On 21/05/2012 1:40 PM, wrote:
On May 21, 11:16 am, Doug wrote:
James Warren wrote:

That is a very narrow minded position. If LC works as well as it seems
to work and is safe, then the world at large needs to know about it.
The entrenched regimes needs to change. The best way to do that is to
overwhelm them with solid evidence.

Solid evidence - Go to the mall and look for fat people. If you see
more than the ancient 10% percentage of obesity that's the result of
decades of low fat pressure. This is very simple not rocket science.

Look. I agree, LC appears to work. It works for
me. But to claim that because there is more obesity
today than in ancient times proves that it's from
decades of low fat pressure is just ludicrous.
First, a few decades does not equal ancient. We were
already getting fatter before the low-fat campaign. In
fact, that's part of what prompted the push to low fat.. Second, the
obesity could also be due to less exercise, something in our
environment, perhaps chemicals in use today, some infectious agent,
there are lots of possibilities.

I have no problem with more studies of LC and it's long
term effects. It's just that this being a complex problem
with many components I doubt one more study is going
to settle anything. But neither is casual observation at
the mall.

For one thing, sugar consumption has been increasing since 1900
or before. That may be related to the rising obesity rate that the low fat
movement was supposed to address. It didn't work probably because it
was the increasing carb consumption that was the actual problem, not fat.

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-jw