lapis
9th November 2010, 11:33 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
He lost 27 pounds eating only 1800 calories a day, 2/3 of it sugary refined junk carbs. Supposedly to show his students that "a calorie is a calorie."
Now why would CNN and other mainstream news outlets pick up this story?
There's got to be a reason, and I seriously doubt it's because the owners are looking out for the health of us useless eaters.
I've said it before a zillion times, and I'll say it again for those who haven't read my posts, since most of you guys already know that what's printed in the MSM is suspect.
Well, anything you see about nutrition and health is especially suspect.
"They" are doing whatever they can to persuade us to eat crap, and to steer us away from nutrient-dense foods.
One of the most nutritious foods we can eat are the flesh and organs of animals, specifically wild and grass-eating ones.
ONLY animal foods contain vitamins A, D3, K2, and DHA and EPA. They are also rich in numerous other nutrients, especially liver.
Note that the MSM demonizes foods like eggs, meat, whole-fat milk and liver every chance it gets (and the authorities are bringing out the Big Guns to shut down raw dairy producers, but that's another story for a different day)
Do a google search on foods rich in folic acid, and what should come up is liver, but what comes up instead is green leafy vegetables. In a list of folic acid-rich foods, liver is mentioned after a list of vegetables.
We'll probably be seeing a lot more stories like this in the MSM, because the paleo diet and the ideas in Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories are getting traction in the alternative media.
There's even been criticism of the USDA food pyramid from mainstream nutrition sources for pushing starch as the basis of a "healthy" diet.
So this is the start of the pushback.
This particular story appeals to people's vanity and weaknesses in avoiding junk food.
Sure, you could lose weight on pretty much any calorie-restricted diet, but the million dollar question is, Can you keep it off for the long-term? I doubt it.
The best diet is based around protein and fat. Carbs should mainly come from vegetables and limited amounts of fruit and grains, depending on how well you do eating them.
He lost 27 pounds eating only 1800 calories a day, 2/3 of it sugary refined junk carbs. Supposedly to show his students that "a calorie is a calorie."
Now why would CNN and other mainstream news outlets pick up this story?
There's got to be a reason, and I seriously doubt it's because the owners are looking out for the health of us useless eaters.
I've said it before a zillion times, and I'll say it again for those who haven't read my posts, since most of you guys already know that what's printed in the MSM is suspect.
Well, anything you see about nutrition and health is especially suspect.
"They" are doing whatever they can to persuade us to eat crap, and to steer us away from nutrient-dense foods.
One of the most nutritious foods we can eat are the flesh and organs of animals, specifically wild and grass-eating ones.
ONLY animal foods contain vitamins A, D3, K2, and DHA and EPA. They are also rich in numerous other nutrients, especially liver.
Note that the MSM demonizes foods like eggs, meat, whole-fat milk and liver every chance it gets (and the authorities are bringing out the Big Guns to shut down raw dairy producers, but that's another story for a different day)
Do a google search on foods rich in folic acid, and what should come up is liver, but what comes up instead is green leafy vegetables. In a list of folic acid-rich foods, liver is mentioned after a list of vegetables.
We'll probably be seeing a lot more stories like this in the MSM, because the paleo diet and the ideas in Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories are getting traction in the alternative media.
There's even been criticism of the USDA food pyramid from mainstream nutrition sources for pushing starch as the basis of a "healthy" diet.
So this is the start of the pushback.
This particular story appeals to people's vanity and weaknesses in avoiding junk food.
Sure, you could lose weight on pretty much any calorie-restricted diet, but the million dollar question is, Can you keep it off for the long-term? I doubt it.
The best diet is based around protein and fat. Carbs should mainly come from vegetables and limited amounts of fruit and grains, depending on how well you do eating them.