The liberal food-nazis still claim those are bad for you.
I particularly loved the concluding paragraph.
“There’s usually a little wave of anxiety when a math test gets handed out,” she said. “But when the test involves tasting different heirloom apples, describing the subtle variance between three varieties of strawberries, or discovering that butternut squash pureed with carrots is sweet and delicious, well, kids are lining up for those tests and passing with flying colors.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise. Kids enjoy tasting stuff they hope they'll never have to eat more than they enjoy taking a math test. To a bureaucrat, that's success!
My health Nazi mother used to brow beat my grandfather for eating bacon and eggs every morning. He was 93 and still riding motorcycle.
How about some healthy egg yolks, beef, butter, and lard?
The liberal food-nazis still claim those are bad for you.
The relative risk (RR) of CHD mortality was reduced in the mid and upper tertiles of dietary menaquinone compared to the lower tertile [RR = 0.73 (95% CI: 0.45, 1.17) and 0.43 (0.24, 0.77), respectively]. Intake of menaquinone was also inversely related to all-cause mortality [RR = 0.91 (0.75, 1.09) and 0.74 (0.59, 0.92), respectively] and severe aortic calcification [odds ratio of 0.71 (0.50, 1.00) and 0.48 (0.32, 0.71), respectively].
In case that's not clear - they divided a population into thirds, based on amount of K2 in their diets, and looked at how many developed coronary heart disease. The middle group had a 27% lower risk of developing heart disease than the lowest, and the highest had a 57% lower risk. These are huge numbers. Statin drugs have a much smaller effect.
And what foods are high in menaquinone? Egg yolks, butter, and fat from animals who are eating green grass, or certain fermented products, like brie, gouda, or natto.
Why do the French have such a low incidence of heart disease despite eating such a high-fat diet? Because the fats they are eating - cheeses, pates, etc. are protective. Why do the Japanese have such a low incidence of heart disease, despite eating such a high-carb diet? Because the fermented bean curds they are eating are protective.
Both sides were looking at the wrong side of the problem, and asking the wrong questions. It wasn't what they were eating, but what they weren't.
Why did we have such a sudden increase in atherosclerosis, in the 1940's? Because that's when we moved to large-scale feed-lot operations, raising our beef and chickens on grain, rather than grass and green plants.
It turns out atherosclerosis is primarily a deficiency disease, and we created the deficiency. We did it to ourselves. And Weston Price was right, all those years ago. His "Activator X" is K2.
So now comes the fight - because there are powerful commercial and political forces who have a vested interest in our remaining sick.
