by Eddie Fri Dec 26 2014, 14:42
These guys had it sorted a long time ago. As you can see they are not blokes running a blog but highly qualified medical professionals.
"There are three kinds of foods--fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. All of these provide calories. But the carbohydrates provide calories and nothing else. They have none of the essential elements to build up or to repair the tissues of the body. A man, given carbohydrates alone, however liberally, would starve to death on calories. The body must have proteins and animal fats. It has no need for carbohydrates, and, given the two essential foodstuffs, it can get all the calories it needs from them."
Sir Heneage Ogilvie, former vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick on…the idiotic dietary advice we give to diabetes patients
"Personally, I do not believe that fat consumption has the slightest impact on heart disease in people with or without diabetes, and I would defy anyone to unearth a controlled study on restriction of dietary fat that has shown any impact on CHD."
Sylvan Weinberg, former president of the American College of Cardiology: 'The low-fat "diet heart hypothesis" has been controversial for nearly 100 years.
"The low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, promulgated vigorously by the National Cholesterol Education Programme, National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association since the Lipid Research Clinics-Primary Prevention Program in 1984, and earlier by the US Department of Agriculture food pyramid, may well have played an unintended role in the current epidemics of obesity, lipid abnormalities, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndromes. '
This diet can no longer be defended by appeal to the authority of prestigious medical organisations or by rejecting clinical experience and a growing medical literature suggesting that the much-maligned low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may have a salutary effect on the epidemics in question."