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"If
you were obese and you died of a snakebite, they [the CDC] would
say it was your obesity that caused your death, not the snakebite."
~ Dr. J. Eric Oliver
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"What
happens when you've eliminated most of the true epidemics? You
start to come up with metaphorical epidemics: epidemics of smoking,
epidemics of obesity."
~ Jacob Sullum
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"The
cholesterol theory is totally and completely wrong. It was made
up out of whole cloth and then pushed."
~ Dr. Mary Enig
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"Your
grandmother knew that potatoes and bread were fattening. We all
knew it, until modern nutrition told us otherwise."
~ Al Sears, M.D.
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"We've
never had these [corn oil and other processed vegetable oils]
in the human diet before, in the entire history of the world."
~ Sally Fallon
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| No-Bologna
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There's
never been a single study that proves saturated fat causes heart disease. |
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As
heart-disease rates were skyrocketing in the mid-1900s, consumption
of animal fat was going down, not up. Consumption of vegetable oils,
however, was going up dramatically.
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Half
of all heart-attack victims have normal or low cholesterol. Autopsies
performed on heart-attack victims routinely reveal plaque-filled arteries
in people whose cholesterol was low (as low as 115 in one case).
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Asian
Indians - half of whom are vegetarians - have one of the highest rates
of heart disease in the entire world. Yup, that fatty meat will kill
you, all right.
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When
Morgan Spurlock tells you that a McDonald's salad supplies almost
a day's allowance of fat, he's basing that statement on the FDA's
low-fat/high-carbohydrate dietary guidelines, which in turn are based
on … absolutely nothing. There's no science behind those guidelines;
they were simply made up by a congressional committee.
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Kids
who were diagnosed as suffering from ADD have been successfully treated
by re-introducing natural saturated fats into their diets. Your brain
is made largely of fat.
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Many
epileptics have reduced or eliminated seizures by adopting a diet
low in sugar and starch and high in saturated animal fats.
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Despite
everything you've heard about saturated fat being linked to cancer,
that link is statistically weak. However, there is a strong link between
sugar and cancer. In Europe, doctors tell patients, "Sugar feeds
cancer."
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Being
fat is not, in and of itself, bad for your health. The behaviors that
can make you fat - eating excess sugar and starch, not getting any
exercise - can also ruin your health, and that's why being fat is
associated with bad health. But it's entirely possible to be fat and
healthy. It's also possible to be thin while developing Type II diabetes
and heart disease.
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Saturated
fat and cholesterol help produce testosterone. When men limit their
saturated fat, their testosterone level drops. So, regardless of what
a famous vegan chef believes, saturated fat does not impair sexual
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"The
USDA food pyramid isn't about health. It's about selling agricultural
products."
~ Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
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"The
amount of blood sugar in your bloodstream, if you have normal
blood sugar, is a little less than one teaspoon. Three hundred
grams of carbohydrates [The FDA's suggested daily intake] converts
to a cup and a half of sugar."
~ Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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