The top five worst.
I agree with all of them. Eating fat doesn’t make you fat, eating cholesterol doesn’t increase your cholesterol, stick with saturated fat (not just butter, but egg yolks, and animal fats), not seed oils, and stop counting calories. Just eat what’s good for you, and avoid what’s bad.
This is even more junk science than climate science (and as I’ve noted in the past, this kind of nonsense probably killed my father in the late seventies). As I’ve also noted in the past, science that has public consequences tends to become politicized.
I don’t trust locavores.
Still not over the Jeffry Dahmer thing, eh?
I aspire to be many things. Lunch is not amongst them.
The mention of diabetics is a sore spot of mine. The advice to diabetics to eat low-fat, moderate protein diets (which are thus high carb) is far more prevalent than even this article shows. One of the pushers of this regime is the American Diabetes Association.
This would be the same American Diabetes association that rakes in millions from Cadbury-Sweppes and other junk food makers (which then get to use the aDA logo on some of their products) and also from big pharma companies (going high carb means increasing meds, and some of those meds are expensive as hell.)
The high-carb recommendations at the ADA were designed for type1 diabetics. Type 1 is a very, very different disease from Type2. Type1 is caused by an autoimmune attack on the pancreas (such as in juvenile diabetes, though it can strike at any age). With no pancreatic function, they then have to use supplemental insulin.
In Type2, it’s triggered in the main by insulin resistance overworking the pancreas (which eventually can’t keep up with the high demand). In some T2s, the pancreas fails, and they need insulin. But even then, their disease is very different from T1. Their insulin resistance (which T1’s don’t have) means they have to use far higher insulin doses, often 4 to 5 times as much. This raises blood insulin levels, which in turn does damage of its own.
However, for those t2’s using just oral meds, there are some, like Metformin, that work by increasing the sensitivity to insulin. Many others work by spurring the already-overstressed pancreas to produce more insulin. These latter ones are termed “pancreatic stimulators” and those are the meds called on to accommodate a high-carb diet for a T2 diabetic. One of the side effects is that by overworking the already-failing pancreas, you speed its failure.
So, to summarize, the ADA took a diet designed (based on poor science at that) for T1 diabetics and applied it to all diabetics, ignoring the vast difference between the two diseases. This is especially damning as 90% of diabetics are T2, not T1.
Yet even today, many doctors push high carb on their diabetic patients.
For proof of this, just try ordering a “diabetic meal” on an airline of in a hospital. Most likely, they’ll give you a plate of fruit and pasta. (sugar, plus starch, and starch is, of course, sugar molecules linked end to end, which transforms to standard sugar as soon as its eaten). So yep, their advice is to feed sugar to diabetics. I consider this little short of genocide.