In response to my post yesterday which suggested blaming government for obesity is an adrogation of personal responsibility, Rodney Hide writes:
I think you are wrong on this one Lindsay.
The government mantra is “calories in, calories out” with massive public programmes to “eat less, move more”. They are abject failures.
The government likewise has had a massive programme for years all around the world to demonise animal fat. It has worked. Animal fat consumption has dropped enormously.
People eat industrially-made margarine instead of butter and sugar laden manufactured cereals instead of bacon and eggs. Our meat is all low fat.
We have got fatter and sicker.
Homeostasis is the rule -- not the exception -- in the animal kingdom.
Fat metabolism is no different. It’s been known for years that fat accumulation is caused by dysregulation.
The culprit appears to be insulin spiked by excessive sugar and carbohydrate, which breaks down to sugar. People are eating more -- and exercising less -- because they are dysregulated. They can’t eat less because they feel they’re starving -- their brain is telling them they are because of the dysregulation.
The problem is this: cut out the fat and the carbohydrate goes up. In fact, the government mantra is “healthy, whole grains” a food we didn’t eat for 99.5 percent of our existence.
The food manufacturers love it. “Fat-free” is manufactured food. Pharmaceutical companies love it. Look where the big expenditure is on drugs.
Tragically, it now appears that poor eating by parents epigentically affects their offspring. Adult onset diabetes has had to be relabeled as type 2 diabetes.
It’s the same as “global warming”. The government has invested and built a bureaucracy around “unhealthy” eating and failed nutrition advice. It’s hard to imagine that bureaucracy admitting it’s wrong.
I have turned the food pyramid upside down. And never been better!
Rodney Hide
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This might be a great post, but the ones Rodney did on Robin Bain/ Joe Karam, Ian Binnie were crap, and unresearched. Without doing the work, Rodney slagged off the name of a much maligned dead man whose life was taken from him, so he could not speak for himself.
And if I am going to stay on topic to make up for the above, Rodney was remiss to not reference alcohol, which in this country plays a huge role (not instead of what Rodney correctly advises - but as well as).
Everything that Rodney says about sugar, applies exactly equally to alcohol. Alcohol converts to sugar inside us and everything that Rodney says takes over from that point.
Rodneys right on.....I've been eating that way for months and have near eliminated my type 2 diabetes.
Best book on this is Gary Taubes excellent "Why we Get fat"....brilliant.
Rodney still misses by far the largest govt contributions to obesity & diabeties:
paying the benefits that let people by all that processed food!
Rodney still misses by far the largest govt contributions to obesity & diabeties:
paying the benefits that let people by all that processed food!
After years of denial and angst over my dietry habits i have thrown caution to the wind.
I have given up the booze and gone back to eating butter, cheese, bread by the bucket full, meat pies and bacon sammies and rediscovered the joy of a full hipped woman.
And before I forget. thankyou Jesus for fossil fuels.
Mark Wahlberg.
Good on you Rodney, I have had a similar experience.
Just goes to show you that if you actually want to be healthy listening to the official government line like all the other sick lemmings isn't going to cut it.
Cheers for the post.
Rodneys right on.....
I've been eating that way for months and have near eliminated my type 2 diabetes.
Thanks :)
This might be a great post, but the ones Rodney did on Robin Bain/ Joe Karam, Ian Binnie were crap, and unresearched. Without doing the work, Rodney slagged off the name of a much maligned dead man whose life was taken from him, so he could not speak for himself.
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