I want an ice cream and I want it now! On 10/17/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How reliable is this? Even if I do want to believe... > > <snip> > > The swiftness in which all of the "healthy eating" and "low-fat" diet > interests rushed to issue press releases to spin the results of the > WHI study was reminiscent of the same desperate reactions after the > CDC Flegal et.al. study debunked the government's "obesity" death > statistics. But none of the spins or claims held up to the data, and > the results of this huge study, despite the hundreds of millions of > dollars of taxpayer money spent on it, were quietly buried. (This > author sent out countless queries last year trying to find a > publication, including a national size acceptance publication, that > would print this and it was rejected. "We can't tell people that!") > > To admit, "We were wrong, never mind!" would crumble the entire house of > cards. > > And the myth of "healthy" eating goes on as if nothing ever happened. > > Beliefs that people need to be told to eat healthy and can't be > trusted to eat right are equally entrenched, despite no scientific > evidence in support for such dietary messages. In fact, the findings > of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in 1996 and 2003 were that > dietary counseling for healthy eating of adults or children lacked > evidence. > > The take-home message is that the soundest science for decades > supports eating normally, enjoying everything, and not worrying so > much. When we enjoy a variety of foods from all of the food groups — > as most everyone naturally does when they're not trying to control > their eating — and trust our bodies, we'll get the nutrients we need > to prevent deficiencies. And that is the only thing that nutritional > science can credibly support. The rest is dietary religion. > > Health is not evidence of moral character and pristine diets. Don't > let anyone try to scare you, threaten you, or get you to believe that > if you don't eat "right" (whatever their definition) you'll get fat, > cancer, heart disease, or die sooner. There is simply no good > evidence. > > > http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/junkfood-science-exclusive-big-one.html > >
-- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com
