They told me the "science was settled they said"...
Posted on 10/22/2015 8:29:10 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Last week’s article provided a bit of historical perspective on how the elites could be so wrong for so long on dietary matters.
Also included was one comment from Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), at the recent House Committee On Agriculture hearing On 2015 Dietary Guidelines For Americans, which featured this put-down: “I just want you to understand from my constituents, most of them don’t believe this stuff anymore. You have lost your credibility with a lot of people, and they are just flat-out ignoring this stuff.”
During the same hearing, and referring to the obesity epidemic, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) asked Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: “Are Americans healthier or less healthy since the guidelines have been published, and therefore, are these—have these—in some way, have these guidelines somewhat failed?”
The Congressional hearing was convened primarily to address the 571-page document, issued in February, 2015, entitled “Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.” This report has a major influence on the Dietary Guidelines themselves, to be issued before the end of the year.
The report generated an incredible 29,000 public comments, way up from the 8,000 posted during the 2010 iteration of the Committee. Perhaps the most comprehensive—not to mention withering—critique of the report was done by Nina Teicholz, bestselling author of The Big Fat Surprise.
Here’s the elevator pitch for this well-reviewed book: “Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fats is wrong.
She documents how the past sixty years of low-fat nutrition advice has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.”
“For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat…..
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No stealing the cream for other products.
They told me the "science was settled they said"...
I just ate 3 eggs cooked in a big chunk of butter. Slowly cutting out grains.
Everything, but we knew that already... ;)
I told you that low-fat milk was a communist conspiracy to dilute our precious vital fluids!
The only "experts" regarding healthy eating are old folks who are proof in the pudding. I eat the way my great-grandmother ate: bacon, eggs, whole dairy, fresh veggies and fruits, and bread/starches as a minor supplement.
People who think that red meat is bad for them ... are making a mistake. Red meat, fat and all, is good for you.
Amen!!
I chug juice when I get in the fridge....so maybe 4 ozs a day.
And have milk and cereal for an evening snack.
Dinner....whatever my heart desires.
I'm 72 now. How much longer will I live on a perfect diet??? 2 days, 5 days, two weeks??
Another one — cook with lard, such as in pie crust or frying. Olive oil and coconut oil are okay, too, but don’t take as high a heat and cannot make pie crust or cookies. Lard is the real thing — shortening, hydrogenated vegetable oil, is fake man-made lard (margarine is likewise fake man-made butter) are both BAD for you. Our bodies are designed to process real food, not man-made inventions created by tweaking chemical composition in a laboratory. Fake sugar, processed oils like corn and soy oil — stay away from them, I think. Especially sugar substitutes. EAT CANE SUGAR or honey with good health.
bacon, eggs, whole dairy, fresh veggies and fruits,
All good just remember to count the calories add them up everyday, it works!
I have maintained 70 lb weight loss for 5 years.
I eat what I want but not as much as I want.
Run the numbers!
Too bad there isn’t a way to bring criminal charges against the “experts” whose recommendations result in so much damage.
Anyone here make their own lard?
As for me ... I eat as much meat as I want, zero counting calories there ... I kinda run the numbers, but I exercise a lot; on days I swim my 1.3 or more miles, I have to remember to eat more. Calories really only count, for me anyway, when it is a starchy carb such as bread -- bread and things of white flour, along with candy and mixed nuts, will put weight on me pretty fast, whereas prodigious amounts of ice cream, walnuts (I eat a lot of walnuts every day) cheese, and other high-calorie but low-starchy-carb foods seem to have little affect; anymore, I don't count their calories, they are exempt! But then again it may be because of my rather speedy metabolism, as I am pretty physically active. I run the numbers when it comes to sugary starchy sweets (cookies) and flour-starch foods. All other foods I eat as much as I want!
I LOVE my rib eye steak to have a nice bit of fat on it...its the best part...of course, we don’t have steak that often anymore...
Not me. Easier just to buy it at the store. It’s interesting how many vegetarians will make an exception for my pie. I refuse anymore to use shortening for anything. I used to use it all the time.
More vindication for Doctor Atkins.
Lowering cholesterol. Heart attack rates have not changed in the 20 yrs of cholesterol prescribing craziness.
“Protecting yourself against heart disease requires far more than just simply lowering your cholesterol levels. In fact, 50 percent of the people who are hospitalized with heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels, and 25 percent of people who develop premature heart disease have no traditional risk factors at all. Maybe elevated cholesterol isn’t the real cause of heart disease in the first place.
The best predictors of a future heart attack come from prospective studies that follow healthy people for a number of years to determine which ones go on to develop heart disease, and then to figure out why. Because these are expensive trials, very few of them are done. But those that exist have indicated that cholesterol levels are, in fact, a very poor predictor of future heart attacks.” Dr Barry Sears
A nice 6oz steak and a tomato salad makes a great meal. Add a dish of mandarin oranges or pears or whatever for dessert.
Very little bread. Maybe half a loaf in a month.
Chips....a bag a year...and throw half of it out.
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