Gary Taubes responds to the AHA presidential advisory on dietary fats(cardiobrief.org)
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Gary Taubes responds to the AHA presidential advisory on dietary fats
http://www.cardiobrief.org/2017/06/16/guest-post-vegetable-oils-francis-bacon-bing-crosby-and-the-american-heart-association/#comments
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The "Fathead" movie was an informative albeit corny movie that mentioned Gary Taubes findings.
An average US citizen eats about 3500kcal daily. Half of those calories are from fatty animal foods, half are from refined sugar.
Why is everyone demonizing fatty foods, or sugar, when that 3500 number is screaming at us from afar?!
US citizens eat way to much and move way too little. The side effect is diabetes T2, heart attacks and all sorts of issues.
US citizens also do not know how to eat, their capitalism has failed them, the whole food business is subsidized insanely. So they are "forced" to buy highly caloric foods that kills them (because that food is cheap), and foods with high nutrient to calories ratio are too expensive. Sodie pops and milk cheaper than water, meat cheaper than vegetables, insane.
Why is everyone demonizing fatty foods, or sugar, when that 3500 number is screaming at us from afar?!
US citizens eat way to much and move way too little. The side effect is diabetes T2, heart attacks and all sorts of issues.
US citizens also do not know how to eat, their capitalism has failed them, the whole food business is subsidized insanely. So they are "forced" to buy highly caloric foods that kills them (because that food is cheap), and foods with high nutrient to calories ratio are too expensive. Sodie pops and milk cheaper than water, meat cheaper than vegetables, insane.
You can't be forced to eat too much just because food is too cheap. Get some smaller plates.
(Milk is cheaper than water?)
(Milk is cheaper than water?)
A lot of this cheap stuff is high-margin "weaponized food" that's had thousands of man-hours thrown at it to make it addictive. Capitalism is optimizing for the wrong parameter, just like it does in just about every other situation related to human health.
These "weaponized food" exist and there is no turning back because people like them. McDonalds sells apple slices and french fries but I bet a vast majority of people choose french fries. But if people took things is moderation it would be much better. Maybe take a small serving of french fries and a glass of water with your burger.
And the funny thing is, their apple slice are likely even less healthy than the fries.
The AHA cherry-picked four poorly-conducted studies from the sixties to make their sweeping recommendation that PUFAs are substantially heart-healthier to eat versus saturated fats. Taubes goes into detail about some major biases within these four studies.