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The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol in your diet
Washington Post ^ | 2/10/2015 | Peter Whoriskey

Posted on 02/10/2015 11:13:59 AM PST by jdege

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40-50 years ago, our public health officials jumped on the idea that we needed to eat a low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol, high-carb diet, for "health".

With no real scientific evidence to back up the claim.

The result has been an explosion in obesity, diabetes, and assorted diseases.

It's well past time for them to admit that they simply got it wrong.

1 posted on 02/10/2015 11:13:59 AM PST by jdege
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I thought the science was...settled.


2 posted on 02/10/2015 11:15:41 AM PST by pfflier
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Eggs ... aren’t bad for you.

Salt ... Americans don’t get enough.

Carbohydrates at the bottom of the Food Pyramid ... Never mind.

Cholesterol ... Eat that steak!

Way to go Feds.

Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that driving cars will change the weather.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 11:16:07 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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Do diabetics get to sue?


4 posted on 02/10/2015 11:16:29 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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“I thought the science was...settled.”

You type faster than I do.


5 posted on 02/10/2015 11:16:57 AM PST by thorvaldr
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In about 20 years, the morons will announce they’ve finally figured out Global Warming was all BS.


6 posted on 02/10/2015 11:17:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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They will probably never admit any such thing.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 11:18:00 AM PST by Republican1795.
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There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?


8 posted on 02/10/2015 11:19:27 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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We’ve turned into a nation of pill poppers. I got one word for you, pharmaceuticals.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 11:19:28 AM PST by McGruff (Haters Gonna Hate)
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No, liberals will not give up their faith based religion of man made global warming, even if they have to freeze to death.


10 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:05 AM PST by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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Sugar is the new cholesterol. Fast forward another 40 years.

“Sugar is not actually all that bad for you. Our bad.”

I can’t remember his name, but there is a surgeon who says that statin drugs are what is doing all of the damage to arteries not dietary intake.


11 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:22 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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So, when do they officially apologize to the family of the late Dr. Atkins?


12 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:59 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?

1984 NIH Consensus Conference on Cholesterol

Best summary: "If there had really been a consensus, there'd have been no need for a conference."

13 posted on 02/10/2015 11:22:05 AM PST by jdege
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Have they axed Michelle yet?


14 posted on 02/10/2015 11:22:52 AM PST by moovova
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Time for my doctor to prescribe me an all pork diet.
15 posted on 02/10/2015 11:25:12 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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yet the school lunch program will continue to serve stuff that gets sent right to the trash .


16 posted on 02/10/2015 11:25:50 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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You are absolutely correct.


17 posted on 02/10/2015 11:27:03 AM PST by Rusty0604
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In about 20 years, the morons will announce they’ve finally figured out Global Warming was all BS.

And that Harry Reid didn't have an exercise machine malfunction...

18 posted on 02/10/2015 11:28:18 AM PST by taildragger (It's Cruz, Pence or Walker, anything else is a Yugo with Racing Stripes....)
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To: Republican1795.

The “ice age” didn’t pan out in the seventies, so then it was “global warming”, but now they are just calling it “climate change”. Who can argue with that?


19 posted on 02/10/2015 11:28:52 AM PST by Rusty0604
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They axed the Wookie about transfats and she said”not really”


20 posted on 02/10/2015 11:30:28 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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