Re: "Science writer blames obesity, disease on carbs."

On Oct 25, 10:31 pm, monty1...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
"It's not the oil, it's the starch in maize and soyabeans that fattens

animals (and people) up."

There's no question that if you can get (or force) an animal to
continually eat abnormally high amounts of "simple carbs," it will
gain weight at some point.

Starch isn't a simple carb.

1. There is no doubt the that dietary fatty acid profile has changed
since about 1960 to an extreme degree.

Define extreme.

2. If a diet is producing a great deal of lipid peroxidation, thyroid
function can become impaired, leading to weight gain.

Are you really suggesting that everyone who's obese has thyroid
dysfunction? Grasping at straws.

Science must
account for all factors, and if someone refutes your claim, as I have,

What claim, and how have you refuted it?

and there is no other factor (I am not hyperthyroid), then it cannot
be correct.

Anecdotes about your unique physiology aren't science.

MattLB


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