Nutritionists, Leslie explains, had decided that dietary fat was the enemy of good health, based in large part on a huge Seven Countries Study, published in 1970, which looked at 12,770 middle-aged men in countries ranging from the U.S. to Yugoslavia.
“The Seven Countries study had become canonical, and the fat hypothesis was enshrined in official advice,” Leslie writes. By 1980, the U.S. government issued its first Dietary Guidelines telling the country to cut back on saturated fats and cholesterol, and Americans dutifully complied.
That’s precisely when the nation’s obesity rate started to skyrocket.
The conensus. Joining the Sacred Narrative, is the Holy Consensus. Heresy shall be punished. Apostacy means death.
Incidentally, there appears to be a Holy Consensus being pushed by the Cult of the Organic. “Way better tasting, way better for you”; beware the cultists the next time you hear a phrase like that.
No objective evidence, cherry picked studies… it all sounds very familiar in a Rachel Carson ‘Silent Spring’ sort of way.
Ancel Keys was the author of the Seven Countries study. He originally examined 22 countries but the data from 15 did not fit with the lipid hypothesis so he eliminated them. The lipid hypothesis is a medical theory postulating a link between blood cholesterol levels and occurrence of heart disease. This theory drove nutrition advice for the past 50 years. Yudkin disagreed and thought fructose was the problem. He was right. Millions of people died because of the unsupported position that Keys took. Millions of people also suffer from Type 2 Diabetes and complications from metabolic syndrome. Settled science my ass. Ancel Keys massive ego and data manipulation have killed as many people as socialism.
I know thinking the sun is responsible for climate change and calorie intake is the final arbiter of weight gain is so unsophisticated, but let’s face facts.
1 gram of fat has 9 calories (actually kilo-calories and it doesn’t matter what kind of fat)
1 gram of protein and carbohydrate each have 4 calories.
If relatively more fat is ingested, it will cause more fat to be stored than will carbs or protein, all other things remaining equal.
Except, all other things are not equal. The body needs fat as well as protein for maintenance and energy, and carbs for energy.
Also, fats like protein are a slow burn. But proteins are less calorically dense which is important if one is trying to lose weight.
It also matters when you consume food. If you have a big carb feed before bed, your body will store fat during sleep due to lower energy needs.
Carbs after eight, gain weight. Night snacking should be confined to moderate fats and proteins, which the body can use while we sleep.
Carbs are for immediate and short term energy needs, and as a replacement for depleted glycogen levels from strenuous exercise for instance.
Carbs before exercise help with overall maintenance and replenishment of muscles and overall body systems.
Eat sensibly in other words. If you pig out without exercise, especially at the wrong times, your body will likely store fat.
In a nutshell of the above, without need for expensive study is the reason for our obesity epidemic: chips, pop, cookies, alcohol, milk chocolate….
Besides the sodium delicious pizza straddles the line between complete junk and nutritional food. It’s OK to pig out once in a while and watch your carbs.
And for God’s sake, get some exercise. Try to avoid “empty calories,” while still enjoying your life.
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko; socialism/communism/settled science/consensus appear to all be words describing the exact same phenomena.
“Leslie correctly points out that, despite the patina of pure objectivity, “scientific inquiry is prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding toward majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error.”
That statement should be engraved in bronze and placed over the doorway of every media corporation on the planet. The msm refers to scientists as demigods, perfect in their noble truth seeking for the good of humanity.
Scientists are just people with a specific degree, nothing more or less.
I said this a very long time ago in “internet/computer time, eat like your grandparents ate and you will live a long and healthy life, unless of course they were born after 1950. The captcha was almost funny.
The two most valid comments so far:
eat like your grandparents ate and you will live a long and healthy life
the reason for our obesity epidemic: chips, pop, cookies, alcohol, milk chocolate….
Does anyone actually take dietary advice from the government? I doubt it. I suspect most people eat a combination of what they were raised on and what they now like. I seriously doubt governmental dietary advice has any impact at all. My personal take on obesity is that most people are lazy, most people are sedentary, fewer people are smoking, the average age of the population is rising and there is more selection of cheep apatizing food than at any time in human history. It doesn’t take many calories to keep someone who is fifty years old and sits in front of a computer screen for work and entertainment alive
Gary Taubes has an excellent treatment of this in his book Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It, which enabled me to lose fifteen pounds two years ago.
Fat is essential for proper brain development and function … which is why more vegans “believe” that Co2 is a pollutant … than do meat eaters. The vegans lack a fully developed, fully functional brain
You’re right. Those people forcing you to eat organic food must be stopped. What happened to your freedom to choose what you eat? Write to your MP to repeal the laws that force you to eat organic food, do it for the children.
In fairness, the bread we eat today is very different than that of our grandparents’ era too. Borland is a libertarian hero but that wheat is also part of why we’re so fat.
The bread I eat today is very similar to that of my grandparents’ era. Intelligent people have healthy options. Sheeple eat what the advertisers tell them to eat, and can’t understand why they’re fat.
Moderation and at least some excercise. Why do some people insist on making things more complicated than it has to be?
Shamrock, alomost everything you wrote is based in misinformation. First off, wen people eat a food containing carbohydrates, the digestive system breaks down the digestible ones into sugar, which enters the blood. As blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas produces insulin, a hormone that prompts cells to absorb blood sugar for energy or storage. Protein and fat ingestion do not trigger this insulin reaction, hence none of the caloric energy from these macronutrients are stored. They are either used as energy or excreted. BTW, the body does not need carbs for energy. The Inuit had a diet that was almost exclusively blubber; fat and a small amount of protein. This indigenous group was well nourished and the population healthy. It was only when carbs and alcohol were introduced that the incedence of diabetes, metabolic sydrome and morbid obesity became prevalent. Sugar from simple carbs and especially fructose is clearly resonsible for these conditions today. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/carbohydrates-and-blood-sugar/
Arg, diet, diet diet. And it is not completely what you eat, it is also what you dad ate all of his life up until you conception and what you grandmother ate before your mom’s conception.
Epigenetics is massive, as is nutrition.
Calories in/out is a cute distraction, but is not the acute cause. Metabolic function is the acute cause for most chronic disease, and most of it goes back to diet. I am become quite convinced that there is a sole root cause for most of the disease and that is diet in general.
There are 2 big root causes. I think Garry Taubes and Dr. Robert Lustig are very correct with one being sugar, but, I think even more interesting is vegetable oils.
Are decline started in earnest in the very early 1900’s with Crisco oil.
I can’t recommed enough Dr. Cate’s “Deep Nutrition”, anything written by Dr. Lustig, Nina Tischoltz, and of course Garry Taubes.
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Nutrition-Your-Genes-Traditional/dp/0615228380
Brian, I agree, there are many cultures that eat very few, if any carbohydrates.
I will add, as far as sugar goes, there are 3 (or more) types of “sugar” molecules. The most consumed are Glucose and Fructose. HFCS and table sugar are about 50/50 of Glucose and Fructose. Blood sugar is actually blood glucose. Fructose in the blood is actually pretty useless and must be (mostly) consumed by the liver. And that is done much like Ethanol (alcohol). And that is where some of the root causes for disease comes from. Again, liver disease in the US is *MASSIVE*
watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Beyond all of that. And why Dr. Cate rings so true.
Except for the urban Egyptians and other big bread eating cultures, old cultures had little in terms of chronic disease during times of plenty. And this goes across all continents, from near Arctic to tropical paradises. Those who did not die from disease, injury or child birth lived long lives.
Nutritional deficiencies, whether famine or poor food quality appears to be the root cause of disease.
Back to the point, whether it is ancient Chinese or Japanese with a lot of white rice, African cultures that drink lots of milk and natural vegetation, or the Inuit, eating a native diet full of nutrition is the recipe for longevity with no disease.
The Inuit literally eat an animal nose to tail. From the liver to the endocrine system of their catch vital nutrients are present.
Our fake food with vegetable oils, genetically modified food is likely the cause of most auto-immune diseases from MS to diabetes type I, cancer, and so on.
Another powerful video to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc&t=2s
After watching and reading Dr. Wahls story you have to believe in nutrition. It is a shame she has turned into a SJW/leftist moonbat.
The Inuit had a diet that was almost exclusively blubber; fat and a small amount of protein.
How do you define: “small amount” ? The Inuit ate seals, walrus, whales, fish, bears, caribou, birds & eggs, hare, foxes, and even dogs. They utilized the whole animal and did not discard the meat.
There are cultures that eat almost only carbohydrates. Humans are very adaptable omnivores.
It’s the contaminants in modern ‘food’ that cause most of the health problems.
The only good “oil” is Olive Oil….IMHO
As for the many supposed good things I have been told in my 64 yrs, I never used any: Margarine the exception…was forced as a kid cause Mom had a hard on against butter. (I never ever did find out why) – Day I left home, was the last day I ever used it. Aspartane and a few other chemicals that never really appealed to me…I’ll take my regular coarse raw sugar with my coffee, Love frozen yogurt (a weak spot)
Married to an Italian for 27 yrs…(I’m Dutch), and we eat fresh veggies, Italian sausages, ham, chicken, homemade burgers/soups and such. Cannot recall the last time I ate a meal out of a can…maybe, once twice a year, we’ll have some brown beans in tomato sauce, but thats about it. NO Processed food for the most part.
Home made pasta on Sunday’s from a bit of non wheat flour, and lots of ricotta cheese…hmm yum..!
All in all – EVERYthing in moderation…and preferably with a bottle of good Cab Sauv or Pinot Noir on the table.
Now if only the Climate Morons could actually start looking at the Sun for Evidence which I fully believe is there for the taking, maybe we could move on….??
There are cultures that eat almost only carbohydrates.
Yes, and they starve.
https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/how-much-protein-is-excessive/
But there is also a situation where people get sufficient calories, but very little protein. This typically occurs in third world countries where people have some form of food, but almost no protein. People are usually subsisting on refined carbohydrates alone, which come from food shipments donated by First World countries. These refined carbs (sugar, flour, rice, corn) provide calories at a fraction of the cost of protein, and do not require refrigeration during the long trip. So, in the 1970s and early 1980s, protein deficiency was rampant – called kwashiorkor. You see swollen feet, loss of muscles in the arms and legs, hair loss, and a big swollen fatty liver (due to excess carbs).
Of course sugar makes you fat. It’s supposed to do that.
Where do you find sugar? In fruits. Why would you eat fruit? They taste good. How much fruit do you want to eat? All of it, until it’s gone.
This is an evolutionary problem. We eat sweet foods to get fat so that we have energy stores for the long winter, when food is scarce. When berries and fruits are plentiful, or other sweets, we crave them so that we can fatten up for the lean times ahead. But there are no lean times. We suffer a curse of plenty. Sweet, sugary, fat building foods are never out of season. Nutritionally, summer and fall never end.
For a hundred thousand years, every man, woman, and child were put on an all natural, low calorie, high-protein, high-fat, low-carb diet for several months out of the year. It was called winter. If they were lucky to hunt or trap some critter for food, they could slow down starvation. It was called winter.
When spring would break, they’d eat spring greens. Low calories, but it filled the belly and provided valuable vitamins and minerals.
Summer berries and fruits, and fall grains packed on the pounds needed to ride out winter again.
Be careful Galt those contaminants can seep right through that tinfoil hat you’re wearing.
Heh, people aren’t bears…another made up story to explain present circumstances. And fruits and vegetables were considerably different in the past…barely edible.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/heres-what-fruits-and-vegetables-looked-like-before-we-domesticated-them
Fruits and berries were different, but we still ate wild fruits and berries. We’ve just made them bigger, sweeter, more sugary.
Now they’re better at fattening us up.
Our starches and grains have followed the same pattern.
We’re not so different than bears. Both are omnivores capable of surviving in a broad climate range. We’re just better at environmental modification. If bears had the brains and thumbs for it, they’d settle into their log cabins for the winter, napping and eating bacon and mayo sandwiches, and watching football while snacking on Pringles.
A wise man knows he doesn’t know much. A fool thinks he knows a lot. Unfortunately as science and technology have become the gods of modernity we have lost sight of that simple maxim. We try to apply simple solutions to complex problems never thinking that our simple solution may in fact be causing more harm than good. Whether it is silly studies trying to direct our eating habits/requirements or single causes/cures to control the weather the only thing evident is the foolishness of those who worship science and technology.
My God is recorded as saying “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?” and so I eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am tired, work hard with my body and even harder with my mind knowing full well that when it is my time to go I shall go.
I eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am tired, work hard with my body and even harder with my mind knowing full well that when it is my time to go I shall go.
Excellent plan, and one I’ve been following for most of my 70+ years. That’s also why I don’t wear a watch, carry a cell phone, or let time and schedules dictate my life. I’m a whole lot healthier than most people of any age, so I know what I’m doing is right for me; that’s all that matters.
Foolish criticism and taunts from those unhealthy, overweight, ignorant trolls on internet forums are just more useless shít to ignore.
You’re quite correct about humans and bears; they’re some of my smartest neighbors.
‘In fairness, the bread we eat today is very different than that of our grandparents’ era too. Borland is a libertarian hero but that wheat is also part of why we’re so fat’
http://www.foodandnutrition.org/Stone-Soup/July-2015/Wheat-Has-Not-Changed/
Wheat-Has-Not-Changed
Incorrect
Along with wheat and oats, glyphosate is now sprayed on a wide range of other crops including lentils, peas, soybeans, corn, flax, rye, triticale, buckwheat, millet, canola, sugar beets and potatoes, just before they are harvested. Weed killer contaminates most grains you eat.
http://www.ecowatch.com/why-is-glyphosate-sprayed-on-crops-right-before-harvest-1882187755.html?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&ts=1489680324
That’s OK Brian I know the difference between simple sugars and complex carbohydrates. I thought everybody did. Try reading slower to comprehend.
The rest of what you said is irrelevant and my points are not misinformation, but facts, which apparently you can’t swallow, pardon the pun.
So eat what you want, when you want, and so will I. I have actual results to go by; not sure what your gig is; don’t care either.
http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/does-it-matter-when-you-eat
Complex carbs are just long chains of sugar…the body uses both exactly the same way.
In the past I’ve accused you of not reading the link I’ve provided and today is no exception. The question was about the comparison between yesterday’s wheat varieties and today’s wheat varieties Any alleged harmful contamination of those wheat varieties is a separate issue. If you are receiving your information from blog sites that feature David Suzuki and Noam Chomski there isn’t much more to say.
“Complex carbs are just long chains of sugar…the body uses both exactly the same way.”
Incorrect.
Very long-chain carbs are called “cellulose” and cannot be digested by humans.
Personally, I thing folk that are too stupid to know how to eat should die, so I don’t have an issue with any of this.
Here you go as requested, info from a site not infected with “information from David Suzuki and Noam Chomski.”
Wheat today is not the same as what we ate as kids.
How many of you like eating weed killer on your Wheaties and Cheerios?
Worse still, the application of Roundup to these crops — ones we thought were safe — may account for more than half of the exposure we get from our diets, according to Dr. Charles Benbrook, who recently published a paper on the snowballing use of glyphosate.
In fact, such pre-harvest usage is referred to by seed company owner Tom Ehrhardt as a “‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy in the industry.”
No surprise there, right? Because if they actually told us which products they were using Roundup on, we’d all stay away from them in droves.
As Ehrhardt puts it, “Can you imagine the public’s response if they knew that glyphosate is being sprayed on the oats in their Cheerios only weeks before it is manufactured?”
http://hsionline.com/2016/03/15/glyphosate/
Right back atcha John:
http://www.producer.com/2017/04/glyphosate-levels-not-a-safety-issue/
Exactly! Lysenkoism is alive and well in many science disciplines today. including organic foods, the anti-glysophate agenda, anti-vaxers, and of course the biggest financial snake oil fraud of all time, that being AGW.
Remember when the same ‘experts’ said cigarettes, leaded gasoline, and hydrogenated vegetable oil was ‘safe’?
Nobody cares if you think it’s safe to eat bread and breakfast cereal contaminated with weed killer. Likewise nobody cares if you drive with no seatbelt or choose to ride a motorcycle or play hockey without a helmet. If you have nothing valuable to protect, then why bother?
Fiber is usually accompanied by the sugar. If you want to eat strictly cellulose, have at it.
Parsing your argument only degrades it.
Hey, the gov’t says glyphosate over the maximum levels is okay…one wonders why there are maximum levels and who came up with them?
It basically gives plants the AIDS disease, allowing organisms in the soil to kill it. All the while chelating minerals in the soil, making them unavailable to plants.
“Personally, I thing folk that are too stupid to know how to eat should die …”
Everyone dies fool. You and North of 60 are the only idiots that think they will live forever.
“Does anyone actually take dietary advice from the government? I doubt it. I suspect most people eat a combination of what they were raised on and what they now like. I seriously doubt governmental dietary advice has any impact at all.”
No, but doctors do and they pass along this (mis)information to their patients.
‘If you have nothing valuable to protect, then why bother?’
Your ad hominem argument, similar to the tactics of Suzuki and Chomsky, fails to address my original point and my original link that shows that the chemical composition of a kernel of wheat grown in 2017 is the same as a kernel of wheat from the nineteenth century.
I think the funniest thing now, and I am not necessarily referring to anyone is, everyone believes they are correct, and everything is black and white.
Let’s dissect them, and even Neil (I am the only one that matters) Degrass, is even falling for this when he attempts to shame us for not falling in lockstep behind him with Global Warming. He believes he is the all holder of what is correct, and the evidence that he believes is the most compelling must be the most compelling. He puts down Trump, but yet he is the most arrogant man in the room. Problem is, he has been correct so much in the past, many people, including himself, are falling for the logic he must be correct this time.
And then there is the black and white issue.
Holly crap, holly crap, anti-vaxer, denialist, and so on, PLEASE STOP IT
Are there vaccines that are good? HELL YEAH there have been great vaccines, but does that mean all vaccines are thus good, well of course not. The lack of logic hears amazes me. Our education system really sucks. The people who hold up signs about the successful combat against Polio and suggest that means all modern day vaccines are just as good is beyond stupid, and follows NO LOGIC.
Do humans have an effect on the planet Well yeah, DUH, is our effect the main driver of nature, um, likely not. And there is no way any simulation is the final piece of evidence defining a proof.
I check out when my friends argue food, fat, carbs, sugar, nutrition and detoxing bullshit.
Is someone preventing you from eating food contaminated with weed killer? If not, then why do you care if someone would rather not. Lumping clean food with AGW is disingenuous at best, and not what I’d expect with your usually cogent comments.