A good summary of bad science that has driven death and ill health. Dr. Ancel Keys was a zealot who has and continues even after his death to harm millions. He popularized the idea that fat, especially animal fat, is unhealthy. As we now race to a population where 2/3 of people have visible evidence of metabolic dysfunction (obese or overweight) and in the not-too-distant future 20% of our fellow citizens will be diabetic.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The very best way to eat, if you have Type II diabetes is follow Dr. Atkins precepts religiously. Fats not carbs, lots of low carb veggies, dressed with real butter/olive oil, and some high-quality protein at every meal. You can actually go into remission i ( have, twice)f you are strict about it, plus you will most likely lose weight, and waaaay less body fat too. My doctors actually urge this way of eating on me. Carbs from 100,000 years ago were not sweet, juicy, full of sugar...much more like crabapples & gnarly roots.
AnneWimsey
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Mar 17, 2019
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Dr. Atkins was my physician in 1998.
@Mitch07102 I have every look he ever wrote, including his entire testimony before the Senate, where the sugar industry wanted him to lose his license! Outrageous then, still outrageous!
And the rumors that he died of heart trouble...so wrong, he slipped on ice & hit his head on stone curbing. His autopsy, which he had planned, revealed the arteries of a man 30 years younger!
This is also zealotry. Show me the science.
Stephanie99
Level 8
Mar 17, 2019
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It's out there, Google it. Have you not looked at our fellow citizens since the advent of low fat and high fructose corn syrup in everything?
@Mitch07102 The science would be actual science based studies. Trans fats have been shown to be very bad. Saturated fats have been shown to be less bad. [health.harvard.edu]
An interview without links to science is not evidence.
@Stephanie99 Read Taubes' book Good Calories Bad Calories. The last third of it is bibliography and citations. The book is the best on the topic of nutrition.
And be careful citing Harvard. Their work using epidemiological studies has been called into question on more than one occasion.
@Mitch07102
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He has a BS in physics and a MS in aerospace engineering.
About the book Good Calories Bad Calories:
"obesity researcher George A. Bray, wrote that the book "...has much useful information and is well worth reading" but that "obese people clearly eat more than do lean ones" and that "some of the conclusions that the author reaches are not consistent with current concepts about obesity."[3]"
@Stephanie99 He is the three-time science writer of the year award winner. His degrees are from Harvard and Stanford. Read the book and judge for yourself. Nothing is 100% accurate; science advances. But he nailed it, and if you read the book you will know more about nutrition than nearly everyone you meet, including doctors and most nutritionists.
I switched to butter from margarine and oils and experienced several positive benefits. I had more energy, was less hungry between meals, and snacked less. I'm personally convinced saturated fats are good for your body.
UpsideDownAgain
Level 7
Mar 17, 2019
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I am still sceptical about the benefits of fats in the diet, but it is often said, and I have no reason to doubt it, that a lot of the research into the effects of fat in the human diet, was, and continues to be funded by the sugar industry.
Fernapple
Level 9
Mar 17, 2019
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Respectfully, if you are skeptical of fats in the diet, you are skeptical of evolution. We evolved eating animal fat. Industrial oils, yes, avoid them like poison. But animal fats, as well as olive, coconut are OK.
Was an example of interpreting statistics in such a way as to support preconceived prejudices. Keys was complicit in this one that is still pushed as gospel. Statin manufacturers make billions over the fat myth, so the will to believe is huge.
Healthydoc70
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Mar 17, 2019
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