The

Fat Attack

DYI:  If you are old enough you will remember the high fat scare days from the 70’s all the way to the early 90’s.  Ancel Keys [1904 – 2004] physiologist who theorized the connection between saturated fat and heart disease kicked off the low fat craze, has gone full circle and now known to be false. 

                 Ancel Keys

The true culprit is refined carbohydrates [especially sugar and high fructose corn syrup] activating inflammation leading to heart disease, hypertension [high blood pressures], obesity along with America’s largest epidemic type II diabetes.  Many have postulated that Ancel Keys who’s huge claim to fame the highly successful World War II K-rations desired another standing ovation this time for his hypotheses regarding saturated fat and heart disease.  Many believe in his hunt to find a connection he ended up fabricating his data to fit and justify his hypothesis.

To this day doctors – who know nothing about nutrition – have continued dispensing the saturated fat nonsense.  Some go as far as stating that the medical profession has been lying for almost 30 years that eating low carb, high fat, and moderate protein will increase both triglyceride and the bad cholesterol numbers in your body.  That maybe true [most likely so] at the high levels within these corporate health organization but the doctors working day to day with patients simply to be frank when it comes to this subject are dumber than a pile of rocks.  Most are brainwashed into believing the current dogma with zero desire to leave the current plantation of thought for fear of rocking the boat.

Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia spelling out the main culprit to America’s obesity epidemic along with the other associated medical problems.   

The book, Pure White and Deadly, and author suffered a barrage of criticism at the time, particularly from the sugar industry, processed-food manufacturers, and Ancel Keys, an American physiologist who argued in favour of restricting dietary fat, not sugar, and who sought to ridicule Yudkin's work. In later years, Yudkin's observations came to be accepted. 

A 2002 cover story about sugar by Gary Taubes in The New York Times Magazine, "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?", attracted attention, and the following year a World Health Organization report recommended that added sugars provide no more than 6–10% of total dietary intake. In 2009 a lecture on the health effects of sugar by Robert Lustig, an American pediatric endocrinologist, went viral. The subsequent interest led to the rediscovery of Yudkin's book and the rehabilitation of his reputation.

 

Its not just sugar it is all preprocessed foods that are heavily laden with refined carbohydrates that is the culprit to America’s and other countries as well massive medical epidemic.  There are only three macro nutrients fats, protein and carbohydrates.  You may be surprised there are zero minimum daily requirements for the consumption of carbs.  That right there tells you something is amiss with the average American diet.  The process food manufactures and sweets industry plus grocery store chains obvious destine for this attack upon their products.  Here is the reason.  Grocery stores have two big costs.  One is labor and the other is food spoilage.  Doesn’t affect labor that much but these products have very long shelf life making them a big hit with both industries.  And these products are cheap to make and thus have a much higher profit margin.  Notice all types of TV commercials for these types of foods but you never see anything for broccoli or brussels sprouts.

If you have read this far then you may still be interested here are a few links describing in greater detail to get you started.

Demolishing Lies On Low Carb Eating*

A low-carb diet for beginners

Lose Weight with Today’s Atkins™

Wikipedia just can’t help it and have to shoot themselves in the foot to the bitter end taking a cheap shot at Atkins who started the low carb lifestyle.  And no it is not a fad.  Below is what Wikipedia then Denniger at Market-ticker.org had to say.

Wikipedia: 

The Atkins diet is a low-carbohydrate fad diet devised by Robert Atkins. The diet is marketed with questionable claims that carbohydrate restriction is critical to weight loss.  There is no good evidence of the diet's effectiveness in achieving durable weight loss and it may increase the risk of heart disease.

Denniger:

Myth: It's a "fad diet."  Eating low-carb is a lifestyle, not a diet and it is not a fad.  In fact humans, prior to the discovery of high-density agriculture, almost-exclusively ate in this fashion.  

A "fad" is an unproved and new way of doing something without examination as to validity. 

It is in fact the modern mania with vegetable oils, nearly none of which exist in nature, along with other highly processed foods such as cereals and sugar-laden things, driven by literal billions of advertising dollars, that is the fad.  Nobody spends a billion dollars advertising broccoli crowns on TeeVee!

 DYI