COVID – A Wakeup Call for Our Love of Mac and Cheese


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And where are those who are supposed to question authority for us—the journalists? Many of them clearly do not know enough about physiology or nutrition to be reporting on this event. (Ditto for the social media censors.) They depend on mainstream medicine and press releases for information. For example, a 2015 press release that got a lot of headlines was about a small study that said corn oil lowers cholesterol. It was funded in large part by ACH Food Companies, Inc., manufacturer of Mazola® corn oil. Big Food has a long track record of marketing their products through financial partnerships with nutrition groups. It is a clear conflict of interest, but the practice is longstanding and successful. It keeps the public and the media confused. Reporters who might know to look first at the funding to distinguish between a sales pitch and an objective study are usually crippled by the fact that their advertising bread and butter comes from ads for bad-for-you foods and pharmaceuticals. Media outlets won’t stay in business if they bite the hand that feeds them.

Neither the CDC, nor the WHO, nor any other mainstream authority is telling us to eat a nutrient-rich diet to stop feeding chronic illness and protect ourselves against COVID-19. Unlike the warnings given to us now about smoking, we are not discouraged from drinking sodas or eating processed foods. There is no official advice to supply ourselves with basic nutrients the immune system needs like zinc paired with quercetin (quercetin is a plant extract that does what hydroxychloroquine does – drives the big zinc molecule into the cell), and vitamins C and D.

The Dr. Rath Health Foundation would add more nutrients to the list: the amino acids lysine, proline, and arginine; green tea extract; the phytonutrients resveratrol and curcumin; cruciferous vegetable extracts; the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine; and the minerals selenium, copper, and manganese.


Empower Yourself

Children born today are expected to live shorter, sicker lives than their parents and diet is mostly to blame for that. Doctors cannot fix what ails us in their offices. A new drug isn’t going to be the fix. The next fad diet isn’t going to be the fix. We have to end our addictions to sugar and processed food. It’s time to pay attention to the fuel we put in our bodies. Food is the fix. Food is information for our genes. Food is medicine.

It seems we are going to have to learn to live with this virus. We got lucky this time, in that SARS-CoV-2 is far less deadly than initially feared. But what’s next? Gain-of-function studies that make pathogens more deadly continue. Scientists who study the transmission of new viruses from animals to humans have been warning us about diseases like COVID. They expect there will be more frequent transmissions of viruses from animals to humans as we humans continue to move into new territories and the climate continues to change the world landscape, causing some animals to shift their geography and increase their level of contact with humans.

This is survival of the healthiest, the most resilient. Are you ready?


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Mary Budinger, NTP, is a certified nutritional therapist and an Emmy award-winning journalist in Phoenix who writes about nutrition and integrative medicine. She is the creator of www.OriginalFoodFix.com. 602-494-1999

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