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Wednesday, August 30. 2017

Nutrition update: What is a healthy diet?


As we have been saying for years, there is no right "healthy diet" because humans are omnivores.  As we have also been saying for years, there is no benefit in a "low fat" or high-vegetable and fruit diet. The evidence for this has been pouring in for 20 years, but people are slow to relinquish their biases.  Two recent updates, yet again:


 The Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diet Debate Has a New Answer


 Study challenges conventional wisdom on fats, fruits and vegetables


 Even more evidence that we’re eating all wrong. Forget fat, it’s carbs that might stick it to your ticker.


By the way, does any normal person in the Western World eat five servings of fruit and vegetables daily anyway? But never mind, it doesn't matter.  We all know that broccoli causes cancer, carrots and fruit are basically sugar, and coffee helps you live forever.

Posted by Bird Dog in Medical at 16:21 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I totally agree. It is important to point out that many people have health problems that are directly affected by diet for better or for worse. For those people there is a more healthy and less healthy diet. This is important because people and even doctors and scientists sometimes conflate that fact to imply that those diets that benefit someone with a specific health problem could benefit everyone.

I consciously try to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables everyday and five servings isn't that difficult.
#1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-08-30 16:39 (Reply)
Well, for 20 years the evidence is that that is unnecessary. Of course, if you like it, great.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2017-08-30 16:43 (Reply)
Your first paragraph is simply untrue. The remark I'm commenting to is simply untrue. The hard data refutes your assertions. Has for years.
#1.1.1 You're a cultural signaller on 2017-08-31 05:13 (Reply)
Healthy diet? Eat pretty much everything you want in moderation. Eat a 'balanced' diet. You'll be fine.
#2 MissT on 2017-08-30 17:02 (Reply)
Yesterday I had Jim Beam and Cheez-Its for supper...In moderation, of course (grin).
#3 snopercod on 2017-08-30 18:45 (Reply)
I surely hope you had some gooey cheese or bean dip for them Cheez-Its. Otherwise, they're kinda boring. Cheetos, other hand....
#3.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2017-08-30 21:05 (Reply)
When even Time is mentioning this "new" answer, you know this is old news. Heck, my mother was a nurse and even back in the '70's when they first started pushing hydrogenated vegetable oil margarine over saturated fat butter or lard she scoffed at the science. (If you bubble hydrogen through a liquid non-saturated fat until it remains solid at room temperature, congratulations, you've just saturated the fat.) Of course, you don't hear so much about the health benefits of hydrogenated vegetable oil any more - they decided the trans fats are bad for you with nary a mention that this is what the government for years was telling you was the healthy stuff to eat.
#4 Jerryskids on 2017-08-30 22:03 (Reply)
"Nutrition update: What is a healthy diet?"

Science figures it out, then figures it out again.
I don't believe anything I hear anymore, on either side of the issue, or any issue for that matter.
#5 I.......... on 2017-08-30 23:39 (Reply)
Woody Allen, in Sleeper, was correct, prescient even.

https://youtu.be/utXpyYK5Oo8
#6 steve walsh (Link) on 2017-08-31 06:43 (Reply)

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