Metabolic Revolution in the US to Vindicate Saturated Fats as Bad for Health
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- There’s a revolution happening in the US that threatens to upend the food industry
- The raison d'etre for the metablic revolution is to fight decades of bad health advice from establishments like the American Heart Association which has been accused of creating a chronic health crisis in America
- In place of guns and bullets, revolutionists are armed with medical knowledge and the internet
US politicians have noted this revolution and are using it to gain points in the upcoming US elections.
Senator Robert Kennedy tweeted a new hashtag #MAHA instead of the usual #MAGA
“With a mass movement behind us, @realDonaldTrump and I will transform our food system. We will get the chemicals out of the water, air, food, and soil. We will drain the corruption out of the agencies that are supposed to protect the public. By 2028, I promise you, we will Make America Healthy Again.”
To inspire the masses to support the #MAHA movement, Robert F Kennedy Jr called it "a spiritual battle, and that's something we all need to understand. The American Revolution started with a very, very small core of activists who were able to articulate these new set of values, and they did something that nobody in the world could believe. A ragtag group of people brought to its knees the greatest empire in history and mankind. We can take our country back from these industries and we can restore not only our democracy and the integrity of it, but most important of all, we can begin restoring our children's health."
Senator Ron Johnson has repeated the #MAHA hashtag as he tweeted about the health crisis in America and Dr. Casey Means work.
“Dr. Casey Means explains that our food is leading to chronic illness. We can’t even ask questions without being ridiculed or vilified.”
Social media influencers like the Food Babe, Vani Hari have stepped up from social media platforms to organizing protests against the US food industry like this petition against Kelloggs.
Meghyn Kelly, the controversial but popular media personality tweeted on her talk show quoting Dr. Casey Means:
"The entire system is set up to hurt us - from the way we shop, to the way we farm, to the way we feed kids in school..."
With the US elections happening in the first week of November 2024, the Metabolic Revolution is pushing the health of Americans as a top priority. The lineup of speakers from medical experts to health advocates like Jess Apple shows what the Metabolic Revolution is demanding.
Their goal is not more pills and drugs to deal with the health crisis in America but to overthrow old establishments like the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the American Heart Association (AHA) which has been giving out bad medical health advice.
The revolutionists have a strong case as bad medical advice promoted by the old establishments is clearly evident in the case of sugar in the American diet. What is worrisome about the bad health advice dished out by the old establishments is not so much that they were ignorant but that they were paid to close their eyes to medical science.
Sugar Industry Paid to Paint Fats Black
Back in 2014, Dr. Barbara H. Roberts called out the American Heart Association for junk science. Her report was updated in 2017 on The Daily Beast with the question:
"Science shows the low-fat diet to be BS, and yet the American Heart Association keeps touting it as the ‘heart healthy’ choice. Why? The quick answer: money, honey.
The dogma that saturated fat causes heart disease is crumbling.
A recent Cambridge University analysis of 76 studies involving more than 650,000 people concluded, “The current evidence does not clearly support guidelines that [recommend]… low consumption of total saturated fats.”
Yet the American Heart Association (AHA), in its most recent dietary guidelines, held fast to the idea that we must all eat low-fat diets for optimal heart health. It’s a stance that—at the very best—is controversial, and at worst is dead wrong. As a practicing cardiologist for more than three decades, I agree with the latter—it’s dead wrong."
Why does the AHA cling to recommendations that fly in the face of scientific evidence?
The answer may be in a 2016 report by Camila Domonoske who wrote that:
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat .
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Unfortunately for the sugar industry, while its funding may have bought less scrupulous scientists in the field of food and health, the opinions of these industry paid scientists at Harvard were exposed.
Revealed: How the sugar industry paid prestigious Harvard researchers to say fat (NOT sugar) caused heart disease
The exposure of Harvard Health has led to a backpedaling of sorts by Harvard against saturated fats with newer reports like:
Saturated fat boosts "bad" LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, both of which are risk factors for heart disease. Palm oil, which is 50% saturated, has a more favorable fatty acid composition than palm kernel oil and coconut oil, which are more than 85% saturated.
The AHA is however holding onto to its outdated position that science has proven that saturated fats can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease.
French Paradox Solved?
The French Paradox is the observation of low coronary heart disease (CHD) death rates despite high intake of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat. The National Library of Medicine explains what it is before confusing the reader with suppositions of " oh it may have been this or that." One may as well fall back on Wikipedia for information on the French Paradox.
All the confusion swirling around what is making Americans sick is what the MR aims to do. Starting with the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Dr. Nina Teicholz, received critical acclaim from medical journals for her best selling book Big Fat Surprise, which upended what we have been told about saturated fats.
In putting together the primer for the Metabolic Revolution, Dr. Teicholz held back no punches in condemning the US Dietary Guidelines.
"So, the Dietary Guidelines, by telling us to eat so many grains and sugars, have very likely increased the risk of chronic disease or possibly even caused the chronic disease epidemics. This idea is supported by the fact that a very large body of rigorous science now shows that type 2 diabetes and obesity, among other diseases, can be reversed (or put into remission) by eating a diet low in carbohydrates."
The rigorous science she refers to has been supported by studies that found:
"The theory of dietary saturated fats as the principal promoter of elevated serum cholesterol and heart disease stems from research beginning in the 1950's by an American scientist Ancel Keys. It was this theory which was embraced by the American Heart Association and the US federal government in the 1960s and 70s. However, at the same time of Keys research, a British physiologist John Yudkin argued that sugar intake was more closely related to incidence of and mortality from CHD."
Will a return to traditional foods low in carbohydrates and sugars but higher in fats reverse the health crisis in the US?
On October 13, 2024, the Metabolic Revolution will hold the country’s first-ever rally for metabolic health in Washington D.C. to advocate for a decisive change in healthcare priorities. The non-partisan rally will take place at Sylvan National Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument from 3:30-4:45 PM. We will demand that:
Sign up with the Metabolic Revolution here to find out more.
Senator Robert Kennedy tweeted a new hashtag #MAHA instead of the usual #MAGA
“With a mass movement behind us, @realDonaldTrump and I will transform our food system. We will get the chemicals out of the water, air, food, and soil. We will drain the corruption out of the agencies that are supposed to protect the public. By 2028, I promise you, we will Make America Healthy Again.”
To inspire the masses to support the #MAHA movement, Robert F Kennedy Jr called it "a spiritual battle, and that's something we all need to understand. The American Revolution started with a very, very small core of activists who were able to articulate these new set of values, and they did something that nobody in the world could believe. A ragtag group of people brought to its knees the greatest empire in history and mankind. We can take our country back from these industries and we can restore not only our democracy and the integrity of it, but most important of all, we can begin restoring our children's health."
Senator Ron Johnson has repeated the #MAHA hashtag as he tweeted about the health crisis in America and Dr. Casey Means work.
“Dr. Casey Means explains that our food is leading to chronic illness. We can’t even ask questions without being ridiculed or vilified.”
Social media influencers like the Food Babe, Vani Hari have stepped up from social media platforms to organizing protests against the US food industry like this petition against Kelloggs.
Meghyn Kelly, the controversial but popular media personality tweeted on her talk show quoting Dr. Casey Means:
"The entire system is set up to hurt us - from the way we shop, to the way we farm, to the way we feed kids in school..."
With the US elections happening in the first week of November 2024, the Metabolic Revolution is pushing the health of Americans as a top priority. The lineup of speakers from medical experts to health advocates like Jess Apple shows what the Metabolic Revolution is demanding.
Their goal is not more pills and drugs to deal with the health crisis in America but to overthrow old establishments like the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the American Heart Association (AHA) which has been giving out bad medical health advice.
The revolutionists have a strong case as bad medical advice promoted by the old establishments is clearly evident in the case of sugar in the American diet. What is worrisome about the bad health advice dished out by the old establishments is not so much that they were ignorant but that they were paid to close their eyes to medical science.
Sugar Industry Paid to Paint Fats Black
Back in 2014, Dr. Barbara H. Roberts called out the American Heart Association for junk science. Her report was updated in 2017 on The Daily Beast with the question:
"Science shows the low-fat diet to be BS, and yet the American Heart Association keeps touting it as the ‘heart healthy’ choice. Why? The quick answer: money, honey.
The dogma that saturated fat causes heart disease is crumbling.
A recent Cambridge University analysis of 76 studies involving more than 650,000 people concluded, “The current evidence does not clearly support guidelines that [recommend]… low consumption of total saturated fats.”
Yet the American Heart Association (AHA), in its most recent dietary guidelines, held fast to the idea that we must all eat low-fat diets for optimal heart health. It’s a stance that—at the very best—is controversial, and at worst is dead wrong. As a practicing cardiologist for more than three decades, I agree with the latter—it’s dead wrong."
Why does the AHA cling to recommendations that fly in the face of scientific evidence?
The answer may be in a 2016 report by Camila Domonoske who wrote that:
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat .
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Unfortunately for the sugar industry, while its funding may have bought less scrupulous scientists in the field of food and health, the opinions of these industry paid scientists at Harvard were exposed.
Revealed: How the sugar industry paid prestigious Harvard researchers to say fat (NOT sugar) caused heart disease
- Newly-unveiled papers reveal sugar industry bribed Harvard scientists
- It was in the 1960s - before conflict of interest had to be reported
- After 'bad press' for sugar, industry chiefs commissioned a new review
- They told Harvard professors to say fat was a worse cause of heart disease
- The finding shaped public views of nutrition for years
The exposure of Harvard Health has led to a backpedaling of sorts by Harvard against saturated fats with newer reports like:
Saturated fat boosts "bad" LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, both of which are risk factors for heart disease. Palm oil, which is 50% saturated, has a more favorable fatty acid composition than palm kernel oil and coconut oil, which are more than 85% saturated.
The AHA is however holding onto to its outdated position that science has proven that saturated fats can raise your “bad” cholesterol and put you at higher risk for heart disease.
French Paradox Solved?
The French Paradox is the observation of low coronary heart disease (CHD) death rates despite high intake of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat. The National Library of Medicine explains what it is before confusing the reader with suppositions of " oh it may have been this or that." One may as well fall back on Wikipedia for information on the French Paradox.
All the confusion swirling around what is making Americans sick is what the MR aims to do. Starting with the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Dr. Nina Teicholz, received critical acclaim from medical journals for her best selling book Big Fat Surprise, which upended what we have been told about saturated fats.
In putting together the primer for the Metabolic Revolution, Dr. Teicholz held back no punches in condemning the US Dietary Guidelines.
"So, the Dietary Guidelines, by telling us to eat so many grains and sugars, have very likely increased the risk of chronic disease or possibly even caused the chronic disease epidemics. This idea is supported by the fact that a very large body of rigorous science now shows that type 2 diabetes and obesity, among other diseases, can be reversed (or put into remission) by eating a diet low in carbohydrates."
The rigorous science she refers to has been supported by studies that found:
"The theory of dietary saturated fats as the principal promoter of elevated serum cholesterol and heart disease stems from research beginning in the 1950's by an American scientist Ancel Keys. It was this theory which was embraced by the American Heart Association and the US federal government in the 1960s and 70s. However, at the same time of Keys research, a British physiologist John Yudkin argued that sugar intake was more closely related to incidence of and mortality from CHD."
Will a return to traditional foods low in carbohydrates and sugars but higher in fats reverse the health crisis in the US?
On October 13, 2024, the Metabolic Revolution will hold the country’s first-ever rally for metabolic health in Washington D.C. to advocate for a decisive change in healthcare priorities. The non-partisan rally will take place at Sylvan National Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument from 3:30-4:45 PM. We will demand that:
- The next President develop policies to address the serious problems of chronic disease including mental disorders.
- The U.S. Dietary Guidelines should heal, not harm, our health.
- The healthcare system be reformed to do more than just provide band-aid solutions for symptoms and instead address the root causes of disease.
Sign up with the Metabolic Revolution here to find out more.
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