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40-50 years ago, our public health officials jumped on the idea that we needed to eat a low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol, high-carb diet, for "health".

With no real scientific evidence to back up the claim.

The result has been an explosion in obesity, diabetes, and assorted diseases.

It's well past time for them to admit that they simply got it wrong.

1 posted on 02/10/2015 11:13:59 AM PST by jdege
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I thought the science was...settled.


2 posted on 02/10/2015 11:15:41 AM PST by pfflier
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Eggs ... aren’t bad for you.

Salt ... Americans don’t get enough.

Carbohydrates at the bottom of the Food Pyramid ... Never mind.

Cholesterol ... Eat that steak!

Way to go Feds.

Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that driving cars will change the weather.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 11:16:07 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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Do diabetics get to sue?


4 posted on 02/10/2015 11:16:29 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Rules!)
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In about 20 years, the morons will announce they’ve finally figured out Global Warming was all BS.


6 posted on 02/10/2015 11:17:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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They will probably never admit any such thing.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 11:18:00 AM PST by Republican1795.
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There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?


8 posted on 02/10/2015 11:19:27 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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We’ve turned into a nation of pill poppers. I got one word for you, pharmaceuticals.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 11:19:28 AM PST by McGruff (Haters Gonna Hate)
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Sugar is the new cholesterol. Fast forward another 40 years.

“Sugar is not actually all that bad for you. Our bad.”

I can’t remember his name, but there is a surgeon who says that statin drugs are what is doing all of the damage to arteries not dietary intake.


11 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:22 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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So, when do they officially apologize to the family of the late Dr. Atkins?


12 posted on 02/10/2015 11:21:59 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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Have they axed Michelle yet?


14 posted on 02/10/2015 11:22:52 AM PST by moovova
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Time for my doctor to prescribe me an all pork diet.
15 posted on 02/10/2015 11:25:12 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Darth Obama on 529 plans: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.)
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yet the school lunch program will continue to serve stuff that gets sent right to the trash .


16 posted on 02/10/2015 11:25:50 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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You are absolutely correct.


17 posted on 02/10/2015 11:27:03 AM PST by Rusty0604
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wonder if this is so this way the new Obamacare peeps do not have to pay for cholesterol lowering drugs.

They’ve also changed the stats for high blood pressure so less people need to be on high blood pressure meds...more money saved.

Course the patient will have problems.


22 posted on 02/10/2015 11:31:01 AM PST by Beowulf9
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Dr. Orva: Here. You smoke this, and be sure you get the smoke deep down into your lungs.

Miles Monroe: I don't smoke.

Dr. Orva: It's tobacco. It's one of the healthiest things for your body. Now go ahead. You need all the strength you can get.

Sleeper clip (diet and tobacco)

23 posted on 02/10/2015 11:31:08 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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One small step to admitting Dr. Atkins was correct. Eat lean protein sources and greens vegetables.


25 posted on 02/10/2015 11:35:47 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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If people need help taming the cholesterol numbers, try this product: Citrus Bergamot

The “Bergamot” is a type of orange grown only in a certain part of Italy. It is a citrus .. and it’s components are more helpful in keeping the cholesterol numbers good than all the Lipitor in the world.

Here are the stats I found:
22% + Decrease in Blood Sugar
38% + Decrease in LDL
50% + Increase in HDL
30% + Decrease in Triglycerides

I found it at www.vitaminshoppe.com
A 60 day supply is under $40
My supply should arrive today or tomorrow. After 2 months, I’m going to have another blood test to see the results of this new capsule.

I can’t take Lipitor because I have already experienced the “rare but serious side effect of swelling of the face, tongue or throat”. But, my cholesterol numbers are a combination of genetics and food - the full prize. So, I’m very excited about this prospect of no longer having to worry so much about eating that T-Bone I enjoy.


26 posted on 02/10/2015 11:36:38 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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Forty and 45 years ago the left started deconstructing every element of our life, not just on things like breaking up our communities and busing our kids, creating new words and forbidding un PC opinions and the formation of an entirely new language, and with homosexuality and the rewriting of American history and of Western Civilization, but even inside of our homes and our cars, and our eating and drinking.

A simple thing like a typical American breakfast, came under serious and sustained assault.


28 posted on 02/10/2015 11:38:38 AM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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Fraudulent study by Ancel Keys, a USDA in bed with wheat, corn and sugar lobbies, and wanting to save money on the new food stamp program. Meat is bad and wheat is good.

Millions are dying of obesity-related diseases today because of “low fat” fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBURnqYVzw


33 posted on 02/10/2015 11:49:23 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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Government statements are to be taken with a grain of salt, especially with the penchant for lying, suppression of facts, and generally corrupt behavior.


35 posted on 02/10/2015 11:55:14 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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