Sugar Industry Influenced Researchers and Blamed Fat for Cvd (2016)

Full disclosure: I'm not affiliated with any meat/dairy/egg industry.

The RFK jr version of the food pyramid now moves meat and dairy to the biggest section of the pyramid

Foreseeing such Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg has already made that one into a movie.

Parents of school-age children ranting and raving about how the school needs to stop doing X, when it hasn't been that way forever; and they cannot hear it, cannot absorb it, cannot stop talking about it. Something something childhood trauma.

Oily stuff tastes unctuous.

Butter is favored because most people had it in their youth. Some regions loves Nato and Chicken feet, others cheese and oysters. What's the most delicious? It depends of your own history.

I spread olive oil on my toast and prefer the croissants made with that as well. My favorite dish is fried tempeh.

Though my grandpa used lard on his bread in the great depression because they couldn't afford butter.

Since you present no actual evidence. I won't either. Instead I'll tell you what is coming out as the truth:

1. Carbohydrates and especially sugars contribute more to various disease processes, including CVD, hyperlipidemia, etc than fat or meat consumption. A trivial google search, which you are clearly capable of doing, would show you that.

2. Eggs are loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat. Egg guidelines have been moved almost as often as salt and sugar. Most doctors will not stop you from eating 2-3 eggs a day because the benefits far outweigh the risks.

3. A balanced diet is better than one that isn't. But if you have no choice meat and fat have the highest level of satiation-to-energy of any kind of food.

4. High levels of exercise in combination with a diet higher in foods that have high levels of nutrition (meat, eggs, butter, and green leafy vegetables) will produce less negative health effects than following the government's health guidelines on either exercise or nutrition.

5. The existence of cultures that subsist entirely on meat and fat invalidates your argument. The eskimos, in particular, have comparable life spans and yet hyperlipidemia is extremely common among them. CVD is not. One factor could be the energy consumption due to exercise and extreme cold. The fact obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc risks all rose with the proliferation of highly processed carbohydrate and the "fat-free" trend is further evidence that something is wrong.

6. It is hard to believe anything the government says on nutrition is valid. Back when people watched the news we heard coffee is bad/coffee is good, salt is bad/salt is good, fat is bad/fat is good, meat is bad/meat is good. You should ask yourself seriously if you're getting your information from valid sources or if you just believe whatever the youtube you watch says.

It is possible to overdo nearly anything. Saturated fat guidelines, along with cholesterol guidelines, are likely too low even for conservative values. That being said, the amount of processed carbohydrate you should eat daily should approach 0 and you should consider it to be more of a snack if you eat it at all.

Anecdotally, my dad tried vegetarianism for quite a while to address his T2D, but it had no effect. My mom cut out sugar and processed carbohydrates and her T2D was gone in ~3 months or so.

Following any diet is probably better than nothing at all, which could explain the lower incidence of T2D in that group vs the general public. I’d be more curious about the rates in vegetarians/vegans vs people who eat paleo or even carnivore.

Also, red meat isn't a known carcinogen. Processed meat is. And plaque formation in arteries is a consequence of inflammation... which is caused by sugar, a.k.a. carbohydrates. Insulin resistance is also a consequence of increased carbohydrate consumption.

But as I said, it is a combination of fats and carbs that is the worst killed. Eliminating either one of those from the diet leads to an automatic improvement.

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Oh hey right after beef CAFOs started dominating the industry.

The key to proper regulation is to keep money and influence from pooling at the top, making it difficult for any single person to buy enough influence.

As it is, we have a dozen monopolies that should be broken up that are making a small section of the population so rich they are essentially above laws.

But, proper regulation can exist if people want it, and more specifically in the case of the USA, legislators want it. Unfortunately, Dems actively prevent it, and republicans are ripping it down, so the rest of us are kinda fucked.

Blame them (the consumers) then. This is like that silly Reddit/Twitter stat about 10% of companies creating 90% of global emissions… which the companies are doing in the process of making the shiny cell phones and laptops all the consumerists lambasting them are posting from, plus all the plastic crap they buy every day from Amazon.

The consumers are the ones demanding unchecked expansion of their consumption. As long as that demand exists, companies will find a way to fill it, whether they’re doing so in America or other countries. Privately held entities can’t allocate capital fast enough to keep up with the consumerists.

Because processed food diet is IMPOSSIBLE to adhere to without gaining weight. Caloric restriction simply doesn't work - your body wants nutrients, not just calories. Which is to say, your willpower will fail sooner or later, unless you find a way of satisfying nutritional needs without excess caloric intake.

Obesity was obviously far less common, but concern about weight -- and note that weight standards were much, much tighter (see the women in virtually any 1980s movie, which today would be consider anorexic) -- was endemic culturally. Snackwells weren't being sold to middle age men, they were being sold overwhelmingly to younger office women paranoid about their weight, and it wasn't because they were concerned about their arteries. Low fat products overwhelmingly targeted weight loss, including such ad campaigns as the "special k pinch".

"Thus calories alone were less vilified."

I'm sorry, but this is simply ahistorical. Calories were *EVERYTHING* among a large portion of the population. What is your knowledge on the 1980s from, because it certainly isn't based upon observable reality.

In the 1980s, being slightly overweight made you the joke (like literally the joke, as seen from Chunk in the Goonies, and many parallels in other programs). As calories became cheaper and people's waists started bulging, it was an easy paranoia to exploit.

Cane sugar, a disaccharide, is split by digestion into its constituent glucose and fructose molecules, and the latter must be further processed by the liver. It is 50% fructose.

High fructose corn syrup is 55% fructose.

A variety of other sugars, such as maltose and lactose occur naturally in a variety of foods. However, they are in low enough concentrations to not be a health problem.

The same rule changes tightened the rules on added sugar.