And there was the doozy of a study the other day saying that Intermittent Fasting will lead to heart attacks.
Zoe Harcombe just reviewed “A recent presentation at an American Heart Association conference generated global headlines. It claimed that eating within an 8-hour window each day was linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death.”
Since she charges for her newsletter - which I love and it well worth the nominal price - I wont quote it at length. But not surprisingly, “The claims for CVD deaths were based on 31 events in 20,078 people. The groups and eating windows were so uneven that bias must be suspected. And all of this relates to two attempts to remember what was eaten yesterday, 20 years ago.”
They did the entire study based on TWO food questionnaires, asking what people ate (in and what time frame) during the previous 24 hours - done in 2003 & 2005!
YGBSM! That was before intermittent fasting was done! Two questionnaires done over 20 years ago, trying to get a snapshot of 24 hours each, and we’re supposed to believe people have continued to eat that way for the last 20 years? Jason Fung wrote The Complete Guide to Fasting in 2016, a dozen years AFTER the two questionnaires!
Oh...and Wikipedia’s article on Jason Fung notes, “Fung’s book The Obesity Code received a 31% score for scientific accuracy and an overall score of 60% by Red Pen Reviews.[16] The reviewer Seth Yoder commented that several of the main claims of the book are poorly supported by science including the idea that elevated levels of insulin are the primary cause of obesity.” No bias there, eh?
Me? Keto and IF finally got me off the Yo-Yo Diet syndrome that lasted 45 years in my case! 45 years of trusting government and having my weight go up and down 40 pounds. It has now been stable for 7 years (at the low end) and I’m on Medicare while running 4 miles a day FOR FUN! And weightlifting.
But ignore my body and submit to government officials who study mice...