Posted on 11/24/2013 6:50:06 PM PST by bkopto
Sweden has become the first Western nation to develop national dietary guidelines that reject the popular low-fat diet dogma in favor of low-carb high-fat nutrition advice.
The switch in dietary advice followed the publication of a two-year study by the independent Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment. The committee reviewed 16,000 studies published through May 31, 2013.
Butter, olive oil, heavy cream, and bacon are not harmful foods. Quite the opposite. Fat is the best thing for those who want to lose weight. And there are no connections between a high fat intake and cardiovascular disease.
On Monday, SBU, the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment, dropped a bombshell. After a two-year long inquiry, reviewing 16,000 studies, the report “Dietary Treatment for Obesity” upends the conventional dietary guidelines for obese or diabetic people.
For a long time, the health care system has given the public advice to avoid fat, saturated fat in particular, and calories. A low-carb diet (LCHF – Low Carb High Fat, is actually a Swedish “invention”) has been dismissed as harmful, a humbug and as being a fad diet lacking any scientific basis.
Instead, the health care system has urged diabetics to eat a lot of fruit (=sugar) and low-fat products with considerable amounts of sugar or artificial sweeteners, the latter a dangerous trigger for the sugar-addicted person.
This report turns the current concepts upside down and advocates a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, as the most effective weapon against obesity.
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Just in time for the holidays! Bring on the bacon-wrapped turkey and gravy - but no mashed potatoes - sniff :(
and I will continue to eat what I want, whenever I want it and in the quantities that I desire.
Somewhere, Dr. Atkins is smiling.
Oh God. I wish we could still get pork chops with fat on them.
In Norway. chops come with all fat cut away. Disappeared by the same subhumans of darkness that disappeared the lightbulbs.
Also lutefisk has life extending benefits. Stop whining. It’s good for you.
Two books by Gary Taubes deal with the (pseudo)science and politics behind the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet; “Good Calories,Bad Calories” and “Why We Get Fat”.
The scientific fraud behind the prevailing diet ‘wisdom’ is so reminiscent of the scientific fraud behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Amen.
No government has any business telling citizens what they can eat.
Or drive.
Or see by.
Or poop in.
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Not a guilty one in the entire group!
There is one factor in determining heart disease. It’s called “Who’s your daddy?”
So True!
A radio talk show host brings this subject up all the time. Can’t remember that guy’s name, I think it starts with an “R.” Nicholas P. Money interviewed Cecil Terence Ingold (1905–2010), a leading light in the twentieth-century study of mycology. His words exactly: “Yet for a man who lived so long and knew so much, his advice to the neophyte was limited. When I asked him for tips for matching his vigorous longevity, he uttered one unhelpful word: ‘Genes.’ ”
bfl
And I’m pretty sure in 30 years, this new diet model will be identified as the cause of some new health crisis, and the central planning authority will hand us down a new incorrect regimen.
There is no scientific fraud with the diet recommendations. The problem is that many physicians--most of whom are *not* trained in research--do huge studies and crunch megabytes of data to come up with correlations. And they make the mistake of thinking that finding a correlation proves something, when it only indicates that more research is needed.
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