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Slim is Simple .org – Why Does Health Seem Complex?
Chatting about the source of and solution to the confusing and conflicting messages around health and fitness.
Read moreWant to Improve Your Cholesterol? Don’t Lower It. There’s a Smarter Approach.
“There is a wealth of…evidence that increasing the concentration of HDL cholesterol through diet will lower the risk of coronary artery disease.” –R.P. Mensink, Maastricht University In the last post we showed how Eating Fat Does Not Hurt Cholesterol & It’s Not About Lowering Cholesterol Anyway. Here’s where the confusion about cholesterol comes from [...]
Read moreEating Fat Does Not Hurt Cholesterol & It’s Not About Lowering Cholesterol Anyway
“Although low-fat high-carbohydrate diets are recommended…in an effort to reduce the risk of coronary artery disease, the results of short-term studies have shown that these diets can lead to…an increased risk of coronary artery disease.” – The American Diabetes Association As with other popular misconceptions about how our bodies work, confusion runs rampant about [...]
Read moreDisturbing Data Demonstrating That Low-Fat Made Us Fat
“Saying we become fat by eating fat is like saying we become green by eating green vegetables.” — Paraphrase of Uffe Ravnskov, MD, Ph.D. We are told that sugar-laden muffins, nutritionally neutered toast, and insulin-exploding juice are part of a balanced, nutritious breakfast because they are low in fat. After decades of this many [...]
Read more$1,000,000,000 Worth of Research Later: Eating Fat Does *Not* Harm Health
The last post concluded with Harvard University researcher F.B. Hu informing us that “It is now increasingly recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health consequences.” Here’s the supporting data I promised.
Read moreOne Of The Greatest And Most Harmful Misconceptions In The History Of Medicine: Lipophobia (The Fear of Fat)
“Few public health messages are as powerful and as persistent as this one: Fat is bad…The average American has substantially reduced the percentage of calories that she or he gets from fat over the past three decades…But we are not any healthier for all of this effort. In fact, we are worse off for [...]
Read morePyramid = Problem and MyPlate = Mistake: A Brief History of Government Dietary Guidelines
“The thing to keep in mind about the USDA Pyramid is that it comes from the Department of Agriculture, the agency responsible for promoting American agriculture, not from agencies established to monitor and protect our health…. What’s good for some agricultural interests is not necessarily good for the people who eat their products.” – [...]
Read moreThe Simple Scientific Cause of the Obesity Epidemic
“[Governmental] dietary guidelines necessarily are political compromises between what science tells us about nutrition and health and what is good for the food industry.” – M. Nestle, New York University As our knowledge of the human body becomes ever more exact, scientists have made remarkable leaps forward in many fields. We have completed the [...]
Read moreeven bureaucrats recommend a natural balanced diet
In The Smarter Science of Slim we’ll chat about the natural balanced way we ate for 99.8% of our evolutionary history. Natural because it’s all about eating foods found directly in nature. Balanced because eating foods found directly in nature enable us to automatically get about a third of calories from carbs, a third [...]
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