{"id":68652,"date":"2021-09-28T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68652"},"modified":"2021-09-27T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:09:33","slug":"eating-healthy-youre-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/eating-healthy-youre-doing-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"“Eating healthy”? You’re doing it wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joanna Blythman<\/a> pulls some useful tasty tidbits out of a recent Swedish study that contradicts much of what western governments have been pushing as “healthy” eating habits for the last fifty-plus years:<\/p>\n

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The NHS Eatwell Guide<\/em><\/a>, fondly known to its critics as the Eat badly guide, still tells us to choose lower-fat products, such as 1% fat milk, reduced-fat cheese, or low-fat yoghurt. This is based on the inadequately evidenced postwar belief that saturated fat is bad for your heart.<\/p>\n

How embarrassing, then, for government dietetic gurus, that a major study of 4,150 Swedes<\/a>, followed over 16 years, has last week reported that a diet rich in dairy fat may lower, not raise your risk of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n

This Swedish study echoes the findings of a 2018 meta-analysis of 29 previous studies, which also found that consumption of dairy products protects against heart disease and stroke.<\/p>\n

A body of research also suggests that consumption of dairy fat is protective against type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Five a day<\/strong>
\nA slogan invented to shift more fruit and veg, but not one to live your life by<\/p>\n

This catchy slogan, now a central plank of government eating advice, came out of a 1991 meeting of fruit and veg companies<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n

Five a day logos now appear on many ultra-processed foods, from baked beans to ready meals, imbuing them with a questionable aura of health.<\/p>\n

But other than as a marketing tool, any justification for this slogan is thin.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The health case against meat is predicated on cherry-picked evidence from low-quality, unreliable, observational studies that fail to draw a distinction between meat in its unprocessed form and multi-ingredient, chemically altered, ultra-processed meat products, such as hotdogs.<\/p>\n

Association doesn’t mean causation. Confounding factors exist; someone who eats bacon butties daily might also be eating too much sugar, be consuming lots of additive-laden bread, be under stress, or smoke \u2013 the list goes on.<\/p>\n

The International Agency for Research on Cancer’s 2015 claim<\/a> that red meat is “probably carcinogenic” has never been substantiated.<\/p>\n

In fact, a subsequent risk assessment concluded that this is not the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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