Don't all studies disagree with all other studies? ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck McCown To: af@afmug.com Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [OT: Off the wall discussion]
Recent studies say otherwise. A myth promulgated by Special K. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:43 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [OT: Off the wall discussion] Not having breakfast is part of your problem. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 5:27:49 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [OT: Off the wall discussion] While I am sure that the mix of the food you eat has a significant effect on your health, pretty sure almost all of us eat too much. And I don’t think you can generalize too much because your genetics affect how you metabolize your food. Eskimos can survive and thrive without fruit and veggies. My wife is Swedish and wants nothing but meat. I don’t ever want meat. I wish I could just cut back. It doesn’t seem like I eat too much but the numbers say I do. Most days I don’t have breakfast, I have a 300 cal microwave meal and then one smallish plate of home cooked in the evening. Not lots of snacks. Still the pounds are up, the triglycerides are up, the blood sugar is up. Perhaps meth is the answer. Have been watching Breaking Bad straight through since the holidays. Just started the final season yesterday. From: Bill Prince Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:20 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [OT: Off the wall discussion] You ought to read "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/1451624425). Her contention is that a guy by the name of Ancel Keys started it all when he published a study in the 1950s called "The seven country study". In it he asserted that the so-called "Mediterranean diet" was the key to good health. Her research contends that the seven country study was cherry picked from a study of about 30 countries. Keys went on a multi-decade crusade to sell his theory, and a bunch of other questionable dietary studies. The American diet changed from a largely meat-centric (and higher in fat) diet to the allegedly healthy low-fat diet of today. Part of her analysis looks at the remarkably successful Atkins diet that turns the Mediterranean diet on its head. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 1/22/2017 2:55 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: The more medical research I do, the more history I read, the more I'm rapidly coming to the belief that the increase in processed sugar in the 1940s and beyond in American foods has had a hugely negative effect on our current social, mental health, medical, and political issues. Not that it's the root cause (way too many factors), but it's definitely a huge contributing factor. Has anybody else looked up any research on this lately?
