Interesting read. PS: Avoid processed meat. Excerpts: Last week it fell to a floundering professor, Jeremy Pearson, from the British Heart Foundation to explain why it still adheres to the nutrition establishments anti-saturated fat doctrine when evidence is stacking up to refute it. After examining 72 academic studies involving more than 600,000 participants, the study, funded by the foundation, found that saturated fat consumption was not associated with coronary disease risk. This assessment echoed a review in 2010 that concluded there is no convincing evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease. (...) It wasnt so long ago that we were spoon-fed the unimpeachable fact that we should eat no more than two eggs a week because they contained heart-stopping cholesterol, but that gem of nutritional wisdom had to be quietly erased from history when research showing that cholesterol in eggs had almost no effect on blood cholesterol became too glaringly obvious to ignore. (...) After all, we feed starchy crops to animals to fatten them, so why wont they have the same effect on us? This less favourable perception of carbohydrates is being fed by trials which show that low carb diets are more effective than low fat and low protein diets in maintaining a healthy body weight. (...) If you managed to reach here ... read the article. Flame war in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:52:45 +0000
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