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To: CaptainK

“How about the concept of everything in moderation?”

For most of the human population “everything in moderation” results in metabolic syndrome, obesity, pre-diabetes, and/or Type II diabetes. The food pyramids used to define what IS moderation were created by politics and not by nutrition science. The woman who was asked to create the food pyramid stood by helplessly as the U.S. Government turned her recommendations upside down and inside out to increase starches and grains among many other things as a much greater percentage of the diet in order to accommodate the foods the U.S. Government was making available through the food stamp programs. The subsequent revisions of the food pyramid defining what is supposed to be a recommended daily diet has undergone even further political modifications. The end result has been to triple the incidence of obesity and diabetes in only a couple of decades by flooding bodies with sugary carbohydrates and lowering healthy saturated fats essential for neurological health.


20 posted on 11/08/2015 5:39:51 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX
For most of the human population everything in moderation results in metabolic syndrome, obesity, pre-diabetes, and/or Type II diabetes.

Huh? A healthy diet will, inevitably, result in all of the maladies you've listed? I don't know where you read that, but it's bizarro.

The food pyramids used to define what IS moderation were created by politics and not by nutrition science.

Whether the pyramid is based on sound science or not, does anyone really pay any attention to it?

...flooding bodies with sugary carbohydrates and lowering healthy saturated fats essential for neurological health.

The Japanese have consumed a high carbohydrate/ low fat diet for hundreds (thousands) of years and they, until recently, have enjoyed the longest life expectancy and lowest rates of obesity of any people on earth. Go figure.

27 posted on 11/08/2015 6:14:41 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: WhiskeyX

And yet oddly enough type II diabetes was a rarity even 150 years ago....It is rare in Japan and they eat very little meat

Your ‘health food’ nonsense is pretty much the nutritional and medical equivalent of Alex Jones


29 posted on 11/08/2015 6:24:02 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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