Posted on 11/07/2022 8:20:07 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Prominent organizations including the World Health Organization and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have dismissed low-carbohydrate diets that prevent tooth decay in favor of recommending high-carbohydrate diets which rely on fluoride and food fortification to mitigate dental damage and nutritional shortcomings, a researcher says.
Dr. Philippe Hujoel says that not only these organizations but other associations reversed earlier positions and began recommending high-carbohydrate diets. Specifically, he cites the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Dental Association (ADA).
In the meantime, Dr. Hujoel says, some scientists provided compelling evidence that low-carbohydrate diets were at least as beneficial to health as high-carbohydrate diets. Low-carbohydrate diets help prevent tooth decay and make fluoride—which has no tangible health benefits other than preventing cavities—largely unnecessary, he says.
Dr. Hujoel's study traces this development toward fluoride-supplemented high-carbohydrate dietary guidelines back to the mid-twentieth century, when leaders like Emory W. Morris, a dentist and president of the Kellogg Foundation—an arm of a major cereal maker—became the first chairman of the ADA's Council on Dental Health in 1942.
Morris suggested that the issue of dental decay be solved with fluoride rather than sticking to the existing recommendation of a low-carbohydrate diet. He had a conflict of interest in this decision, as cereals are carbohydrates and do increase tooth decay risk.
Furthermore, to make its recommendations, the ADA's council had to reverse its position on several key points, Dr. Hujoel says:
- The safety of topically applied fluoride - The role of deficiencies in bone health nutrients as a cause of tooth decay, changed from "established fact" to an explicit dismissal - The need to teach dental patients "that a reduction in the carbohydrate intake is necessary," changing to a recommendation of a "well-balanced" diet, which became increasingly associated with high-carbohydrate nutritional guidelines
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The American Diabetes Association literally said they didn’t encourage low carb, because it’s “too restrictive.”
What’s funny is that WebMD deleted that article and reference, but I caught the good part, here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3671127/posts
These medical associations are all suspect and compromising on bad stuff, when the science says something else, just takes a doctor from Kellogg to turn on its head, not unlike what’s happened to the Boy Scouts.
Great meme. At least someone remembers precious bodily fluids around here.
That image! Thanks!
Good one Doodle
No.Credibility.Remaining.
Tooth decay isn’t a good thing but obesity is much more dangerous. It has more than 30 comorbidities.
Sterling Hayden at his all time best.
I was hoping.......
General Jack D?
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