Weight gain in the American population 1960-2000

[BrotherIvan]

45. Well said

The reason there's no benefit is that the dietary recommendations are 180 degrees out of phase with human biochemical reality

Eating meat and primarily animal fat is what allowed humans to grow bigger brains. Our large brains take a huge amount of calories, more than can be supplied by an exclusively vegetarian diet. It is how humans evolved to eat differently than other primates. Our digestive tracts are far more similar to dogs than to any herbivore.

http://www.npr.org/2010/08/02/128849908/food-for-thought-meat-based-diet-made-us-smarter

Animal fat from healthy, pastured animals also contains vitamins and EFAs. Even lard, so maligned is full of Vitamin D which is the reason why your D levels might be low even if you get plenty of sun. Animals do the work of conversion for us in many cases. That's why we're considered the top of the food chain. It has even been studied that subjects on an all meat diet do not get deficiencies, such as scurvy, which was a surprise because humans cannot make their own Vitamin C. But those who do not consume any animal products do have problems, such as sometimes Vitamin B12 deficiencies.

You're absolutely right that the recommendations are 180 degrees wrong.