What Is Causing The Major Decline In U.S. Health? � .....and slipping fast

"Based on the research and information I have on July 06 the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright � 2006

"Something is rotten in Denmark".....old saying that means we need to look into what is going on here.....

Diabetes went from one-tenth of one percent of the U.S. population to now over 20 percent.

Heart disease went from being almost non-existent at the turn of this century to killing more than 750,000 people a year.

During the same time, health care costs have risen until the U.S. now spends twice as much on medical care per person per year than any other industrialized nation in the world.

Most shocking is that the U.S. has now slipped to 49th, (up from 5th in 1950) in industrial nations IN life expectancy. At the present rate of increase of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and these other "modern man" disease that are already double in the United States, the rate of decline in life expectancy odds in United States, projections suggest that those of us over 50 could be the first generation since the turn of the 20th century to have a shorter life span than our parents,"

Obviously something is going on in the U.S. affecting overall health and clearly what we are doing attempting to fix it is not working.

Our country is very similar to England, and just released figures show we have nearly twice the death rate here for cancer and diabetes and most other diseases as England while spending twice as much on medical care.

Government Economic Meddling Is Indirectly Ruining Our Health.

When the government meddles in what is normal economic free enterprise by drastically distorting the price of commodities over a long period of time, it has very significant effects in what goes on, and in this case it affects the country's overall health drastically.

The Government Meddling In The Free Economy Causes This Major Health Screw Up.

What happens here is a result of a farm subsidy that causes the free market price to be way out of the ordinary which in turn results in major changes over a long period of time in the business economy that in turn is resulting in the health decline in the U.S.

The Villain Is Artificially "Cheap Corn"

During the depression and World War II when I was growing up on the farm, corn sold for around $1.00 a bushel. Currently corn is selling in the $2.25 range and sometimes below $2.

This is far below the cost of production but that is what corn users pay for it.

The difference resulting in a corn glut, is the $1.70 to $2.06 subsidy the U.S. Ag department pays directly to farmers to produce corn. This is a political distortion in the American free trade system that causes many other problems.

The corn to alcohol program with this subsidy and using 1.2 gallons of petroleum to produce the nitrogen to grow one bushel of corn results in a negative effect costing tax payers over $7 for each gallon of petroleum replaced with alcohol made from corn.

How Cheap Corn Is Ruining Your Health.

High Fructose Corn Syrup (Define)is made by fermenting corn to a starch and processing it to a new form of sweetener that as a result of cheap corn can undersell and does undersell sugar by 20%. Therefore nearly 100% of the pop makers have switched from sugar to High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Cookies, crackers, nearly everything you eat normally made with standard cane or beet sugar have switched or are switching to High Fructose Corn Syrup because it is cheaper and can be purchased far under the cost of sugar because of the "subsidized cheap corn", � it is made from.

The Average Person In U.S. Now Eats 88 Pounds A Year.

Unbeknown to the general public, High Fructose Corn Syrup is not handled by your body like sugar is handled and causes a whole new set of health problems. Including contributing to the diabetes epidemic.

If It Were Not For "Corn Politics" High Fructose Corn Syrup Would Likely Be Banned As A Health Hazard.

We refer you to other articles and studies on the dangers to your health of eating foods containing High Fructose Corn Syrup.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is not allowed in Mexico and many other nations and is peculiar particularly to the United States.

If you are looking for what makes the difference in U.S. and the decline in health here then from other industrialized nations, High Fructose Corn Syrup stands out like a neon sign.

To Fully Understand The Major Affect Cheap Corn Has On Your Health, Let's Look At What Has Happened As A Result Down On The Farm

Government Distorted American Agricultural And The Resulting Economy of the Food System Changes Are Killing Us.

The medical profession is not helping with their "chemical solutions" and are mostly "adding to the problem" but that is another story for another day.

Now, first my qualifications to understand from an insider's view what has happened to "Midwest" American agriculture that is killing us.

I was raised and worked on a farm for my first 17 years.

My family's farm and my wife's family farms were both handed down from Grandparents and great Grandparents.

My farm interests have been disposed of.

My wife and her brother still rent out their Iowa farm interests and share in the farming project ongoing with the tenant.

Next qualification, for a few short years I researched, wrote and published a Midwest farm newspaper, which was discontinued before I started the Diabetes publication.

That is all background for what I am telling you now, in a lengthy article that I think you need to know to understand what has happened to your food supply source and what has gone wrong and maybe how you can take immediate steps to fix its affect on your life.  (In time to matter)

Yes, The Villain Here Is "Cheap Corn".

Corn is now "everywhere" in the Midwest.

Every little piece of land that used to be used for raising grass fed livestock and other crops now is either planted in subsidized corn or soybeans.

We used to rotate crops between grain, hay, corn, pasture etc.  So one fourth of your farm was corn. Next year in order to get a crop again and your land recoup you moved (rotated) the crops from field to field.

You had fences and your livestock was rotated field to field and fertilized the land it was running on.

Your livestock feeding yards manure was spread (hauled out to) on your fields to replenish the nitrogen so you got a good crop another year.

You basically could grow corn on about one fourth of your farm if you rotated it yearly.

Artificial Nitrogen.  Enter The Scene.

A German inventor in the 30's figured out how to manufacture "nitrogen" from petroleum. No longer dependant on "livestock manure" or natural nitrogen regeneration, for essential nitrogen, agriculture was set to be changed.

The Artificial Nitrogen Industry Geared Up Production During World War II.

It was the key to making explosives and after the war, this huge Nitrogen Industry switched the production to selling it to farmers.

Now, you could apply all the Nitrogen you needed to max out your corn crop. Instead of 100 bushels to the acre, now 200 bushels per acre became common place.

Not only that, you no longer needed to rotate your crops, you could put corn in the same field (or your entire farm) year after year. To increase production you used large quantities of nitrogen produced from petroleum, massive herbicides and insecticides.

Soon, with the increased bushels per acreage and the increased acreage devoted to corn there was such a glut of corn the bottom started to fall out of the price.

The farmers made up for it by doubling and tripling the quantity of production to stay in business.

Soon, complicated politics got further involved and government, in order to get the farm vote now roughly subsidizes corn production around $2 per bushel.

It costs the average farmer about $2.75 out of pocket to produce.

Corn sells on the market for around $2.25 a bushel, currently to the livestock factory farmer or other buyers such as the high fructose corn syrup factory etc.

The government subsidy of around $1.70 to $2.06 per bushel to the crop raising farmer directly varies by years and state etc.

The farmer has to pay his expenses, machinery, insurance, land and taxes out of the roughly $4 total he receives including the subsidy.

He can not switch or rotate acres for other crops even temporarily or he will lose his right to a "corn" subsidy.

This continued corn year after year is a drain on and is very harmful to his soil.

When I was growing up the average farm was 250 acres or so. During the war, half the farmers in my county left, and bigger machinery made it possible for one farmer to plant and harvest 500 acres.

He was still making a living but after the war, to be competitive with his margin dropping and to stay in business he had to farm 1000 acres by renting his neighbors that retired.

Today, most have dropped all livestock, fences, crop rotation etc to stay in farming after taking over the 1000 acre farm next door, now find with huge machinery and overhead he has to farm 2000 acres or more.

His margin is smaller and smaller, he needs several hundred thousand dollars of investment in machinery, facilities, etc and this 2000 acres of intensive "corn and soybeans" farming or he goes out of business.

He has no alternative, he must farm subsidized corn and soybeans every year or he will lose his right to the "subsidy".

Now You Know Why Corn Is Cheap.

When I was growing up corn was $1.00 or more per bushel. Now 70 years later it is slightly over $2.00 per bushel. The corn farmer stays in business with artificial nitrogen and huge harvests and pennies per bushel margins and a government subsidy. (It takes 1.2 gallons of petroleum to produce the nitrogen etc to raise 1 bushel of corn)

How This Cheap Corn Affects Your Health -

It affects the meat you eat drastically. The meat has so changed, IT IS KILLING YOU.

Remember those fields of one fourth of the farm was hay and grazing, one fourth grain, one fourth corn etc., to replenish the nitrogen naturally and the land could be rotated back to corn once every three or four years.

A large part of the farmers' income was raising livestock. He usually had 50 pigs, 20 to 50 head of cattle, chickens etc., and he raised hay and grazed his livestock (ate grass) as well as finished fattening them for market with his corn and other grain.

Now, as I travel the six states of the Midwest covered by my business, I see almost none of that.

Silos sit empty, the family owned farm feed lots are empty.

The little buildings scattered over acreage some used for each sow and her pigs all sit empty. Have not seen one occupied in 5 years.

It is very rare to pass a family farm now with any "Livestock". A few with fields too hilly for corn crops still graze a few cattle, but even that is dying.

Meat Production Is Now Factory Produced.

My guess is 90% plus percent of meat production is now factory produced.

When you travel the Midwest now you see huge long metal buildings, often out in a field.

Most in my area are "a huge pig factory". The mother sow is confined indoors her whole life in a six foot pen.

As soon as her litter of pigs is big enough to switch to a feed trough, she is rebred, they are taken from her and moved down the production line and are fed antibiotics, growth hormones and whatever it takes to get them to add pounds quickly.

Their basic diet is "cheap corn".

These pigs grow up never able to run, never go outside, are crowded together and never exposed to the sun.

They are confined so close they never exercise or develop muscle. They become a special fat flabby flesh that is sold to you as "as juicy tender meat".

Hormones and essentially forced feeding get them to market in half the time. Quantities of Antibiotics keep them alive in conditions and food they were never meant for and would not stay alive otherwise.

Chickens and turkeys are raised in similar factories and walk on wire.

They are packed so tight they can not run or fly. They never see the sun, scratch the soil or taste grass.

They are raised on basically (guess what) "cheap corn".

They are fed antibiotics and growth hormones. It is almost impossible for you to find chicken or turkey that is not raised this way.

Eggs are produced by chickens raised the same way.

However, you can now, in some super markets buy eggs at 3 times the price that are free range chicken produced. (up to 20 times the Omega 3 content)

Next � Your Factory Produced Beef �

We won't get into veal production where the calf is inhumanely confined so tightly and never allowed to hardly ever even walk or move.

Here we are talking about calves raised on mothers milk and range grass and taken from their mothers and grass at the earliest moment to learn to eat from a feed lot trough. (cheap corn � of course even though this animal was designed to live and grow on forage)

In my grandfathers day it was 4 years old at slaughter time. My dad sent them to market at 2 or 3 years.

Today the "beef factory" sends them to slaughter at a huge 1400 pounds in just 14 months.

It takes large amounts of antibiotics in their feed to keep them alive in these crowded cattle yard conditions eating this type of food.

Now often fed together in feeding factories with up to 10,000 cattle at one location.

Usually in climates ideal for weight gain, $1.50 worth of growth hormone in the ear, adds 40 to 50 pounds of weight and is often the difference between profit and loss on the animal.

The corn consumed to raise this animal from 80 to 1400 pounds took 280 gallons of petroleum to produce the production nitrogen to grow the corn etc.

This ruminant beef factory runs not on the traditional Midwest "farm sunshine", it runs on and is totally dependant on "fossil fuel" from the far east.

This meat is not the same meat you got just a few years ago from a forage fed animal.

Even searching several super markets today, you will find it very difficult to find anywhere, beef from "grazing" animals raised that way all thru life.

These "factory fed" animals are not allowed to exercise or move to any extent and wind up with meat that is bulked up, merely converting the corn into saturated fat. (Primarily corn, you do not even want to know what else they are fed)

• Non-grain range fed animals meat will have 10 percent or less saturated fat.


• Corn fed factory raised with hormones will have well over 50 percent saturated fat.


• Range grass fed animals will be high in offsetting omega-3 oils.


• Grain fed, almost zero.


• Range grass fed animals produce very little saturated fat and wild animals almost none, and was almost unknown to hunter gatherer caveman types which is your type of body.


• Grass fed animal products are rich in all the fats now proven to be health-enhancing.




• Grass fed are low in the fats that have been linked with disease.


• Saturated fat is basically a "Modern Man" agriculture development.


• Massive saturated fat from "corn fed" factory raised no run no fly meat is a development of the last 25 years.

Ten years ago most of the U.S. meat was already produced this way, and the public has been unaware, it is now approaching 100% at many super markets.

Saturated fats in the flesh (meat) of grain fed animals are nothing more than second hand carbohydrates.

That factory fed animal was not designed by nature to handle these grains and starch any more or any better than your body is.

Since corn is artificially cheap and cost per pound of weight gain lowest from corn, when animals sicken from not being able to handle that high a percentage of corn, (starch) feeders add in chemicals, antibiotics and most anything nearly free to add fiber to dilute the corn ratio such as chicken feathers, cardboard, and even chicken manure are fed along with the corn.

Feed lot "factory beef" at slaughter are reported to have over 10% with abscessed livers.

What they ate, result, is what you eat as a U.S. meat market patron.

In ten thousand years of the raising of grain as food, (agriculture) apparently animals bodies have not adjusted to a grain diet any better than man.

Grass fed meat and dairy products have the much higher ratios of Vitamin E, and most important, CLA, an acid anti cancer growth element that many take as a supplement and is found naturally in quantity in grass fed meats and dairy products, not in quantity in grain fed.

Look at the rise in modern man diseases such as cancer and diabetes primarily in the U.S. The graph of rises in these diseases will parallel the rise in a graph of percentage of grain fed meats only in the U.S.

There are now essentially NO grass fed meats in the average meat market today.

Were you aware of the change? You are now....

This information article, is to educate you about a big change in your source of meat. This meat source change is a radical change in fat input, that has drastic affects and may be a huge contributor to your diabetes and overall health change. No one else has told you this plainly.  Tell your friends to read this. You won't see it anywhere else.

Europe and England have not had this big change, primarily because they do not have this huge corn surplus and 50% of the cost "corn subsidy" and resulting "cheap corn". Therefore, most of these meats are still produced traditionally (grass fed) in England and Europe.

They have half the rate of heart, diabetes and other modern man disease increases.

Remember, they are spending less than half what U.S. citizens are spending on health care and 17 of these poorer countries have a longer life expectancy than you do in the U.S.

Does this say "wake up" to you?

Does this corn glut explain why the politics of the corn surpluses clarify for you why the government is doing nothing and wont touch High Fructose Corn syrup affecting our health or what has happened to our meat?

The U.S. change in Saturated Omega 6 fats ratio and High Fructose Corn syrup, (in addition to trans fats, vegetable fats and other man made additives such as MSG

There WILL BE NO CHANGE UNLESS YOU MAKE IT.......

Our advice, cut them from your diet totally, no keeping track of percentage amounts etc., trying to out smart the system.

ELIMINATE these meats, and the above mentioned problem inputs totally from your diet, NOW.

Your health does not have time for this to all be sorted out definitively.

Your health does not have time to wait for the correct answer.

We have advised in the past if it does not rot, spoil, or decay, do not buy it.

If the meat product did not run, swim, or fly growing to maturity � do not buy it.

Also avoid farm raised fish, which is another story.

I believe the fat of the type you get with grain fed (corn) and no exercise by the animal, such as wire raised hormone (corn) fed chickens should be avoided.

Experts will tell you with the present meat you are eating your ratio is 20 Omega 6 fats from grain or better to 1 Omega three.

Ideally they agree, you should be balanced as caveman was, 1 for 1.

My advice, cut grain fed meats out of your diet, period.  It is the best you can do other than to eliminate meat.

Forget Keeping Track.

Pay the extra for eggs range grown, high in Omega 3 etc. Pay the extra for range fed anything.

Buy Grass Fed...beef, lamb, chicken, etc., it is available.  Also Buffalo, Elk, Ostrich, Emu etc.
Pay the price.

Often since you are buying unprocessed other foods etc., your food bill will still be lower than when you were buying worthless food value things like soft drinks etc., lower your meat expense by lowering the amount, of the input, that is likely a good idea anyway.

These new "modern man" changes we have been pointing out to you are not working for your maximum health.

The hand writing is on the wall.

As fast as you can, get back to what we both know works.

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