Re: article about trans fats

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For 40 YEARS " the best diet experts " pilloried butter and preached to a

generation " eat your margarine, it's SO MUCH better for you " . They drove folks

to

heart attacks and early death with their own " wise counsel " . What is the

missing dimension in the media and " the demonization of trans fat " ? That it was

the

same media, the SAME " experts " then making the same claims. The missing

dimension is APOLOGIES to the public.

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--- Ginger ginger587@... wrote:

> This is an article that I received in a newsletter from a

> chiropractor that I used to go to. I wanted you all to see how

> brainwashed our society is when it comes to saturated fat.

Yes, this is so SAD

[Guest guest]

Eades in his blog has a number of articles on the idiocy of

fear of saturated fat. Search " lard " on his blog for some.

Here's one:

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/?p=111

Interesting excerpt:

"

Eight or nine years ago I was part of a panel of speakers at some

huge meeting in Chicago (I can't remember which meeting—they have all

run together in my brain). One of the other speakers, who is also

lost to my memory, was an expert on the Mediterranean diet. He had

lived in the Mediterranean area for years and had spent much of this

time in Crete, the origin of the Mediterranean-diet-as-longevity-

promoting-diet theory. While virtually all the proponents of the

Mediterranean Diet uniformly advocate the use of olive oil as the

main fat in the diet, this man told the audience that in his years

spent in Crete and other parts of the Mediterranean he had found that

virtually everyone there used lard as their primary cooking fat and

harvested olives and pressed olive oil to make a living. Most of the

olives and oil were exported.

"

[Guest guest]

here's a YouTube video about lard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFmyJ7P6PSU

>

> Eades in his blog has a number of articles on the idiocy of

> fear of saturated fat. Search " lard " on his blog for some.

>

> Here's one:

>

> http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/?p=111

>

> Interesting excerpt:

>

> "

> Eight or nine years ago I was part of a panel of speakers at some

> huge meeting in Chicago (I can't remember which meeting—they have all

> run together in my brain). One of the other speakers, who is also

> lost to my memory, was an expert on the Mediterranean diet. He had

> lived in the Mediterranean area for years and had spent much of this

> time in Crete, the origin of the Mediterranean-diet-as-longevity-

> promoting-diet theory. While virtually all the proponents of the

> Mediterranean Diet uniformly advocate the use of olive oil as the

> main fat in the diet, this man told the audience that in his years

> spent in Crete and other parts of the Mediterranean he had found that

> virtually everyone there used lard as their primary cooking fat and

> harvested olives and pressed olive oil to make a living. Most of the

> olives and oil were exported.

>

> "

>

[Guest guest]

On 6/12/07, cbrown2008 <cbrown2008@...> wrote:

> Eight or nine years ago I was part of a panel of speakers at some

> huge meeting in Chicago (I can't remember which meeting—they have all

> run together in my brain). One of the other speakers, who is also

> lost to my memory, was an expert on the Mediterranean diet. He had

> lived in the Mediterranean area for years and had spent much of this

> time in Crete, the origin of the Mediterranean-diet-as-longevity-

> promoting-diet theory. While virtually all the proponents of the

> Mediterranean Diet uniformly advocate the use of olive oil as the

> main fat in the diet, this man told the audience that in his years

> spent in Crete and other parts of the Mediterranean he had found that

> virtually everyone there used lard as their primary cooking fat and

> harvested olives and pressed olive oil to make a living. Most of the

> olives and oil were exported.

I was having coffee a couple months ago with the guy who was the lead

author what appears from medline to be the first English language

paper on coronary heart disease in Crete, who conducted his research

under the auspices of WHO if I remember right (he's a good friend of

my grandfather), and he told me that their main daily staples were

goat milk products, especially cheese I think, and wheat products,

which included not only a bread, but also a food I forget the name of

made from the wheat stalks, which were soaked in whey, with the

mixture brought to a simmer and then hung from the ceiling in sacks

that let it dry into this very hard crusty stuff, which he said they

ate everything with. He didn't mention them using lard, but this was

in the 1960s and perhaps the above observation is from later. He said

they rarely ate non-fish meat, and that they ate a good amount of fish

but it was not every day because most of them did not live on the

coast (or at least the ones he was studying anyway). He definitely

didn't mention them using olive oil, though I do recall there was a

time when he was thinking of importing an olive oil from the island to

sell in the US, which he never went through with.

Chris