Re: OT: Unhealthy Diet - Lose Weight on the "Super Size Me" Diet

From: elgoog (bjdefend-newsgroups_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: 4 Mar 2005 06:03:45 -0800

Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote:
> elgoog wrote:
> >
> > hmmm... it seems all recognize the importance of a nutritionally
> > balanced diet.
>
> Two points to be made here:
>
> (1) If the goal is weight loss, the "balance" of macronutrients truly
> does not matter.
>
> (2) It remains controversial exactly what defines "nutritionally
> balanced diet."
>
<<snip>>

Two points:

(1) The goal of weight loss is better health and better appearance
(because a healthy look is more attractive it is better health).

(2) Nutrition is not "controversial." Nutritionists, the Department of
Health and Human Services and the USDA are pretty much in lock step on
nutrition, the science of nutrition and recommended daily values.** If
there is a controversy it is amongst the quack diet purveyors, not
nutritional science.

I suppose a great deal depends upon your point of view - as a
scientist, or as a superstitious purveyor of pseudo-science, intuition
and anecdote

BTW: All due respect to Dr. Chung, he is not a quack. AFAIK, his
medical advice is sound. We just have different view points on
relatively trivial matters of netiquette and the appropriateness of
unsubstantiated (as in the public hasn't seen the proof) diet claims.

**http://www.nutrition.gov/

-elgoog
Primum non nocere (first, do no harm).

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