27: The Experts Are Wrong

Calories Gary Taubes - Good Calories Bad Calories the evidence simply didn't support the fat-cholesterol hypothesis virtually every study comparing diet, cholesterol, and heart disease within a single population failed to support the hypothesis Keys's Seven Countries Study was a landmark success for the hypothesis but it was fatally flawed: he chose the 7 countries which he knew would have supporting data by '77, though no new evidence showed that dietary fat causes heart disease, the idea gained acceptance in the public anti-fat, anti-meat movement; spawned out of counter-culture 60s and concerns about famine in 3rd world (raising meat uses a lot of grain, which could feed more people than the meat could) January 14, 1977—the day when Keys's hypothesis decisively won Senator George McGovern announced the publication of Dietary Goals for the United States recommended caloric proportions of 55-60% carb, 30% fat (no more than a third of that saturated) first time any government institution had taken a stance on dietary fat—turned it from a scientific into a political issue led other government bodies to join in: USDA, NAS McGovern's committee was up for renewal and fighting for its life staff were total non-experts who read the stories in newspapers and thought the answer was simple these diseases are: cavities (first symptom), obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke, cancers, periodontal disease, appendicitis, peptic ulcers, diverticulitis, gallstones, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, constipation, and more when one disease appears in a population, they all eventually appear indicates a common cause mainstream explanation of obesity epidemic: prosperity leads to overeating and higher-fat diets, and less physically demanding work a few major problems with this explanation: the increase in calories since the 70s has been primarily from carbs; fat intake has fallen the exercise mania started in the 70s obesity is most prevalent among the poor and hard-working (commonly co-existing with childhood malnutrition) case study: the Pima Indians hit very hard by diseases of civilization (obesity, diabetes) after taking up western foods (beans, sugar, flour, soft drinks) low-fat diet: only 24% of calories from fat very high soft drink consumption very physically demanding labor Keynes vs Austrian School Keynes is favored by Washington, therefore, gets more attention Global Warming Endless hoaxes 97% consensus kendall zimmerman and peter dorn University of Illinois 77 of 79 of the climate scientists that were surveyed said that climate change was casued by humans another 2013 survey john cook blogger, 91-2001 abstracts were analyzed to judge David Legates - a real climate scientist looked at the same data as the blogger and founf less than 1% of the 40,000 abstracts mentioned mentioned climate change caused by humans 97% 1.0 percent of abstracts Ice caps melting They are not they are growing every year to the tune of tens of billions of tons During the mid 2000's the growth slowed by about 20%, they are still growing however Climate predictions Government's aren't going to fix this anyways Gender is a social Construct history Out of Africa May be australia Age of Ancient civilizations Garham Handcock and Randall Carlson

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