Top 12 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition. Like eggs and fats.

I'm impressed! I usually have to cringe and keep myself from being nasty when I come on here and people are dishing out BS about nutrition citing their mom was a dietitian 60 years ago and the like, but this is a good, level article. Kudos to you Mr. Weird.

Ah, thank you. I've been looking for this article for a while.
Very informative, well cited too.

There are billions of dollars being spent on crappy foods that are not healthy for us and not spent on foods that will keep us healthy. The cholesterol myth is a prime example of this. Studies even show that the lower you drive the cholesterol in blood, the higher is the mortality rate. Mainstream media make billions of dollars running ads from the food companies and they won't report the truth. This article does.

makes sense to me, 5 stars

No profit in being healthy is there ;)

I'll take a look but I'm skeptical of credibility.

It says:

"Top 12 Biggest Lies of Mainstream Nutrition...


....Here are the top 11 biggest lies, myths and misconceptions of mainstream nutrition."

Yea most likely just a typo but eeehhh

The writer lists at number 12, "Anything else?" so he counted it as number 12.

a good read

Thanks for this matey

Printing it out now.
Thanks. Nice article, and everybody should read it.
5*s and karma.

Suggested pin! I think the reason there are so many unhealthy guidelines is because tptb want most of us dead. They try to do this from every angle possible, like now blanketing the planet with massive amounts of radiofrequency radiation (RF), which the World Health Organization was finally forced to admit can "possibly" cause cancer.

Bastard covered bastards with bastard filling. They will get their reward.

On a lighter note (no pun intended): I have found a great way to lose weight. The reason it works, I believe, is that it mimics the eating habits of animals in the wild, as they go for periods of time without eating. It's referred to as "alternate day fasting," although you don't really fast, just restrict calories every other day (that's how I do it, others have different configurations). BUT...because you know you can eat anything you want the next day, psychologically you can deal with it.

I've lost 12 pounds, and I continue to lose steadily every week, pretty much. One thing that might not appeal to people is that the loss is pretty slow. But, from what I understand, that's the better way to lose anyway.

Here's a link, if anyone's interested. Oh, I forgot, this diet, according to clinical research, also significantly lengthens life, seriously reduces inflammation (which is at the root of many disease processes), and has been known to help people get rid of asthma. So there's that!

This guy's one drawback is that he still has a few old-fashioned ideas, like margarine is better than butter, and diet products are good for "Down Days" (the day you reduce calories). So ignore that, and try to eat as naturally as you can (look back at the article OP has so helpfully provided!). I also have one "Junk Food Day" a week, so I don't get too tempted the other days.

I'm giving the link that will allow you to find out what the best plan for you is. You just put in your vital statistics. This plan has been out for a while, and is also called "Eat Stop Eat," intermittant fasting, and some other things. Bottom line: Lots of people are having lots of success with it!

[link to www.johnsonupdaydowndaydiet.com] (calculator is at the bottom of the page).

OK, well some of that makes no sense and is in-practical.

such as,.
Dont use vegetable oils. well how the hell am i supposed to cook then.

Dont eat wheat. Well how the hell am i supposed to make a sandwitch then.

Dont have a high carb diet. Well how the hell am i going to afford to eat meat all the time then!

Also a lot of it makes no sense to me. I am not fat, my diet never makes me fat, and i dont watch what i eat.
I eat eggs, butter, beacon, cheese, and whatever is going. I eat pasta a lot and that is high carb.
Im thin, always have been and my weight never changes, im 31 yrs old.


So i guess i'll carry on. I dont eat supermarket shit like ready meals. i just eat real food like, meat, eggs, butter, cheese, bread(carboard shit but what alternative is there to bread), bananas, tomatos and other stuff that goes into pasta. I dont eat sugar i use honey instead.

I also dont bother putting any spread on my sandwiches like margarine or butter, never have done ever, im too lazy.

Bottom line is im thin and healthy. I put it down to body type, and that everybody type can adapt to different diets based upon gentic ancestory and geographic location.

Great article! Thanks for posting.

The sites main flaw is putting everyone into one catagory as if the human body is the same throughout the world. thats not true, biological life is very adaptable and it does not take thousands of years.
Eskimos have adapted big time to their diets of raw fish, extreme cold, and darkness for half the year. fundamental processes of the body have changed in them, such as their blood not rushing away from extremties like hands and feet, during the cold. This is a major change, and they adapted in just a few generations maybe even less.

However dont bet on it, that your body will adapt to processed food, cornsyroup, gmo and sugar, in this lifetime.

Some things are sensible to avoid.

Cook with butter, not oils.

If you can find it, eat rye bread, not wheat. Read the bread labels.

To get protein, you don't have to eat meat all the time. Google "Protein foods" for substitutes, and eat meat a couple or three times a week.

Sounds like you are eating really well, though. I have a rule which is "Buy foods that look like they did when they were alive."

I think the article is dealing with "western" diets. Or maybe even "developed country" diets. Shorthand for "processed food" diets.

yeah the 6 meals a day myth is such bs. If you actually have very strong discipline you might pull it off but for most of us its a recipe for disaster.
The more times you eat the more you start craving. Your body gets used to being full throughout the day and will re-adjust itself so now you have 6 times you eat during the day and you will probably eat slightly more each time.
Intermitting fasting is what I believe. Like the article says we are build to fast from time to time. Reducing the window of time in which you eat has so many more benifits. You don't need to eat small unsatisfying meals and you don't hae to follow some retarded diet, you just eat what you want to eat only instead of spreading it out over the entire day you confine it to a window of 4-6 hours in the day. The awesome thing about it is that you don't have a calori shortage like most stupid diets have and because you train your body to feel hungry it will adjust to it and because of that you will feel less hungry on average.
After I ate my main meal at 7:30 I don't have anymore cravings for food, unless I smoke some pot but that is a different story. I know so many people who eat whenever they feel the slightest hint of hunger and they can't go 2 hours without eating something. They all think it won't matter now they are 24 but they forget about the fact that you will not have a awesome metabolism for the rest of your life. I might be unfortunate now that I don't have the metabolism I had when I was 16 but I know the steps I take now will be such an advantage in 10 years.

My best advice is start drinking water. Water water water, there is nothing better. It is the best for hydration, it has no calories, it is practically free and it is fucking healthy. I drink about half a litre to a litre of water a day and that is all I need to stay hydrated. When you only drink soda or juices like most of my fellow humans do you need to drink more, you take in insane amounts of sugar, you are not properly hydrated and it just costs ridiculous amounts of money in the long term compared to something we all can get out of multiple places in our house.
Water is our natural energy drink. If you don't believe me go workout like you normally would and then one time drink 1.5-2 litres of water 1 hour before you go workout, it is insane how much difference it makes.

And to all you bitches who say water tastes like shit stop being a fucking toddler and a sugar junky.

Last Edited by John Kimble on 02/19/2013 11:20 AM

Std American Diet says it all

My thought has always been, just eat a wide variety of foods and eat what ever you want! The more you enjoy it the more likely it will be good for you.

Sad thing is, none of these articles matter anymore... Unless you've grown it yourself, it's probably poison

Feel free to correct me if I'm just being paranoid

Nice!

sooo true! Nice info here :)

Kudos.

I cant recommend enough the book "Lets eat right to keep fit" ofc as a book written 60 years ago, there are things you have to change because some things that were healthy 60 years ago arent anymore. But on the big picture, this book is a gold mine for conscious self-taught nutritionists.

Inevitably where this leads is to Genetically Modified Foods, (GMO) which is the greatest threat to our food supply in human history. People are dying from it and some countries have placed a ban on growing it...but not the good old USA, where Monsanto rules the White House. I wrote and posted an article on my web site, www.TheDCPost.com/ about GMO's. You can access it here:

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Almost 100% of our US grown corn and soybeans are GMO. That means that any food products CONTAINING them are literally poisonous to our health. Unless we stop Monsanto, our kids will suffer and so will their kids, IF they can even have children.

Unless we stop Monsanto, our kids will suffer and so will their kids, IF they can even have children.

<-- now thats a scary thought. Might wake some people up to what GMOs are really doing to us. I don't normally like scare tactics, but people are just so IGNORANT as to what this stuff is doing to our system. It is piece by piece changing/altering our genetic makeup!

You gonna take the word of this freak?
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If you quit carbs you wont feel hungry or countless other things you feel now everyday and think its normal.

The cravings for a sandwich will go away so the question how to make a sandwich wont even be there.

Without wheat and carbs your brain will function a 100% better on ketones. More energy, awareness, focus, productiveness, all these things automatically happen to you when in Ketosis. They leave the moment any carbs enter your body.

Here's my thread on quitting carbs and all forms of sugar.

There's some great info in that thread.

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