The AHA is a cash stacking organization. They didn’t even come out against smoking until the 1990s. I think their Director has a bachelors degree in communications from Central Michigan University if memory serves me correct. Not a medical profession anyway.
I stopped giving AHA money not long after my father pass away from coronary heart disease. I took a closer look and didn't like what I saw. (That was more than 15 years ago.)
I am 75 years old, currently 3 months into year 6 of a ketogenic diet. While we started with 20g of carbs in the beginning, we've relaxed that following the findings in Dr. Steven Gundry's book "Unlocking the Keto Code". Carbs are a bit higher, but very little sugar and no seed oils. We eat one meal a day, following a time-restricted eating regimen. Cholesterol is high, but my wife found labs from 1983 when her cholesterol was the same as now and it was considered "Good". All other heart health indicators such as Triglycerides to HDL, 6 minute walk, etc. are better than average. We walk 5k every day, barring lightning or ice, have no prescriptions, and no ailments. We also eat no processed food unless we can identify every ingredient. The great irony is that according to current longevity charts, I'm in my final year, but I have not ever been this healthy in my entire life. There is a very big scam going on between Big Food, Big Pharma, and Health Insurance. Their recommendations and products fatten the populace like cattle in a feed lot, keeping them sick, while providing the drugs to keep them alive. All in the name of profit.
I’m having a version of this discussion in a nutrition group on FB right now. The premise is that we do not require a single carb in the human diet. Not one.
My blood glucose is stable with an 85 mean SD-8 over months of time. I make all the glucose I need with a diet of meat, heavy cream, butter, coffee, and mushrooms.
When I exercise, an aerobic walk, my glucose actually goes up 5 to 10 ...
My heart is happy to burn ketones and glucose from gluconeogenesis, made right here from the human instruction set.
Forget HFLC graduated to HFZC,
it’s the only way to fly.
“There is no spoon” -- matrix, “I am your enemy. Only the enemy can tell you where you are weak. Only the enemy can tell you where he is strong.” -- Enders Game OSC. The last should have been written by Timothy Noakes. Speaking of Tim he is the editor of a new college text released this month. Ketogenic
The idea that everyone needs fiber popped up in the 1970s. I'm sure that campaign had an ulterior motive, probably perpetrated by cereal companies. Fiber is not necessary.
Yes. I get a small amount of fiber in my diet of meat and occasional berries and mushrooms. I do not need lots of fiber. Fiber is used to support the large microbiome of heavy plant eaters, ruminants, gorillas.
I am a carnivore and my microbiome, through my Vegas nerve tells me it is quite happy. 🦠🍄
Everyone needs fiber. It has nothing to do with cereal companies. You can get it from fruit and vegetables. A quick look at primitive "paleo" conditions shows diets with high levels of fiber.
You can also see references in the work of Paul Saladino, and Shawn Baker.
For the opposing view I read the works of vegetarian Michael Gregor. His books are well referenced with studies. I used to follow Dr Gregor and used his phone app. I do not believe in veganism anymore. It is a cult and makes us sick. But I do respect Gregors work it is quite an accomplishment. He has documented many common foods and their specific pharmaceutical effects.
I don’t believe fiber is a dietary requirement. Human’s can’t digest it, actually ruminants can’t digest it either they feed it to their colonies of bacteria and then digest the bacteria.
Humans stomachs are far to acidic to support that cycle. We have the digestion stomach of carnivores not cows. We get plenty of fiber from the occasional bit of fruit, we do not need it.
No. The heart loves ketones. I’ve improved my heart health on a HFZC diet. I’ve reduced my Pvc Frequency and haven’t had a serious SVT event since 2018.
The two times I was on rigorous keto, my blood picture (already pretty good) improved. I lost about 8 pounds over about 10 weeks, and my blood pressure modestly improved both times.
Over the past two years I have seen a remarkable improvement in my labs, discontinuing all pharmaceuticals and losing 50 pounds along the way, and following a moderate keto diet with IF. I actually started the diet three years earlier, but the meds were preventing me from losing weight, so I discovered.
Why would I pay any attention to these people when it's rather obvious that they are off-track. Worse yet, they are part of one of the "industries" that profits from the sickness, disease, and suffering of others, and they stand to lose if healthiness were to break out. What a "pandemic" that would be!
I had done something similar with keto once before, very successfully, but I eventually ran into complications caused by a GI birth defect that hadn't yet been discovered. This time I compensated for it and I am not seeing any signs of that problem returning.
Another thing I had to get rid of was the cardiologists. They had been playing on my concerns about familial hypercholesterolemia, which runs in my family and of which I have symptoms. I will give them the benefit of a doubt and say that they were misinformed. Very misinformed. Now I have a doctor that focuses on prevention, and encourages things like keto and IF. Such people do exist.
And last time I looked the CDC doesn’t mention the advantages of getting your vitamin D levels up or early treatment protocols for covid. Buyer beware!
The diabetes-industrial complex is convenient for big government, whose single largest financial liability is the ponzi scheme, er, social security. The food pyramid makes sure that the proles drop dead as soon as they hit retirement age- and spend their life savings on big pharma in the process. What's not to love?
You are an excellent writer! However, many people are not excellent readers. When they see a ton of words, it’s a turn off, particularly in this age of graphics and videos via the Internet. Readers are not stupid, they just expect the intelligent mind to simplify and summarize. It’s hard to get used to for somebody that is used to saying everything with words. If you summarize your findings using “word graphics” and fewer words, you’ll reach a lot more people.
I was able to reverse prediabetes, chronic migraines, and interstitial cystitis (chronic bladder inflammation) through first intermittent fasting and then high fat, high protein, almost zero carb. Plus I lost 45 lbs. https://fastwell.substack.com/p/how-i-healed-my-interstitial-cystitis
Thanks Nina. I started seeing these "reports" the other day. A few times in the past I have tweeted them to your attention but I'm getting more comfortable just ignoring them now. Thanks for continuing to expose them.
Thank you - your book “The Big Fat Surprise” was a game changer for me … a total paradigm shift! You are one of several authors that gave me the courage to say no to anything without good scientific data from sources not bought and sold by industry, pharmaceutical or otherwise.
Thank you, Nina, for continuing your yeoman (yeo-woman?) work dispelling the deliberate misinformation out there, pointing out the gross conflicts of interest, and showing by example what science actually looks like.
Another great post, thanks Nina! Have you read the opening chapter of Fossil Future by Alex Epstein? It details the problems of our knowledge system in a general way that applies to nutrition science as well as climate science.
It would have been nice, Nina, if you had written the Wash Post a letter to the editor in rebuttal to the article.
What you wrote above is well written.
The AHA is a cash stacking organization. They didn’t even come out against smoking until the 1990s. I think their Director has a bachelors degree in communications from Central Michigan University if memory serves me correct. Not a medical profession anyway.
I stopped giving AHA money not long after my father pass away from coronary heart disease. I took a closer look and didn't like what I saw. (That was more than 15 years ago.)
I am 75 years old, currently 3 months into year 6 of a ketogenic diet. While we started with 20g of carbs in the beginning, we've relaxed that following the findings in Dr. Steven Gundry's book "Unlocking the Keto Code". Carbs are a bit higher, but very little sugar and no seed oils. We eat one meal a day, following a time-restricted eating regimen. Cholesterol is high, but my wife found labs from 1983 when her cholesterol was the same as now and it was considered "Good". All other heart health indicators such as Triglycerides to HDL, 6 minute walk, etc. are better than average. We walk 5k every day, barring lightning or ice, have no prescriptions, and no ailments. We also eat no processed food unless we can identify every ingredient. The great irony is that according to current longevity charts, I'm in my final year, but I have not ever been this healthy in my entire life. There is a very big scam going on between Big Food, Big Pharma, and Health Insurance. Their recommendations and products fatten the populace like cattle in a feed lot, keeping them sick, while providing the drugs to keep them alive. All in the name of profit.
I’m having a version of this discussion in a nutrition group on FB right now. The premise is that we do not require a single carb in the human diet. Not one.
My blood glucose is stable with an 85 mean SD-8 over months of time. I make all the glucose I need with a diet of meat, heavy cream, butter, coffee, and mushrooms.
When I exercise, an aerobic walk, my glucose actually goes up 5 to 10 ...
My heart is happy to burn ketones and glucose from gluconeogenesis, made right here from the human instruction set.
Forget HFLC graduated to HFZC,
it’s the only way to fly.
“There is no spoon” -- matrix, “I am your enemy. Only the enemy can tell you where you are weak. Only the enemy can tell you where he is strong.” -- Enders Game OSC. The last should have been written by Timothy Noakes. Speaking of Tim he is the editor of a new college text released this month. Ketogenic
ISBN: 9780128216170,
You need fiber, which has little metabolic value, but important for other reasons.
The idea that everyone needs fiber popped up in the 1970s. I'm sure that campaign had an ulterior motive, probably perpetrated by cereal companies. Fiber is not necessary.
Yes. I get a small amount of fiber in my diet of meat and occasional berries and mushrooms. I do not need lots of fiber. Fiber is used to support the large microbiome of heavy plant eaters, ruminants, gorillas.
I am a carnivore and my microbiome, through my Vegas nerve tells me it is quite happy. 🦠🍄
Everyone needs fiber. It has nothing to do with cereal companies. You can get it from fruit and vegetables. A quick look at primitive "paleo" conditions shows diets with high levels of fiber.
Please cite your sources
Many doctors are presenting evidence now in contradiction of the widely accepted fiber myth
Here is one example.
https://www.doctorkiltz.com/fiber-myth/
Also read; The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith
You can also see references in the work of Paul Saladino, and Shawn Baker.
For the opposing view I read the works of vegetarian Michael Gregor. His books are well referenced with studies. I used to follow Dr Gregor and used his phone app. I do not believe in veganism anymore. It is a cult and makes us sick. But I do respect Gregors work it is quite an accomplishment. He has documented many common foods and their specific pharmaceutical effects.
Certainly veganism is a myth. Humans are omnivores.
I’ve learned most from the works of Gary Taubes.
I don’t believe fiber is a dietary requirement. Human’s can’t digest it, actually ruminants can’t digest it either they feed it to their colonies of bacteria and then digest the bacteria.
Humans stomachs are far to acidic to support that cycle. We have the digestion stomach of carnivores not cows. We get plenty of fiber from the occasional bit of fruit, we do not need it.
No. The heart loves ketones. I’ve improved my heart health on a HFZC diet. I’ve reduced my Pvc Frequency and haven’t had a serious SVT event since 2018.
The two times I was on rigorous keto, my blood picture (already pretty good) improved. I lost about 8 pounds over about 10 weeks, and my blood pressure modestly improved both times.
Over the past two years I have seen a remarkable improvement in my labs, discontinuing all pharmaceuticals and losing 50 pounds along the way, and following a moderate keto diet with IF. I actually started the diet three years earlier, but the meds were preventing me from losing weight, so I discovered.
Why would I pay any attention to these people when it's rather obvious that they are off-track. Worse yet, they are part of one of the "industries" that profits from the sickness, disease, and suffering of others, and they stand to lose if healthiness were to break out. What a "pandemic" that would be!
I had done something similar with keto once before, very successfully, but I eventually ran into complications caused by a GI birth defect that hadn't yet been discovered. This time I compensated for it and I am not seeing any signs of that problem returning.
Another thing I had to get rid of was the cardiologists. They had been playing on my concerns about familial hypercholesterolemia, which runs in my family and of which I have symptoms. I will give them the benefit of a doubt and say that they were misinformed. Very misinformed. Now I have a doctor that focuses on prevention, and encourages things like keto and IF. Such people do exist.
When this madness will end? Thanks Nina Teicholz and several other heroes to push these organizations.
AHA still believes coconut oil is bad for you and your heart. I wouldn't take any of their research for truth.
And last time I looked the CDC doesn’t mention the advantages of getting your vitamin D levels up or early treatment protocols for covid. Buyer beware!
The diabetes-industrial complex is convenient for big government, whose single largest financial liability is the ponzi scheme, er, social security. The food pyramid makes sure that the proles drop dead as soon as they hit retirement age- and spend their life savings on big pharma in the process. What's not to love?
Vegas would love to have those odds.
/sarc
You are an excellent writer! However, many people are not excellent readers. When they see a ton of words, it’s a turn off, particularly in this age of graphics and videos via the Internet. Readers are not stupid, they just expect the intelligent mind to simplify and summarize. It’s hard to get used to for somebody that is used to saying everything with words. If you summarize your findings using “word graphics” and fewer words, you’ll reach a lot more people.
I was able to reverse prediabetes, chronic migraines, and interstitial cystitis (chronic bladder inflammation) through first intermittent fasting and then high fat, high protein, almost zero carb. Plus I lost 45 lbs. https://fastwell.substack.com/p/how-i-healed-my-interstitial-cystitis
Thanks Nina. I started seeing these "reports" the other day. A few times in the past I have tweeted them to your attention but I'm getting more comfortable just ignoring them now. Thanks for continuing to expose them.
Thank you - your book “The Big Fat Surprise” was a game changer for me … a total paradigm shift! You are one of several authors that gave me the courage to say no to anything without good scientific data from sources not bought and sold by industry, pharmaceutical or otherwise.
Same for me. I love Nina ( especially her giggle).
Thank you, Nina, for continuing your yeoman (yeo-woman?) work dispelling the deliberate misinformation out there, pointing out the gross conflicts of interest, and showing by example what science actually looks like.
Amazing and concise post. Thank you.
Another great post, thanks Nina! Have you read the opening chapter of Fossil Future by Alex Epstein? It details the problems of our knowledge system in a general way that applies to nutrition science as well as climate science.
Nice work Nina
Please keep up the good work and I will keep stocking up my freezer with meat
I am forever grateful to you and your LCHF community for shining a light on fake food
Regards from a 70 year old Aussie boy who is powering towards a drug free life almost free of pain and misery 😘😘✔️