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How ‘Settled Science’ Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 4/18/2016 | John Merline

Posted on 04/18/2016 4:06:20 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

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To: Arm_Bears

“A) Science is never settled.”

This bears repeating in every thread of this sort, whether it’s about climate, health/medicine, physics, or whatever.


21 posted on 04/18/2016 6:04:42 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: IBD editorial writer
At the same time the government nutritionists were waging the wrong war against dietary fat, they were pushing for elevated levels of carbohydrate consumption. This, plus the growing inactivity of children (cutting out recesses in elementary school eg,) with the advent of children's tv and video games, led to the current surge in type II diabetes now that those children have grown up.
22 posted on 04/18/2016 6:40:03 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Future Useless Eater

I have Gastroparesis..Slow Motility which means my diet is sans all fiber, high fat, legumes, and it’s led to Bowel Transit time issues. Eating BLAND boring is hard, on top of that there is the SOY/Grapefruit issue for Thyroid issues and slight Dairy Interference. Then you have to add in the HIGH sodium, I have an Enlarged Heart with a small valve leak, not considered repairable. Meniere’s which is referred to as Glaucoma of the ears, because the pressures are unequal like in the eye form. Vertigo is a big part of that and to much sodium effects both the BP and the Meniere’s.

I cringe when I watch the amount of sodium cooking shows use. Sea Salt is all the rage, yet if it’s white it’s bleached. Sea Salt is light Pink, light Grey or Grey.

Sodium is a big issue in a big portion of the population.

Baby formula is high is sugar and large fat globules, which are about like the big globules in Holstein milk which is our main source of Milk now. Which is why we are seeing a up tick in Colic which is now being treated as Acid Re-flux or GERD the treatment will cause brittle bones if it goes on to long. PPI’s are dangerous in this respect to any age patient. They are a short term 2 week treatment not a life time.


23 posted on 04/18/2016 6:46:31 AM PDT by GailA (any politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

My science is settled around my waist.


24 posted on 04/18/2016 7:05:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Future Useless Eater
damages livers if eaten in the large quantities that Americans now consume

If you overwhelm the body with anything, bad things will happen. That said, the quantities you're talking about would be nearly impossible to accomplish.

A young adult human body can only detoxify about 30 grams of fructose

Detoxify? Just about anything can be toxic, but what you're suggesting makes no sense.

More than that and it slowly poisons your liver.

The moderate consumption of fresh fruit poisons your liver? Who knew.

If you are/were a huge sugar addict

Sugar/sucrose is not addictive.

Clearing toxins from your body is a function of the liver. Labeling sugar - however you define it - as toxic is ridiculous.

25 posted on 04/18/2016 7:34:19 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: from occupied ga

Yes. I call it dietary climate change.


26 posted on 04/18/2016 9:41:29 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: from occupied ga

I’d wager no real scientist has ever uttered the words “settled science” as a declarative.


27 posted on 04/18/2016 2:10:25 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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Something worth keeping in mind about Ancel Keyes and his "multi-nation" study.

If you're going to relate diet to any physiological condition, you need to measure diet over a long period. Instead, Keyes sampled diets in his study countries over a period of a few weeks at most.

Ordinarily this wouldn't matter, if people at the same kind of diet all the time.

Unfortunately, Keyes sampled diets in Greece and a few other Orthodox Christian countries during Lent, when people were abstaining from meat. Had he sampled over a whole year, he might well have gotten entirely different results.

28 posted on 04/18/2016 3:24:28 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,)
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You can count sugar, carbs, grains, processed foods, and throw in the phase of the moon but it will come down to this; all calories consumed but not expended will become fat.

I used to think that way. Sugar and carbs are processed differently by the body.

29 posted on 04/18/2016 3:27:28 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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I’d wager no real scientist has ever uttered the words “settled science” as a declarative.

Agree. Only govt hacks and leftist idiots who aren't capable of intellectually proving their point. Shout down the opposing view if you can't refute it

30 posted on 04/18/2016 3:44:26 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerThen ous enemy)
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31 posted on 04/18/2016 4:22:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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32 posted on 04/19/2016 5:13:01 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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