The 11 Most Destructive Nutrition Lies Ever Told
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I'm curious to hear the discussion on what this community feels about this article. I feel like it makes a lot of good points.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-most-destructive-nutrition-lies-ever-told-2013-11
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-most-destructive-nutrition-lies-ever-told-2013-11
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Here's the full text:Here are the top 11 biggest lies, myths and misconceptions of mainstream nutrition.
1. Eggs Are Unhealthy
There’s one thing that nutrition professionals have had remarkable success with… and that is demonizing incredibly healthy foods. The worst example of that is eggs, which happen to contain a large amount of cholesterol and were therefore considered to increase the risk of heart disease.
But recently it has been proven that the cholesterol in the diet doesn’t really raise the cholesterol in blood. In fact, eggs primarily raise the “good” cholesterol and are NOT associated with increased risk of heart disease (1, 2).
What we’re left with is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet. They’re high in all sorts of nutrients along with unique antioxidants that protect our eyes (3). To top it all of, despite being a “high fat” food, eating eggs for breakfast is proven to cause significant weight loss compared to bagels for breakfast (4, 5).
Bottom Line: Eggs do not cause heart disease and are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. Eggs for breakfast can help you lose weight.
2. Saturated Fat is Bad For You
A few decades ago it was decided that the epidemic of heart disease was caused by eating too much fat, in particular saturated fat. This was based on highly flawed studies and political decisions that have now been proven to be completely wrong.
A massive review article published in 2010 looked at 21 prospective epidemiological studies with a total of 347.747 subjects. Their results: absolutely no association between saturated fat and heart disease (6).
The idea that saturated fat raised the risk of heart disease was an unproven theory that somehow became conventional wisdom (7). Eating saturated fat raises the amount of HDL (the “good”) cholesterol in the blood and changes the LDL from small, dense LDL (very bad) to Large LDL, which is benign (8, 9).
Meat, coconut oil, cheese, butter… there is absolutely no reason to fear these foods.
Bottom Line: Newer studies have proven that saturated fat does not cause heart disease. Natural foods that are high in saturated fat are good for you.
3. Everybody Should be Eating Grains
The idea that humans should be basing their diets on grains has never made sense to me. The agricultural revolution happened fairly recently in human evolutionary history and our genes haven’t changed that much.
Grains are fairly low in nutrients compared to other real foods like vegetables. They are also rich in a substance called phytic acid which binds essential minerals in the intestine and prevents them from being absorbed (10).
The most common grain in the western diet, by far, is wheat… and wheat can cause a host of health problems, both minor and serious. Modern wheat contains a large amount of a protein called gluten, but there is evidence that a significant portion of the population may be sensitive to it (11, 12, 13).
Eating gluten can damage the intestinal lining, cause pain, bloating, stool inconsistency and tiredness (14, 15). Gluten consumption has also been associated with schizophrenia and cerebellar ataxia, both serious disorders of the brain (16, 17).
Bottom Line: Grains are relatively low in nutrients compared to other real foods like vegetables. The gluten grains in particular may lead to a variety of health problems.
4. Eating a Lot of Protein is Bad For Your Bones and Kidneys
A high protein diet has been claimed to cause both osteoporosis and kidney disease.
It is true that eating protein increases calcium excretion from the bones in the short term, but the long term studies actually show the opposite effect.
In the long term, protein has a strong association with improved bone health and a lower risk of fracture (18, 19). Additionally, studies don't show any association of high protein with kidney disease in otherwise healthy people (20, 21).
In fact, two of the main risk factors for kidney failure are diabetes and high blood pressure. Eating a high protein diet improves both (22, 23). If anything, a high protein diet should be protective against osteoporosis and kidney failure!
Bottom Line: Eating a high protein diet is associated with improved bone health and a lower risk of fracture. High protein also lowers blood pressure and improves diabetes symptoms, which should lower the risk of kidney failure.
5. Low-Fat Foods Are Good For You
Do you know what regular food tastes like when all the fat has been taken out of it? Well, it tastes like cardboard. No one would want to eat it.
The food manufacturers know this and therefore they add other things to compensate for the lack of fat. Usually these are sweeteners… sugar, high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners like aspartame.
We’ll get to the sugar in a moment, but I’d like to point out that even though artificial sweeteners don’t have calories, the evidence does NOT suggest that they are better for you than sugar.
In fact, many observational studies show a consistent, highly significant association with various diseases like obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, premature delivery and depression (24, 25, 26).
In these low-fat products, healthy natural fats are being replaced with substances that are extremely harmful.
Bottom Line: Low-fat foods are usually highly processed products loaded with sugar, corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. They are extremely unhealthy.
6. You Should Eat Many Small Meals Throughout The Day
The idea that you should eat many small meals throughout the day in order to “keep metabolism high” is a persistent myth that doesn’t make any sense.
It is true that eating raises your metabolism slightly while you’re digesting the meal, but it’s the total amount of food that determines the energy used, NOT the number of meals.
This has actually been put to the test and refuted multiple times. Controlled studies where one group eats many small meals and the other the same amount of food in fewer meals show that there is literally no difference between the two (27, 28). In fact, one study in obese men revealed that eating 6 meals per day led to less feelings of fullness compared to 3 meals (29).
Not only is eating so often practically useless for most of the people out there, it may even be harmful. It is not natural for the human body to be constantly in the fed state. In nature, we used to fast from time to time and we didn’t eat nearly as often as we do today.
When we don’t eat for a while, a cellular process called autophagy cleans waste products out of our cells (30). Fasting or not eating from time to time is good for you. Several observational studies show a drastically increased risk of colon cancer (4th most common cause of cancer death), numbers going as high as a 90% increase for those who eat 4 meals per day compared to 2 (31, 32, 33).
Bottom Line: There is no evidence that eating many small meals throughout the day is better than fewer, bigger meals. Not eating from time to time is good for you. Increased meal frequency is associated with colon cancer.
7. Carbs Should Be Your Biggest Source of Calories
The mainstream view is that everyone should eat a low-fat diet, with carbs being around 50-60% of total calories. This sort of diet contains a lot of grains and sugars, with very small amounts of fatty foods like meat and eggs. This type of diet may work well for some people, especially those who are naturally lean.
But for those who are obese, have the metabolic syndrome or diabetes, this amount of carbohydrates is downright dangerous. This has actually been studied extensively. A low-fat, high-carb diet has been compared to a low-carb, high-fat diet in multiple randomized controlled trials.
The results are consistently in favor of low-carb, high-fat diets (34, 35, 36).
Bottom Line: The low-fat, high-carb diet is a miserable failure and has been proven repeatedly to be vastly inferior to lower-carb, higher-fat diets.
8. High Omega-6 Seed and Vegetable Oils Are Good For You
Polyunsaturated fats are considered healthy because some studies show that they lower your risk of heart disease.
But there are many types of polyunsaturated fats and they are not all the same. Most importantly, we have both Omega-3 fatty acids and Omega-6 fatty acids.
Omega-3s are anti-inflammatory and lower your risk of many diseases related to inflammation (37). Humans actually need to get Omega-6s and Omega-3s in a certain ratio. If the ratio is too high in favor of Omega-6, it can cause problems (38).
By far the biggest sources of Omega-6 in the modern diet are processed seed and vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower oils. Throughout evolution, humans never had access to such an abundance of Omega-6 fats. It is unnatural for the human body.
Research that specifically looks at Omega-6 fatty acids instead of polyunsaturated fats in general shows that they actually increase the risk of heart disease (39, 40). Eat your Omega-3s and consider supplementing with cod fish liver oil, but avoid the industrial seed and vegetable oils.
Bottom Line: Humans need to get Omega-6 and Omega-3 fats in a certain ratio. Eating excess Omega-6 from seed oils raises your risk of disease.
9. Low Carb Diets Are Dangerous
I personally believe low-carb diets to be a potential cure for many of the most common health problems in western nations.
The low-fat diet peddled all around the world is fairly useless against many of these diseases. It simply does not work.
However, low-carb diets (demonized by nutritionists and the media) have repeatedly been shown to lead to much better outcomes.
Every randomized controlled trial on low-carb diets shows that they:
Reduce body fat more than calorie-restricted low-fat diets, even though the low-carb dieters are allowed to eat as much as they want (41, 42).
Lower blood pressure significantly (43, 44).
Lower blood sugar and improve symptoms of diabetes much more than low-fat diets (45, 46, 47, 48).
Increase HDL (the good) cholesterol much more (49, 50).
Lower triglycerides much more than low-fat diets (51, 52, 53).
Change the pattern of LDL (bad) cholesterol from small, dense (very bad) to Large LDL, which is benign (54, 55).
Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies (56, 57).
Many of the health professionals that are supposed to have our best interest in mind have the audacity to claim that these diets are dangerous, then continue to peddle their failed low-fat dogma that is hurting more people than it helps.
Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.
10. Sugar is Unhealthy Because it Contains “Empty” Calories
It is commonly believed that sugar is bad for you because it contains empty calories. It’s true, sugar has a lot of calories with no essential nutrients. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sugar, primarily because of its high fructose content, affects metabolism in a way that sets us up for rapid fat gain and metabolic disease. Fructose gets metabolized by the liver and turned into fat which is secreted into the blood as VLDL particles. This leads to elevated triglycerides and cholesterol (58, 59).
It also causes resistance to the hormones insulin and leptin, which is a stepping stone towards obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes (60, 61).
This is just to name a few. Sugar causes a relentless biochemical drive for humans to eat more and get fat. It is probably the single worst ingredient in the standard western diet.
Bottom Line: The harmful effects of sugar go way beyond empty calories. Sugar wreaks havoc on our metabolism and sets us up for weight gain and many serious diseases.
11. High Fat Foods Will Make You Fat
It seems kind of intuitive that eating fat would make you get fat. The stuff that is gathering under our skin and making us look soft and puffy is fat. So… eating fat should give our bodies even more of it.
But it isn’t that simple. Despite fat having more calories per gram than carbohydrate or protein, high-fat diets do not make people fat. As with anything, this depends on the context. A diet that is high in fat AND high in carbs will make you fat, but it’s NOT because of the fat.
In fact, diets that are high in fat (and low in carbs) cause much greater fat loss than diets that are low in fat (62, 63, 64).
Read more: http://authoritynutrition.com/11-biggest-lies-of-mainstream-nutrition/#ixzz2uY0Lrkue0 -
I agree with just about every one except #3 and the Gluten fear mongering...
ETA: Didn't read the whole thing, just read the titles. This is some low carb propaganda lol.0 -
Another Carbs are evil person I see.0
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Low carb advocate. No different than any other one I've read about.
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Another Carbs are evil person I see.
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What the author said may, or may not, stand the test of time. However, just because it was picked up by "Business Insider" does not give it more credence. Here is what Wikipedia had to say about the folks who are the editors of Business Insider:
The site editors vary greatly in background. Henry Blodget, a Yale graduate who previously worked on Wall Street, then was fined $2,000,000 as part of a civil suit for fraud, and another $2,000,000 in disgorgement, and being censured and barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission,[10] is the CEO and Editor-In-Chief. Executive editor Joe Weisenthal has worked as an analyst and writer for a series of dotcoms,[11] such as Techdirt. Deputy editor Nicholas Carlson previously worked at Internet.com and Gawker Media's Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag. Senior editor Jim Edwards was previously managing editor at Adweek.
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I see gluten like I see lactose. Sure, some people are lactose intolerant, but does that mean that lactose is unhealthy, and that we shouldn't be drinking milk and eating cheese and yogurt? I'm not lactose intolerant, so I enjoy my yogurt. I'm not gluten intolerant, but it's still supposed to be bad for me?0
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Just because some "big wigs" were bad people doesn't mean the "pee-on" author of the article is. The article is very well researched, using citations from many reputable and highly professional medical journals where scientific medical research is published. You're right that the website does not lend credence to the article, however, the 64 citations of the statements in the article do.0
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#4, I could have told you that....sick of hearing people say protein causes kidney problems/stones
#7 and #9....Good God, please.....:grumble: :grumble: :grumble: :grumble:
I will be doing somewhere between 300 - 400 grams of carbs today.0 -
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It seemed all well and good until the gluten fear-mongering started...0
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Just because some "big wigs" were bad people doesn't mean the "pee-on" author of the article is. The article is very well researched, using citations from many reputable and highly professional medical journals where scientific medical research is published. You're right that the website does not lend credence to the article, however, the 64 citations of the statements in the article do.
Did you read all 64 references? How do you know they're worth anything?
ETA: a "peon" has nothing to do with urination. It's someone of little consequence, and it derives from a Spanish "unskilled laborer" (also see peonage - involuntary servitude)0 -
Gluten consumption has also been associated with schizophrenia and cerebellar ataxia
I'd love to see a source for this.0 -
Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies (56, 57).
Many of the health professionals that are supposed to have our best interest in mind have the audacity to claim that these diets are dangerous, then continue to peddle their failed low-fat dogma that is hurting more people than it helps.
Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.
I know my own anecdotal research isn't as good as a legitimate study. But I'm not able to look up the research they did so...
All I know is every single person I've seen do low carb CAN'T stick with it long term and gains the weight back and more. Every time. So saying it's "easier to stick to and the easiest and most effective way" just doesn't jive with what I've seen.
Also when they do reach their goal weight they always seem to be skinny-fat. Could be due to lack of protein and a diet that doesn't emphasize exercise, I don't know. I just know what I've seen. Fat and muscle melt off, to be later replaced by just fat once they decide they can't live forever without bagels.
And why would you want to? Bagels are tasty.
I agree, everyone I know who has done low carb has also gained it all back because it became unsustainable long term, where as I didn't gain my weight back and all I counted were calories and ate anything I wanted...0 -
After extensive research into this, I believe 99% of this is fact. ESPECIALLY in persons already in the beginning phases of metabolic syndrome or with full on diabetes.
Both Low Fat/High Carb and Low Carb/High Fat diets have shown success in longitudinal studies. For those I mentioned before the benefits of a Low/Carb/High Fat diet have been shown to have far and away more long term and immediate health benefits than any Low Fat/High Carb diet ever has.
As for the saturated fats being bad for you, people honestly need to look into the composition of their anatomy. Your internal organs, ie: heart, brain, kidneys, liver, lungs and on and on and on are composed largely of saturated fats. Your body needs fats to survive.
Eggs are literally the stuff of life....if you want to get technical, they ARE life. We just refrigerate it before it can get to a viable stage.
White processed sugar and flour are poison. There is not a scrap of credible research to show that there are any health benefits from either that over ride a single negative.
Gluten sensitivity is very real. there are something like 24 proteins of Gluten. Celiacs is only triggered by one or two of them. IBS, and other inflammatory issues are caused and can be caused by ingestion of gluten. Just because you haven't seen it or experienced it doesn't mean it isn't real.0 -
I can personally tell you that it is very rare that a person on low carb isn't eating plenty of protein. Also, there ar ea LOT of studies out there showing that the satiety factor of low carb is much higher than the satiety ratings of low fat diets. Look into the national weight loss registry and see how people eat and have eaten in order to maintain their weights for long periods of time. It's fascinating.0
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Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies (56, 57).
Many of the health professionals that are supposed to have our best interest in mind have the audacity to claim that these diets are dangerous, then continue to peddle their failed low-fat dogma that is hurting more people than it helps.
Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.
I know my own anecdotal research isn't as good as a legitimate study. But I'm not able to look up the research they did so...
All I know is every single person I've seen do low carb CAN'T stick with it long term and gains the weight back and more. Every time. So saying it's "easier to stick to and the easiest and most effective way" just doesn't jive with what I've seen.
Also when they do reach their goal weight they always seem to be skinny-fat. Could be due to lack of protein and a diet that doesn't emphasize exercise, I don't know. I just know what I've seen. Fat and muscle melt off, to be later replaced by just fat once they decide they can't live forever without bagels.
And why would you want to? Bagels are tasty.
Sorry, was responding to this. And bagels might be tasty, but bacon and steak are more tasty, and they don't need topping to make them tasty.0 -
Lots of junk, especially
9. Low Carb Diets Are Dangerous
I personally believe low-carb diets to be a potential cure for many of the most common health problems in western nations.
The low-fat diet peddled all around the world is fairly useless against many of these diseases. It simply does not work.
However, low-carb diets (demonized by nutritionists and the media) have repeatedly been shown to lead to much better outcomes.
Every randomized controlled trial on low-carb diets shows that they:
Reduce body fat more than calorie-restricted low-fat diets, even though the low-carb dieters are allowed to eat as much as they want (41, 42).
Lower blood pressure significantly (43, 44).
Lower blood sugar and improve symptoms of diabetes much more than low-fat diets (45, 46, 47, 48).
Increase HDL (the good) cholesterol much more (49, 50).
Lower triglycerides much more than low-fat diets (51, 52, 53).
Change the pattern of LDL (bad) cholesterol from small, dense (very bad) to Large LDL, which is benign (54, 55).
Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies (56, 57).
Many of the health professionals that are supposed to have our best interest in mind have the audacity to claim that these diets are dangerous, then continue to peddle their failed low-fat dogma that is hurting more people than it helps.
Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.0 -
Lots of junk, especially
9. Low Carb Diets Are Dangerous
I personally believe low-carb diets to be a potential cure for many of the most common health problems in western nations.
The low-fat diet peddled all around the world is fairly useless against many of these diseases. It simply does not work.
However, low-carb diets (demonized by nutritionists and the media) have repeatedly been shown to lead to much better outcomes.
Every randomized controlled trial on low-carb diets shows that they:
Reduce body fat more than calorie-restricted low-fat diets, even though the low-carb dieters are allowed to eat as much as they want (41, 42).
Lower blood pressure significantly (43, 44).
Lower blood sugar and improve symptoms of diabetes much more than low-fat diets (45, 46, 47, 48).
Increase HDL (the good) cholesterol much more (49, 50).
Lower triglycerides much more than low-fat diets (51, 52, 53).
Change the pattern of LDL (bad) cholesterol from small, dense (very bad) to Large LDL, which is benign (54, 55).
Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies (56, 57).
Many of the health professionals that are supposed to have our best interest in mind have the audacity to claim that these diets are dangerous, then continue to peddle their failed low-fat dogma that is hurting more people than it helps.
Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.
^That's the one I have a huge issue with as well.0 -
Low carb diets are also easier to stick to, probably because they don’t require you to restrict calories and be hungry all the time. More people in the low-carb groups make it to the end of the studies (56, 57).
Many of the health professionals that are supposed to have our best interest in mind have the audacity to claim that these diets are dangerous, then continue to peddle their failed low-fat dogma that is hurting more people than it helps.
Bottom Line: Low-carb diets are the healthiest, easiest and most effective way to lose weight and reverse metabolic disease. It is a scientific fact.
I know my own anecdotal research isn't as good as a legitimate study. But I'm not able to look up the research they did so...
All I know is every single person I've seen do low carb CAN'T stick with it long term and gains the weight back and more. Every time. So saying it's "easier to stick to and the easiest and most effective way" just doesn't jive with what I've seen.
Also when they do reach their goal weight they always seem to be skinny-fat. Could be due to lack of protein and a diet that doesn't emphasize exercise, I don't know. I just know what I've seen. Fat and muscle melt off, to be later replaced by just fat once they decide they can't live forever without bagels.
And why would you want to? Bagels are tasty.
Sorry, was responding to this. And bagels might be tasty, but bacon and steak are more tasty, and they don't need topping to make them tasty.
You put toppings on your bagels?
Eating the wrong bagels, imho.
Annnnnd now I want a bagel.0 -
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lollercoaster, fructose is sugar unless he meant sucrose which is only 50% fructose and fat does indeed make you fatter than carbs
10. Sugar is Unhealthy Because it Contains “Empty” Calories
It is commonly believed that sugar is bad for you because it contains empty calories. It’s true, sugar has a lot of calories with no essential nutrients. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Sugar, primarily because of its high fructose content, affects metabolism in a way that sets us up for rapid fat gain and metabolic disease. Fructose gets metabolized by the liver and turned into fat which is secreted into the blood as VLDL particles. This leads to elevated triglycerides and cholesterol (58, 59).
It also causes resistance to the hormones insulin and leptin, which is a stepping stone towards obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes (60, 61).
This is just to name a few. Sugar causes a relentless biochemical drive for humans to eat more and get fat. It is probably the single worst ingredient in the standard western diet.
Bottom Line: The harmful effects of sugar go way beyond empty calories. Sugar wreaks havoc on our metabolism and sets us up for weight gain and many serious diseases.
11. High Fat Foods Will Make You Fat
It seems kind of intuitive that eating fat would make you get fat. The stuff that is gathering under our skin and making us look soft and puffy is fat. So… eating fat should give our bodies even more of it.
But it isn’t that simple. Despite fat having more calories per gram than carbohydrate or protein, high-fat diets do not make people fat. As with anything, this depends on the context. A diet that is high in fat AND high in carbs will make you fat, but it’s NOT because of the fat.
In fact, diets that are high in fat (and low in carbs) cause much greater fat loss than diets that are low in fat (62, 63, 64).
Read more: http://authoritynutrition.com/11-biggest-lies-of-mainstream-nutrition/#ixzz2uYIKxq6k0 -
I wonder what they would say if I tried to use "grain brain" as an excuse to skip work or school? I want to know.0
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Sounds like it's written by a palao/"natural eater", aka. very biased.0
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After extensive research into this, I believe 99% of this is fact. ESPECIALLY in persons already in the beginning phases of metabolic syndrome or with full on diabetes.
Both Low Fat/High Carb and Low Carb/High Fat diets have shown success in longitudinal studies. For those I mentioned before the benefits of a Low/Carb/High Fat diet have been shown to have far and away more long term and immediate health benefits than any Low Fat/High Carb diet ever has.
As for the saturated fats being bad for you, people honestly need to look into the composition of their anatomy. Your internal organs, ie: heart, brain, kidneys, liver, lungs and on and on and on are composed largely of saturated fats. Your body needs fats to survive.
Eggs are literally the stuff of life....if you want to get technical, they ARE life. We just refrigerate it before it can get to a viable stage.
White processed sugar and flour are poison. There is not a scrap of credible research to show that there are any health benefits from either that over ride a single negative.
Gluten sensitivity is very real. there are something like 24 proteins of Gluten. Celiacs is only triggered by one or two of them. IBS, and other inflammatory issues are caused and can be caused by ingestion of gluten. Just because you haven't seen it or experienced it doesn't mean it isn't real.
Lol, I especially liked how you avoided any dosages just went for the absolutes0 -
After extensive research into this, I believe 99% of this is fact. ESPECIALLY in persons already in the beginning phases of metabolic syndrome or with full on diabetes.
Both Low Fat/High Carb and Low Carb/High Fat diets have shown success in longitudinal studies. For those I mentioned before the benefits of a Low/Carb/High Fat diet have been shown to have far and away more long term and immediate health benefits than any Low Fat/High Carb diet ever has.
As for the saturated fats being bad for you, people honestly need to look into the composition of their anatomy. Your internal organs, ie: heart, brain, kidneys, liver, lungs and on and on and on are composed largely of saturated fats. Your body needs fats to survive.
Eggs are literally the stuff of life....if you want to get technical, they ARE life. We just refrigerate it before it can get to a viable stage.
White processed sugar and flour are poison. There is not a scrap of credible research to show that there are any health benefits from either that over ride a single negative.
Gluten sensitivity is very real. there are something like 24 proteins of Gluten. Celiacs is only triggered by one or two of them. IBS, and other inflammatory issues are caused and can be caused by ingestion of gluten. Just because you haven't seen it or experienced it doesn't mean it isn't real.
#POW0 -
Annnnnd now I want a bagel.
Bruegger's olive oil and rosemary *drools*
Don't disrespect it with a "topping"0 -
Ahem.Gluten consumption has also been associated with schizophrenia and cerebellar ataxia
I'd love to see a source for this.0 -
Just because some "big wigs" were bad people doesn't mean the "pee-on" author of the article is. The article is very well researched, using citations from many reputable and highly professional medical journals where scientific medical research is published. You're right that the website does not lend credence to the article, however, the 64 citations of the statements in the article do.
Did you read all 64 references? How do you know they're worth anything?
ETA: a "peon" has nothing to do with urination. It's someone of little consequence, and it derives from a Spanish "unskilled laborer" (also see peonage - involuntary servitude)
Pardon my one grammatical/spelling/phonetic error. I had a childhood friend who was murdered this week. Yes, I did read through a large portion of the citations and medical abstracts/summaries of the research. I work in medical communications. Yes, the ones I randomly read through are reputable.0
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