Older adults with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease did not show the expected rise in cognitive decline and dementia risk when they ate relatively high amounts of meat. That is the conclusion of a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in JAMA Network Open.
Taubes and others looked at the actual science, rather than the “consensus” science, and discovered that the actual science was actually saying the opposite of the consensus. The food pyramid as pushed by the FDA and the Department of Agriculture was not just wrong. It was actively harmful, and the best diet for at least obese people or people with Type 2 Diabetes was a high-protein, high-fat, low-carb diet, with only whole grains, and with few highly processed foods.
… Summarized, it’s really pretty simple: if your great-grandfather would have eaten it, the new food pyramid says go ahead.
I’ve been saying this for 20 years now! All I can say is that as a young man, I was very unwise to listen to the government on this. What a fool I was!
Eating foods that contain animal protein is not connected to a higher chance of death and may even provide some protection against cancer-related mortality, according to new research.
A better food pyramid! Though the question is why things were different 100 years ago. And why all the artificial sweeteners and High-Fructose Corn Syrup? I’m totally sick of how sweet things are! AND there is the assertion that this is mainly for those already have metabolic disease–and I don’t think that is at all true.
Still, the old one (that is still there) was just horrible!
So eating a hamburger is likely not a problem for you. Just the hamburger, the meat. The bun, OTOH quickly metabolizes into sugar. And that is a HUGE problem!
We’ve been led astray. And while perhaps it is primarily just being wrong, there is indeed an aspect of hoity-toity “expertism” that has stymied science, combined with sheep-like gullibility on the part of most of us. Myself included.
And regardless of the causes, the results have been utterly catastrophic. Both widespread obesity problems (with associated issues) and increases in neurological dysfunction.
Can meat/dairy help fight cancer? Study in @Nature found that a fatty acid in dairy, beef, lamb (TVA, or transvaccenic acid) could "enhance anti-tumor activity" by stimulating a stronger immune response. Feeding mice TVA reduced potential tumor growth of melanoma and colon… pic.twitter.com/3HpIrxkWgz