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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 6:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Making the rounds
Subject: Making the rounds
From: David Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:45:
Good article making the rounds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Taubes is a great story teller and knows where to weave in explanations of
unfamiliar concepts.
The whole story is scary. Despite all the accumulating knowledge, few
scientists are willing to break ranks. Could it be something to do with the
financial incentives for drugs to deal with diabetes, heart disease, obesity
etc., and for the processed food industry to continue using sugar. Neither
the pharmaceutical industry nor the processed food industry are concerned
about human health; their main purpose is the generation of profit. Not also
the way Keys shut down Yudkin and those who supported him by ridicule -
that's not the way were are told science is supposed to work.
On this point, I saw recently (but sadly, did not keep) research into why
people purchase and eat the main foods in their diet. "Health" did not rate
among the top reasons, even among people who declared they wanted to eat
healthily. The main reasons included taste/mouth feel, price, minimal/no
preparation, status (the image promoted by advertising), proximity
(availability close to time and place desired), familiarity.
Back to Taubes. He didn't take the opportunity to question the terms "HDL
cholesterol - the good cholesterol" and "LDL cholesterol - the bad
cholesterol", when both are lipoproteins, not sterols at all, let alone
cholesterol. Nor is one good and the other bad: both are essential to a
normally-functioning healthy human metabolism and, indeed, are made by our
bodies for wholly beneficial reasons.
Keith
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Hopefully the problems with Vegetable oils will one day get some press. The
polyunsaturated vegetable oils may be responsible for heart issues.
-David
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