Posted on 11/09/2013 6:15:06 AM PST by NYer
Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense. The worst examples are listed here, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg. Here are the top 13 nutrition lies that have made the world both sick and fat.
Eggs are so incredibly nutritious that they’re often called “nature’s multivitamin.”
The nutrients in them are enough to turn a single cell into an entire baby chicken.
However, eggs have been demonized in the past because they contain a large amount of cholesterol, which was believed to increase the risk of heart disease.
But the truth is that despite being high in cholesterol, eggs don’t really raise the bad cholesterol in the blood. In fact, eggs primarily raise the “good” cholesterol (1, 2, 3, 4).
Despite all the warnings about eggs in the past few decades, studies show that they are NOT associated with heart disease (5, 6, 7).
If anything, eggs are pretty much a perfect food for humans. They’re loaded with protein, healthy fats, vitamins, minerals and unique antioxidants that protect the eyes (8, 9).
They are also an excellent source of Choline, a nutrient that is very important for the health of the brain and about 90% of people aren’t getting enough of (10, 11).
Despite being a “high fat” food, eating eggs for breakfast is proven to cause significant weight loss compared to a breakfast of bagels (12, 13).
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Partially hydrogenating is pumping hydrogen into a fat to make it last longer and make products taste better longer. It turns out it is not good for us.
I am not a diet nut, but Adelle Davis described how bad partially-hydrogenated oils are back in the 1950s. She even said that it is better to eat butter.
Stuff it.
Yep.
/johnny probably hit the nail on its head. Food fetish is a 1st world thing.
Over eating “anything” can’t be good. When in Asia I observed that no one loaded up their plate and instead took small servings from the serving dishes brought to the table until they didn’t feel hungry. Many of us and especially now kids have their plates loaded up and are expected to finish it off because “of all the starving children in China”.
I’ve found if I only eat 100% whole grain wheat, and I don’t eat ANYTHING with added gluten, my body can tolerate a reasonable amount of wheat. It’s the processing more than the foods themselves that are often the problem.
How do you know it was the gluten?
Not enough space and too much PII to deliver in an open forum here. Will craft a private FRmail later today.
The lies, summerized:
1. Eggs Are Bad For Your Health
2. A Calorie is a Calorie
3. Saturated Fat is Unhealthy
4. Eating a Lot of Protein is Bad For Your Health
5. Everyone Should be Eating “Heart-Healthy” Whole Wheat
6. Coffee is Bad for You*
7. Meat is Bad For You
8. The Healthiest Diet is a Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet
9. Refined Seed- and Vegetable Oils Are Healthy
10. Low-Carb Diets Are Ineffective and Downright Harmful
Vastly more data at the source, but this is the Reader’s Digest version.
* Note: The people who wrote this are clearly unaware of Dark’s zombie deer coffee.
But you will be someday. Proving their point ;)
Usually people that stop eating wheat have had a high calorie diet. Anyone with a high calorie diet that eats less finds they feel better. Wheat products are high calorie, which is also a good thing because food is to provide calories and not palate happy tastes. However, nutrients in wheat and other gluten products are essential and that good feeling fades as they starve themselves of nutrients and then they go and look for other things to cut out of their diet because they read it on the Internet.
Many people do fasting to feel better. I don’t fast, but I get the idea. I fast in my own way by cutting out things I know are fattening and reduce my intake for a few days. Breads are something I cut out for a few days as they make me feel too full and are high calorie. I usually go on a protein and green veggie diet for a few days. But, I don’t blame gluten or any other fad for my feeling well or bad and ban them from my diet. I just eat moderately.
Over the years we’ve seen starches demonized, meats demonized, wheat demonized, gluten demonized, sugar demonized, dirt grown foods demonized, eggs demonized, salt demonized, etc.
Only in a well fed population can people be finicky enough to go and stave themselves of nutrients.
Thank you for posting the summary. Definitely worth the read.
Bump for later.
Celiac Disease is associated with anemia. Has she been tested? That is the one diagnosis whereby a person should avoid gluten.
Bttt
” 1200 to 1400 “
Not saying your body type, weight, exercise, age, etc. isn’t appropriate for those few calories, but that isn’t much for sustaining most people. The “elderly”, and I use that term very loosely here, can make do on that, but anyone on those few calories must watch the ratios of nutrients in their diet. Anything under 1,000 is considered unhealthy and potentially dangerous.
Registered Dieticians working at assisted living or nursing facilities have a hard time keeping the proper balances for their residents due to the low calorie intake while still trying to ensure proper nutrition.
You’re welcome. Since there is so much background at the source, I mulled over summarizing or not. Finally decided the summary would be more apt to help than hurt.
That's my mom's diet, my brother and I follow it too. So far, so good. Mom's 93, brother is 75 and I'm 68 and none of us is over weight.
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