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In reply to the discussion: RFK Jr. to tell medical schools to teach nutrition or lose federal funding [View all]bucolic_frolic
(55,179 posts)In the 1960s they told us dairy and beef fat cause heart attacks, and to use trans fats - margarine, vegetable shortening - a WWII accommodation with shortages.
In the 1980s they told us too much beef raises the risk of cancer. Nitrites were a risk of colon cancer, and remain so. Cancer patients were advised to cut back on protein and eat pasta.
In the 1990s chemicals and pesticides are bad for us, all sorts of cancers. Seed oils are ok, they lower the risk of heart disease and arteriosclerosis. Soy and its derivatives are advised as protein substitutes.
Now tallow (lard) is back in favor, soy isolates are to be avoided for cancer risk, seed oils are bad, bad, and bad, even if cold pressed without chemicals.
We've gone through diet craze after diet craze with famous doctor's names attached in bold headlines.
Now we have Keto telling us the problem all along was carbs, starch, pasta, potatoes, baked goods, and impure foods. Everything without sugar is great, fish and especially sardines are great, beef fed grass and the milk they produce is perfect. The real cause of heart disease and cancer was not trans/dairy/beef/seed oil fat and impurities, it was carbohydrates - including the pasta they recommended.
Nitrites and nitrates and growth hormones for turkey, beef, pork are still legal but not in Europe.
I am so glad Bob Kennedy has figured it all out for us. Does his recommendation come with a money back guarantee like the previous diets, crazes, experts??