New directions, nya vindar, uusia tuulia
It’s time to take your health in your own hands. Below are listed three articles from the Swedish magazine for physicians, Läkartidningen. A lively discussion has been taking place in Sweden (in all media) about our nutrition recommendations (global now, it seems), and it seems to have boiled down to these facts:
* ILSI (International Life Sciences Institute) is a lobby organisation for the food and drug industry, that is working towards making us all nutrition recommendations, not to benefit our health but to give as huge as possible profits to the industry
* this, and other similar, organisations pay for their own scientific research, which is not independent
* many of our national experts may be paid by ILSI
* it’s quite normal to write abstracts where you emphasize certain findings, when the actual text shows quite something else
* it’s quite normal to refer to research that will not confirm what you say it confirms
* it’s quite normal to neglect research that shows the opposite from what you want to show
* if someone makes unorthodox findings in their research, they are told to not mention it in the abstract
It you are fluent in Swedish, read the following articles.
http://www.lakartidningen.se/engine.php?articleId=10234
http://www.lakartidningen.se/engine.php?articleId=9961
http://www.lakartidningen.se/engine.php?articleId=10235
In Finland, you are ridiculed if you try to talk outside the official line of recommendations. Some doctors have tried to do that. There are discussion forums with tens of thousands of members, who doubt the current recommendations are correct for them.
Finnish TV Yle showed a short documentary from the North Carelia Project 1972 – 1995. I remembered it was not only about North Carelia or fats. Several series around health were shown on Finnish TV in the 1970′s and health videos were made for schools in the 1980′s. The original program instructed people to
* stop or reduce smoking
* eat vegetables and fruit (a comment from a North Carelian man: man has no front stomach for breaking down hay, that’s why man was not meant to eat vegetables)
* reduce sugar
* reduce total fat and change animal fat to MUFA’s, the more the better
* exercise more.
Now at which point did they forget everything else to concentrate on the vegetable fat? Why did they approve of sugar and starch?
The original plate model was
* 50 % vegetables
* 25 % meat or fish
* 25 % starch (potato, rice or pasta)
In the 1970′s sugar was totally banned, not only by doctors but also and especially by dentists. What happened to that ban?
IF you think for yourself, you will find out that taking care of your own health using food and exercise, will save you and your community a lot of money in health care costs, and make your life more enjoyable. I wonder why the doctors and politicians haven’t noticed this. Maybe they are too much surrounded by the industry’s lobbyists and don’t feel they have the time to spend on reading the whole research reports.
After all, it’s your life. Do you want to take hold of it?
http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/
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