Yes, I said that! I also say that some
dietitians are moving away from the position of the Academy of
Nutrition and Dietetics to counsel patients more reasonably and work
to teach diabetes nutrition. Gary Watson writes a long blog about
Tim Noakes and Bullshit and it is
worth the time to read.
No doubt the trolls and self-appointed
nutritional experts will be stuck in to me and no doubt Tim Noakes
will continue to cop dissension too. I must admit I am very pleased
to see that the cookbook, Real Meal Revolution is completely sold-out
in every major city. Much to the horror of many a registered
dietitian no doubt, but the onus is on them to produce the evidence
in support of their often outlandish claims that low-carb eating is
“risky and dangerous” and “without any scientific basis”.
Low-carb eating works for me and that’s
all I know. I could never know if it would work for you or if it will
be bad for you. But at least I’ll tell you I don’t know.
Nutritional theory is a mine-field, but the more I research it, the
more I agree with Gary Taubes. It is really just a system of
personal beliefs and untested hypotheses, given a veneer of
scientific respectability, when in actual fact it’s more like a
religion – replete with irrational fanatics, money-making frauds
and devout lemming-like followers. But each to their own I suppose,
the thing that really gets my goat is this simple perpetuation of a
culture in which bullsh*t trumps evidence and science loses.
Well said Gary Watson!
And so begun my journey into a land of
bullsh*t and fantasy that is ‘established’ human nutrition
theory. I can confidently say I do not know of any field of human
endeavor in which so much bullsh*t, unsubstantiated hypotheses and
complete nonsense has been presented and accepted as science and as
conventional wisdom. Pick any subject from saturated fat, to
fish-oil supplements, antioxidants supplementation, to the benefits
of fibre in lowering cancer and you get – drum roll – nothing!
Nothing but really bad science, wishful thinking and the willful
misrepresentation by an industry that pretends it knows what it is
doing.
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