This dismal report shows that Americans had higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancer. Health experts have long known the U.S. population is less healthy than that of other industrialized nations, according to several important measurements, including life expectancy. The U.S. ranks behind about two dozen other countries, according to the statistics of the World Health Organization. How could that happen? What has gone wrong?

I discovered the cause over 20 years ago, and have written articles and done numerous radio interviews documenting the cause. It is simply due to allowing the farming industry to determine what you should eat. For over 150 years, since 1848 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been a lobbyist and information agency for the farmers of America. The USDA wants to promote farmers and their products. They are NOT a health organization. The USDA is not the National Institutes of Health, nor the National Science Foundation, nor even a health organization such as the American Medical Association.

So why do Americans "believe" the tables, charts and recommendations of the USDA when choosing their diets? It's simply called, over-aggressively strong marketing of farm products. Americans have been fooled by learning about "proper foods" as children in school going back to the 1930's when the USDA sent, and still sends to America's schools, "free health advice" in the form of pretty pictures and charts about foods and diets. But this is NOT health advice, it is marketing, the same as today's TV ads for marketing Prozac, Lipitor, or Aleve - or even weight-loss food additives and pills.

The result is that for the last 50 years, the diets of Americans have been much too heavy on protein (meat, milk and eggs) and also too heavy on "vitamins" to cover up for the extreme excess of protein. This results in long-term adverse health effects which cause obesity, heart disease, cancer and a host of diseases listed in the latest NIH funded study about the relative health of Americans compared to the rest of the industrialized societies. The difference between Americans and the rest of the world, is that those other countries don't have the USDA telling them what to eat.

I first discovered this problem back in 1987 when, out of simple scientific curiosity, I wondered how much fat is actually in whole milk and also in the lite version of 2% milk? Back then, the actual percentage of fat compared to the amount of protein and carbohydrate on milk is not listed on the container. Even today it is a difficult calculation. What I wanted to know was, if I removed all the water from the milk, and just had the dry components of the milk, what percentage of the dry food components were made of carbohydrate, protein and fat. This was not a simple scientific exercise.

In the 1950's, my mother worked at the Agricultural Extension of the USDA at the University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of the Ag Extension was to pass federal farm information from the USDA to each of the 50 granges or county farm bureaus in each of the California counties, and then collect local questions or information and pass it back up to the USDA. One result of my mother working at the USDA extension is that she had an old copy on her library shelf of the USDA Table of Food Components dating from the 1960's. I used that book to answer my scientific question about the amount of fat in milk. And was I amazed.

If you remove the water from the milk, it is about 35 percent fat, 35 percent protein, and 30 percent carbohydrate or milk sugar. In other words, it is the same as taking a beef patty, slathered with a quarter inch of lard, and sprinkled with a half cup of sugar. Put that concoction in the blender and had a quart of water. Would you drink that? But that is what is in milk, and that is the reason, why the farmers at the USDA never list the "dry components" of foods in their Table of Food Components. I was amazed, and then was also curious about what is in the other foods listed in the USDA Tables.

I took the food components from my mother's USDA Table of Food Components for about 500 other foods, and put them into a computer spreadsheet calculaton program. This took me about two weeks. Again, I was completely amazed. Looking at the components in the foods we eat based on the "dry components" is very different from what we were told is "good food."

One example from my own 1987 dry component Food Table, is that if you want to choose a food that is high in protein, and low in fat, then you would NOT choose beef or meat. The foods that are highest in protein and lowest in fat are the leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, spinach. They are all about 50% or half protein with about 50% carbohydrates in the form of natural plant starches, and NO fat. But they also include water in the leafy vegetables, so the USDA claims that they are low in protein per serving compared to a serving of beef. But after you eat the foods, all the water is separated out anyway, so the USDA tables are designed to fool you. That is called false marketing of foods.

In the last two weeks, I updated my old chart using the lasted USDA Food Table called SR 18. Again this was no simple task. It took over a week continuously entering data. None of the available USDA tables or charts are easily put into a spreadsheet program. It must be done manually. The USDA does not want you or anyone else to actually analyze their data and show that the data is NOT self-consistent and actually is very misleading.

I will soon publish the BroJon Food Table, based on the dry components of foods with the water mathematically removed from the table. And then the table is broken into three parts and sorted by each of the food components: carbohydrates, protein and fat. You will be amazed. You would choose a far different diet, compared to the recommended USDA food pyramid. The USDA recommended foods are a Diet for Disaster and results in chronic poor health. This explains the recent NIH study showing that American's are far less healthy than the British, and why the life expectancy of American is behind 12 other major industrialized countries in the world. Those other countries don't have the USDA and don't use the USDA Tables of food.

I will also prove that the so-called "vitamin B6" is actually not a vitamin at all. It is an "invention" of the USDA back in the 1920's to cover-up for the Niacin disaster created by the USDA itself when it recommended how to grow and market wheat products in the bread industry. All of the "claims" made for B6 are based on false information and constitute fraud. It is not a vitamin, nor a food component -- it is actually a food additive. But is falsely listed by the USDA in it's tables as a vitamin.

I will also provide the evidence showing that B6 is the food additive which is the major cause of the higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancer listed in the NIH report. Based on the self-serving recommendations of the US government from the USDA, most Americans are simply eating themselves to death...

Marshall Smith
Editor, Brother Jonathan Gazette
newseditor@brojon.com

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