Protein is bad, cholesterol is good, carbohydrates are bad, eggs are bad unless they’re good – to the extent I ever paid any attention to government warnings about food, I always found them confusing. Honestly, I’m well into my sixties and I don’t even know what cholesterol is.
But now the food solons are just going completely random, to see if we notice.
Fat is GOOD for you! New research says cheese and cream to PREVENT diabetes and heart risk
Seriously.
“People should not be eating high carbohydrate diets as they have been told over the past decade.
Our diets should be largely based on good quality high-fat foods
Professor Sherif Sultan
“Instead our diets should be largely based on good quality high-fat foods. This will prevent the rising epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and reverse the growing numbers of people suffering weight-related heart problems.”
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found overweight middle-aged men who ate high levels of saturated fat and low levels of carbohydrate became slimmer and healthier.
Next week, the Minimum Daily Bacon Requirement will be enforced with electric shock collars.
Given all the conflicting dietary advice out there, I’ve devised my own well balanced diet consisting primarily of nicotine, caffeine, sugar and salt. If they ever announce that those 4 things are good for you I’ll have to rethink the plan. 😉
If you spent some time on the issue, it becomes rather boring: While the news media once claimed fat was bad and carbs where good and now claims the opposite, the science was always quite boring: Some carbs are bad, some are good, some fats are bad, some are good.
It’s almost like one would have to be a scientist to understand the science. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174 and all that.
That’s the same “government” that thinks corn squeezings make gasoline better, elementary schools need to teach kids to put condoms on cucumbers, have just about destroyed actual medical care and so many lives as a result…. and so much more. The miracle is that anyone believes a politician or bureaucrat at all – or ever did.