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EventsHey Ireland! The 80’s Called, They Want Their Dietary Advice Back
New and obsolete advice?
The Irish government just launched the new ‘Healthy Eating Guidelines’ in a campaign. You would think that it is a joke, or an invitation to some kind of 80’s masquerade party, but sadly it is not.
But hey Ireland, the 80’s called. They really want their failed fat-phobic, carb-heavy advice back.
Fortunately some people are not impressed, here’s an article from Ireland’s biggest paper:
Irish Times: Beware of nutribabble in revised food pyramid
Earlier
“The Government’s Carb-Heavy Healthy Eating Guide Could Be CAUSING Obesity”
If you look at the "fats" area of the pyramid, you'll see prominently:
(a) a bottle of vegetable oil (likely rapeseed in Northern Europe, undoubtedly something extracted under heat and pressure, and heavy in omega 6s.
(b) a margarine spread labelled "light". (See Nina Teicholz's book for the lowdown on these horrors of the chemical food industry.
(c) a bottle of bought mayonnaise. This will consist in more of the industrial seed oil, water and emulsifiers, although there may be a little (pasteurised) egg in it.
That's about it. I recall that the reviewed Australian guidelines, which seem not dissimilar to this were the first guidelines issued anywhere in the world to actually advise against eating butter at all. That may a very small pat of butter in the background in the Irish picture, but if it is that's all they're getting. They may be trying to cater to grain producers and fruit importers, but this looks like an attempt to give the Irish Milk Marketing Board (which trades as Kerrygold) a swift knee in the goolies. Why? These oils are NOT healthier. The revisitation of the "hidden" Australian data on heart health by U.S. NIH scientists shows that.
Luck of the Irish ? ? If they're actually going to be eating this toxic trash it looks like it just ran out.
"More 'Vegetable' Oil? MORE Heart Deaths":
http://www.meandmydiabetes.com/2013/03/10/vegetable-oil-associated-wi...
It was the 1960s Sydney Diet Heart Study whose results were "lost" and which suggests such a bleak outcome for those replacing natural fats with high omega-6 industrial seed oils.
Why do the powers that be in Ireland not know about this? They ought to: it's their job to.
I tend to think that the USDA probably is far too influenced by industry lobbies, but I'm not sure that would be the case in Ireland. I wonder if it's just that they take what industry-influenced bodies Stateside, like the USDA, say too seriously instead of really looking into the science themselves.
I am hoping that as we tend to follow the UK that PHCUK will influence our Department of Health soon!
Oreal sea salt and sea minerals
Imokilly regato (grass fed cheese)
Wexford black currants (berries)
Sneem black pudding (blood sausage)
Conamarra lamb
Waterford Blaa (bread...eaten with lots of butter)
Timoleague brown pudding (more blood sausage)
Clare island salmon
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/quality/door/list.html?locale=en&...
Wow...looks like their traditional foods are not exactly food pyramid compliant. What's up with that? Maybe they should apply for protected origin foods for bananas, orange juice and margarine. Should make the dieticians happy.
I think the most interesting thing about Taleb's view is this: When it comes to introducing something completely different (e.g. on a biochemical level) into the human body, the burden of proof is reversed. That is, the onus is on the new item's advocates to prove beyond any doubt that it's definitely not dangerous. Otherwise we get, for example, the issues that have arisen regarding trans fats, which CSPI enthusiastically advocated in the 1980s as a replacement for time-proven traditional animal fats.
"Over 100 pounds of "bog butter" were discovered in Tullamore, County Offaly in 2013. This ancient food substance, thought to been buried as a form of refrigeration, is thought to be 5,000 years old, dating from the Iron Age.
Brian Clancy and his uncle Joe were cutting turf in Ballard Bog when they made the discovery.
Joe explained: "We were cutting turf and I found what looked like a huge piece of timber…We took it out with a spade and it turned out to be bog butter."
Speaking to the Irish Times, he said, "It looked like a keg or an urn with two handles and a lid carved from a solid piece of wood."
The container has carving marks around the edges with a removable lid with handles and holes, possibly for carrying. The wooden vessel measures a foot in diameter and is almost two feet tall. The 100 pound container was buried seven-feet down.
Theories about exactly what "bog butter" is vary. Some believe it was a special type of butter made at a certain time during the years and buried so that it might be preserved. Joe said the butter still has a dairy smell. In the past some "bog butter" that has been tested has been meat based."
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/bog-butter-from-3000-bc-found-in-anc...
"After making the discovery in Emlagh bog, County Meath, he says he contacted a local museum who then analysed the dairy discovery.
Cavan County Museum told Jack that the 10kg (22lb) lump of butter was in fact more than 2,000 years old.
Savina Donohoe, curator of Cavan County Museum, has told Newsbeat that it smells like a "strong cheese"."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36539065/10kgs-of-2000-year-old...