mercredi 14 septembre 2011

Cereal Killer - Alan L. Watson

cereal killer - alan l. watson
cereal killer - alan l. watson

Cereal Killer takes on the unproven hypothesis that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol cause coronary heart disease. Instead, Watson identifies the real culprits: Excess carbohydrates and the highly processed vegetable oils that have replaced our traditional, wholesome more saturated animal and tropical fats.

Cereal Killer answers the question, “Has low fat failed the test of time?” Watson describes how food pyramid schemes and sugary cereals are associated with obesity, high blood sugar, and widespread diabetes. Part 2, life in the fat lane, combats decades of fat-bashing by providing a positive analysis of the wholesome nature of saturated fat and foods rich in cholesterol.

Watson says the problem with the American diet has nothing to do with fat, cholesterol or eating too many calories. Instead, the underlying common denominator of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease is the emphasis on carbohydrates in the official Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Since 1980, the official healthy diet has been the high carbohydrate diet. University dietitians and medical authorities advised us to eat 6 to 11 servings of grain each day. The big food companies produced thousands of new “low fat” products. We complied, and today the federal government feeds 31 million school children and overloads millions of low income people on food assistance with cereals, fruit juices, and breakfast pastries.

Today, as a result, Americans are fatter and sicker than ever. Two-thirds are overweight; a third clinically obese. Ten percent of Americans suffer from Type II diabetes. According to the CDC in Atlanta, 1 out of every 3 children born since the year 2000 will become diabetic.

Watson describes how Ancel Keys, University of Minnesota professor and American Heart Association (AHA) board member, showed an association between fat intake and heart disease in his famous Six Country Analysis. But “association” is not cause and effect, and Keys selected data (six of 21 countries) to “prove” his hypothesis – ignoring countries like France and Switzerland that had high fat diets and low rates of heart disease.

In 1961, Keys recognized that he did not have definitive proof that dietary fat caused heart disease, but he and fellow AHA board member Jeremiah Stamler, Professor at Northwestern - who received most of his funding from vegetable oil interests – advised the American Heart Association to adopt a low fat diet “even before the final proof is nailed down.”

Advised to cut fat and dietary cholesterol, Americans had to increase something and that something has been carbohydrates. As a result, especially since 1980, obesity and diabetes have become serious public health issues and heart disease has not gone down as promised. Today, heart failure is the number # Medicare expenditure.

When you replace dietary fat with carbohydrates, your body responds by flooding your blood with insulin. Insulin is the fat storage hormone. Highly responsive to insulin, fat cells readily convert excess carbohydrates to fat. Also, high levels of insulin reduce the responsiveness of muscle cells to insulin, leading to insulin resistance and type II diabetes.

Certain carbohydrates – especially high fructose corn syrup - are converted by the liver into triglycerides - blood fats associated with heart disease. In Watson’s analysis, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are manifestations of a single underlying disorder known as Metabolic Syndrome, which is a result of chronically elevated insulin levels.

Cereal Killer is a rallying cry for revising the federal 2010 Dietary Guidelines in favor of a higher fat, protein-emphasized diet. Cereal Killer contains two sections, ten chapters, two appendices, and a comprehensive one-of-a-kind lipid glossary. In March 2009, The Midwest Book Review said “Cereal Killer is well worth the read for those concerned with the health of a nation…”

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