Posted on 11/20/2015 6:22:31 PM PST by WhiskeyX
Dr. Peter Attia: The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines
Description: Most of the dietary recommendations made in the United States are not firmly grounded in well-controlled science. The implications for this are profound, especially at a time where two-thirds of Americans are overweight and obesity and its related diseases – diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease to name a few – are claiming the lives of more people each year. In this presentation, Peter Attia takes a close look at one such pillar of dietary wisdom, the recommendation that Americans minimize their consumption of dietary cholesterol and fat in an effort to reduce heart disease.
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Dr. Peter Attia: The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9TIHmsxZU
This video is one in a series of videos and websites which are being posted on FreeRepublic in the coming days in regard to nutritional health. In the beginning these videos were being posted as a rebuttal to an article and comments in another posted article on FreeRepublic remarking on obesity. Due to the strong interest in obesity and nutritional health as it relates to Type II Diabetes, the videos relating to Type II diabetes and how to reverse the progression of the disease are being moved forward among the other video topics in this series. Expect to see a mixture of videos regarding the role of carbohydrates in the diet and their relationship to nutritional health topics ranging from metabolic syndrome and Diabetes to dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Altzheimer's Disease, and more. The effects of standard government sponsored diets, health association diets, and alternative diets upon everyday nutrition, sports nutrition, and diabetic nutrition will be mixed in with videos focused on the use of various low carbohydrate and high fat (LCHF) diets, such as the ketogenic diets as a treatment for Type II Diabetes.
Anyone who is interested in following this series of posts about nutritional health is invited to request a ping.
The Nutritional Health Series includes the following FreeRepublic posts and links.
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 1-20 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 20
How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3360307/posts
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 21-29 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 31 Fake Olive Oil, It's Everywhere. Most Likely In Your Kitchen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3360590/posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNsGzmtCd8I
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 31-40 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 41
Eat Better Episode 2 - Ketogenic Diets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3362156/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOGBtBunBY
To view the Nutritional Health Series in Parts 41-50 see the list of videos and their FreeRepublic links listed in:
Nutritional Health Series, Part 50
JumpstartMD presents Dr. Peter Attia on the Role of Fat in Weight Loss - Part 3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3362912/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5wquzbtAY
Nutritional Health Series, Part 51
Dr. Peter Attia: The limits of scientific evidence and the ethics of dietary guidelines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9TIHmsxZU
one could probably do better by doing the opposite of what is commonly recommended.
Ping
You are on to a movement here. A coworker explained his regimen and how it works. He has lost 2 belt sizes and gained 15 pounds.
It is strict, and deals with <50 carbs per day for ten days. then sleep on 750.
Go back to <50 for 5 days then sleep on 750.
Entire metabolism changes.
His morning meal is now a full 2 cups of coffee with half a stick of butter.
I think 100% of what the government has told us about food has been proved to be wrong.
Given that I see my coworkers every 6 months or so, this guy is ripped at 38 and never felt better. Carbs are your enemy.
Calories, Salt, Fat and the like are BS.
Watch the insulin levels. They will spike on a run like this.
The problem is that the government is not looking out for the interests of the citizens, it now exists solely to enrich many special interest groups. So any advice pushed and marketed by the government is going to be bad for us and good for certain companies or industries.
Exactly. Our very Gubermint puts carbs at #1.
Keep in mind the average age of death in 1935 was 62.
(Don’t you dare compare that to SS)
In one of the videos the author sought out the person who created the U.S. Government food pyramid. He discovered the food pyramid author was a lady, nutritionist, and researcher who was hired by the U.S. Government to develop the food pyramid on a contract. He met with this now elderly lady and discussed the origins of the food pyramid. She described how she determined what was supposed to go into the food pyramid, and she also described how the people who hired her to do this turned her food pyramid inside out and upside down after she submitted hers. In her food pyramid the carbohydrates now forming the base of the food pyramid and bulk of the daily calories was instead in the peak of the pyramid and quite limited in daily calories. her food pyramid more closely resembled the Atkins, Paleo, and ketogenic diets emphasizing low carbohydrate, modest protein, and high fat percentages of daily calories. He also learned that oone of the reasons the U.S. Government officials rewrote her food pyramid was to accommodate the high carbohydrate grains and other foods being used in the U.S. Government food stamp programs. So,, according to the author who interviewed the original creator of the food pyramid, the revised version of the food pyramid published by the U.S. Government is a political food policy contrary to the best science of nutrition used by the original author and nutritionist.
Like the present controversy over global Warming and Climate Change, political dictates are usurping genuine science with politically derived pseudo-science affecting everyone’s lives for the worse.
Thanks, that is an excellent source.
I don’t understand what you wrote at all.
He was gaining fat weight. He started a no carb diet and working out with dead weights.
He eats nothing but fats. No sugars and no carbs. He is ripped in a few months. Thats all.
Fats themselves are no good; you’ve absolutely got to have proteins.
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