Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
But, but, but … there was a consensus. Doesn’t that make it settled science?
I’m hoping that as more of the bad dietary science of the last 30 years is debunked and cast into history’s refuse bin, we can finally get to real science in understanding obesity, its causes, and how best to combat it.
I’ve been overweight/obese my entire life except a stretch of 5 years when I tried Atkins/keto and dropped 150 lbs. My love of beer and fried food along with marrying a great woman helped to pack on the pounds again, but I always say that I remember what I did to get where I was and could do it again.
I hope science can prove to my wife that I wasn’t crazy and that we can live on meat and vegetables alone. Starches and carbohydrates are not our friends, and I believe time will prove that to be a truth. Fat is our friend.
But fat comes from animals and animals are people too and it’s not fair to those who can’t eat animals and corporations kill animals and killing animals is like killing earths children and killing earths children is killing the planet through CLIMATE CHANGE!
Science: “Always changing its mind…”
http://kestalusrealm.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/science-always-changing-its-mind/
No bread or sugar is a good starting place.
http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/why-butter-is-better
Why Butter Is Better
Butter & Heart Disease
Heart disease was rare in America at the turn of the century. Between 1920 and 1960, the incidence of heart disease rose precipitously to become America’s number one killer. During the same period butter consumption plummeted from eighteen pounds per person per year to four. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in statistics to conclude that butter is not a cause. Actually butter contains many nutrients that protect us from heart disease. First among these is vitamin A which is needed for the health of the thyroid and adrenal glands, both of which play a role in maintaining the proper functioning of the heart and cardiovascular system. Abnormalities of the heart and larger blood vessels occur in babies born to vitamin A deficient mothers. Butter is America’s best and most easily absorbed source of vitamin A.
Butter contains lecithin, a substance that assists in the proper assimilation and metabolism of cholesterol and other fat constituents.
Butter also contains a number of anti-oxidants that protect against the kind of free radical damage that weakens the arteries. Vitamin A and vitamin E found in butter both play a strong anti-oxidant role. Butter is a very rich source of selenium, a vital anti-oxidant—containing more per gram than herring or wheat germ.
Butter is also a good dietary source cholesterol. What?? Cholesterol an anti-oxidant?? Yes indeed, cholesterol is a potent anti-oxidant that is flooded into the blood when we take in too many harmful free-radicals—usually from damaged and rancid fats in margarine and highly processed vegetable oils.3 A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine.4
Some say margarine is better for us. Some say butter is.
So confusing.
Here’s one mans experience. I eat whatever I want. I love fruits and vegetables, fish, chicken, beef, lamb, every cheese I’ve ever tried except those repulsive slices calledAmerican cheese, olive oil, butter and chocolate. For some reason pork products don’t agree with me. I can’t stomach ham, bacon or anything from a pig. Other than pork, I’ll eat and enjoy almost anything in any quantity I want. My cholesterol is too high, my blood pressure is low, I’m 6’2” and weigh 185 lbs. with a 34” waist. I’ve outlived two doctors so far and I feel fine.
One day, an ME is going to have to put a cause of death on a death certificate for me. I don’t want it to be boredom.
...We've increased our consumption of carbohydrates by 25 percent since the 1970s, which may be the reason that Type 2 diabetes is reaching epidemic levels.
I've long ignored that bit about eggs and bacon (you can add sausage, too). Diabetes is rampant through my family but I don't have it, partly because I watch my weight.
A stupid question, I know.
Years ago my wife and I drove my mother-in-law to a convention of the ADA, an organization of dieticians. My two sisters-in-law are registered dieticians who were always lecturing me on the evils of eating fill-in-the-blank. I didn’t pay much attention to either of them because both of them are nitwits.
I did get to see the people attending the convention. I was shocked by the number of obese dietitians. (For the record, both of my sister-in-law were three women in one redlining the scale.)
I am old enough to remember milk and eggs were nature’s nearly perfect foods. They then became evil and now are once again nature’s nearly perfect foods.
My take away on dieticians is that most of them are stupid people who think they are scientists. They are the type of people who fall for all sort of scams like Globull Warming and machines that “change” the pH of water making it “ideal” for human consumption.
Is this the same bunch trying to tell us we’re screwing up the climate when they can’t even rightly predict the weather a week away?
What next? Trans-fats good? Pass the oreos?
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Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
...But AGW IS settled science, and they really, really, really mean it. Pay no attention to any kooks who tell you otherwise. /sarc