This is always the most asinine argument. “Diet and exercise will protect you from communicable diseases.” Right, like in the past where everyone did hard physical labor every day and ate only organic food with very little meat and had a life expectancy of like 35 - ThreadSky

louisathelast.bsky.social • 11 hours ago

This is always the most asinine argument. “Diet and exercise will protect you from communicable diseases.” Right, like in the past where everyone did hard physical labor every day and ate only organic food with very little meat and had a life expectancy of like 35

Reposted from Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”.

The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.

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gabbklein.bsky.social•11 hours ago

For real.

People hold 2 ideas in their heads at one time challenge!

Insufficiencies in diet and a sedentary lifestyle can really screw up a person's health!

AND

Diet and exercise are not magic, and are relatively powerless against infection, injury, and genetics!

elanorofbagend.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yep--I've done a lot of genealogical research for people with orphans in their family tree. 19th century kids were often raised with the EXPECTATION that their parents might die and leave them to be raised by strangers.

louisathelast.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Not to mention the 40% child mortality rate, so good luck outliving your parents in the first place, kids

elanorofbagend.bsky.social•3 hours ago

That too, and all those kids who died early get forgotten, as they leave no descendants and few records beyond, perhaps, a headstone.

danifroom.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Having bodies of rock and an all-organic diet didn't seem to help much against the Black Plague but maybe this time will be different

soyweiser.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Walking into a ward filled with dying 2 year olds. "you should have lifted more weights brah"

lbean.bsky.social•11 hours ago

He’s a complete idiot

phillipcarter.dev•8 hours ago

It is also deeply infuriating that Michelle Obama literally tried to prioritize these things generally as a "yes and" to diseases and vaccines, and these same people now nominally pushing the concepts demonized her for it

vero1986.bsky.social•11 hours ago

AI nurses" as "good as any doctor": RFK Jr. confirms he wants to take away people's health care
Kennedy's plan to "make America healthy": Replace real medical care with robots and lectures about diet. You are on your own.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

m00psy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

ksmiles.bsky.social•10 hours ago

To be fair, that’s mostly because of high child mortality due to malnutrition! If you made it to adulthood you would probably live at least until you were too old to work. So you know, still horrible.

m00psy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

also if we’re going to keep being an industrialized society, AND we’re going to deregulate everything, how does he think we’re not going to end up in world of The Jungle again?

m00psy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

oops meant to drop this link too

m00psy.bsky.social•10 hours ago

xianskr.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Pretty sure the 1940s, because the DoD realized millions of Americans were too malnourished to be drafted so they introduced gov't subsidized school lunch. Huh, when the gov't ensures ppl have nutritious food to eat (instead of cutting SNAP, etc.), ppl get healthier, who knew!

m00psy.bsky.social•9 hours ago

weird, huh!!

katana-smirk.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Are we really suppose to take healthy dietary advice from a guy who fucking eats road kill?!?

louisathelast.bsky.social•11 hours ago

With the note that life expectancy was so low largely because of infant/child mortality rates being enormous because of…what was it? Oh, right, infectious diseases

kendrawrites.com•11 hours ago

If the babies had more vitamin D ....no vitamin A..... no Vitamin... they'd have have survived /s

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•11 hours ago

All those victims of the Bubonic plague sweeping through Europe clearly weren't getting their daily steps in.

kendrawrites.com•11 hours ago

It's about HIIT TBH

sarahejoyal.bsky.social•11 hours ago

People making the infant mortality argument always seem to neglect that a huge number of *mothers* would have died as well.

Often of infectious diseases.

eugenebwhitaker.bsky.social•11 hours ago

more importantly even if this were true what is the government doing to make sure we can all eat a ‘healthy diet’ as opposed to allowing food companies to put whatever they want into food and call it healthy?

smilingrain.bsky.social•10 hours ago

So I think RFK Jr believes in miasma theory which was replaced by the more accurate germ theory... Centuries ago

delle59.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Because 50% of their kids died before age 5. It was a great time to be alive! /S

xenotropos.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It was a great time to be alive *briefly*.

popelizbet.bsky.social•11 hours ago

My mom grew up on a farm.
My mom's parents couldn't have sent her to be vaccinated against polio faster if they tried.

jb-jb.bsky.social•10 hours ago

My mom told us how long the lines were to eat the sugar cube! It was a big day out for the whole town they were so excited

popelizbet.bsky.social•10 hours ago

mom was tje one who listened to weird al with me in the car and "my iron lung' used to make her laugh so hard precisely because she remembered fearing ending up in one before the vaccine.

vaspider.gay•10 hours ago

My mom tells me about everybody lining up to get their sugar cube one Sunday. She walked miles back and forth to school multiple times a day (they ate lunch at home).

popelizbet.bsky.social•10 hours ago

both my parents remember the sugar cube. https://bsky.app/profile/vaspider.gay/post/3ljihtzygrc2j

gertruxe.bsky.social•3 hours ago

I’m sure stress will make everyone healthier as well. Good thing because their is lots on the way.

megabeth18.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Once you wrap your broken leg with kale leaves it magically heals the break !!
It’s nature 🌱

shewitch.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And guess what? You have to be able to afford access to good food. Either by location, and or, your pocketbook. Crap food is cheap.

babsyrn.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Can’t believe people actually listens to this wormy brained man.

justell.bsky.social•9 hours ago

RFK being seen eating McDonald's with the president really invalidates the whole thing from mr brain worm when he talks about eating healthy and getting rid of fast food

toeman18.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Because he’s a doctor! Oh wait a second…..na he’s facking IDIOT

timmypi.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Neo-eugenicists. Only way to make sense of it

xenotropos.bsky.social•10 hours ago

So he's gonna fix all the food deserts, make fresh organic veggies/fruits cheap and readily available to all year round, fund victory gardens, create community kitchens where even the poorest can get a free, hot, nutritious, organic meal, and....

Wait? He isn't?

gabbklein.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Look, if you really cared about your health, you'd fix all that stuff yourself! /s

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