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> if the Keto people are correct, mainstream nutrition science was a key contributor to American obesity crisis and resulted in countless premature deaths and m
by edanm 8y ago
> if the Keto people are correct, mainstream nutrition science was a key contributor to American obesity crisis and resulted in countless premature deaths and major suffering over the last few decades.
I am kind of under the impression that this is generally accepted, at least partially, by pretty much everyone these days, not just Keto people.
As in, the move to remove fats entirely and replace them with carbs is considered today to have been a bad idea, even if no one quite agrees just how bad or just what a better idea is.
Is that not more-or-less consensus today?
- dragonwriter 8y ago> As in, the move to remove fats entirely and replace them with carbs is considered today to have been a bad idea The move to reduce fats may or may not have been backed by “mainstream nutrition science”, but replacing them with carbs never was.
- edanm 8y agoI'm not sure if replace is correct or not. But eating carbs was certainly emphasized, eg search Google for food pyramids from the 1970s, their "eat most"categories are usually vegetables and carbs.
- dragonwriter 8y agoBut were those food pyramids ever grounded in science? There's a difference between “the science was wrong” and “government recommendations served an interest group without being well grounded in science.”
- edanm 8y agoOh, if that's your point, then you may very well be right. (I thought you meant it wasn't the recommendation). I think that the recommendations either were based on science, or at least weren't really disputed until about 10-15 years ago. Then again, what I think I know about this mostly comes from hearing people talk about the issue, e.g. in interviews, forums, etc. But I haven't really read any of the source material on this (either modern-day or older) so I really have no idea if it's at all true.