Posted on 05/04/2014 4:24:46 PM PDT by kingattax
Those who love rib-eye steaks and double-cream Brie will feel better about their guilty pleasures after reading Nina Teicholz’s article in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, “The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease.” She writes, for example:
Too much whole-grain oatmeal for breakfast and whole-grain pasta for dinner, with fruit snacks in between, add up to a less healthy diet than one of eggs and bacon, followed by fish.
Gary Taubes covered some of the same ground in his excellent 2008 book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health. Taubes argued that that consumption of saturated fat does not cause obesity and heart disease; the culprit, instead, is refined carbohydrates like white flour and sugar.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hispanics are considered white so there’s white with no Hispanic and then there’s white with Hispanic.
You ain't just a whistlin Dixie!!!!!
I had that too. That was our favorite meal!
I SO need to find a way to capture and print this!
This reminds me....I need to go have my teaspoon of Coconut Oil with Cinnamon on it...
Overall population percentage figures.
To copy the Obama song: mmmm-mmmm-mmm
I thought that was The Crash Test Dummies.
A drippings jar used to be standard in every kitchen
Just keeping the lettuce and tomato within a foot of he bacon should be sufficient. In a few weeks the good tomato’s start coming in.
The tomatoes will no longer taste like wood?
I make do with Roma’s during winter but even those are orange & crumbly now.
Oh, for a BLT with a single slice of beefsteak tomato.
There is a synergy there. Time to sharpen the knives.
I have loved calves liver fried with bacon and onions ever since I was a kid. 
Aw man,that looks delicious.
Those soft onions are a special favorite of mine.
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My oldest sister and I was talking about that exact meal the other day. My mom cooked the best liver, bacon and onions ever. Both of us have tried to replicate and duplicate it but we cannot come close.
Some people will never know what they have missed.....
The grain-based food-pyramid diet pimps are a bunch of screwballs. They and their corporate backers can take their diet “science” and . . . well . . . you know . . .
Nanny State PING!
Thanks for the link to an excellent book on this medical problem caused by gutless MDS and elite know it all Medical Universities telling the MDs what to do, based on terrible science.
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Bingo! Genetics are the big drivers/controllers of our health and life span. Too many doctors take that history, then ignore it and rx the poisonous statins to those of us with zero genetic history of early heart attacks. Most of our genetic gene pool never ate a high carb low fat diet unless they were really poor.
“Heart disease has a large genetic component. Break it out by ancestry rather than region, which is after all rather meaningless in a widely varied population such as the United States. Then, I’d imagine a different picture would emerge. Some groups are just predisposed to certain diseases due to ancestry. Find the group that is overrepresented in the southeastern United States in comparison to the rest of the country, and you’ll find the group genetically predisposed to heart disease. I grew up with an extended family that fried just about every meat and put gravy on anything that wasn’t green or red. Not a fat person among them. No heart attacks, either. Fairly long-lived.”
“How does this explain the higher rates of heart disease in the southeastern United States?”
First off would be genetics. I had ancestors from England settling in South and N Carolina a few hundred years ago. Some of the originals lived to be in their nineties and a couple made it to their 100’s. They and their children were hunters, fishers and farmers. Small farms where their personal food was raised and the extras traded for meats.
The average life span down to and including the generation before me was mid 80’s to mid 90’s.
No one was overweight nor skinny. Most raised their own vegetables, chickens, strawberries and other fruit and traded skills for local beef and hogs.
They weren’t big into rice, beans, ground corn products and store bought bread. They baked pies and cobblers mainly, and lard was used to make the crusts. Bacon fat was kept on the top of the stove in a coffee can, and it was used for everything. Sugar was never on the table. Local honey was there and was the sweetener. Homemade fruit preserves were on the kitchen table for breakfast and dinner. Cakes were reserved for special occasions. Coffee and sun tea were unsweetened.
It would probably be a safe bet that many of the higher rates of heart disease were genetic or from families living on high carb diets versus high amounts of protein from the daily diets or both.
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