Mt.Hamilton Society - Greg Rehmke: "The Flipped Food Pyramid..."

The history of healthy food mixes traditions with innovations, fads, fashions, advertising and religion. Since the 1980s the Federal Government’s food pyramid and plate told Americans to consume less fat and more carbohydrates. But now the Food Pyramid has been partly flipped, and the 2025-30 Dietary Guidelines say Americans should eat more meat, whole milk, butter, fish, and eggs (but still, not more that 10% saturated fat).

The modern push to reduce cattle and red meat is led by nutritionists, vegetarians, climate change campaigners, and animal rights advocates. Cattle ranching turns out to be key for soil health and fast-expanding regenerative ranching and agriculture. For our personal health, our gut microbiome plays a key role. Regenerative ranching enterprises are discovering ways to raise profits with “multi-paddock grazing” that builds deep roots for microbes, and cooler, richer soils. For more see: The Hidden Half of Nature.

Greg Rehmke directs Economic Thinking a program for high school and homeschool speech and debate students. For over twenty years Mr. Rehmke has held Economic Thinking workshops and given guest talks for Bay Area high school and homeschool speech and debate students. See EconomicThinking.org for posts on annual debate topics.

Mr. Rehmke is coauthor of the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Economics. Mr Rehmke’s substack, Normal Nutrition surveys research on metabolic health, and he had two Goodman Institute briefs on nutrition: Did the Government Make Us Fat? and RFK Jr. May Have Been Right About Something. Mr Rehmke was also a guest on the highly-rated Low Carb MD Podcast E387 – Economic Perspectives on Healthcare Systems.

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Please join the Mont Hamilton Society in this 17th year since our founding, to hear and interact with Greg Rehmke on this important topic.

This meeting, including lunch, will be in-person for no more than 24 individuals only. We think you will enjoy the intellectual stimulation, the edification, the camaraderie, and meeting new people.

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"Thanks as always to you for the fun and engaging lunch discussions you put together regularly - I always enjoy them and the dose of intellectual sanity they provide!" Luke Perkocha, MD, MBA

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About the Mont Hamilton Society - In 1947 Friedrich Hayek, an economist and social philosopher who later won the Nobel Prize, organized a meeting at Mt. Pelerin, a resort in Switzerland. Hayek convened a modest sized group of (39) economists, historians, philosophers and journalists for the purpose of supporting research and discussion on the role of markets vs. government. The Mont Pelerin Society is now a large and prestigious international organization.

In 2009, a group of friends began to meet in San Jose for the purposes of improving their understanding of economic theory, applying it to current events and sharing their understanding with others as well as promoting a joyous sense of camaraderie. In recognition of the example set by the Mont Pelerin Society, they decided to name their group the Mont Hamilton Society. Members understand the realities of the business world, share an interest in economic thinking, and value civil discourse from a variety of perspectives. Faculty and students from the Department of Economics at San Jose State University are frequent guests at Society meetings. In June 2017 the Mont Hamilton Society became the San Jose affiliate chapter of the Bastiat Society, an AIER.org project, hence our name from then till late last year was: Mont Hamilton/Bastiat Society. However AIER decided late in 2024 to discontinue the Bastiat Society program, so we are reverting to our original name: The Mont Hamilton Society and continuing on our own.

There are no membership fees or organizational meetings at this time, but all interested are encouraged to join and participate.

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These events are discussions, not standard lectures. To facilitate this, the in-person gatherings before Covid Lockdowns were kept "small," typically 12 - 24 individuals only. Some presentations are video recorded, depending on demand and available resources. Constructive feedback on our events and interest in recordings is welcome, since we are continuing to evolve our meeting formats.

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