The Big Health Con, Cholesterol & Saturated Fats...

http://www.rmkhealth.co.uk/story/show/44


"Listening to bad advice- Never eat carbs past 6, never mix fat and carbs, never tickle the nuts of an Al Quieda terrorist when he is trying to hijack your plane. We've heard it all before, and it's boring. Anyone can post any bogus nutrition advice they like now we have the internet, including myself, but I hold myself to higher standards than just listening to naysayers and gossip or old wives tales. Get the facts you need to know, and then just enjoy eating quality food."

Entertainingly enough, he provides the downfall to his own advice in another section on his website. He supposedly holds himself to higher standards than others but his article contains no proper references or sources making his claims difficult to evaluate.
 
xolotl said:
He supposedly holds himself to higher standards than others but his article contains no proper references or sources making his claims difficult to evaluate.
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Given his inability to construct basic sentences, it's hardly surprising that he fails to reference correctly.
 
xolotl said:
Entertainingly enough, he provides the downfall to his own advice in another section on his website. He supposedly holds himself to higher standards than others but his article contains no proper references or sources making his claims difficult to evaluate.
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Are you surprised? They guy has a "Masters diploma", that is, a Master's degree without a body-of-independent-work (i.e. thesis/dissertation/project). I doubt he'd understand references if they stabbed him. Plus, his grammar sucks.
 
We've made the switch back to butter from margarine after Alton Brown performed this silly demonstration:


My great grandfather lived to 106 years. You couldn't find him without ice cream, cottage cheese, or some other form of dairy. As said above several times, it is all about moderation.
 
Butter, and "real" fats are MUCH better for you than all the hydrogenated crap pured into cheap and bad foods.

This is the thing, fats, EVEN the bad ones are healthy, you're made up of them.

Most of the problems come from being overweight, which is mostly caused by eating a fairly healthy diet of fat and protein but so much highly refined carbs that your body stores the fat rather than uses it for what it should be used for, turning you into a fat unhealthy blob.

THe main issue with "fats" and them being bad, is as places started making microwave food, and cheap premade meals, we saw a massive influx of the use of very very poor quality fats, and poor quality ingredients. The fats in them generally are bad, and those meals are very unhealthy and its become almost the standard diet in the UK. Then all this advice about avoiding fats came up, and people started to buy low fat premade meals, the problem was they just removed the more expensive higher quality fats, and put in more highly refined carbs and the percentage of bad fats was increased.

Thats the biggest issue, everything as a balanced diet, is pretty healthy, good fats offset the bad fats, good cholesterol offsets the bad cholesterol. When you start removing the expensive "good" fats and cholesterols, the diet isn't balanced and what was an okay amount of bad fats being balanced by other things you eat, suddenly becomes a very unhealthy level of bad fats and cholesterol.

Pretty much premade meals are the worst things you can buy and the worst thing to happen to UK health ever. But people are lazy and buying more premade microwave meals than cooking healthy meals full of good and bad things that taste great but take more than 3 minutes and a button press to make.

Doctors/government advice was horrible for years though, all you heard was fat bad, carbs, good, there was no distinction and no accurate advice being given.


I personally think the government needs to jump in to HEAVILY regulate Tesco's/Ocado/Sainsburys/the rest to prevent them offering "low fat meals" as healthy options, because when you look in the ingredients its just utter tripe, laced with a tonne of salt and sugar to make it taste passable as food.

Honestly, your average person is simply too stupid to know better, and these companies make a killing on ultra low quality food passed off as "decent" food and the long term health problems, the ever widening gut of the nation is costing the NHS billions a year, all to line the pockets of Tesco's and the others.
 
I think there's actually some credence to the idea that eating foods generally seen as bad (sausages, bacon, butter etc) actually contribute to a healthy diet when eaten in moderation.

'The Schwarzbein Principle' comes highly recommended for anyone interested in nutrition.
 
Saturated fat is important in small amounts*. Too much and it causes weight gain and high cholesterol. Nothing wrong with the odd Bacon/sausage buttie as a treat but try to eat as much fresh food as possible rather than processed meats. Sorry if im stating the obvious here :D

* That said I can't eat pork scratchings as I can't stop when I start. lol!
 
You have to consider though, as a rule, people are a lot less active these days, a much higher portion iof people do office type jobs, which makes what you eat a lot more important.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
You're making the assumption he got that "degree" from an accredited university.
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Mh my bad, I only made that assumption because some accredited universities actually offer bachelors, masters and Ph.Ds in nutrition and it makes me die a little inside :(
 
The fact that the article starts off by claiming there's more nutrition in cardboard than cornflakes made me stop reading right there. *facepalm*
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I suggest that anyone who thinks this article has any credence reads "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre.
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I <3 Ben Goldacre.

Makes me despair that people so often confuse proven expertise via credible sources with a crackpot who manages to write well on the internet.
 
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