I think the basic underlying issue may be that once we know something has caused us harm, it makes us uncomfortable to potentially inflict that harm on other people, especially those we care about.
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PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#22
If the baby’s mother had metabolic syndrome and was eating a high-carb diet during pregnancy, the baby’s metabolism could have been permanently altered in the womb towards a predisposition to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, that would only be exacerbated by a diet with processed food in it.
Most of the cultures that have been held up as examples of high-carb eating with low levels of metabolic disease were ones that ate almost no refined grains or sugar. The Japanese, for example, were in the 1960’s eating an amount of sugar per capita equal to that eaten in the United States in the 1860’s, before the diabetes and heart disease epidemics got started in the U.S. Now that the Japanese are eating processed food, with its high sugar levels, at the same rate as everyone else, they have the same rates of diabetes, obesity, and heart disease as we have. And they are doing just as much bariatric surgery in Tokyo as we are doing in New York.
If you want to learn about the effects of metabolic disease on infants and young children, read the books of Dr. Robert H. Lustig, a food activist who was formerly a pediatric endocrinologist running a clinic for obese children at the University of California at San Francisco: Fat Chance and The Hacking of the American Mind. I warn you, they make for harrowing reading. You might also watch his lecture, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” at the following link:
margot17
#23
There’s a tendency in keto-world to think that if it’s not keto then it is SAD madness addiction and disease. Well, not necessarily…
It is all due to the extraordinary relief that many have felt, both physically and psychologically, once this woe came into their lives. It is quite understandable.