Curious Article On Heart Disease-Oddly Truthful

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I find this to be a fascinating subject because people are starting to reject the conventional wisdom of the food industry. It has been drummed into us over the past few decades about why we get fat and get heart disease and what we need to do about it.

"The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity"

From the linked article.

I have been reading a lot of works from Gary Taubes who is a scientist not a doctor who is approaching the obesity and heart disease problem from a scientific perspective.

His work basically boils down to this quote from a article he wrote for Newsweek

"There is an alternative theory, one that has also been around for decades but that the establishment has largely ignored. This theory implicates specific foods—refined sugars and grains—because of their effect on the hormone insulin, which regulates fat accumulation. If this hormonal-defect hypothesis is true, not all calories are created equal, as the conventional wisdom holds. And if it is true, the problem is not only controlling our impulses, but also changing the entire American food economy and rewriting our beliefs about what constitutes a healthy diet."

http://www.thedailybeast.com//conten...s-failing.html


The above quote was in reference to current conventional wisdom that

"There is a simple “energy balance” idea: we get fat because we consume too many calories and expend too few. If we could just control our impulses—or at least control our environment, thereby removing temptation—and push ourselves to exercise, we’d be fine"

Only problem the conventional wisdom doesn't work for the vast majority.

If the conventional wisdom is finally broken can you imagine what the corporate food industry will look like ?