FBW - "Debunked," Bananas and a Blasphemous Bariatric Surgeon

Hey Guys, thanks for being patient again - it's definitely not Wednesday...  I'm gonna have to change "Five Bullet Wednesday" to three bullets or maybe four (so I can keep saying "FBW"). These posts take a lot more time than I expected. Next week I'll reduce it to four bullets and see if I can make it on time with that :-)

"Convenience Store Health Method" ---
My "Why I eat one meal a day" video has finally been overtaken by my "Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?" video with 12.5M views. In that video I basically say the reason it's easy to be healthy in Japan is because there are tasty healthy options everywhere to the point that you could eat from Japanese convenient stores and still be quite healthy if you make the right choices.
Just the other day, I came across this book titled "Dr. Saito's Convenience Store Health Method" (image above) . Not quite the same points I made... at least on the cover it's saying "If you have a cold, eat fish ball soup, if you can't sleep, eat canned tuna, if you're bloated eat a banana...

Clearing something up about my Meat/Iron video---  A couple people brought to my attention that a certain youtuber, for privacy's sake, let's call him... "M. Vegan" ...no that's too obvious... uh let's say "Mic the V" has made a response to my video on meat and iron.

 Last time, he did a response to my video on Bacon and Cancer, and since his points seemed relevant (at first glance) and his presentation was decently logical, I took the time to write a response explaining why his video misses the mark and does not "debunk" my video. Now he's made a response to my "Meat: Grows the Brain or Rusts the Body?" video. I don't have the time to do a deep dive once again, so let me just point out one thing for now: At 11:22 he says "This is where things get really bad and I think he needs to correct this in some way..." and brings up the part of my video where I said "Unfortunately, it looks like iron supplements don't cut it for pregnant women. Despite taking prenatal vitamins with iron, 58% of the women had iron levels below normal." He goes on to say that he looked forever at this study that I referenced, only to find that this 58% figure was no where in the study and that I was blatantly misrepresenting the study. Moreover, he says "Worst of all, this [study] actually undermines his whole video on heme iron, because all 19 of those women were given heme iron throughout their pregnancy..." That is, he's suggesting that if there is a 58% of women who had low levels of iron despite supplementing with iron, these women were actually supplementing with heme iron and therefore heme iron is not effective for maintaining iron levels in pregnant women.
Ironically, this is a misinterpretation on his part.
The reason he couldn't find that 58% figure in that particular paper of mine he was looking at was because it was the wrong study.  The source for the statement "Despite taking prenatal vitamins with iron, 58% of the women had iron levels below normal" is NOT this study he was looking at, but this study.

Bananas--- "The banana business model is the cheapest fruit in the supermarket. ...consider the banana gets shipped thousands of miles, goes bad really fast. How is it possible that a banana can be so cheap? You gotta control the things you can control which are labor and land. And so when the banana industry started, an essential part of their business model was to ensure that they didn't pay anything basically for workers or for land. How did they do that? Military force. So, over and over again, the banana companies took over countries - Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, all over Latin America in order to make sure their business model of cheap bananas was preserved and this lead to insane, horrible amounts of bloodshed, genocide, and the birth of the term Banana Republic. Which meant a country that wasn't controlled by its Native People but by American banana companies..."  

"...if you want to get profit, you have to put everything in a monoculture. Because it's very easy to manage the whole plantation."  
"Monoculture is a bad thing. It's not just a bad thing because it means we only get one banana and there are many more that taste good... monoculture is a bad thing because it's an environmental disaster - it's a cultural and social disaster. It requires the transformation of forests into factories..." From VICE

Seals/Hanko/Stamps in Japan---
Instead of signing things in Japan, people stamp stuff with a hanko, and the impression left is referred to as the inkan. So you might hear both words when talking about signing documents, though hanko is typically used for less important documents whereas you need a jitsuin for more important things... it's a little complicated.
I spoke in another Five Bullet Wednesday post about how, in a company setting, when multiple people stamp a document, the junior staff are supposed to tilt their stamp so it looks like the characters in their inkan are bowing to the higher ranked person's inkan.
Apparently the first evidence of writing in Japan is a solid gold hanko from AD 57. 

At first only cool high status people could use them but then around 1870, hanko came into general use throughout Japanese society.
I remember when I was going to open a bank account for the first time in Japan several years ago, the bank teller was telling me that I need to have a hanko (which I didn't) and the conversation went something like this:
"You need to have a hanko."
"Can't I use my signature?"
"No, you need a hanko."
"I see, but I know many people who have used their signature to open a bank account, even some at this same bank."
"Hmm.... Please wait a moment."
(She leaves and comes back)
"OK so here's the problem with signatures, they're not going to be the same each time. Look, try signing on this paper twice."
(I sign on the paper twice)
"See, they're slightly different."
"This is true..."

This was a while back and I can't remember what happened after that, but I remember ending up being able to use my signature anyway and successfully opened the bank account. I remember she even recommended something like carrying a card around of my signature so I could make sure all my signatures were like that one.
At the time, I didn't want to extend the interaction so I didn't mention that hanko are a great way for identity thieves to steal your "signature." 

Fast forward to 2020, my girlfriend said she needed to grab something at the 100 yen shop to stamp the documents for moving into her new apartment. I assumed she meant the red ink. 

Up until then I didn't think much about the big rack of hanko you see at the 100 yen stores and sometimes stationary stores. She went into the store, found the rack of hanko, found her last name (a Japanese last name about as common as Bort), got some ink, paid, and ...went off to "sign" her papers. 

(Even as I was writing this I was thinking surely they use a special manufacturing process that adds a slight modification to each hanko, but apparently not.)

Bariatric Surgeon's recipe for high quality poops---
"...and here's what the human colon does: The human can only absorb and excrete salt and water. So the three elements for healthy poop is adequate healthy fat in the diet, saturated fat, plenty of salt, and water. And with those three elements you do not need fiber to have a healthy diet. Now, I'll go further than that, I'm a surgeon. In the modern era, I've taken out numbers of colons with diverticuli. I will tell you this, and it's blasphemy, but I believe that a high cellulose fiber diet is primarily responsible for diverticulosis and diverticular disease, but definitely a high carbohydrate refined carbohydrate diet is absolutely responsible for that. I'm willing to go out on that limb. But the more carnivore you can be, the better your poops are, and if you do get a little constipated, back off on the cheese..."
-The Blasphemous Dr. Robert Cywes in this video

Hmm...🤔