Here’s a guest post by Dr. Jonny Bowden.
I wanted to repost this article, in full, as there are some points in it I really like.
Take special note of:
- How people can gain fat whilst not eating more (due to prescription drugs).
- How people who exercise all day can still be overweight (exercise is not the solution to a bad diet, as one of my friends says, ‘you can’t out train a bad diet’!).
- How the advice given to us by nutritionists for the last 40 years has mostly been wrong and dangerous (because if it really worked, we’d be healthier and thinner, and we’re not).
Over to Dr. Jonny….
Documentary “The Weight Of The Nation”
by Dr. Jonny Bowden, Nutritionist, author on The Natural Health Sherpa
This week, a new documentary about the obesity crisis premieres on HBO. It’s called “Weight of the Nation”. And it’s take-home message is wrong, wrong, wrong.
You’ll be hearing a lot about this documentary, if you haven’t already. And with good reason. It’s the result of an unprecedented collaboration between the three major public-health institutions in America:
1. the nonprofit Institute of Medicine (IOM)
2. the CDC (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention)
3. the NIH (National Institutes of Health)
“Weight of the Nation” is a sincere attempt to confront an epidemic (obesity) that costs the US alone 147 billion (in 2008, up from 78.5 billion in 1998).
“Obesity, and with it, diabetes are the only major health problems that are getting worse in this country, and they’re getting worse rapidly”, said CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, in a July 27 media briefing during the Weight of the Nation Conference. “Beyond the economic costs are the disability, the suffering and the early deaths caused by obesity”, he added.
Yet the documentary—made by sincere and well-meaning people, mind you- draws the wrong conclusion and sends the wrong message. And it’s unlikely to make the slightest bit of difference in the obesity crisis because its focus is on the wrong enemy.
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{George Notes: This audio transcript is taken from the podcast ‘as is’. I have not edited, changed or altered the content in any way. The information presented here is the property of Chris Kresser and I make no claims about the authenticity, validity or effectiveness about the information presented here. Having said that, I found it extremely valuable and interesting, I hope you do to!}
The link to the podcast can be found here: http://chriskresser.com/the-healthy-skeptic-podcast-episode-11
Chris Masterjohn on Cholesterol & Heart Disease (Part 1)
Danny Roddy: This turned out to be a longer show than we anticipated. To make it easier for those of you that are time challenged, the first hour is an extensive review of the theory that cholesterol causes heart disease. If you read Chris Masterjohn’s work regularly and you’re already familiar with his material, you might wish to skip forward to the 60 minute mark where we begin to discuss the role of oxidized LDL in heart disease, living with familial hypercholesterolemia and other advanced topics.
[Music Playing]
Danny Roddy: Hello everyone and welcome to the Healthy Skeptic Podcast. My name is Danny Roddy and with me is Chris Kresser, health detective and creator of thehealthyskeptic.org, a blog challenging mainstream myths about nutrition and health. Chris, how are you doing buddy?
Chris Masterjohn: I am doing great. Yeah. There’s two Chris’s down here.
Chris Kresser: We got Chris MasterJohn on the line too. Chris why don’t you tell us how are you doing first Chris?
Chris Masterjohn: I am doing pretty well Chris. How are you doing?
Chris Kresser: Good. Good. I am eagerly awaiting, the baby at this point is I think like something like 8 weeks left, you should, my wife, looks like she swallowed a basketball in the most flattering complementary possible way. She’s radiant and beautiful and it’s pretty exciting. As the time gets closer and closer it’s, I am just getting more and more excited. We haven’t even had an ultrasound so we have no idea whether it’s going to be boy or a girl or what little being is going to come into the world and change our lives forever pretty soon.
Chris Masterjohn: You are kicking it old school.
Chris Kresser: We are kicking it old school. Evolutionary, it’s the paleo style pregnancy. So, how about you Danny?
Danny Roddy: Honestly, I just got out of school. So I am lacing it up really hard and I am not doing anything. So, nothing with me, I know.
Chris Kresser: You do some tanning on the sidewalk?
Danny Roddy: Always. Always.
Chris Kresser: We are really excited to have Chris Masterjohn here. For those of you who don’t already – for the two or three people out there who don’t know who he is. Chris is the creator and maintainer of cholesterol-and-health.com, which is a website dedicated to stowing the benefits of traditional nutrient dense cholesterol rich foods and to elucidating the many fascinating roles that cholesterol plays within the body. Cholesterol-and-health.com is also home to his excellent blog, The Daily Lipid which is a must read if you’re not already subscribed to it. Chris is a frequent contributor to Wise Traditions which is a quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation which we have talked about of course a lot on the show and he’s a regular speaker at the Annual Wise Traditions Conference and writes his second blog on the Weston A. Price Foundations website called Mother Nature Obeyed. Chris is a doctoral candidate in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut which means he’s very smart. He has authored three peer-reviewed publications including a Hypothesis on the Molecular Mechanism of Vitamin D Toxicity, published in Medical Hypotheses, a letter to the editor published and in the Journal of American College of Cardiology challenging the conclusions of a study claiming to show adverse effects of eating coconut oil which we know as a very healthy food and a letter to the editor published in the American Heart Journal arguing that drugs used to raise HDL cholesterol should not be considered safe until their potential adverse effects on Vitamin E metabolism have been studied. He’s also recently authored human study on effects of Vitamin E on sugar metabolism that’s been accepted for publication in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry as well as a review on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease accepted for publication in nutrition reviews. So, Chris plans on graduating with his doctorate in the summer. Congratulations Chris! It must be exciting.
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{George’s Note: I have not edited this program in any way. I make no claims as to the authorship of this transcript or the information contained within, all information belongs to Body Rx Radio and I make no guarantees about the information you will find here, I have transcribed this for information purposes only. With that in mind, enjoy! I sure did.}
{The original mp3 file can be found on this page Body Rx Radio Archives. Direct mp3 link Body Rx Radio Epidsode #2. iTunes Link.}
Carl: Welcome back to BODYRX. I’m Carl Lanore and I’m here tonight with Dr. Scott Connelly and Vince Andrich. How are you doing guys?
Dr. Connelly: Pretty good.
Vince: Pretty good. Thanks.
Carl: Excellent. Excellent. Once again we’ve got another important show to cover today. Really important for a variety of different reasons because, Dr. Connelly, before I play this clip of how hard it is to get in touch with this company because once again just like the previous show we wanted to have someone from the company on the air with us to defend their product, right? We didn’t want to ambush them obviously. We wanted somebody on the show to defend their product. Explain why this product really jumps out at you.
Dr. Connelly: Well, that‘s another one of the products that if you sort of surf very mainstream online sites that have a great deal of sophisticated content. We’re not talking about surfing sites that have cartoons but things like financial sites, reputable news organizations, etc. Once again you find just an absolute avalanche of different nutrition ads. There’s one that just like the Force Factor when that’s jumped out at me several couple months ago. There’s one that’s been circulating for a long time now on these sort of premiere, high rent online landscape sites that make some pretty provocative claims. Basically, it’s an ad that starts off with loss X amount of belly fat by following this one simple rule.
Carl: I love the way they position it as, they do it very, very folksy. They go, “This simple or this weird little tip” “Oh, maybe it’s like an old wide sale that ended up being true.” They really ponder to like a folksy audience.
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{George’s Note: I have not edited this program in any way. I make no claims as to the authorship of this transcript or the information contained within, all information belongs to Body Rx Radio and I make no guarantees about the information you will find here, I have transcribed this for information purposes only. With that in mind, enjoy! I sure did.}
{The original mp3 file can be found on this page Body Rx Radio Archives. Direct mp3 link Body Rx Radio Epidsode #2. iTunes Link.}
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You’re listening to the BODYRX SHOW with Dr. Scott Connelly.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
Carl: Welcome back to the BODYRX SHOW. My name is Carl Lanoire.
Dr. Connelly: My name is Dr. Scott Connelly.
Carl: We have Vince Andrich on the phone too. How are you doing Vince?
Vince: I’m very good guys. How’s it going?
Carl: Great. Great. And so, Dr. Connelly, you’re especially proud of that clip “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” Tell us why.
Dr. Connelly: Well, I think it sums up the aim of the show and that is to basically tell people they have a lot of ability to exert significant control over a lot of aspects of their life that deal with self-intervention strategies. In order to effectively do that you really need to pay attention to the facts rather than the fantasies associated with marketing and promotional stuff that is in this self-help promotion domain.
Carl: This is where you can come to get the facts. That’s why it’s so important because this radio show is not sponsored by anyone. This radio show is Dr. Connelly’s radio show and it’s a pulpit for him to spread the truth. So you can turn to this radio show in order to get the information you need to make those kinds of decisions, correct?
Dr. Connelly: Correct.
Carl: Okay. So anyway, we’re going to be dropping some bombs today. I need to say this first before we start this show. The company we’re going to be talking about, I called three different times the only phone numbers that they allow to be publicize, they are very, very good at staying an arm’s length from the consumer and as a result, was very difficult for us to reach them. I never found out where their corporate headquarters was. I was only able to talk to people at their call center. And the people at the call center said they were not allowed to tell me where the corporate headquarters was and I explained to them that we would be doing this type of a show and we wanted to afford them an opportunity to come on the air and read but anything that we were talking about, prove their science and so on. They never reached out to us. They had ample time to do so. Perhaps after they hear the show, they’d like to come on and we can do the show again with them. Would you be amenable to that Dr. Connelly?
Dr. Connelly: Absolutely. So, if they should hear this show, we’re welcoming them to come on the show and present their side of the story and we’ll just leave it at that.
Carl: So anyway, where do we start? Vince, would you want to unveil the company that we’re talking about today?
Vince: Sure. The company is Force Factor. I guess it’s the company and the brand as far as we know. I haven’t seen a company behind the brand Force Factor. I think it’s one of the same although I know they have other products now.
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