The Big Fat Lie We’ve Been Fed About Our Diet

The Fiscal Times ^ | May 22, 2014 | Maureen Mackey

[goodwithagun]

Be honest: That bacon, egg and cheese breakfast you scarfed down the other day was so delicious you’d love to have it for breakfast every morning. But like so many other health-conscious, weight-watching Americans, you just won’t allow yourself that indulgence. Instead, you opt for the usual low-fat, low-calorie and (oh-so-bland) oatmeal.

[Mears]

“I know a lot of old, fat, smokers who are living on the beach in Florida.

“I pretty much do what I want. It all seems like a crap shoot.”.

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I am an 81 year old smoker(always slim,though), and here I am. It IS a crap shoot.

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[trisham]

One day I believe that the cause(s) of cancer will be discovered, but most of what I see now seems to be speculation.

[dalereed]

i swore off oatmeal over 70 years ago, it’s nothing but horse food!

[rarestia]

I stand corrected. I was in grade school in the 80s and remember it being bandied about as the de facto health standard.

[nonamer]

Here is a pretty good, relevant scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdbZEXfPwmg

[JayGalt]

Perhaps you would prefer the article in the Wall Street Journal that has more background information and makes an excellent case for bacon as a healthy choice (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303678404579533760760481486#)

The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you? The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade

[raybbr]

I am an 81 year old smoker(always slim,though), and here I am. It IS a crap shoot.””

Eighty one? You post so much younger. I was guessing a curmudgeonly sixty year old.

[Gabz]

Learn about nutrition and try to get to the gym everyday.

I'd love to know how much stock you have in any of the national chain gyms or "nutrition" stores.

Seriously, you sound like one of those paid spokespersons on TV hawking some law firm or other...........

[trisham]

Or a 62 year old who dies from a fall. “Life is unfair”.

[trisham]

LOL! I’m a bit cranky at times myself. :)

[southern rock]

Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you?

Yes, in so many ways. I refer you to the writings of Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and T. Colin Campbell.

[CatherineofAragon]

"you’d be interested. People are soooo desperate to believe that bacon is a health food and cholesterol should be a beverage. You have to laugh."

Are you still in a bad mood? I hope things get better for you.

Call in your buddy so he can try to convince us that bread, potatoes, and rice are the cure for diabetes.

[FreedomPoster]

It was well-entrenched by the time Ronnie took office. There’s no way he could have gotten rid of it in 8 years even with a full-court press - which he didn’t have the scientific backup to attempt.

[Georgia Girl 2]

This is basically the Adkins diet. We have gone back on it and also drinking the canary seed milk every day. Losing weight and more energy

[southern rock]

Are you still in a bad mood? I hope things get better for you. Call in your buddy so he can try to convince us that bread, potatoes, and rice are the cure for diabetes

Wow, OK. First off I don't even know him outside that one thread. I pinged him because the subject matter is of interest to him.

Secondly, why exactly do you claim I am in a bad mood? Because I dared post on a food/nutrition thread with some info you don't want to hear?

[Twotone]

Good genes are primary. The women(!) on my mother’s side of the family live well into their 90’s - smoking, drinking, overweight & having a high old time. I hope to do the same.

[caveat emptor]

Eat All the Fried Chicken You Want!

Not a good idea. The culprit in arteriosclerosis is actually an essential amino acid, methionine, and had it been isolated and identified in the early 20th century when extensive research on both cholesterol and proteins was being done, cholesterol as possibly related to widespread heart disease would have been a minor footnote in the history of medicine.

If interested you can read about it here (NYT), The Fall and Rise of Kilmer McCully, or here (half.com), "Beyond Cholesterol" by Raymond and Gruberg (out of print).

[Finny]

This is why I switched ALL my frying to lard a few years ago. And it tastes a lot better, too.

I read the whole article -- MUSIC TO MY EARS. It's amazing -- the meals recommended is almost the way I eat, though I think I'll switch to fat milk (I drink skim now). FWIW, a few years shy of 60 I am only an inch larger in pant size than I was as a trim teen. I also exercise, though.

EXCELLENT ARTICLE! And I highly recommend switching from shortening to lard in all applications. The taste is AMAZINGLY better.

[CatherineofAragon]

Oh, please, lighten up.

[Finny]

Sunday morning breakfast is dark beer, stewed tomatoes and smoked herring.

Amen!!