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How Big Food and governments got it wrong on meat
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How Big Food and governments got it wrong on meat
Government agencies like to dictate what we should eat, even trying to promote “Meatless Mondays”, but a growing band of medical and diet researchers are pushing back.
Looking back, the school lunches I gave my kids, I realise now, were pretty crap. There was so much processed food.
Muesli and yoghurt “health food” bars, oat slices, biscuit and cheese dips, cereal rice bars, mini bags of popcorn and sticky “fruit straps” that even then I knew were bad but were a favourite with the kids.
I would also make sandwiches and include real fruit like bananas or grapes for fruit break. But these would come home squashed, while the telltale wrappers for the colourfully packaged snacks were all that was left in the bottom of their bags.
My children would have been better off with just plain ham, cut from a bone, than those supermarket snacks.
But that’s not what the NSW Cancer Council is preaching nowadays, despite decades of research coming out about how real foods like meat are so much better health-wise.
Their suggested lunch box alternatives include plenty of complicated recipes of refined carbohydrate foods like chocolate muffins made with flour, noodle cakes, peach bread and “oaty biscuits” with half a cup of sugar and golden syrup.
Curiously, outgoing NSW Liberal MP Catherine Cusack tweeted complaining about The Daily Telegraph’s coverage of the NSW Cancer Council’s attack on ham sandwiches and meat.
Attaching a picture of our front page, she said: “Very ambitious use of ham sandwiches to distract public attention from interest rate.’’
The interest rate figures hadn’t even been released at that stage. Why shouldn’t a light be shone on how meddling governments and NGO agencies are trying to control what we eat?
The NSW Cancer Council advice prompting the story came from a blog called “Make Monday this month meat free”.
Trading on the goodwill and respect the agency has garnered over decades, it has jumped on the bandwagon of using climate change to demonise meat. “Did you know it can take 30 bathtubs of water to produce just one beef burger?” it claimed.
This old claim by anti-meat activists has been previously debunked — in fact the figures used include rainwater that falls on land grazed by cattle, which would fall regardless.
The bigger scandal is how health advice from governments with their faulty food pyramids and agencies captured by vested interests have contributed to a worldwide obesity crisis over decades.
There’s now a growing body of researchers, journalists, authors, lawyers and medical people pulling together the data and historic research to argue the Western world has got it horribly wrong with all the processed food, laden with sugar and glued together with unhealthy industrial oils.
In fact there’s also a growing body of evidence supporting a thesis that in fact meat is fundamental to the human diet and those turning to a meat-based diet have solved metabolic and immune system diseases.
They include authors like investigative reporter Gary Taubes, the former New York Times journalist who wrote a feature about diet and then ended up doing a series of meticulously researched books questioning the low-fat advice handed out by governments like candy.
He’s made compelling cases against sugar and refined carbohydrates, and traced the troubling history of how political decisions made in the USA in the 1970s and 1960s led to the erroneous food pyramid. Sugar was even used as an additive in cigarettes at one point, it’s so addictive.
The warnings were sounded early. A 1972 book by UK nutritionist John Yudkin called Pure, White and Deadly clearly outlined the dangers, a point later taken up by Australian lawyer David Gillespie in his books.
But the original Yudkin thesis was ridiculed by then influential American nutritionist Ancel Keys. “On the basis of research sponsored by the sugar industry, Keys and others created and enshrined a different dietary bogeyman as the source of heart disease and other chronic ills: not sugar, but saturated fat,” says Taubes. “Yudkin’s book went out of print. Low-fat diets went mainstream. Sugar got a pass.”
Many other researchers have now written about this, and the flaws of government food pyramids, which used to tell people to “eat most” from cereals and bread. Other prominent writers and medical people on the subject include best selling author Cate Shanahan and science journalist Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. A former vegetarian, she says “we’re in a state of tragedy right now” because protein deficient vegan diets are being “seriously entertained as the global reference diet for the entire world”.
Medical authors in this field also include Canadian nephrologist Dr Jason Fung who works to solve diabetes with low carb and fasting, and paediatric endocrinologist Dr Robert Lustig, who says: “Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it.”
“Approximately 80 per cent of the 6,000,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.”
On the issue of eating meat, despite the best efforts of the odious Klaus Schwab controlled World Economic Forum to get us all to eat bugs due to climate change, there’s also a growing band of researchers saying it is vital for our health.
Dr Paul Saladino theorises that plants aren’t as healthy as they seem, as they have evolved thousands of defensive toxic chemicals because, unlike animals, they can’t bite or defend themselves. He says anthropological research shows humans grew bigger brains from eating meat.
Then there’s first person accounts from people like popular US podcast host Joe Rogan and Mikhaila Peterson, daughter of Canadian psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson. She tells a compelling story how she solved an horrific childhood affliction of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis by going carnivore.
At an Oxford University debate this year she stood at the lectern with a split-cut skirt and pointed to her legs — and matter of factly explained how she lost her ankle and hip at age 17 because of the disease, which has now gone into remission after changing her diet.
She’s says she has been on an only meat diet since December 2017. She first went on a paleo diet after researching issues around gluten and gut damage.
“I put my arthritis in remission within a month on a strict paleo diet. It was absurd.”
She also had issues over weaning herself off depression medications, and kept experimenting with her diet, eventually ending up on the meat only diet.
Allowing a free, robust exchange of ideas, research and debate about diet is essential.
Those who want to shut it down and allow bureaucrats and governments behind the scenes to dictate our food choices, are serving up a poisoned chalice for future generations.
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