Comments on: Before you reach happily for the butter and the steak…

By: high quality protein

high quality protein — Tue, 13 May 2014 19:30:34 +0000

excellent put up, very informative. I’m wondering why the other experts of this sector
do not realize this. You should continue your writing.
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By: John Tyler

John Tyler — Mon, 05 May 2014 11:43:57 +0000

If you are really interested in the “real” evidence supporting the “establishment” dietary recommendations you must read
GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES , by Gary Taubes.

This book should, and probably will , get you angry.

By: waitforit

waitforit — Mon, 05 May 2014 01:51:12 +0000

Now sometimes, it don’t seem right, but it is what is. People get rewarded for sloth. Yes. Some people never get ill. Ever. Never had influenza. I thinks it’s due to their immune system. It is strong. Being around a lot of bovine and equine manure; being around toilets that weren’t too fine; being around meat and food that were left out a long time: got a strong immune system. Nothing gets by. But none of that probably would have developed if they wasn’t WORKING. And thank the men and women who provided shots for measles and polio as well as making a great water supply system and waste disposal system. I really grew up in a dream era. The thing I think is making disease is quantum thinking. We’re seeing it; therefore, making it. The idea is we are presently equating with making. For awhile, perhaps, but viewing is not making.

By: waitforit

waitforit — Mon, 05 May 2014 01:33:25 +0000

I’m 52, eat meat, drink beer, am 32 on the BMI slide, and slide I do: I haven’t seen a doktor in 25 years. Dentist, yes. And eye doktor. But not one of yourn fanny pants minded doktors who’l make my life hell by saying what I shoudn’t do or eat; an so I built my life around sumfin difrent and seem alot more healthy an ose at didn’t. Nose I’m appier.

By: david7134

david7134 — Sun, 04 May 2014 19:50:10 +0000

Men under 50 with an elevated cholesterol have about a 2% increase in the possibility of an MI in 5 years. If they have a low HDL, there risk of an MI is 15 times normal (not percent). Best way to get HDL up, high cholesterol diet.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sun, 04 May 2014 19:46:18 +0000

David7134: I agree about the iffiness of much of the evidence about cholesterol, especially for everyone but men under 50 who have already had a heart attack and have high cholesterol. But the perils of overweight are highly suspect too, although obesity is bad. Slight overweight seems to be good, however, at least as far as we can tell (and we can't tell very far).

By: david7134

david7134 — Sun, 04 May 2014 19:21:27 +0000

I have been in medicine for 40 years and specialize in Cardiology. I was asked by the Federal Government to defend several doctors in the VA medical system. Their crime was not prescribing a low cholesterol diet for their patients and thus the patients went on to have a heart attack. Several doctors had already turned down the offer to assist. I took it on as a challenge and the first place I went was the governments studies on cholesterol. I pulled all the original articles from the 50’s and 60’s and was surprised. The articles in no way associate diet with any disease. I then took this to Federal court and won the case. Subsequently I have been interested in diet and have found that the only risk is excessive weight. Otherwise, your diet has no bearing in disease, none. In fact, you could ever argue that restricting cholesterol in bad for health (Hope Trial, Harvard). But, in the end, it is maintenance of a decent weight that is most important. That is because of a condition known as metabolic syndrome. People with this disorder are obese, then develop inflammation in their arteries. This is the real culprit that causes myocardial infarcts and plaque is inflammation in the arteries. This occurs in the muscular layer and moves into the intima and then the blood stream. When this happens, clotting occurs and results in an infarct. That is why aspirin reduces MI’s. Note that statins that were developed for reducing cholesterol and thus reducing MI’s do not work. They only reduce the chance of an MI by 3% per year and this is not associated proportionally to cholesterol. In fact, reducing the cholesterol by 40% has no effect on disease. Statins are thought now to work via a mechanism of reducing inflammation. But then you have the high risk of side effects by statins. Big pharma has done a marvelous job of disguising the side effect profile of these drugs, which is very dangerous. Google, cholesterol myth, to get a better explanation. Be careful as many nuts are on this band wagon as well as concerned cardiologist. Best way to prevent heart attacks, exercise, lean weight, ASA.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup » Pirate's Cove — Sun, 04 May 2014 13:22:14 +0000

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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 04 May 2014 04:24:08 +0000

Fat isn’t a bad thing. It’s only bad in the post apocalyptic zombie apocalypse that is the Left’s Gaia.

By: parker

parker — Sun, 04 May 2014 03:08:41 +0000

(5) It’s not just animal fat vs. low animal fat, it’s what sort of diet replaces the animal fat if you reduce it: what type of new fat, what type of carbohydrate, what quantities, what else you’re eating, what else you’re doing, etc.

It is AGW and/or BDS-PDS that confuses animal far for new fat. Damn them both and send them to a DHS interment camp when the left achieves their Kristallnacht.