“Today I’m going to show you a healthy dish of pasta and a wonderful, low fat sauce…” It sets my teeth on edge. It would be much healthier for people to spoon up real Alfredo (cream and Parmesan) sauce by the quart, and forgo the pasta.

But, “everyone knows” that saturated fat is bad for you. So much so, that whenever I have had the poor judgement to actually say anything to the contrary in polite company, most people have looked at me as though I had just said something about how they should all be wearing foil hats to prevent government mind control.

But, here, I feel safe in saying that, while there is no electronic mind control going on, at least not directly, the public has been bamboozled for long enough that the effect is the same. The majority of people believe the exact opposite of the truth, regarding health and diet, even to the point of getting up on their high-horses on the issue of soy vs. meat. (which is another topic, I suppose, but just as valid)

For now, though, let me conclude by saying that most of the people who advocate large amounts of grains and little protein and fat are sadly misinformed sheep. As is much of humanity, on a good deal of subjects, unfortunately. However, the people who inform them regarding diet are the very people who stand to profit from such lies, and these people should be taken out and shot. They are indirectly murdering thousands of people every day, and, trust me, most of them know better. It’s an undisclosed and largely ignored epidemic, caused by the almighty dollar, and kills many more than tobacco and alcohol combined.

Cornelius

P.S.

Yeah, I know to many of you who “know” that saturated fat is bad for you, and grains are good, I sound like a paranoid alarmist who is about to start spouting off about Area 51, black helicopters, Bigfoot, and the like. Well, fine. Some people can’t be saved, even from themselves.

But to those of you who actually think, and know how, do the research. Really take a look at the information. It is readily available. The Weston A. Price Foundation website will get you started, and provides links to studies that not only support my viewpoint, but yours as well. I really don’t care if 98% of the people who read my posts think of me as a fool, if the other 2% can be rescued.

I started to read Mary Enig back on 2003 and learnt about Trans Fats long before they were mainstream. At the time I thought, maybe the next thing will be that eating red meat is good for you. I have always loved steaks, lamb, good pork and chicken and eggs and can’t remember when I last – if ever – bought a tub of margarine. I adore butter and regard it is a health food, as I do whole milk. Cream I find I can have too much of very easily.
The only other fat I use is good olive oil. I am 53 and now the healthiest I have ever been. My BM1 is 21.6 and I feel great despite having been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1998. I never get colds or flu and run one kilometre every morning. We grow many of our own vegetables and eat only good quality local meat and virtually no processed food. It’s actually cheaper too than a diet of ready meals.

I feel sad when I go to the local supermarket and see the piles and piles of gunk in plastic tubs being touted as ‘healthy options’. Do people realize that stuff would naturally be grey and stink to heaven? And I feel intensely angry when I read the ‘advice’ from Health ‘authorities’ like the NHS telling us to eat, and I quote, ”more pasta, less sauce”. There is little mention of trans fats and none of the benefits of fresh whole food as against processed.
Of course refined carbs and sugars – and bad processed fats – are the real culprits in heart disease, cancers, obesity and many other ‘Western’ problems. The French Paradox is not a paradox, just common sense. Why does no-one do some research into goose fat? I am convinced it is the healthiest of all natural fats.

The selling out of the medical establishment to the food industry is a national scandal.

Thanks for this article Tim,

Best,

Andrew