Yes. I love my computer, but I must remind myself to get up and walk away for exercise. As far as our diet goes, I am tired of listening to the "experts." I believe my grandparents had a healthier diet and a lot less stress without all of the "expert" advice.

Wow, fact is stranger than fiction. "Atlas Shrugged now non- fiction" Is Rearden metal good?

The way that the founder of the movement, Ancel Keys, went about collecting, selecting and publishing data is startlingly similar to the work of Michael Mann inventor of the notorious Hockey Stick.

If you were to ask me, ok you didn't, well a small amount of animal fat is essential, big amounts are harmful. The body is not highly sensitive to vegetable oils but these can be dangerous when rancid which happens easily. The worst is palm oil, a major industry created by the anti-cholesterol movement.

Yes,the DDT scare was different, there was no data behind it at all, not even fabricated or selected data. An example of the power of good story telling.

Ate low carb,for a year, lost 60 lbs, reversed diabetes and lower chol and BP, gov. knows best, please

Like patents and god?

I remember that

Sounds like Dinner a couple nights ago... Yum! Tiger shrimp, anyone?

Remember the old days when a 1/4 lb. hamburger was huge? Now it's a snack. We've been so conditioned to eat from the "government approved" food silo, er, pyramid that we now have to eat more of these foods that metabolize into sugars - and had to eat more of it (Supersize Me!) to think we're satisfied - we've given ourselves an epidemic of diabetes and obesity that was uncommon 50 years ago and almost unheard of 100 years ago. Add that to our currently sedentary lifestyle, and there ya go.

Wow

I have seen quite a bit of damage done by statin drugs. They are linked to dementia and diabetes. Oh, the brain?...needs fat.

(going from memory here, speaking of brain) This whole thing got started by the 7-nations study. That was a study that tried to link eating animal fat with heart disease. The problem was that there was a lot of data (nations) omitted that didn’t give the desired study result. When you add those other nations back in you can see total data scatter – no correlation.

I addressed the NIH in a hearing several years ago. Yes..they are very much like the "State Science Institute". They are driven almost entirely by pharma. In the hearing I was at they even hired thugs to come in and intimidate people. I'll never forget it, I was so shocked. The thugs avoided me...smart move.

Hello DB,
What?!?!? Government was wrong again? The NIH... reminds me of the "State Science Institute."
Time for surf and turf... Yep, a lobster smothered in drawn butter and a great big juicy steak.
Mmmm good!
Regards,
O.A.

I remember the first time I questioned the calorie counting was in grad school. If you put wood chips in a calorimeter it will show a lot of calories, but I don't think you body can absorb any of them. I have never seen an explanation of how this is taken into account.

To me this implies that different people will absorb more or less calories from the same food of the same portion size cooked the same way.


DDT was driven by lies.

Longer than 40 years DB

I remember the whole Butter Vs Margarine fight back in the 60s/70s.

I always asked the same question.

"How can margarine, made from oil be better for you than butter, made from milk?"

Never got an actual answer to that so continued to go with butter. A few year ago they said "oops we were wrong about margarine all along".

There are many many examples of that.

The banning of DDT was driven by a NOVEL not by facts. None of the things they claimed ever actually happened.