It looks like Reason magazine has been reading about my diet...or maybe just studies showing no associations between red meat and mortality, saturated fat and heart disease, stroke or cardiovascular disease, or salt consumption and disease. Summarizing published research from the past few years, the article calls the government's dietary advice of the past forty years a fiasco of misinformation, even noting there's a positive association between a low-sodium diet and death. It adds that the US government's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has dropped their long crusade against cholesterol.
The article explains,
It's refreshing for the mainstream media to recognize that mainstream dietary advice hasn't been working instead of parroting the same misinformation. The comments section of the article is happily free of the usual vegan trolls, too: Reason is libertarian (a way of thinking that doesn't draw many vegans) and commenting requires registration.
See "The Red Meat, Eggs, Fat, and Salt Diet" by Ronald Bailey, Reason magazine's Hit & Run Blog, February 24, 2015.
The article explains,
Observational studies [which the government relied on] may be good at developing hypotheses, but they are mostly not a good basis for making behavioral recommendations and imposing regulations.
It's refreshing for the mainstream media to recognize that mainstream dietary advice hasn't been working instead of parroting the same misinformation. The comments section of the article is happily free of the usual vegan trolls, too: Reason is libertarian (a way of thinking that doesn't draw many vegans) and commenting requires registration.
See "The Red Meat, Eggs, Fat, and Salt Diet" by Ronald Bailey, Reason magazine's Hit & Run Blog, February 24, 2015.
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Remember, over the years there have beena lot of food "villians" - Fat, Cholestoral, HFCS, and Carbs just to name a few. Nowadays Gluten and Sugar seem to be in the spotlight and I can find studies that support and refute all of these things.
-FogDog Weight Loss
Yes, data can be viewed in different ways, but all we heard about until a few years ago was the evils of fat, when the evils of carbs were lurking there.
Farmers unite and grow more great whole real foods for the population to enjoy .........
All the best Jan
True indeed, but at the time I don't believe the public was intentionally being misled. Fat just had a lousy PR agent. Finally it fired the agent and he moved on to represent carbs.
Additionally, most people suffer from confirmation bias including scientists who first concluded fat was bad. From there on subsequent studies just supported what they already believed.
20 Years from now people will be screaming about how the evils of of corn starch were clear in 2015 but everyone was too focused on carbs or better yet someone will discover that eggs were bad after all and we'll start all over again..
-FogDogWeightLoss.Blogspot.com
You mentioned mechanical engineering. My thermodynamics professor said to us, "Concepts are fine, but if you can't get the right answer, you're no use to anyone." The researchers, politicians, and industry flacks who pushed low-fat diets were worse than useless.