<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:13 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">And just who does the gov. ask? Experts. Mostly medical people, I assume, the most conservative profession existing, and the one most punitive of contrarians, no matter how right they are.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><sup>From <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31193-four-decades-of-the-wrong-dietary-advice-has-paved-the-way-for-the-diabetes-epidemic-time-to-change-course" target="_blank">http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31193-four-decades-of-the-wrong-dietary-advice-has-paved-the-way-for-the-diabetes-epidemic-time-to-change-course</a></sup><br><div><i> Dr. Robert Olson, professor of medicine and chairman of the
Biochemistry Department at St. Louis University and an expert on
nutrition science argued that the recommendations were not supported by
the available science. In Dr. Olson's <a href="http://openheart.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000196.full" target="_blank">words:</a>
</i><blockquote>
<p><i>"I pleaded in my report and will plead again orally here for more
research on the problem before we make announcements to the American
public."</i></p>
</blockquote><i>
</i><p><i> Senator McGovern, speaking for the commission stated <a href="http://openheart.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000196.full" target="_blank">that:</a></i></p><i>
</i><blockquote><i>
</i><p><i>"Senators don't have the luxury the research scientist does of waiting until every last shred of evidence is in."</i></p></blockquote><sup></sup></div><div><sup>I think it's pretty clear now that the low fat recommendation was premature and that the government is responsible for that and the many deaths that it caused.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></sup></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-Dave<br></font></span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Thank you for this. But the gov must have listened to others than Olson. And the AMA must have had a hand in it somewhere, eh? And associations of heart doctors, and...................</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I blame all of them and if you want to blame the gov most, I'll not disagree. Now - why are we not having gov inquiries like this on sugar? They (who?) got rid of high fructose sugars, but all sugars are to blame, no?</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Since we now know that Olson was right, it is curious why the proper research was not done following the commission's report. Did the gov simply not want to fund such? Did the medical community decide that the facts were in? </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">"Mistakes were made." Yeah, apparently by everyone concerned. In addition, I wonder what closed door deals were made. Surely there were some.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w </div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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