Month: August 2019

I’m a 6’2″ 235lb, low/moderate activity adult male.

According to the government I’m supposed to eat 3303kcal per day.

That amounts to at least 11 cups of solids and 16 cups of water.

Including 85 grams of protein. Which is extra hard to do because even “texture vegetable protein” is at best only half protein. And good luck getting it at a price that isn’t hipster vegan Starbucks insanity.

I don’t think I’ve met this requirement more than 5-10 times my entire adult life. And I can’t be alone.

My mind is blown. No wonder I’m disabled. I’m apparently starving to death? No wonder men die sooner, the ones taller than 5’8″ are all likely starving too. That square cube law is an absolute predator.

Even if I could afford to eat like this, I couldn’t stand executing it. It would have to be tasteless for starters or I’m exploding my salt/sugar intake. My teeth would implode, I’d have a gal bladder attack every day, and I’d go mad from chewing 60% of my waking day and grocery shopping and cleaning up the other 40%.

So, as of 2019-08-07 this is more or less what I do/will eat a day more or less:

Look at the gap between what I’m supposed to eat and what I actually eat. And I haven’t even started on the TVP yet, I just ordered it this morning. My main priority now is hitting my protein target per day. I’ll also dig down into the vitamins after I hit my other personal targets.

Some doctors are incredulous about reported death tolls due to medical failure. They argue in various ways that the number is too high. I disagree. The high figures sound absolutely reasonable to me. We’ve been stumbling in the dark in terms of medicine the entire time. Add to that the fact that it’s all about making money now, not saving lives, and the rising percentage of people being taken care of in substandard ways due to said fact and it becomes absolutely plausible if not highly likely that over worked under paid only partially qualified (but insurance approved) care givers are accidentally killing already fragile people. Doctors often process this emotionally. Given any experience with the medical “system” and its insurance overlords, I’m surprised the numbers aren’t higher. Our society literally operates on human sacrifice. Why would medicine be any different?

Doctor response essentially amounts to splitting hairs about what is and isn’t considered failure. It absolutely makes sense that as we live longer the odds of being killed by medicine go up since without medicine most of us would already be dead. (I would have died at birth for example.) Imagine if you needed a surgery every year to stay alive. Eventually a surgery would likely kill you. That’s why the numbers are going up because while they scramble to keep people alive they’re not curing aging.

The elderly are being warehoused to be looked after by grossly overworked and underpaid nurses aids and orderlies, with one nurse on duty for the entire floor. The longer we live the more opportunity medicine gets to kill us. Add to that how precarious so many lives already are thanks to toxic work and toxic food and toxic air etc. It all comes down to how you define failure, and they are defining it in a way protective of their cohort (and the status quo). Everyone else doesn’t.

Basically they’re upset saying it’s not fair and that our standards are too high and that they did the best they could etc. They might be right. But it doesn’t matter. They joined a losing battle, that’s why the job is so laudable. The only way to turn this around is cure aging itself and get really good at response time and repair and prevention such that all deaths eventually boil down to instant accident or choice. The attitude that “well people are gonna die eventually anyway so it’s unfair to use elderly patients as an example” is just more death trance human sacrifice coping.

Just because a death makes sense to someone doesn’t mean it was unavoidable. It’s like how lung cancer always gets dismissed as earned when it happens in a smoker despite the fact that we’ve basically been sucking on a coal plant’s tail pipe since birth. Age is parsed in a similar way. I’m glad to see the media reject this logic (never mind why) and start calling death what it is at this point given our technical ability: Medical Failure.