I need protein! Maybe some people can live without it but I know I can't!
The main part of the article is an important part concerning “progressives” that it cannot be understated and is too often given too little emphasis, and that is “rule by experts”.
THAT is at the top of the “political food chain” of progressives.
They only have any respect for democracy and representative government for one purpose - to create another agency of experts who will thereafter make the laws (”regulations”) on some area, or to add more power to an existing agency. In other words the progressive agenda is 100% about not democracy and representatives making the laws. It is about creating institutions that do not need democracy and representative lawmaking to make the laws; they write the laws themselves known as “regulations”.
The main agenda of progressives is the replacement of democracy and representative government with the administrative/regulatory state - rule by experts.
Bacon. Lots and lots of bacon. Oh, and a sausage or two.
From the link:
As Frederic Bastiat once said, “We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.”
This is, unfortunately, quite true. When I’m at a dinner party and someone starts lecturing the table about the perils of saturated fat (or red meat, or eggs, or fill-in-the-blank), I’m at the point – after years of being kicked under the table by my wife – of just asking the “authority” at the table one question: Why do you believe this is true?
I figure, put the burden of proof on them, right? This week, and I apologize for how long overdue this post is, I’m going to get into the details of how this country (and many others who followed our lead) came to believe one of the most pervasive myths in the entire field of nutrition.
To write it all out would require a tome. In fact, such a tome already exists. It’s called Good Calories, Bad Calories. But for most people, especially the “authorities” who already “know” the answer, it’s a complex and lengthy book. Furthermore, it’s not exactly something you can just whip out at a dinner party.
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the UCSD medical school. I was asked to give a talk about “ethics.” While I have no professional training as an ethicist, I still think I have a good idea about what is and is not ethical. As I’ve learned more and more about this topic, it appears to me that the state of our current nutritional environment, with food policies based on just about everything but rigorous, experimental science, couldn’t make much ethical sense. I’m pretty sure if Plato, Aristotle, and Nietzsche were still around they’d be disgusted with how we got here. So, I was happy to take this opportunity to speak with a group of thought leaders on this important topic.
Below [see link above] is a video combining the audio of my talk with my slide presentation. It’s about an hour long. But as Bastiat essentially said, if you want to overturn half-truths, you can’t do it with bumper stickers. Hopefully you’ll find this talk informative and useful for your dinner party discussions.
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Congrats!! Did you follow a keto diet plan? What have you changed from losing to maintenance?
For the uninitiated, WHAT fat you eat matters almost more than how much. Stay far away from all seed oils as they are almost all rancid. Animal fats are excellent, so long as they are from healthy animals. Thus, grass fed animals or pastured animals. Organic animal fat much better than non organic. Don’t eat fat of feedlot animals very often.
Grass fed butter, like Kerrygold, is what you want. Grassfed animals will have vitamin K in their butter, which is a most important cancer fighting, skeleton strengthening vitamin we lack. (Also found in fatty seafoods)
Coconut oil is very good for the brain, the skin, etc.
Olive oil is also important but it needs to be from a company that doesn’t mix inferior seed oils into it, which for some sick reason is legal in the USA, (and illegal but done anyway in some of the European brands).
When the original article says human fat metabolism is complicated, they aren’t giving enough credit to the gut bacteria. We don’t metabolize or digest without them. In order to have the most optimal biome, we have to feeed them every time we eat. They don’t eat fat. So we need to give them the starches they crave. Drop the sugary stuff (which the bad ones crave, starve them to death) and focus on potatoes and rice, cooked and cooled, as well as every kind of vegetable. Not much fruit, but a little is ok.
Back to pgkdan: I am absolutely thrilled for you!
The growth rate of profits of Big Agriculture companies depend upon Americans and other global consumers to increase their intake of carbohydrates and reduce their intake of proteins and fat. As long as the opening phrase of the Constitution is “We the Big Globalist Institutions trying to control America” then our government shall legally be able to promote the interests of Big Ag, Big Pharma, etc. to bring about a one world socialist government where things like “We the People”, the Bill of Rights, and checks/balances have no place.
Hint: I just wrote cynical satire.
Do you have a link for some of this info? I have some family member who could use a diet like the one your on. Thanks
A most excellent thread! Great info! Thank you for posting it!
And we can “thank” our doctors in decades past for pushing “a low-fat diet.” They provoked tens of thousands of needless Gall Bladder surgeries, my wife among them. Low-fat diets cause the inactive Gall Bladder to form gall stones, then when you do eat fat the stones move into the duct necessitating surgery.
Agree. I went low-carb/NO sugar/NO processed, enriched, GMO/high-fat (mainly from oils) diet a few months ago, and literally everything about my health has improved noticeably in that time.
Bmk
Good info. Once they took me off fat. Got down to 90 lbs, almost died!
What's funny is if you ask these Dem voters if they believe that people should be controlled in every aspect of their lives, by so called "superior intellects" of an all powerful government , many of them will immediately insist that they don't want this, (all powerful government), and that they are for "freedom" and "individual rights" .
They seem to have no clue what the Democrat/Progressive party is really about. (Then again Republicans don't challenge Dems about their Elitist ideas either, because they share the same Progressive goals.)
Sadly our republic desperately needs this debate to take place on a national scale, in order for our country to heal, but it's most likely not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
However, this article is a good start. BUMP