Former FDA Commissioner “we have failed...”. (Ninateicholz.com)

(Ron D. Garrett) #1

I…we have been beating this drum for some time now. Me thinks that the world is starting to really hear it.

(Doug) #2

I agree, Ron, and the change has been faster than I would have thought.

(Diane) #3

Wow!

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #4

Wow such educated ignorance. Dr. Nestle is pushing the same old: CICO, plant based fruits and vegetables, blah, blah, blah.

David Kessler claims we don’t know the basics. But we do know some of it. We do need to know more.

Maybe this is the crack in the armour that we need to advance improving health.

(Running from stupidity) #5

It’s from six months ago, just so you know.

#6

For a very interesting read, you might want to try Kessler’s ‘The End of Overeating’ [2010]. It’s not promoting keto/LCHF by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a very eye-opening exposé of the practices of the manufactured food industry, and how processed foods are carefully and deliberately designed to be as addictive as possible. (Certain junk foods can hit receptors in the human brain in the same way that opiates do, which leads to a vulnerable percentage of the population eating in an addicted and mindless manner which is very hard for them to break free of.) How Kessler got those insiders within the food industry to reveal to him as much as they did is beyond me. Apparently they have no shame.

(Running from stupidity) #7

It’s a legal business model, and they’re at the top of the pile, and want you to know how good they really are…

(Jane) #8

Yep. They have a term for it - the bliss point - and they chase it shamelessly.

(Todd Allen) #9

Perhaps I’m overly cynical but I doubt major progress is likely due to deep structural problems. As I see it, government of the people, by the people, for the people, perished as corporations gained more power and rights than individuals. Bottom up change might come from better informed people making better choices in how they spend their $$ but I don’t see it coming from better alignment of government policy to the public’s needs through ballot boxes.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #10

I read a book years ago called The Crazy Makers about what’s added to our food. They called them excito-flavinoids and yes, they cause the brain to crave.

(Barbara) #11

Marion Nestle called low carb a “cult”!


Here she strongly supports the great advice of Ancel Keys

As a happy member of this low carb cult, it is a huge worry that this professor is indoctrinating generations of nutritionists to believe the past theories, not science.

Does anyone know if any of the many doctors, professors and scientists that lead in low carb/keto dietary practices have been nominated to the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee? Many certainly meet the qualification requirements.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #12

I’m not sure she knows what the definition of cult is. Unless we’re praying to Fat. In the name of Fat, Bacon and the holy Avocado, amen.