ImStillMags wrote:
>
> So.....let's discuss the way the American public has been advertised,
> browbeaten and 'advised' into eating a low fat, high carb, cholesterol
> is scary diet for the past 30 years......and that correlation to the
> obesity epidemic and accompanying health problems.
>
> Real food, meat, veggies, fruits, and little or no grains ....in other
> words a primal or ancestral diet is way better for the human animal
> than the convenience proccessed stuff people eat today.
>
>
> I know there are people on both sides of the fence here, but in MY
> life the primal-paleo-ancestral diet is
> doing amazing things for me weight wise and health wise.
>
> chime in....

The fat-is-bad system works by sympathetic magic. You get salt by
burning poison metal with poison gas, therefore you get fat by eating
fat. All of the other statements start at that point. Fat is calorie
dense - Sure but it also keeps new hunger from coming back longer
calorie for calorie. Bulky veggies make you feel full - Sure but low
carb diets focus on bulky veggies so there's no point to the statement.
Studies show fat is bad - Only if you don't also control for carb intake
and start with the assumption that fat is bad in the first place.

The carb-is-bad system works by setting the clock to 1960 and seeing
who's fat. It's the people who ate starchy diets before almost anyone
heard of the low fat mantra. Then start trying it.

There's also the assumption that eating grain is good. Because no one
who gets symptoms from eating grain is to be believed. The actual
situation of bad-for-some does not equal bad-for-all but it absolutely
does not equal good-for-all which was the statement for very many years.

Low carb does not equal paleo but there is a lot of overlap.