In a particularly funny episode of "Raymond" Debra gives Ray a withering look during an argument about their sex life and asks, "What does 'all night long' mean to you?The biggest lie that most of us low-carbers hear all the time is that "High protein diets will damage your kidneys! You have to have some carbs! Bread is a staple, for heaven's sake."
No. It's not.
I've been reading an awesome book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by science reporter Gary Taubes. It's no "diet" book. It is an in depth deconstruction of every major diet and nutrition study conducted around the world since the late 1800's. It is a remarkable piece of research, and extremely eye-opening about the origins of what many doctors and nutritionists still believe is a "healthy diet" composed of mostly starchy carbohydrates, little protein and very, very little fat. Taubes shows how the studies that supposedly "prove" this type of eating healthy are based on assumptions.
That's right. Assumptions. Sound like science to you?
Just today conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was talking about a large group of scientists who share a "consensus" that man-made global warming exists. This group won't even begin to examine any reported errors in their study design or any studies that refute the idea that man is causing global warming. He pointed out that "consensus" has NOTHING to do with science. Man-made global warming is about politics and so is the so-called healthy diet based on the food pyramid.
Real science is about provable fact. It is cut and dry. Obviously there are phenomena that exist which science hasn't yet been able to explain. But that doesn't mean there isn't a logical, factual reason behind these phenomena. There were no cars or factories at the end of the last ice age to "create" global warming; and our ancestors survived just fine on meat, leafy greens, roots and fruit.
Think of it this way: police officers cannot go out, decide someone is guilty of something, THEN set out to find evidence to prove their chosen suspect guilty. That kind of "investigating" has an inherent bias that would lead the officers to ignore any evidence that disproves their original theory. The evidence must lead to the suspect, not the other way around.
In the case of a healthy diet, many nutritionists, doctors, dietitians and the like ignore anthropological evidence that show our earliest ancestors ate little to no starch or sugar in their diets, were disease resistant, and did not exercise 24/7. If their diets had been deficient, we wouldn't be here. It's just that simple.
I highly encourage you to read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and learn about this for yourself. It could make a huge difference in your life and your health.
Now, if only someone could get Taubes to write a book called "Good Climate, Bad Climate" this whole man-made global warming thing might get cleared up, too.
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