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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (18524)	7/26/2010 12:06:41 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42652

This morning I happened upon a clip in my files about Dr. Weil, long the darling of the vegetarian set and other "enlightened cohorts". It's a couple of years old. Yes, there's movement on this and I appreciate that but it has been 5 decades since we got off onto the wrong track and the 2010 nutrition recommendations still lump saturated fats in with trans-fats and warn against all fats. At the rate things move, I'll be dead before the USDA pyramid gets revised. My insulin-shooting diabetic cousin will be dead soon, joining her sister, who died in her fifties. From Dr. Weil as interviewed on Larry King: "WEIL: I'm here to talk about Gary Taubes' book, which I read in its entirety and very carefully. BEHAR: Really? WEIL: I think this is a very important book. I have been recommending it to my medical colleagues and students. He raises big questions and I think there are some very big ideas in this book. One of them is that there is absolutely no scientific evidence for the belief that fat is the driver of obesity. Secondly, the idea that it's carbohydrate which is central to this process and that obesity is mostly a hormonal disorder, genetically influenced, in which insulin is a central player; that overeating and under activity are not causes of obesity, but symptoms of that underlying disorder. That is, it's not that people eat too much and don't exercise because of some defect of will or some behavioral problem, it's that this is behavior that is controlled by a hormonal disturbance. BEHAR: Really? WEIL: And -- really. And I think he's done a meticulous job of showing that many of the assumptions that are held by the conventional medical community simply rest on nothing."