I don’t herniate, but I do curse when prodded. When I saw Dr. Eades tackled it, I didn’t bother. He’s way more of science wonk than I am, and he shredded it as much it could be shredded.

I appreciate that, but I’d say it’s Dr. Mike who didn’t disappoint in this case. I was just starting to do some online research and then saw his post. Can’t top the Doc on medical issues.

In debating media bias with friends and associates, I’ve tried to explain that a reporter’s beliefs going into a story determine which facts are judged to be important, which storyline is pursued, which experts are consulted, etc. The reporters are not bad people, and they’re not TRYING to bias the story (usually); it’s just the result of beliefs guiding actions and perceptions.

Couldn’t ask for a better example than this story. They consumed a ton of carbs, but they believed going in that fat is the problem, and that’s what they pursued.

It’s so hard to change these generally accepted ideas that self perpetuate. And I know, I’ve been outside of the norm my whole life and suffered for it in some ways, thinking and doing for myself without buying into cultural consensus.

I just can’t really conceive of a way to speed up the change of general consensus to our way of thinking about diet and health. I mean, SLOWLY some strides have been made, but the snowball of low-fat has such huge momentum it just seems like it’s going to take longer than my lifetime to get people to realize how backwards most thinking about diet is.

Nobody is ever going to win someone over in one discussion/argument, so I guess the point is, like your blog and many others, to just get as much information out there as possible so that people are exposed to it.

Then again, diet tends to be like religion and politics… it’s not polite conversation between friends (and those are the ones you want to help the most). A friend of mine in OZ did “low carb”, and was frustrated with it. I quickly learned that his fat phobia meant that he was trying to do low fat low carb. Even him hearing about my progress can’t crack into his beliefs about fat. I had to wonder what he was eating… protein powder???

Even in the medical community, I remember Taubes talking about how his book was sent to many people in that community and very few actually read it, for various reasons.

Sigh. That recipe above is a great example of the crazy things people will do once conditioned to fear fat. It really is quite amazing, because fat-phobia almost inevitably leads to moving further and further away from “real, minimally processed” foods.

I’m afraid you’re right; it’s a slow process. Someone Jimmy Moore interviewed said if you want to start a fight at a family reunion, talk politics. If that doesn’t work, talk religion. If that doesn’t work, talk about diets. But what’s strange is that lowfat diets have failed over and over, both in clinical studies and in people’s experiences, yet the idea that it’s the correct diet doesn’t seem to go away.

2 cups of SR flour
1 cup of caster sugar
450g can of crushed pineapple

Mmmm so three cups of carbs - that will sure make up for the no fat.

No wonder I got fatter when I did this sort of diet.

Yeee-ikes! That’s enough to send my pancreas into a panic just reading the ingredients.