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

From: Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (andrew_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:17:13 -0500

elgoog wrote:
>
> 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).

Motivations are not goals.

> (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.

The definition of "balanced" remains controversial.
 
> 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

Actually, it depends on whether you are able to discern the truth.
 
> BTW: All due respect to Dr. Chung, he is not a quack.

The truth is not "by the way" but rather "is the way."

> AFAIK, his
> medical advice is sound.

In truth, you have not seen me give specific medical advice here on
USENET.

> 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.

It seems that you are unable to discern the truth.
 
> **http://www.nutrition.gov/
>
> -elgoog
> Primum non nocere (first, do no harm).

Many have been harmed by the untruths you seem to adhere to.

You remain in my prayers, dear neighbor, whom I love, in Christ's holy
name.
 
At His service,

Andrew 

--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
**
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