FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Current health guidance is utterly WRONG: Full-fat milk & red meat are good for you. It’s the vegetable oils that can kill you
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Current health guidance is utterly WRONG: Full-fat milk & red meat are good for you. It’s the vegetable oils that can kill you
By Malcolm Kendrick, doctor and author who works as a GP in the National Health Service in England. His blog can be read here and his book, 'Doctoring Data – How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense,' is available here.
The release of previously repressed studies shows that if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, this INCREASES the risk of cardiovascular disease. My fellow doctors need to accept the evidence.
Whilst we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems that all other diseases have been relegated to a position of complete irrelevance. Should this be happening? According to the British Heart Foundation, cardiovascular disease kills four hundred and sixty people each and every day in the UK. That’s just shy of 170,000 every year.
Since the start of 2020, Covid-19 has killed 40,000 in the UK, and now kills about ten a day. On the other hand, heart attacks and strokes have killed 115,000, and continue to kill 460 people a day. Which one should we be really concerned about? Have a wild guess on that one.
So I was pleased to see that someone from the other side of the world is still paying attention to the real medical killer. I was pointed to an article in The Australian, based on a study that appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). The newspaper headline was: “How dairy and fat could save your life,” with the sub-header “A new study confirms decades of research that saturated fats are good for your heart. So why do guidelines still push a non-fat diet?”
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The article in the JACC began:
“The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke.”
This is very much grist to my particular mill, as I have been writing articles and books for the past thirty years stating that saturated fat, red meat, and chocolate (dark or otherwise) are completely healthy. In addition, the ‘anti-fat’ dietary guidelines ruthlessly promoted for the past forty years or so are complete nonsense. Although almost universally accepted, they were based on absolutely no research at all. None.
When I state this, most fellow medics look at me in that certain way. Before shuffling sideways. They know, they just know, that saturated fat is bad for you. They will have read no research on the matter – they very rarely do – they have just been told this so-called fact so many times that it has become ‘The Truth’. As someone else once commented, although it is not clear who said it first, “My mind is made up; do not bother me with the facts.”
The problem is that, once someone has made up their mind, based on no facts at all, it is difficult to use facts to change their mind – but I shall have a go anyway. As the article in The Australian noted:
“A newly published study of 195,658 Brits over 10.6 years found ‘no evidence that saturated fat intake was associated with cardiovascular disease. In contrast, the substitution of polyunsaturated for saturated fat was associated with higher CVD risk.
Hold on – if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats this increases the risk of cardiovascular disease? This is double blasphemy, surely. Even if saturated fats are not harmful, we absolutely know that polyunsaturated fats are healthy – don’t we?
The answer is that we don’t, and part of the reason for this is that research pNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Well, the Mediterranean diet has been shown to have health preserving and life extending properties. Granted it doesn't use polyunsaturated grain/ seed oils - not canola (rapeseed), corn, safflower, or sunflower ... but it does use the monounsaturated olive oil. Also, it limits red meat. In addition, its reliance on whole grains as healthful can be factored out by increasing magnesium consumption, so grains aren't necessarily the healthful aspect of the diet.
AFAIK nobody has done any true long-term diet experiments in many decades, so all recent 'studies' of all diets tend to be more observational in nature.
Diet studies are too complicated for me!! There doesn't seem to be a simple answer.
There's the healthful low protein, low fat, high sodium Japanese rice, vegetable and fish diet. There's the French paradox. There's the Mediterranean diet. The Irish paradox. The fasting-once-a-month (or week, or twice a week) diets. And the anti-diabetic Chinese peasant diet.
And so on.
TOO COMPLICATED!
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But to be sure, current health guidance on COVID 19 is utterly right and beyond reproach.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Russian troll is trying to kill Americans not only with Nazi propaganda, but also shitty diet advice from a shitty source.
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I think I tried using margarine or Shedd's Spread in the 80s or 90s, until I looked into how bad the fake food was. For decades now I avoid all of that garbage, and when restaurants tell me they use margarine, I avoid eating that entree. Maybe not as bad as Sucralose or saccharin or aspartame, but worth avoiding.
Anybody know the history of Consumer Fraud in America? The first case of the merchant cheating the customer was when a dairy seller sold Skim Milk, having skimmed off all of the most desirable Cream and milkfat, leaving only Skim Milk, thus cheating the customer out of the very content that everybody bought and drank milk for!!
I am willing to believe that cheese is not as healthy as other parts of the Food Pyramid, but maybe just excess cheese is the culprit. However, I have hear many arguments against avoiding cheese, that it is a critical staple in our diets - but which cheeses, types, varieties are better or worse I don't recall. Except for "Cheese Food" such as Cheeze Whiz, etc.
I assume everybody has seen the stickers: Vegetables are not Food. Vegetables are what Food eats.
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I have my own theories about human nutrition, and one of them is that it's very difficult to make global recommendations because there are huge variations between people and their nutritional needs.
The first part is that we evolved as primates along the coast of the Afar Triangle, near Ethiopia. This idea is well-presented in "Aquatic Ape" by Elaine Morgan. In addition to certain physical features (upright posture, hairlessness) and physiological adaptations (diving reflex) it left us with nutritional requirements that are very different from any other ape or monkey. For example, inland-dwelling chimps and gorillas don't develop goiter and cretinism (due to lack of iodine) because they have mechanisms that conserve iodine. In fact, the three MOST COMMON micronutrient deficiencies, according to WHO, are iodine, vitamin D and vitamin A, all in abundance at the seashore. Human also need relatively large amounts of Omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil) compared to other apes.
In an estuarine environment, the most commonly available resources would be small fish, shellfish and crabs, birds and eggs, frogs, shoots, roots, and fruit (when available). Shellfish allowed us to develop our rock-using skills, since we could crack the shells with readily available rocks.
IMHO we transitioned inland by applying our shell-cracking skills to bones, using rocks to break open bones and suck the marrow, occupying a niche whose only competitor was the hyena. Along that route, we developed a tolerance for fat. (If you feed a cat or dog as much fat as you feed a human, they will probably develop pancreatitis.)
At some point humans became gatherer-hunters, then nomadic pastoralists, and finally agriculturalists. Being gatherer-hunters didn't require much dietary change. Being nomadic pastoralists added milk to the adult human diet.
But advent of agriculture added a huge amount of starch in the form of grain to the human diet, to which we weren't adapted. Drs Mary Dan and Micheal Eades did some paleontological research into the health and well-being of early agriculturalists (ancient Egyptians) to their contemporaneous gatherer-hunters, and found that altho ancient Egyptians followed a diet that is recommended today - lots of whole grains, vegetables, and some fish - there was plenty of evidence of rickets (vitaD deficiency), bone loss, diabetes, rotten teeth, anemia, and long-term privation among the grain-eaters while the hunter-gatherers were generally taller, with better bones and teeth, and evidence of only short-term privation. (There are economic reasons to adapt to agriculture, but health and food stability aren't them.)
Since agriculture developed only about 8,000-12,000 years ago, humans are only imperfectly adapted to grain (and nut/ seed-oil) eating. Some people do quite well, others develop diabetes.
To sum it all up, we are neither carnivores (we need to eat vitamin C, not found in meat) nor are we herbivores or fructivores (we need to eat B12, not found in plants). Instead, we are OBLIGATE OMNIVORES, requiring both flesh especially fish, and vegetables/fruits .. . but not grains. We CAN tolerate a high-fat diet, but not in combination with starch.
Which is a shame, because everyone likes pizza (bread, cheese) and chips (fried starch)!
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Gluten free.
Wheat is poison, and "high fiber" breads are just cake.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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