Sugar Conspiracy

(chris.coote) #1

Another podcast I listen to normally covers conspiracies, some rooted in fantasy and some in reality. This week touched on the reality side where it comes to the sugar industry’s efforts to vilify fat. Not a keto-based podcast, but still fun:

(Andy Hanson) #2

I’m reading Gary Taubes “The Case Against Sugar” right now and it simply reinforces a motto of mine since youth - Question Authority.

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #3

Ditto.

Someone mentioned in another thread that he seems to have it in for industry. Well, maybe, but the people he really seems to hang out to dry are the nutritionists. I remember he also did this in “Good Calories, Bad Calories”. Sloppy science / no science/ bad science/ no idea of the scientific method…etc.

My only contact with a nutritionist was shortly after the birth of our first child, and she was supposedly advising my wife on what to eat while breast-feeding. She was sweet, and well-meaning, but evidently clueless.

(Dustin Cade) #4

I’ve got this queued up to listen to…

(Aaron R) #5

He talks about this book and and gives some great details of how he came into all of this in an interview by Joe Rogan… warning… language is strong.

(John) #6

Nutritionists are so brainwashed now i’m not sure it can be stopped. Everyone who is fat and especially T2 are all blamed for their choices, not knowing they were lied to and the only wrong choice they made was listening to experts.

I was looking at a preschool today that is opening nearby and they just happened to brag that the menu is created by a “Licensed and Registered Dietician” so you know they are going to eat well and the childhood obesity epidemic won’t spread here right?

The little bit of presumably white meat chicken breast is the only thing not absolutely, disgustingly filled with sugar.

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(Andy Hanson) #7

It was this interview that got me on the Keto train!

(Marc) #8

Yup, I’m facing the same thing. Luckily my 7th grade daughter listens to me fairly well, and she eats fairly high fat and lower carb.
Another thing that has me scratching my head is all the snacks kids have these days. My fourth grade daughter has two snacks every day as your menu indicates. I never had, nor felt the need to have snacks when I was in school.
I ask my daughter if she has snacks or feels the need to have snacks, and she says she doesn’t.