Fat Might Not Be Bad for You After All

[MongGrel]

Bring on the burgers

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-12/fat-might-not-be-bad-for-you-after-all

Teasing a bit, too much of anything is not going to be good.

 

[Tweak155]

I've always thought that skinny healthy people were the problem. If everyone ate junk all day, evolution would have no choice but to overcome that obstacle. So, all the skinny "healthy" people are the real problem.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I've always thought that skinny healthy people were the problem. If everyone ate junk all day, evolution would have no choice but to overcome that obstacle. So, all the skinny "healthy" people are the real problem.

This is the funniest thing I've read all week, but yet I think you're on to something...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I was going to harangue you about what old news this is. Then I saw that there is basically a smoking gun that big sugar was behind it, which I did not know had happened.

 

[Linux23]

Cliffs please.

 

[ElFenix]

it's awesome that a lady named Nestle is quoted in that article

Cliffs please.

sugar industry paid researchers to highlight the link between fat intake and heart disease, and downplay any link to sugar, back in the 60s, didn't disclose their involvement in the research, says it's ok because back then disclosure wasn't required and claims that additional research hasn't shown any link between sugar and heart disease since, and oh btw they also aren't linked to obesity; in fact kids who eat sweets have healthier body weights.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

it's awesome that a lady named Nestle is quoted in that article




sugar industry paid researchers to highlight the link between fat intake and heart disease, and downplay any link to sugar, back in the 60s, didn't disclose their involvement in the research, says it's ok because back then disclosure wasn't required and claims that additional research hasn't shown any link between sugar and heart disease since, and oh btw they also aren't linked to obesity; in fact kids who eat sweets have healthier body weights.

Thank you for smoking, I mean, eating massive quantities of sugar. Your doctor prefers Dixie Crystal.

 

[darkswordsman17]

The whole food industry downplayed that they knew us subsidizing the hell out of food production was going to just make people fat. That's why the British (and I believe the FDA in the US) government was considering going after them like what happened to the tobacco industry. We've known for quite some time that the food industry has been making bullshit claims (there's been a bunch over stuff like soft drinks, where Coca Cola representing VitaminWater claimed that there's no way consumers would think VitaminWater is a health drink) and covering up stuff like abundance of cheap food making people fat. They knew about it decades ago and still claimed otherwise.

Like DAPUNISHER said, this is a smoking gun showing this, but government agencies have known about this for some time. It'll be interesting if it will trigger actual action.

Basically we subsidized ourselves into a major health crisis, so now we're going to have to subsidize our health back.

And hopefully the fucking idiots that have been bitching about stuff like "soda tax" will see the reason they do things like that because it is effectively their only real recourse over this shit.

 

[Thebobo]

Woot!

 

[Art&Science]

We've known since at least 2006 that there is zero connection between saturated fat, cholesterol and heart disease.

But, your corporate pimps and overlords keep feeding you this load of bullshit.

This is why people (mainly people with metabolic syndrome {or type 2 diabetes for the uninformed}) who follow a LCHF diet have better cholesterol numbers, and better blood sugar numbers, and lower incidents of heart disease than people who follow high sugar diets (high carbohydrate diets ARE high sugar diets).

 

[Art&Science]

https://chriskresser.com/heart-disease/

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/06June/...nk-between-cholesterol-and-heart-disease.aspx

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/a-heart-surgeons-viral-confession/283413/

 

[MongGrel]

The government has known this for a fact for a long time now I'm sure.

Even when I went to Marine boot camp in 1980, there were no carbonated/soda drinks in the mess hall. It was non beneficial, so it was banned there.

I do not know how it is these days, but mess halls even after boot camp did not have soda I believe.

 

[Jeff7]

"In 2015, the New York Times obtained emails revealing Coca-Cola's cozy relationships with sponsored researchers who were conducting studies aimed at minimizing the effects of sugary drinks on obesity."

My god I hate that kind of BS.

Probably perfectly legal, too.