The prime of ms. jane brody... is passed
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camtosh
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Well, she finally caved in and wrote a column on good fats (aside from lumping in canola with healthy fats). About time. But she didn't quote Taubes...
The Fats You Don’t Need to Fear, and the Carbs That You Do
By JANE E. BRODY
The nutritional pickle so many Americans are now in is largely a result of “an oversimplification of dietary recommendations that created a fat phobia,” Dr. Frank B. Hu of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health told me.
Starting in the 1970s, when accumulating evidence from animal and human studies showed that a diet high in saturated fats and cholesterol was an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, dietary guidelines urged people to eat less fat.
Although health advice focused on saturated fats from high-fat animal foods, many people generalized the advice to mean all fats, choosing in their stead a panoply of reduced-fat and fat-free foods rich in carbohydrates, from crackers to sweetened yogurts. They especially increased their consumption of two kinds of carbohydrates, refined starches and sugars, that have helped to spawn the current epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
Experts now realize that efforts to correct past dietary sins that made heart disease and stroke runaway killers have caused the pendulum to swing too far in the wrong direction.
... more at:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/the-fats-you-dont-need-to-fear-and-the-carbs-that-you-do/?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-102215-L11&nl=el&nlid=47777407&_r=0
The Fats You Don’t Need to Fear, and the Carbs That You Do
By JANE E. BRODY
The nutritional pickle so many Americans are now in is largely a result of “an oversimplification of dietary recommendations that created a fat phobia,” Dr. Frank B. Hu of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health told me.
Starting in the 1970s, when accumulating evidence from animal and human studies showed that a diet high in saturated fats and cholesterol was an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, dietary guidelines urged people to eat less fat.
Although health advice focused on saturated fats from high-fat animal foods, many people generalized the advice to mean all fats, choosing in their stead a panoply of reduced-fat and fat-free foods rich in carbohydrates, from crackers to sweetened yogurts. They especially increased their consumption of two kinds of carbohydrates, refined starches and sugars, that have helped to spawn the current epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
Experts now realize that efforts to correct past dietary sins that made heart disease and stroke runaway killers have caused the pendulum to swing too far in the wrong direction.
... more at:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/the-fats-you-dont-need-to-fear-and-the-carbs-that-you-do/?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-102215-L11&nl=el&nlid=47777407&_r=0
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Maybe the worm has turned.0
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I believe there are some in authority who see the truth, they just don't know how to change it. It's so ingrained in the minds of the medical community! I hope the tides will change eventually. One big problem is the medical professionals choose the topic to their continuing education requirements, and nutrition is usually bottom of the list. Getting them to see the truth will take time! Meanwhile, I'm keepin on!0
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I posted too soon! Nov. 2's NYT has Ms. Brody prosing on about how wonderful statins are. Whose payroll is she on??
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/for-statins-cholesterol-care-may-be-just-the-start/?_r=0
Then I wondered if anyone on mfp had posted that link, so I searched and found this old article by Dr. Michael Eades--whose blog is a great read, btw, even though it isn't updated these days. He is so curmudgeonly.
https://proteinpower.com/drmike/2007/08/22/jane-brody-and-her-elevated-cholesterol/
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