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Crisis in Nutrition – Vox Populi

March 25 2012 12:04 in Failed low fat diets, Tom Naughton

If you haven’t seen this recent lecture (20 min) by brilliant stand-up comic and food blogger Tom Naughton yet, you should. It’s about how people are turning away from obsolete official high-carb eating guidelines. How people seek out better advice online. And how this evolution is unstoppable.

Unless the official nutrition advice is updated to something that actually works, more and more people are simple going to ignore it.

Tom Naughton’s blog (well worth reading)

PS: Vox Populi means “voice of the people”.

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CBS Sings the Praises of Fat (!)

November 21 2011 21:05 in Failed low fat diets, Gary Taubes

This is pretty cool. CBS News, one of the biggest news programs in the world, just questioned whether fat is really bad (of course it’s not). They also interviewed Gary Taubes and the writer of the cool cookbook “Fat”. Can you feel the paradigm shift going on?

Read and comment on the news report.

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How bad science created the obesity epidemic

October 22 2011 10:16 in Cholesterol, Failed low fat diets, The Obesity Epidemic

This is a good talk by professor David M Diamond. Because of health issues of his own he started studying diet and health. Soon he realized that much of what we believe about healthy food today is based on bad science, preconceived notions and economic interests.

I agree with almost everything in the talk, except for one thing. Continue Reading →

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Fat-phobic phone

October 17 2011 13:45 in Failed low fat diets

Americans have fat phobia.

The new iPhone 4S has a virtual assistant named Siri that allows you to ask questions. Unfortunately some of her answers seems to belong in the 1984 Mac.

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It will get worse: the new “MyPlate”

June 8 2011 11:54 in Failed low fat diets

It will get worse. Faced with decades of explosively increasing numbers of obese people and diabetics the US government answer is to find a more effective way to give the exact same fat phobic advice.

Here is MyPlate. The same failed advice as in the old food pyramid, with a sparkling new $2 million design. The stupidity calls for some humor:

FatHead: The USDA explains “MyPlate”

CMWO: There. That looks better.

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Low Fat IRL

June 6 2011 10:36 in Failed low fat diets

It’s true I’m afraid. The experiment with low fat dietary advice is a spectacular failure, both in modern scientific trials for weight loss (losing 0-11 to LC in trials with statistically significant results) and in reality (massive obesity epidemic).

The problem? If you eat less fat you need to eat more of something else. Usually that means more sugar and starch, which tends to make us hungrier… and gain weight.

The solution? Do the opposite. Avoid sugar and starch, and eat more real food.

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