Telecon with Mike from Slough: Health and the Sardine Saga

Hello, Mike from Slough. What have you got for me?

I'm absolutely livid. I'm absolutely livid, Brian and all the UK Column listeners, food.

Actually, we're actually getting our plants pulled down when it comes to prices, for no real reason.

You, just let me come in. You have, over the last couple of years, you've really been paying

attention to health and food. Oh, yeah. I mean, a few years ago, I sort of reconcocted

my diet and cut out all anything with seed oils in other words, processed foods. And there's lots of

things that you think are healthy. I've got seed oils, grape seed oil, palm oils, all these types of

things, vegetable oils. They're all, like, anyone can go on YouTube. I want poor people with them,

anyone can go on YouTube. And the way these have made industrial type food production,

they're all in flammatory to the body. They're not good for you. So basically, I reengineered

to diet, kept away from wherever possible, anything with seed oils in any processed foods,

which, you know, everyone knows that the more processes the food goes through, the kind of

worse it is for you. Even the BBC has done programs on this. It's, you know, it's not really

up for debate anymore. So I've basically trying to go back to basics of what the mum used to cook me.

Right. When we were all seed. Yeah. And all of my old school photos,

when our good old mum used to do the cooking back in the, you know, the 60s and 70s, we're all

sick thin, because they see a, but real butter, real meat, a little bit of edge, but everything was

meat and two veg, you know, it was quite annoying, but that's what we used to eat. And my mum used to

go down to the butcher shop, you know, a couple of times a week, we had to stews, weren't that very

well-op, but meat was very, very affordable in those days. I mean, it was just the norm.

And we were all a lot healthier for it. We just dig out your old school photos and you'll see

there's the evidence. Nobody was overweight. I mean, we weren't doing serious amounts of exercise.

We were just doing 12 ounce of it. I mean, most of us used to Skype when we used to do the

cost-country on light-hide. I mean, sorry, well, yeah, 15, you know, we were just normal foods.

Yeah. So what food have you been looking at recently?

Well, a couple of things. Now I've got these, what I've noticed, and I've read some reports.

What I've noticed recently, two reports, that were going around, I think, and it was covered

by the times photograph, all the people. These people on these suppressants, these American

drugs where, you know, they're all losing weight. Now, because, basically, there's appetite

being suppressed, and there's a stack of other side effects that go with it. I won't name

the brands. If everyone knows who the brands are, and in fact, there was a similar type of

brand that made a couple of years ago that was told from the market in America, because they had

so many suicides, but moving it back to today. So these appetite suppressants, so everyone's on

now. They lose tons of weight, and, you know, we all know their muscles are wasting away as well.

But what's it, what it's also doing is, because they're eating smaller, being advised to eat

better as well, they're basically eating, going back to nutrient dense foods, which, you know,

meat, steaks, eggs, all these sorts of things. So I'm eating now and lots of other people are,

and we're, you know, we've been getting better for it, and prices are going to be jacked up there.

But also, you know, basics like sardine, other people are going to laugh, but, you know, I like

sardines, they're super food. Sardines in water or olive oil, not the awful ones in all the sources,

they've got all the grape seed oils and the seed oils. And I brought quite a few things back in

October, November from a well-known store at 65p. And I've just gone back in there and they've

gone up to a pound. Yeah, that's a massive increase.

Now, the ones in the olive oil went up to a pound a while ago, and I can understand why,

because olive oil has gone up. But I mean, this is just pure exploitation.

And people on low incomes, and there's a lot of them, and I know a lot of people, and I've been

advising a lot of people to get, you know, eat more nutrients than foods, and you can't get much

more basic than sardines. And I think a lot of these shops have come down to it. See, there's a lot

of influences that have been going on for a couple of years now about low-carb diets, superfoods,

like eggs, you know, if you can afford organic, not everyone can, but that one's grass-fed beef

down the other. Which, a few years ago, it was affordable. People do. And now, people are being

rinsed, the prices, all these healthy foods. And it's very, very difficult now, you know, people

with a cost of living, prices and everything. The foods are going up, up and up. I'm just so fed up

with it, sweet, honest. Yeah, and of course, of course, British farmers are being hit left

right and centre, so that the amount of produce from British farms homegrown is dropping.

Yeah, well, 6,300 when closed. Right, now, there were a few of those that were probably

looking to go anyway, but 6,300 over that, plus the awful suicides that took place

over the stress. And there's no getting out of that one. That decision to

hammer the farmers was a result of these people taking their lives, you know, our thoughts go

out to all their families on that, surrenders. There were, obviously, in every few farms that

go under, but you do now, I mean, some farmers can make more of my hate just doing YouTube channels.

And putting some of the panels on, yes, to try that. Pick up local papers. And every few weeks,

local groups are complaining about solar farms on farmland that should be feeding us.

Yeah, so I mean, I'm just fed up with it because there's a lot of people on low incomes who

are looking to eat healthily in health right. And, you know, and I know myself and a lot of

other people, we're looking to eat healthy. I'll get back to the basics, you know, just with

eggs and, you know, a little bit of meat, decent fish. And we're just being covered all the

time, mate, all the time, and nobody seems to care. Well, for me, it's always been deliberately,

sorry, for me, it has always been a deliberate policy to destroy the health of the nation

by junk food. I think it's not just corporate, well, corporate greed, of course, is a huge part of it,

but the fact it's tolerated, well, indeed, encouraged by the government, says that their objective is

to destroy the health of the nation. They know what they're doing.

If you think sugar does to your teeth, and I've got fillings to demonstrate here,

imagine what it does to your liver and your organs over years. If it rocks your teeth away,

it does to your liver and your organs over years. If it rocks your teeth away.

Yes, I imagine it does to your organs. Yeah, I mean, it's one of the, one of the hazards of our

generation that has youngsters and, in particular, the government is, you know, it doesn't seem to be,

and this is the previous government as well. They were doing rewilding and shutting the farms down

as well, but the ministers don't want to keep people out of hospital. Well, no.

And America's caught on, because on their food pyramid now, it's totally reversed, and they've

got, like, meat and eggs and things like that at the top of their food pyramid.

Yes, whereas we seem to be, you know, lagging behind, but we've got the means over here to produce

healthy food for everyone, and they seem to be wanting to shut everything down.

Yeah, and I think this is deliberate. I'm sure it is.

No, no, it's definitely deliberate. I mean, it's death by a thousand cuts.

Yeah. So, death by a thousand cuts. So, Mike, if we end on a positive note, what's your

recommendation for people listening in if they, if they're not yet thinking about their diet?

What would you encourage them to do? Well, go back to avocados are still reasonably cheap.

That's a good one, and now that it fills you up, the thing is that it's, if you eat healthy fats,

you don't get so hungry. So, you're not, you're not really looking for that next, like, fix

in between meals. So, try not to eat between meals. One, if you can do a little bit of fasting,

good. Best way to do it is, obviously, you have it meals earlier at night,

five, six, and then when you wake up, seven, eight, or six, seven, eight, you've already done 12,

13, 14 hours fast already, and you're burning, you know, you want to get into a state where you're

not burning sugar all the time, you want to be burning a little bit of fat. So, back to what,

you know, what are moms and dads used to eat, you know, good old proper butter, not the fake

seed oil type, looks like butter, you know, the good old fashioned butter, you know, cooking with

a little bit of that with proper olive oils, duck fat, you know, those types of things, you know,

to just basically look at what, you know, what we used to eat as kids, a little bit more meat,

unless the carbohydrate sort of mush and the least ingredients, the better. Yeah,

that's really good, and of course, there are some really excellent and well-informed videos

about this, and so people should do their own research first, but yes, what you're talking about,

certainly the UK column team is into this now, and I can say that over the last year,

it's made quite a difference to several of us, so it's great.

And as the evidence, at any bar of our age, the old coach is Brian, you know, I know you're not

that old, you're only about 48, but people like myself who are sort of 60, just look at, I say to

people, look if you can, look at your old school photos, or are your relatives going back to

like when you were young, tensed back in the 70s, and you will find hardly anyone who was generally

overweight, and they were sort of fitness fanatics, it's what we ate, we didn't have all these

foods that the microwave with all these extra additives in, and that is the food that's killing us.

Yeah, well, a little example I can give the audience for my amusement, I've been looking at

the the American series, Streets of San Francisco, they're really fun to watch, I think so,

because of the style, the dress, the technology around them, but one of the things that you see

every time there's a big group of people on the streets, when they're filming, people are

clustered round, and they sort of include them in the shots. What you say, people are, people are

thin, it's not, you know, the majority, it is the vast majority of them, and some of them are

really thin, you look at them, and you think, you know, wow, that person's really thin, so yeah,

and that was, that series was back in, I think, 1973, that sort of period, so I know what you're

talking about. Yeah, but see, we've got in our minds that like, when we get up in the morning,

I've seen so many people, having orange juice, that's probably got to be the worst thing you

can have, it's just, it's just, it's just a cup of sugar, it's just sugar, but we've been

indoctrinated all these years, that I'm in a glass of orange juice in the morning, it's healthy for you,

it isn't, I mean, if you're people want to eat, drink orange juice, then throw it up, but it's

probably one of the worst things you can have in the morning, I mean, we need to get back to

how we work, this simple life, yes, you know, if you don't need to, people think you've got to

lose weight, you're not going to necessarily lose weight by going on a two, a ten mile run every day,

I mean, people who are getting older, like myself, we've got, you know, bad knees from sport in

the past, we can't do a ten, you've got to start back to basics, and then maybe do the fitness

thing out, people think I can't lose weight, I can't go on a ten mile run or a ten mile walk or

get on a, you know, you don't need to join a gym, right? Yeah, if you can, that's fine, it's good

for you walking and all these things, but you've got to get back to basics, it will not be able to

run yourself thin, all these people who are thin and do running, they take, they prepare their

diets as well, yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, it's just getting back, it's very, very simple,

think about what you used to eat, find articles about what people used to eat in the 60s,

you'll see the menus, right? You know, on Instagram, places aren't that, and you'll see like,

what people used to eat then was a lot more healthy than what it is now, and we're supposed to be

progressive now, and we're supposed to know more about things, and there's been more research

but we've kind of been veered away from it, it's as if people don't want us to be healthy and live

longer, happier lives. Yeah, but what you're talking about, simple steps where people can make a

difference to their bodies and therefore their lives, so this is a, this is an easy, generally,

if you eat, eat healthy and watch, and you've got to look at, you know, treat meat like chicken

livers, chicken livers is quite cheap, now not everyone's cup of tea, but if you go onto the

internet and see the nutrients, then probably one of the most nutrient-dense foods you can buy,

sauerkraut, sauerkraut has got more vitamin C in it, and than anything else, but not the sauerkraut

that you can buy in a jar in Tesco, do you own a sauerkraut, but you know, the more organic stuff,

not the stuff in a jar that's been, you know, pasturized, all the goodness has been blown out of it,

you can make your own sauerkraut, you know, at home, quite cheaply, and that's got more vitamin C,

it's better for the gut, it's all about your gut, you know, you sort your gut out and everything else,

you know, you're losing your own after that, Brian, but anyway, brilliant, Mike, that's excellent,

thank you very much for that. Okay, Brian. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 Racing, victory lane,

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