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Sugar kills

Posted on December 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Sugar kills

Don’t believe it? Big Sugar (far more insidious than the left’s favorite whipping post Big Oil) has done its best to hide that simple truth for decades.

At one time the ‘crats of the Agriculture Department went so far as to second the industry’s astounding claim that eating candy could help you lose weight. Even the feds couldn’t stomach that lie for long and it quietly disappeared with the next iteration of the food pyramid.

I struggle to avoid sugar. The stuff is every bit as addictive as tobacco and, for the unfortunate few, alcohol. But I keep being mindful of every cookie or spoonful of ice cream and long ago forswore sugar sodas altogether. Now they no longer even taste good to me.

Because for someone my age (68) the road to obesity and diabetes, probable amputation and definite death much sooner than I’d prefer, is paved with sugar. Fortunately others will soon be getting the message and those with will power can begin their struggle as well. We can’t count on the feds to help. The ‘crats and the pols were bought off by Big Sugar long ago.

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Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It

Posted on March 17, 2011 | Comments Off on Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It

Time was, many moons ago during the Cold Fusion nonsense, when science journalist Gary Taubes and I did not hit it off. He was incensed that I would write a story about a Texas A&M researcher who insisted he had replicated the (now) infamous Utah claims. I found Taubes to be, well, overbearing.

That was then. Now he’s written a terrific book, finally unmasking the diet hoax the government and Big Health and their press-release-rewriting collaborators in the legacy media (looking at you New York Times) have been pushing all these years, resulting in an obesity epidemic (and a growing diabetes one), which they still refuse to own up to.

Taubes, in essence, has given the Atkins Diet the respectability it has always deserved. Instead, it still is repeatedly tarred by the likes of the NYTimes, the American Heart Association, and the American Medical Association.

A restricted (or, better yet, no) starches, grains and sugars diet was well known to help people lose weight and keep it off, without any threat to their health, at least as far back as 1825. Taubes shows it all, and how it was confirmed by subsequent research and endured as the best advice available until it was undermined by Big Health’s low-fat drivel in the 1960s.

So, if you’re struggling to keep your weight (and blood pressure) down, while eating all that high-sugar, high-carb, low-fat junk the processed food industry churns out, do yourself a favor and get Taubes’s book. He wrote another, high-sciencey one, annotated with all the proofs. But unless you’re especially hard to convince (or you work for Big Health), you can skip that one.

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