampling requirements. Countries with bans or stricter limits Scotland: The sale of raw cow's milk for direct consumption has been banned since 1983. Spain: Following concerns in 2020, regulations were tightened to require stricter hygiene and quality controls for direct farm sales of raw cow's milk.

French fries are harmful to one's health no matter what they're fried in. You need to be educated.

Just like in the Old South and South Africa where black people would be singled out for discrimination sometimes for as long as a few months. Got any more ridiculous comparisons to share with us?

You just don't get it. The problem isn't with educating doctors in proper nutrition. The problem is with Jr.'s notions of what proper nutrition consists of such as french fries fried in beef fat.

As does the increasing consumption of food, the rising consumption of ultraprocessed food, the increasing use of antibiotics, anti-depressants and steroids, increased engagement with the internet etc. . Correlation is not the same as causation.

Clearly you don't understand that herd immunity can be acquired 2 ways: by surviving a disease or by getting vaccinated. Studies show that more that once Covid vaccines were introduced in the USA, the death rate in the USA diverges. Rates were higher where opposition to the vaccination was higher.

Had you bothered to read the article, you would know that it's a matter of cost effectiveness. Maybe a gold plated drone made in the USA but China and Ukraine produce mass amounts of cheap drones that can destroy military multimillion dollar military materiel. From the article: "Most significantly, after watching Ukrainians destroy Russian tanks and strategic aircraft with armed drones, Hegseth said drones should now be treated like munitions — cheap, expendable and mass produceable — and not like a new, expensive aircraft, development of which can take years longer to get through Pentagon red tape."

More nonsense. ‘Crisis brewing’ in Trump Country as hospitals shutter at alarming rate, top ER doc warns The study from the Arlington nonprofit research institute found that emergency rooms (ERs) are no longer the safety net but the proverbial "front door" to the U.S. healthcare system, particularly after a 1986 law passed requiring ERs to stabilize patients or deliver babies from women in labor regardless of their ability to pay. That has led to instability and hospital closures across the heartland, including in states where a dozen or more have closed, like Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. States like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and Alabama have also been affected... Nearly $5.9 billion in emergency services go unpaid every year, the study found. Overcrowding and spates of violence towards staff have exacerbated the problem. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-brewing-trump-country-hospitals-shutter-alarming-rate-top-er-doc-warns

Medi-Cal. Not Medicaid.

More nonsense. ‘Crisis brewing’ in Trump Country as hospitals shutter at alarming rate, top ER doc warns The study from the Arlington nonprofit research institute found that emergency rooms (ERs) are no longer the safety net but the proverbial "front door" to the U.S. healthcare system, particularly after a 1986 law passed requiring ERs to stabilize patients or deliver babies from women in labor regardless of their ability to pay. That has led to instability and hospital closures across the heartland, including in states where a dozen or more have closed, like Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. States like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and Alabama have also been affected... Nearly $5.9 billion in emergency services go unpaid every year, the study found. Overcrowding and spates of violence towards staff have exacerbated the problem. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/crisis-brewing-trump-country-hospitals-shutter-alarming-rate-top-er-doc-warns

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures Private insurers often require a cumbersome review process that frequently results in the denial or delay of essential treatments that are readily covered by traditional Medicare. This practice, known as prior authorization, has drawn public scrutiny, which intensified after the murder of a United Healthcare executive last December... The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to begin a pilot program that would involve a similar review process for traditional Medicare, the federal insurance program for people 65 and older as well as for many younger people with disabilities. https://archive.ph/fC2wh#selection-685.0-689.178 One of the reasons that people choose traditional Medicare is to avoid the pre-approval process. Now seniors are getting screwed over. Should make a good issue for the Democrats in the midterms.

And it looks like that America's obesity problem is related more to the fact that Americans just consume too many calories Title: Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Publication Date: July 14, 2025 Economic development is associated with increased prevalence of obesity and related health problems, but the relative importance of increased caloric intake and reduced energy expenditure remains unresolved. We show that daily energy expenditures are greater in developed populations, and activity energy expenditures are not reduced in more industrialized populations, challenging the hypothesis that decreased physical activity contributes to rises in obesity with economic development. Instead, our results suggest that dietary intake plays a far greater role than reduced expenditure in the elevated prevalence of obesity associated with economic development. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420902122?utm_source=chatgpt.com So not just what Americans consume, but how much they consume on average. Let's see if Kennedy stands up against the food industry which is constantly devising ways to get Americans to eat more.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and posit that RFK's guidelines won't be referencing the sources I've cited above. Not so sure that he won't be using youtube sources insteadd.

lI's laughable that your idea of valid evidence consists of youtube videos. The following comes from real research. And red meat consumption isn't limited to an increased risk of cancer: Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat fewer servings, and the risk increases with greater consumption, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. They also found that replacing red meat with healthy plant-based protein sources, such as nuts and legumes, or modest amounts of dairy foods, was associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/red-meat-consumption-associated-with-increased-type-2-diabetes-risk/

Those aren't synthetic fats. Thos are flavoring. If you fry garlic in olive oil, does that make the olive oil synthetic?

And, of course, overall, red meat has been found to have very strong carcinogenic effects: The association between red meat consumption and cancer risk remains a controversy. In this study, we systematically collected and analyzed global data (from Our World in Data and Global Cancer Observatory) to investigate this association for the first time. Our results confirmed significant positive associations between red meat consumption (RMC) and overall cancer incidence (0.798, p < 0.001), or colorectal cancer incidence (0.625, p < 0.001). Several previously unreported cancer types linked to RMC were also unveiled. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita were found to have an impact on this association. However, even after controlling it, RMC remained significantly associated with cancer incidence (0.463, p < 0.001; 0.592, p < 0.001). Meanwhile, after controlling GDP per capita, the correlation coefficients between white meat consumption and overall cancer incidence were found to be much lower and insignificant, at 0.089 (p = 0.288) for poultry consumption and at −0.055 (p = 0.514) for seafood and fish consumption. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10670314/

What synthetic fats is McDonald's using to fry its fries? Also, while it seems to be true that stearic acid has anti-cancer properties, it's also true that the fat in red meat contains even more oleic acid. Oleic acid has been found to neutralize the anti-cancer effects of stearic acid. https://www.nature.com/articles/s12276-024-01356-2

Not just gumption but ignorance, too. JFK recommends eating french fries fried in beef fat.