The Big Fat Lie We’ve Been Fed About Our Diet

The Fiscal Times ^ | May 22, 2014 | Maureen Mackey

[goodwithagun]

Be honest: That bacon, egg and cheese breakfast you scarfed down the other day was so delicious you’d love to have it for breakfast every morning. But like so many other health-conscious, weight-watching Americans, you just won’t allow yourself that indulgence. Instead, you opt for the usual low-fat, low-calorie and (oh-so-bland) oatmeal.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[kiryandil]

The peasants are easier to control if they’re all on pills of some sort...

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe nothing at this point. Both my parents lived lived very healthy lives -- good diets, lots of exercise, no smoking, etc. etc. Neither one lived long enough to collect Social Security. I know a lot of old, fat, smokers who are living on the beach in Florida.

I pretty much do what I want. It all seems like a crap shoot.

[JRandomFreeper]

Standard weekday breakfast is eggs, sausage and hash browns.

Sunday morning breakfast is dark beer, stewed tomatoes and smoked herring.

I eat what I want when I want. The 'experts' can pound sand.

/johnny

[onedoug]

Kashrus works fine for me. It makes one think about the diet as a means of being One with God.

Or it can.

[Gabz]

You know who in my house would go crazy for this!!!

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

There is so much conflicting information out there about what you should or shouldn’t eat that I tend to ignore nearly all of it and just eat what I want.

[BreezyDog]

Old news...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“oatmeal”

Ugh! Give me my Grits! Butter, salt and pepper and I’m happy. But I just discovered sprinkling Parmesan cheese onto grits. Great! Oatmeal, ugh!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Tee-Hee! :)

[southern rock]

Animal-based fats, far from being dietary demons, are actually good for us

This is so much meat and dairy industry propaganda it's comical. But people believe it because it is easy and they want to.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In the end it will turn out to be genetics. There will be something that determines how fast each persons telemers unravel. The faster they unravel, the sooner you die. Regardless of what you ate, drank, smoked, etc.

If they find something that re-ravels telemers, then we'll all live forever.

whoopee.

[hinckley buzzard]

Smoked herring and sausage contain inordinate amounts of nitrites which may give you cancer sometime soon. I'm sure your kids will appreciate getting their inheritances in a timely fashion however.

[trisham]

Ouch.

[JRandomFreeper]

I almost died after a fall from a mountain during a blizzard in 2009. As far as the kids are concerned, I'm on overtime, and living on their dime.

Besides, I offset the nitrates with the nicotine.

/johnny

[9422WMR]

“Sunday morning breakfast is dark beer, stewed tomatoes and smoked herring.”
Damn, that sounds good! By the way, whatever happened to anchovies on pizza for breakfast?

[rarestia]

This is very exciting, and I hope Americans catch on quickly. I’ve been obese almost my entire life except for 2 glorious years from 2006-2008 when I dropped 165 lbs. in just over 16 months by completely removing carbohydrates from my diet and vigorously exercising.

After marrying my wife, we fell into the rut of eating out all the time, consuming inordinate calories through alcohol and large portion sizes are restaurants, and I was actually floored how fast the fat piled back on when my diet changed.

This research needs to be echoed across the land. America’s obesity problem started in the 80s with the garbage food pyramid pushed by the Reagan administration (sorry, Ronnie), and we’ve grown exponentially as a society since then. The answer is right in front of us! Fat does NOT make us fat.

[zeebee]

This article is right on the money.

[SkyDancer]

I’d rather live fewer years and enjoy what I eat than have to eat some of the swill we are told are healthy for us. As Mark Twain wrote: “My habits protect me but they’re liable to assassinate you” - people are different - what works for one may not work for another. You read about ninety year old’s drinking and smoking but yet a non-smoker sixty year old dies of lung cancer.