CNN article: cringing while reading this
Aye - the Grauniad is at it as well.
They canāt quite bring themselves to just report the scienceā¦
"Havenāt we been here before?
Yes. It is not the first time that experts have suggested that saturated fat and high cholesterol are not contributors to heart disease ā not least a report published last year by the National Obesity Forum and the Public Health Collaboration.
Malhotra, the first author of the new commentary, who is a consultant cardiologist and founding member of the Public Health Collaboration, said at the time: āEat fat to get slim. Donāt fear fat. Fat is your friend. Itās now truly time to bring back the fat.ā
How did that report go down?
Not particularly well. Public Health Englandās chief nutritionist, Alison Tedstone, said at the time: āItās a risk to the nationās health when potentially influential voices suggest people should eat a high-fat diet, especially saturated fat.ā "
Oh and they used this picture to illustrate the article :
Because yeah - thatās what eating high quality fat is all about. Morons.
Contains those magic words: āscientific consensusā (quotes theirs). When the establishment breaks out those words, you know theyāre spouting bullshit.
Sadly, another word is missing entirely from the discussionā¦sugar. SMH.
One of the problems is that because youāre fighting the āscientific consensusā youāre essentially being put into the same bracket as climate change deniers. Trying to get people to understand that nutritional science has been a scientific sandcastle since the fifties is uphill work.
Theyāre not morons they know exactly what they are doingā¦ they are simply afraid that the decades of advice they have pushed out is being proven to be wrong so they have fucked the nationās health but canāt admit it.
I think with journalists, itās actually just ignorance. If youāve never read it, I wholeheartedly recommend Ben Goldacreās book - Bad Science. He managed to get himself a newspaper column by vociferously complaining to the newspaper about the quality of their science reporting. Heās very funny and sarcastic but I personally consider him the best education I ever got in BS spotting.
As for the nutritional industry - well there I agree with you 100%. At some point you hope the cognitive dissonance will pass - but until then, I can see me continuing to shout at my computer screen. A lot.
just like with anything else, show me the scienceā¦ I donāt want common sense, a general consensus, what weāve always knownā¦ I want the cold hard factsā¦
97% of nutrition scientists agreeā¦
Really! McGovern presented this as an argument in the 1970ās for what became the low-fat food pyramid.
So we are all deplorable food deniers. OK.
Of course they wonāt admit it. Imagine the lawsuits and public outrage. This has to be a very carefully executed tap dance; the wording completely gone over and approved by highly paid lawyers, and then drawn out as long as they can manage so that the public does not rebel as they learn the truth of the huge loss of lives that has occurred because of this bad advice for so long.
He knows naff-all about nutrition though, and admitted it in one of his articles.
Also a major ego, IMHO.
Sorry, but I have bad vibes about him, although reluctantly admire some of his published work.