Comments on: Jane Brody’s Cholesterol Headache

By: Simon McNeilly

Simon McNeilly — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:24:35 +0000

talking of sugars !

are all sugars created equal ( no pun intended )

in australia our sweets mostly contain sugar from sugar cane

any thoughts on the whole real sugar vs HFCS vs replacements

i sometimes think that the US use of HFCS and other sweeteners in EVERYTHING is a real problem where here in australia its not in a lot of foods

I think sugar and HFCS are both bad news. HFCS is in more products than sugar ever was because it acts as a preservative as well as a sweetener.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:22:12 +0000

The really sad part is, you used an analogy that would be considered insanely ridiculous to anybody you mentioned it to right now: hitting yourself in the head with a hammer to cure a headache.

But I’d bet you that if some sort of whacked off science experiment showed that somehow, hitting yourself in the hammer DID cure headaches, that woman would promote it.

After all, if it’s making money it can’t be a bad thing, right?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:50 +0000

I know this might sound a little mean, but for some reason if the climax to her horror low-fat diet and her reliance on statin-like drug is a heart-attack , for some reason it seems to make me chuckle instead of feeling sorry for her…:P Its probably because her situation is in the same category as your hammer theory, where if you kept hammering your head to cure the head-ache, and it didn’t work, and you hammered more and it didn’t work and finally in the climax your head just broke off and rolled on the floor, the audience would consider that as classic slap-stick humour and laugh instead of feeling sorry for your head-less body lol

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:20:01 +0000

The often neglected part for a balanced diet is the fibre intake. We see the hype about importance of vitamins, proteins and other nutrients but fibre is often less talked about. The truth is that our body needs a good proportion of fibre in our diets for optimum functioning and leading a healthy life.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:00:04 +0000

I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your post. I haven’t seen Fathead [yet], but have been talking about Jane Brody’s denial of the truth for years. My favorite is JANE ON EGGS:

I have a friend in Australia who was feeling down and thought that maybe she wouldn’t try to get her PhD because the profs can’t accept Fat Acceptance or the notion that being fat is not necessarily unhealthy, despite the studies that say, “Wait! If you’re overweight you might live longer than one of those waifs over there.”

I sent my friend hyperlinks about JANE ON EGGS from 1985 on, including the untitled 1995 article in which Jane gets confused because eggs don’t make bad cholesterol and actually may help get rid of it. And there she was in 2007, still beating her head against the wall because she was on that “heart healthy diet” and her cholesterol kept going up!

I sent my friend the links to JANE ON EGGS to make my point about so-called authorities in denial and included this article. My friend may not find acceptance for her thesis, but she certainly has a book in her and she feels a lot better.

Thanks for the article!

Jane’s not exactly a whiz with logic, based on her writings. Wishing your friend good luck in her pursuit …

By: Tofpemnedphen

Tofpemnedphen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:18:39 +0000

I’ll share it on Twitter.

By: Shenceseent

Shenceseent — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:42:04 +0000

FANTASTIC!

Jane would probably disagree, but thanks.

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:10:06 +0000

My little girl’s dad gets migraines from any artificial sweetener, doesn’t matter what it is–aspartame, sucralose, even the polyols. The fakest sweetener he can tolerate is stevia. That’s it. I have my own hypothesis about why aspartame bothers some people and not others–it may be related to PKU. As in, maybe the person suffering from the reaction doesn’t have it but might carry one gene? I wonder if anyone’s ever looked into that. Wouldn’t be surprised if the answer’s no, or if yes, that the research has been buried. Just because a gene might be recessive doesn’t mean you never feel any effects from it.

My dad was never interested in matters of health or biology and now has diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol and no idea how to deal with any of it other than by taking the meds his doctor prescribes. It makes me nuts to know he could turn it all around with diet but probably won’t even try.

I hope he gives it a try. My dad has stents in his arteries, colon cancer, and Alzheimer’s. You can bet I want to avoid that fate.

By: TonyNZ

TonyNZ — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:00:02 +0000

If you can get any unfiltered, unpasteurised beer, it has even more benefits because the yeast has many micronutrients (I homebrew everything, so all my beer is like this). So much so that you can buy brewers yeast at pharmacies as a multivitamin. If there are any microbreweries in your locality they are probably your best bet. Also most abbey beers from belgium are unfiltered and unpasteurised, though these are quite a different palate to most commercial beers, generally quite expensive and pack a hell of a hit (often in excess of 10% abv). Dark beers (such as Guiness) also have a reasonably high iron content.

Also, the carbs are quite low GI in beer, because all the simple carbs get gobbled up by the yeast, and the alcohol is quite efficiently processed by the body (as long as you aren’t going over the 1 standard drink per hour rule). The alpha acids from hops are also quite powerful antioxidants.

No, I’m not touting beer as a health food, It’s just I’m a beer connoisseur and it’s fun to compare the dietary properties of beer to purported ‘healthier’ choices for treat foods, such as diet sodas and “fat free” (all sugar) desserts.

Of course, some people are just naturally prone to alcoholism, so no amount of alcohol would be helpful to these people.

I drank a LOT of beer in 20s and 30s, then quit drinking completely for three years. Now it’s a beer here and there, a glass of wine or two here and there. I wouldn’t say it’s health food either, but I don’t think a moderate amount will hurt any. Might even help with the HDL a bit.

We do have some microbreweries around here. Pretty tasty stuff.

By: TonyNZ

TonyNZ — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:29:35 +0000

Actually, the jury is still very much out on the beer not good for you case. Nobody disputes that excessive drinking is bad, but there are numerous studies that indicate a light tipple can actually have health benefits.

Glad to hear it. It’s Friday night, I’m about to go get the wife to sit down and watch an episode of Foyle’s War, and I do have a bottle of Guinness in the fridge. It looks so lonely in there …