Four decades of bad nutrition advice based on 'settled science' was contradicted by rigorous study

Newly unearthed data from four decades ago contradicted gospel that animal fats are worse than vegetable fats — and was ignored. All those climate alarmists who proclaim that they "believe in science" fail to understand that science is created by flawed human beings who are susceptible to ignoring findings that don't confirm their hypotheses. Or generate future grants for more research in the field.

Today, the "settled science" of nutrition as it stood decades ago is being questioned, in part because Americans have become obese after decades of following federal guidelines that turn out to be poppycock.

In The Scientific American, which is all in on global warming as settled science, renowned science writer Sharon Begley chronicles the rediscovery "in a dusty basement" of a rigorous study from 40 years ago that contradicted the dietary wisdom of the day.

[Christopher] Ramsden, of the National Institutes of Health, unearthed raw data from a 40-year-old study, which challenges the dogma that eating vegetable fats instead of animal fats is good for the heart. The study, the largest gold-standard experiment testing that idea, found the opposite, Ramsden and his colleagues reported on Tuesday in BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal).

Despite the quality of the data and study, it went almost completely unnoticed:

The Nixon-era experiment had produced only a single journal paper, in 1989, which concluded that replacing saturated fats found in meat and dairy products with vegetable oils did not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease or death. But it had few quantitative data and little statistical analysis, and was silent on many of the questions the researchers told NIH, which funded it, they intended to answer.

Ramsden wondered if there was more data from the study somewhere.

Scientific methods are not infallible but, properly applied, tend to be self correcting. This is the operation of “normal science.” When anomalies appear they often are first ignored, but eventually have to be accounted for, if the scientific community is functioning as it should.

The global warming enterprise deliberately aborts the functioning of the scientific community to prevent the emergence of contradictory results. That the damage is largely self inflicted does not mitigate the harm being done.

This bombshell was published in the UK and released 12 April 2016.

It has been ignored by most American doctors/hospitals/HMOs and those who pushed the Statin drugs on us for decades and the high carb diets.

There have been zero published studies comparing a Paleo type of diet to the high carb/veggie centered diet re heart attacks and cardio problems with both diets.h

One other thing to consider re the push of Statins, if they did anything positive, they supposedly prevented early heart attacks. For those of us in our late 70’s and 80’s, that is past the early heart attack life span.

Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)

BMJ 2016; 353 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1246 (Published 12 April 2016)
Cite this as: BMJ 2016;353:i1246

https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246

“While it can produce many positive results, it is not infallible.”

You mean like the invention of heroin as a pain killer and DDT to kill the lice on the soldiers coming back from Europe. Or even the hidden aspect of before there was the use of hydrolyzing foods to increase their shelf life, there was no type II diabetes.

I’m a firm believer that now someone will come up with something wrong with everything we say or create in time down the road. Everything on this planet is there to get you one way or another. Doom and gloom.

But I’m also reminded about someone making the comment that there are a lot of health nut people in the hospital dying of nothing.

rwood

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