50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
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Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#2This undue exaggeration about sugar lobby influence has been thoroughly debunked - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/747
Aside, it is really a shame how reductionist the popular view of nutrition is that we come to scapegoating "fat" or "sugar". T. Colin Campbell says it well:
This is reductionist experimentation that encourages the development of out-of-context remedies targeted to one risk factor or one causal event at a time, a recipe for failure. Reductionist experimentation is valuable for understanding nutrient structure and function, but it too often encourages endless speculation and confusion caused by highly subjective, personal preferences as to which factor to favor in research and to offer to the market.
https://nutritionstudies.org/fallacious-faulty-foolish-discu...
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#3And if I remember from a nutritionist who posted here, the way we lose weight is by breathing CO2 out.
Food is extracted for its nutrients in our digestive tract and excreted. Yet the way we lose weight is by breathing.
(I cannot find the source of that claim)
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#4And if I remember from a nutritionist who posted here, the way we lose weight is by breathing CO2 out. Food is extracted for its nutrients in our digestive tract and excreted. Yet the way we lose weight is by breathing. (I cannot find the source of that claim)
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#5And if I remember from a nutritionist who posted here, the way we lose weight is by breathing CO2 out. Food is extracted for its nutrients in our digestive tract and excreted. Yet the way we lose weight is by breathing. (I cannot find the source of that claim)
All you're talking about is metabolism and respiration. All metabolism oxidizes fuel (broadly speaking, fats and sugars) and generates C02. Excluding anaerobic metabolism, which only happens in times of heavy exercise or hypoxia, all metabolism results in C02.
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#6And if I remember from a nutritionist who posted here, the way we lose weight is by breathing CO2 out. Food is extracted for its nutrients in our digestive tract and excreted. Yet the way we lose weight is by breathing. (I cannot find the source of that claim)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration
It’s technically true that we (animals) can convert fat into CO2 and water.
But we burn this fat to release energy. If we don’t need this energy (if we consume more calories than we burn), the fat just accumulates.
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#7I dunno. You know… my grandpa drank a 5th of whiskey a day and smoked one cigar a day until the day he died. Age 102. Sometimes I think that you enjoy the heck out of life and don't worry about anything. Shrug. I hope genetics matters more :)
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#8My college _writing_ teacher forced students like myself to read a long and very repetitive book on the subject called Salt, Sugar, Fat. It was an interesting read for the first 1/3 of the book, but extremely dense and the last 2/3 felt like a rehashing of the first 1/3. 480 pages of Food companies are evil.
She also had a nasty tendency to bring in lots and lots of political discussion into the writing class, to where the twice-a-week, 90 minute long "writing sessions" felt like 20 minutes writing, 70 minutes theories and politics. But that's another story.
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#9So the sugarbusters people were right after all?
Re: 50 Years Ago, the Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)
#1050 Years Ago, Meat Industry Quietly Paid Pseudo-Scientists to Blame Carbs (2066)