Not corn syrup but Xilinat

#1

A sweet tale: the son who reinvented sugar to help diabetic dad

(Full Metal KETO AF) #2

Interesting, didn’t quite finish it but will get back to it. :cowboy_hat_face:

(Carl Keller) #3

The Guardian is a glorified puppet of Big Food and Big Pharma. It’s fairly regularly that they publish cut and paste stereotyped articles about how fat is bad and a vegetarian themed lifestyle is the healthiest. Given that, I wonder how much of this article is based on good journalism.

In general, I feel like using AS is playing with a different type of fire that burned us before. We may be able to fool some of our hormones with chemistry tricks but as long as our brains perceive sweetness, there are some parts of our physiology that will react or overreact.

#4

I have to defend the Guardian.
As a charity, there are no shareholders, and the newspaper is funded by sales and public support: there’s no need or appitite for collusion.
I think it more likely that the Guardian’s frequently misplaced view on food and diet is because it probably has a slew of vegan reporters.

(Carl Keller) #5

Interesting how when I do a search for the term “vegan” at The Guardian’s website, I get:

About 25,400 results (0.29 seconds)

To credit this all to the journalists who write for the publication is a stretch at best. For sure we don’t know exactly who the 500,000 contributors are who donate to support TG but I’m sure TG is very aware of who their largest sugar daddies are and highlight their interests to make sure the cash flow doesn’t stop. This is just how things work now days.

I challenge you to find a single positive keto or LCHF article published by TG. I’ve looked pretty hard and I found a few that came close, but there’s always some ominous warning or ort of misinformation to try to discourage the reader from attempting LCHF.

One would think amongst all those impartial journalists that one of them wrote something that confronts or contradicts the vegan way of life. I’m bettting some of them did but none of those articles never make it past the editor.

#6

Aseem Malhotra writes for the Guardian.

(Carl Keller) #7

After reading a few of his articles, I do like this cardiologist. However, his articles in TG mostly discuss the evils of sugar and processed food, and rightly so. There is mention of avoiding sugar and starch in his most recent article, so there does seem to be some hope in TG… even if it’s among a sea of pro-vegan propaganda.

#8

Indeed!