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Fat City 0

Paul John Scott explores a (yet another) dietary delusion: pushing chocolate milk as low-fat “healthy” in school meals. A nugget (emphasis added); do read the rest:

We embraced the erroneous low-fat paradigm because a University of Minnesota-based expert named Ancel Keys had a gut feeling that saturated fat caused heart disease; collected carefully chosen data from dietary practices in Greece and Italy to back up his hunch, then brushed off all contrary evidence. Keys quickly developed alliances at the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, on Capitol Hill and at the USDA — with the help of an eager and unquestioning health press much like that of today. (Time magazine placed him on its cover, and this was back when people still read Time magazine.) In a less-known Minnesota connection to the tale, Teicholz describes how the largest-ever trial of the Keys hypothesis was conducted here in the 1960s. Most doctors do not know about the 9,000-patient Minnesota Coronary Survey, however, and that’s because it failed to find that cutting saturated fat reduced the risk of heart disease — whereupon the author kept the results to himself for 16 years. This is how science is treated in the dietary policy world: as publicity to be either promoted or suppressed depending upon what it finds.

Also, don’t eat too much salt. Just save it up so you have a grain to take with every commercial, ad, column, and news story you see that includes dietary advice, and, especially, commercials for “supplements.” Usually, all they supplement is their manufacturers’ income.

Wife tells husband she's found a diet where you can eat anything as long as you buy all your food from them. Husbands asks whether she's thinking of going on. She replies,


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June 22, 2014 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Mammon |

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