Thank you. It's great to have someone "within ranks" saying what many have been saying for decades.
One of the problems in the field is summed here> "Why are certain long-term epidemiology/observation studies (EOS) continued in spite of the persistent publication of pseudoscience from these studies?"
Those type of studies are why they keep flipping on eggs. It's oxidized cholesterol (and saturated fat) which helps along heart disease, not the generic form. In fact, the body makes both if you don't eat enough. [1][2] Are our bodies trying to kill us?
"there is no convincing comparative outcome evidence (as I defined above) that common foodstuffs, e.g., saturated fats like butter, rapidly absorbed carbohydrates like white rice and potatoes, or animal proteins, are especially helpful or harmful."
The body prefers saturated fat as a fuel source. Body fat is mostly saturated. When you burn fat your running on "artery clogging" saturated fat. Secondly it likes glucose. It converts all carbs sources to glucose then glycogen. But when you overload calories (from say, rice), the body trans-saturates it to palmitic acid, a saturated fat. [3]
Hi-GI foods, like rice and potatoes, turn to glycogen quicker. Supposedly high-GI = bad. But I think the better theory is high-GI = bad, given qualifiers x and y.
One of the problems in the field is summed here> "Why are certain long-term epidemiology/observation studies (EOS) continued in spite of the persistent publication of pseudoscience from these studies?"
Those type of studies are why they keep flipping on eggs. It's oxidized cholesterol (and saturated fat) which helps along heart disease, not the generic form. In fact, the body makes both if you don't eat enough. [1][2] Are our bodies trying to kill us?
"there is no convincing comparative outcome evidence (as I defined above) that common foodstuffs, e.g., saturated fats like butter, rapidly absorbed carbohydrates like white rice and potatoes, or animal proteins, are especially helpful or harmful."
The body prefers saturated fat as a fuel source. Body fat is mostly saturated. When you burn fat your running on "artery clogging" saturated fat. Secondly it likes glucose. It converts all carbs sources to glucose then glycogen. But when you overload calories (from say, rice), the body trans-saturates it to palmitic acid, a saturated fat. [3]
Hi-GI foods, like rice and potatoes, turn to glycogen quicker. Supposedly high-GI = bad. But I think the better theory is high-GI = bad, given qualifiers x and y.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogenesis
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmitic_acid