[EQAndyBuzz]

I removed processed foods from my diet with the exception of pig products.

I haven’t felt this good in years.

[ClearCase_guy]

I eat what I want. I'm not dead yet.

And scientists are baffled.

[leapfrog0202]

Later.

Thanks for the article.

[traderrob6]

Cholesterol causing heart disease is one of the biggest scams of the 21st century.

Right up there with anthropogenic global warming.

[yldstrk]

steak and eggs yay

steak and salad yay

[null and void]

The lies, summerized:

1. Eggs Are Bad For Your Health
2. A Calorie is a Calorie
3. Saturated Fat is Unhealthy
4. Eating a Lot of Protein is Bad For Your Health
5. Everyone Should be Eating “Heart-Healthy” Whole Wheat
6. Coffee is Bad for You*
7. Meat is Bad For You
8. The Healthiest Diet is a Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet
9. Refined Seed- and Vegetable Oils Are Healthy
10. Low-Carb Diets Are Ineffective and Downright Harmful

Vastly more data at the source, but this is the Reader’s Digest version.

* Note: The people who wrote this are clearly unaware of Dark’s zombie deer coffee.

[ontap]

Let me preface this post by fessing up....I'm fat....months ago my wife and I went on a low carb diet.....I have lost 35 lbs.....(I'm still fat but not AS fat) I look forward to eventually losing another 60 lbs. I don't try to convince any one of anything. I will say that IMHO sugar is the biggest culprit, but excess carbs of any kind is bad. As far as I know there is not a minimum amount of carbs that is a recommended daily amount i.e. carbohydrates are not necessary in ones diet. While I am not saying one should never eat carbs I am saying one should limit them when ever possible. All my numbers, Blood pressure, cholesterol. Blood sugar etc. improved substantially, that is simply the facts!!

[Cap Huff]

The point about salt intake needing to be heavily restricted is interesting to me.

When I was about 20 I found that whenever my blood pressure was taken it would go up. I lost my opportunity to go through Air Force pilot training as a result. They thought I would die of a heart attack. I tried greatly restricting my sodium intake to get the blood pressure down, but it only made me feel awful. That was over 40 years ago.

At the same time I have always sweated a great deal. Shirts and tee shirts often get white bands from the salt left from sweating. Years ago I came to the conclusion that I need to keep my salt intake reasonably consistent with how much I sweat. When I took the medical experts’ advice and limited my salt intake I was probably not getting anywhere near enough sodium.

My experience with the misinformation about sodium was just the start. Many of the points in the article have been among my thinking for several years now (eat more meat and plenty of animal fat). Recently there have been more and more articles getting into the news confirming what I have long suspected about the “eat healthy” nonsense.