It is all just one BIG FAT LIE

Undoctored and Wheat Belly Wisdom. This is a story about how the grain and processed food lobby has successfully manipulated our governmental agencies into feeding us so many lies about consuming fat.   Let me begin this story with some with some basic facts. FACT: Fats, unlike carbohydrates, are essential, and are as necessary as water or oxygen. FACT: We are, at the core, carnivorous creatures, a product of our unique evolutionary past, thus consuming the fat of animals is also part of our natural physiology. FACT: Consuming fat, particularly the saturated fat of butter, animal flesh and organs, does not makes us fat and cause diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, but grains do. FACT: The evidence used to advance the low-fat message was incomplete, epidemiological, and riddled with methodological flaws—none of which stopped overenthusiastic dietary fanatics sold on the low-fat message in the 1970s and 1980s. While grain consumption was a mistake we made 10,000 years ago, limiting fat consumption was a mistake we made starting 50 years ago, a man-made blunder based on misinterpretation, misrepresentation, the leanings of dietary zealots, and politics. Here’s how it all began… When such fanatical leanings reached the ear of Senator George McGovern, chair of the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, he then decided that all Americans should engage in a low-fat lifestyle. The McGovern committee pushed through legislation, written...
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