Re: greed vs "lifestyle food cult" - which makes more sense


TC wrote:

I learned to be examine things, such as evidence, critically from my
training in IT. There is no one who can claim to have the definitive
answer to any question. You have to examine the situation (data)
yourself and come to your own conclusions on what you see and what makes
the most sense as to what the right answer is. The moment that you apply
this sense of doubt and criticality to what is currently the state of
the science in nutrition, is the very moment that you realize that there
is something very wrong with this picture.

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There's a lot of dogma, that's for sure

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TC wrote:

" The very sad thing is that we have thousands of advanced degree
pinheads running around spouting their garbage by rote with no sense
whatsoever of doubt. No ability whatsoever to look at the science
critically in any way. A science that does not question its own basis is
no longer a science, it becomes a religion. "

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It's hard to believe that all those advanced degree pinheads can't
figure out the cause
various diseases, like inflammatory related
ones.

I'm afraid the 'religion' of greed and industry
prefers it that way.

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TC wrote:

" I watch the science channel quite often and I follow science news very
closely. When a new discovery is made, often we see interviews with
scientists who say that this discovery may challenge fundamental aspects
of theories and beliefs that have been held for ages. And when they say
this, they are often very excited at the prospect of seeing a major
shift in scientific belief in their field of study. They are open to the
possibility of old beliefs being wrong and new paradigm re-writing their
scientific textbooks. In fact they are excited by the prospect.

Not so with nutrition. When low-carb was becoming very popular and many
many people started seeing that it not only works, but it works better
than the mainstreams low fat diets, the mainstream scientists were under
pressure to explain this away or at least respond to it. Studies were
coming out left, right and centre showing how low carb worked better for
weight loss and for general health. One of the responses I saw was an
appearance by certain scientists on a popular science show on the
science channel. Their response was a re-iteration of the mainstreams
concepts of higher calorie fats vs lower calorie carbs and proteins,
etc. etc. And their message was that these new studies are wrong and we
have always been right even though low fat fails most of the time and
low carb seems to work better. There answer was that they were
absolutely certain that what has been believed for generations is
completely unassailable and to question the science is unthinkable and
unscientific. "

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I watched some doctor on PBS (wearing his surgeons fatigues, no less)
saying to avoid saturated fats. (probably at the behest of the vegetable
oil industry)

Talk about a generalization that can't help but be wrong.

There are more than a few different types of saturated fats. To suggest
avoiding them all
is just plain asinine. (and doesn't take into account an individuals
present physiology)

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