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1/ Finally getting around to watching the @joerogan podcast with @drjkahn and @chriskresser. I’ll be tweeting occasionally responses into this thread....
2/ at around 13:30: @chriskresser “Back in the 13th century you had Frances Bacon who said for something to be scientific it has to be independently measurable, and falsifiable, and then accurate and valid.”...
3/ “... If you’re sitting there eating an apple. And I’m watching you do that. I can observe you’re eating the apple, I can measure how much is the apple you eat, and I can confirm or refute that you were eating the apple...”
2 yrs ago I suggested to @bigfatsurprise for an overview of systematic reviews on #LCHF @bigfatsurprise said "I will go wherever the science leads"
@MEJLean & his colleagues have done it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
The methodology is sound - meaning the conclusions are robust /1
@MEJLean & his colleagues have done it.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
The methodology is sound - meaning the conclusions are robust /1
TL;DR: high quality meta-analyses reported little or no difference between diets.
"Publication acceptance & citations appear to favour apparently larger effect sizes above methodological quality.”
Mirrors our recent experience in this area:
"Publication acceptance & citations appear to favour apparently larger effect sizes above methodological quality.”
Mirrors our recent experience in this area:
Well done @MEJLean and co. Great use of appropriate & robust methodology to answer a question, that is currently generating a lot of noise.
Showing us noise is outweighing the signal and no diet more superior than another.
Here’s one example where ‘evidence-based’ applies.
Showing us noise is outweighing the signal and no diet more superior than another.
Here’s one example where ‘evidence-based’ applies.
Thread: YES, MEAT IS SAFE & HEALTHY
Besides being a 'pharmakon', meat is also a 'pharmakos' (scapegoat). As the most symbolic of all foods & as a predilected carrier of meaning, it acts as an adsorbent of societal anxieties. Often presented as scientific 'truth'.
Not.
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Besides being a 'pharmakon', meat is also a 'pharmakos' (scapegoat). As the most symbolic of all foods & as a predilected carrier of meaning, it acts as an adsorbent of societal anxieties. Often presented as scientific 'truth'.
Not.
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There is something seriously rotten in contemporary nutrition. The entire chain-of-proof is no longer based on the scientific method but is profoundly corrupted by vested interests and ideological dogma.
Cf. my paper on meat in the post-truth era: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Cf. my paper on meat in the post-truth era: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Except for the Daily Mail-like headlines, it all looks pretty convincing. The meat-is-bad narrative is now supported by official institutions such as the WHO and the AICR. Which seems to end all debate.
But wait a minute...
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But wait a minute...
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NEW THREAD on #LCHF-raud & #KetoDiet.
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The following article I wrote has references to over 1200 studies on nutrition, including Randomized Control Trials. 👉arespectfullife.com/2018/06/25/why…
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The following article I wrote has references to over 1200 studies on nutrition, including Randomized Control Trials. 👉arespectfullife.com/2018/06/25/why…
5 Reasons I Don't Recommend a Keto Diet by Dr. Michelle McMacken @Veg_MD 👉arespectfullife.com/2018/03/23/5-r…
Gary Taubes, author of several books and articles on low carb high fat #LCHF-raud diet (fad), FINALLY concedes that saturated fats are the enemy in this BMJ article: 👉 bmj.com/content/361/bm…
trying again threaded!
1/ Thoughts on the Swiss Re #Food4Thought18 conference led by BMJ it appears the epidemiologists, traditional guidelines supporters and LCHF community all appear to agree that there is no longer any justification to single out Saturated Fat as a bad fat
1/ Thoughts on the Swiss Re #Food4Thought18 conference led by BMJ it appears the epidemiologists, traditional guidelines supporters and LCHF community all appear to agree that there is no longer any justification to single out Saturated Fat as a bad fat
2/ With new pressure to begin reducing sugar from processed foods Food &Beverage industry needs to be very careful in product reformulation .
3/ There are no RCT's to support wholesale replacement of sugar with artificial sugars or Omega 6 seed oils in the human diet. ( as there were not to support the original switch from traditional animal fats in the first place)
Stay tuned. Later today, Sunday, I’ll be live tweeting the prep, cook, and consumption of the ultimate steak... a 3 pound wagyu rib-eye. Lots of tips you can try at home. Here’s a sneak peek. RT to your friends at #worldcarnivoretribe #zerocarb #MeatHeals #ketodiet #steak #LCHF 
Good morning everybody! Let’s get started on the perfect steak. #BEEF It’s what for dinner... and breakfast too!
Step 1: Buy quality fatty meat. Today, we’re cooking up a wagyu rib-eye from Austin’s own @RangerCattle. Whatever you buy, your best bet is almost always the rib eye. That’s the tastiest cut. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rib_eye_s…
Chanced upon an interesting study from Sweden today. Sweden had some of the highest CVD mortality in the 1970s, so programs were put in place to decrease cholesterol. They were successful at getting reductions in serum cholesterol by decreasing SFA primarily in the 80s and 90s. 
In 2004, the #LCHF movement got a lot of press and Swedes seemed to be convinced by social media campaigns to abandon their dietary guidelines and decrease carbohydrates and increase fats. You can see that they did exactly that from the graphs. What happened?
Cholesterol levels went up, in spite of a near doubling of the use of statin drugs. In addition, BMI continued an inexorable rise, no changes were seen in the trends for obesity and no reduction in cancer rates was seen. In fact, cancer continued a steady rise. 
Today we take a look at the Malmo Diet and Cancer Study published in 2007. This study was primarily to study cancer risk factors and looked at 28k people in Malmo, Sweden. They were followed for 5 years and food info was from 7 day diet entries.
The study did not record trans fat as a separate category, so most of the trans fats were counted as MUFA or PUFA. This is a pretty profound confounder and makes the study almost uninterpretable. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.109…
Another arm of the study actually looked at cancer death. 5-7 years is not a long study to examine cancer, but there was a statistically positive relationship between total dietary fat and cancer mortality in women.
Hardly good news for #LCHF promoters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.…
Hardly good news for #LCHF promoters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.…
