Grains, nuts, oils, and all that so called healthy stuff tears my GI system up if I eat very much of it.Getting old ain't for sissies. ;)
I go by the old saying "too much of anything is bad" and try to eat a little of each food group every day.
Except dairy. Dairy tears me a new one. I used to love milk, but it's either my aging system or something in the milk has changed.
Your BMI doesn't have to meet any medical regimentation, but you should be vigilant about the levels of metabolites in your body, as an overage of one or more can be indicative of or even lead to disease.
I recently figured out that I was fat and unhealthy by believing and following the government's 'science' based recommendations.Everything promoted by the government has been vetted by those that consider the economic impact to U.S. budgetary concerns and geopolitical authority. If you remember to always follow the dollar when thinking of the government you'll usually be close to the truth of what is really right/ wrong. Morals and Ethics are sold daily on the S&P 10,000
We are all pretty familiar with James Watts and Micheal Mann et al and how they had to 'hide the decline' in order for the remaining and corrected data to support their theory.
The USDA's food pyramid is similarly based on cherry picked data and an irrelevant study.
Ancel Keys (Nutritionist for whom K rations are named) got it started with a study in 1953 where he demonstrated a correlation between high saturated fat consumption and high levels of heart disease in 7 countries. This study along with the Russians rabbit study in 1910 is the basis for our modern ideas regarding cholesterol and heart disease.
The problem with the 7 nation study is that Keys had data from 22 nations but had to throw most of it out to show the correlation he believed in. When the other 15 nations are added there is not correlation between dietary cholesterol and heart disease. Much like Mann et al hiding the decline to support the hockey stick.
The 1910 study had the same goal and showed a correlation between dietary cholesterol and heart disease but used rabbits that are purely vegetarians and consume zero dietary cholesterol. The same study using omnivores might have been valid but 'science' was okay with relying on these two invalid reports.
In 1988 Surgeon General Coop confirmed (with no new studies / evidence to rely on) that the science was as sound as the science behind tobacco as a health hazard and scared us into following an upside down / wrong pyramid that focused on grains and seed oils. (The problem is these foods cause inflammation that results in atherosclerosis, the very thing they are supposed to prevent.)
Even today the bad science dominates the thinking and people without any calcium deposited in their arteries are prescribed dangerous statins because we are afraid of cholesterol that is essential.
I'm begginning to believe that information from governments supported by popular science are to be believed at you peril.
That said, humans are omnivorous, and can survive eating everything from whale fat in the Arctic to an entirely vegetarian regimen in Asia.
The daily caller sees similar correlation that started this thread.First, United Nations officials label bacon and deli meats as carcinogens, and now scientists are claiming that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide are not only heating the planet, they’re making people dumber.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/27/scientists-claim-high-co2-levels-are-making-people-dumber/#ixzz3ps5en8Xg
Whenever someone pushes the government line on anything that limits personal liberty, you know you are being conned. That's why so many progressives wet their pants every time a new "scientific" finding is introduced. They LOVE anything that limits personal liberty, freedom to make one's own decisions on anything except abortion, and progressives seem to be obsessed with having someone to tell them what to do, think, and say.
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I propose a new logical fallacy...
Argumentum ad Governmentum
Takes the form,
The government say x...
Therefore, x is false.
What do you think?