DailyDirt: Eat This, Don't Eat That...
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Fad diets and diet recommendations seem to change every few years. Whole eggs were bad for you, but now they should be considered as part of a balanced diet. What makes a diet balanced? More carbs? Less Fat? Maybe you should just walk every day to your nearest Subway and only eat sandwiches. Or maybe you can just track your calories and eat whatever you want. Or not.- The American Heart Association and the US govt have been recommending low cholesterol, low saturated-fat diets for over 50 years. However, mounting evidence is removing foods high in cholesterol from the "bad" food lists -- and maybe someday foods with saturated fat won't be perceived as unhealthy either. [url]
- Saturated fat doesn't cause heart disease. The unintended consequences of vilifying fat in our diet has shifted people to consume more carbohydrates -- which actually do have proven negative health effects. [url]
- Dietary guidelines from Brazil are a bit non-specific, but they also sound pretty reasonable. Brazil's dietary advice includes this point: "Be wary of food advertising and marketing." [url]
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Filed Under: calories, cholesterol, diet, food, health, jared fogle, recommendations, saturated fat
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besides, butter just tastes better...
had some seaweed flakes the other day, took some bbq chicken and 3-4 ribs to get that horrid taste out of my mouth... i didn't claw my way out of the ocean and evolve limbs so that i could still eat seaweed...
not looking forward to our soylent green future...
('soylent green is long pig ! ! !')
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It Was Never About The Cholesterol In Food, But About The Fat
That’s why I’m surprised to see this chestnut keep popping up so often.
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It's not just the Daily Mail. That includes tech blogs as well.
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Saturated Fats
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Just stick with the basic 4
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Elon / Spacex
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On thing gets lost in the War Against Carbs
Yet, for some bizarre reason, they are only making us fat and killing us NOW, even though we, as a species, have been rather successfully eating them as a primary source of caloric intake for thousands of years. Even the idea that an agricultural society could possibly shift caloric intake to primarily fats and proteins is quite new, as it's quite expensive to do so. (Not to mention eating primarily protein is environmentally unsustainable.)
The answer, of course, is that there is a lot more to the story of carbs besides their very existence in our diet. Dispensing blanket advice of "carbs have proven negative health effects" is irresponsible, at best. Yes, there are ways you can consume carbs and have them help hasten your demise, just like the same could be said for protein, fat, or just about any macro or micro nutrient consumed to excess.
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