I eat grass-fed butter & meat. It really makes a difference in taste for me and I also do it for ethical reasons.

My mom made some chicken soup yesterday from a freshly killed chicken-it was delicious. Best chicken I've had in a long time.

Eggs have never been as good as what my grandpa used to feed me, fresh ones. He used to feed me fresh pork & lamb too.

I think it's more ethical to be involved in the killing process, it's also healthier. I really like people that hunt for their food.

I think you have a typo in the subject line, Amy. It makes no sense. "How Our Government And The AMA Helped Sicken And Countless People."

Perhaps you meant to say, "...Helped Sicken And Kill Countless People"?

Remember too, people were more active then. Not as much desk, car and sofa time. Sugar kills. More carbs convert to more sugars - at least all of our processed ones. Too many foods of convenience packaged as low fat to lull us into thinking we are eating healthy. Thank you for posting.

Oh, think nothing of it, darlin'. Sometimes I add extra words or omit words, even when I'm well-rested.

On the subject of diet, read my favorite strip from Berke Breathed's Bloom County, when Steve Dallas, having been transformed by aliens into a fuzzy-headed liberal, sits down to a nice dinner prepared for him by a girl named Megan. Somehow, I'm not surprised that their relationship never took off.

What about the per capita mortality? I would guess part of the reason mortality from heart disease went from 10% to 40-45% is because we've eradicated other mortality risks.

What about the per capita mortality?

That is a good question.

My favorite take on the "Keep Calm and Carry On" meme is "Keep Calm and Eat Butter".

Butter is fucking delicious.

What was our average life expectancy in 1910-- about 48 years? Most people who develop heart disease are much older-- I was 55 when I had a 6x bypass. People have asked many times what made me so ill, and I can't answer, because the doctors never tried to figure it out. It's why I stopped wasting my time with them. They wanted me to take Lipitor but never monitored my cholesterol!
One factor nobody mentions is that Helicobacter Pylori is a prime culprit in heart disease. It can be checked using a breath test. H Pylori is known to cause gum disease and stomach ulcers, and it's been found in the arterial lesions of heart attack and stroke victims. Pylori is extremely transmissable, so anyone we're in close contact with can get it from us.
Linus Pauling touts Vitamin C for maintaining healthy arteries, that won't be receptive to attack from Pylori.
I eat loads of butter!

What is the lifespan today of people who eat butter and people who eat margarine? And what was the lifespan of a person in 1910 vs today?

That, detective, is the right question.

Maybe, but what is the age at which eclampsia is striking a person? Maybe it is a disease which was rare in 1910 because people died at a much younger age then. And now that people are living longer, maybe it happens more often at an older age. Fact is that people are living longer and healthier lives than before. A person who was 40 in 1910 was probably in the same state of physical and mental fitness as a person of the age of 60 now. So when you do a comparison it has to be a proper comparison. When you just compare causes of deaths without taking age into consideration, it makes no meaning simply because the cause of death at age 90 in 2013 is definitely going to be different from the cause of death at age 40 in 1910. And if you try to turn the tables round, you can say that people dying of tuberculosis in 1910 was 50%, but now that is hardly 1% so you can actually say that things have improved