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Old Mon, Jan-29-18, 14:34
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From a recent visit to a local chemo infusion room...both Boost and Ensure were in the kitchen in a variety of flavors...to have along with cookie packets.
As Dr. Eades puts it: Jesus wept.

And yeah, I can remember a doctor ordering cans of Ensure for my dad (A T2 diabetic) when he was hospitalized at one point. Nasty stuff.
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Old Mon, Jan-29-18, 16:42
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Funny how these nutrition shakes that are supposed to help people avoid unwanted weight loss are indistinguishable from the shakes that are supposed to help people to lose weight.
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Old Mon, Jan-29-18, 17:11
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And yeah, I can remember a doctor ordering cans of Ensure for my dad (A T2 diabetic) when he was hospitalized at one point. Nasty stuff.


I just looked up the ingredients for Ensure & Boost. Besides the sugar, both have a lot of milk. Between those 2 ingredients, I'd be in pretty bad shape. I can't trust my husband to look out for my diet if I'm ever hospitalized (not out of malice - he just has a hard time understanding it), so I think I'd better put everything in writing.
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Old Mon, Jan-29-18, 18:36
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Since I have not been in charge of my granddaughter's diet and I knew my input would not be appreciated, I didn't offer my nutritional advice except for one thing. I said to her stepmother to make sure they do not give her Ensure. She agreed with that. I suspect my granddaughter would probably refuse to drink that junk.

If I ever end up in the hospital I am going to have my son and daughter-in-law provide me with food. I have already told my doctor that I can't eat hospital food if the time ever comes when I find myself there. My doctor said that the best thing for me to do was to have someone bring me food I can eat. I am not only low carb. I have multiple food sensitivities. I person is suppose to go to a hospital to get healthier not to get sicker but sadly we know that what people get fed in hospitals can be toxic.

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Old Tue, Jan-30-18, 03:39
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Funny how these nutrition shakes that are supposed to help people avoid unwanted weight loss are indistinguishable from the shakes that are supposed to help people to lose weight.


Funny - strange.

DH and I tried to get his mother off the sugary drinks and onto soups and low carb smoothies after her oral cancer surgery. But "doctor said" and she relapsed after two tortuous years that were supposed to get her better.

I don't know if diet would have helped her, but we couldn't even try, because as it was we looked like fringey crackpots.

Doctor said!
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Old Tue, Jan-30-18, 13:36
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I am appalled regarding the meals served in hospitals having experienced this "food" several years ago. Breakfast is nothing but sugar, and is all processed crap like cinnamon-sweetened instant oatmeal, orange juice, watery (probably decaf) coffee with skim milk and your choice of sugar or AS for the coffee, with a blueberry muffin (fruit, must be healthy) thrown in for filler. Lunch and dinner are replete with starches and desserts. Veggies are likely harvested and put in cans 10 years prior to serving. No protein to speak of and the kitchen staff probably thinks bacon, eggs, and other meats are horrendously unhealthy.

It occurred to me that this is a nice vertical in that feeding people food that causes or extends their health problems keeps the customers coming back.


GRB5111, You are so correct about the hospital food. coming from a guy that had a heart transplant and spent about 2 years in a hospital (not all at one time), the food is down right not healthy. The breakfast is watery fake eggs, cereal, muffin, oat meal, sweet juices and so on. Lunch was offered with a soda, cookies, sandwich, rice and so one. Dinner was not better.

You could have even eaten burgers and fries for lunch and dinner if you wanted.

Now where I was you could choose and eat low carb, and fast but if that happen they would chart you like you where crazy. Everything goes in your chart. How you act, feel, look, eating habits, potty habits, mood and more.

It occurred to me that this is a nice vertical in that feeding people food that causes or extends their health problems keeps the customers coming back
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Old Fri, Feb-16-18, 09:23
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...80215141755.htm

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Researchers challenge claims that sugar industry shifted blame to fat
Did research funded by the sugar industry unfairly tilt science and policy away from the health risks of sugar in the 1960s? Not so, write historians

In recent years, high-profile claims in the academic literature and popular press have alleged that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and emphasize instead the dangers of dietary fat. In a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York challenge those claims through a careful examination of the evidence.

The article focuses on the interpretation of documents unearthed in historical archives about sugar industry funding of Harvard nutrition scientists in the 1960s, which some experts have identified as "smoking gun" evidence that the sugar industry successfully meddled in science and "derailed" the course of dietary policy. The claims have come amid a shift in focus in nutrition from fat to sugar, with warnings about the artery-clogging risks of butter and beef taking a backseat to new efforts to tax sugar-sweetened beverages-even as debates continue over the science of obesity prevention.

Co-authors David Merritt Johns and Gerald M. Oppenheimer make use of archival research and oral history to argue that there is lack of evidence that this "sugar conspiracy" actually occurred. "There was no 'smoking gun.' There was no 'sugar conspiracy'-at least not one which we have identified," write the authors.

Emphasizing that they do not defend the sugar industry and that their work does not undercut other efforts to expose the tactics of "merchants of doubt," the authors argue that other scholars who have looked at the matters in question misinterpreted the sequence of events. In the mid-1960s, Harvard nutrition scientists, led by D. Mark Hegsted, had just completed a study showing that consuming saturated fat from foods such as butter raised cholesterol levels-to the dismay of the dairy industry, which had funded the research. The study also looked at sugar, which showed little effect. The sugar industry later learned of the findings and gave the Harvard scientists money to review the literature and elaborate upon their theories.

Johns and Oppenheimer note that Harvard's work on dietary fat built upon the dominant nutritional paradigm of the era, in which sugar played almost no role. The American Heart Association and the U.S. government embraced the low-fat concept, which was based on cutting-edge metabolic and epidemiologic research, including the pioneering Framingham Heart Study. Claims that sugar caused heart disease had much less empirical and expert support.

The authors also emphasize that research collaborations with the food industry were ubiquitous in the 1950s and 1960s-as they are today. Both supporters of the dietary fat hypothesis and proponents of the sugar theory received funding from food companies seeking to defend their interests. Although the Harvard authors did not reveal that they had been supported by the sugar industry, such financial disclosures were not then required. The authors also note that the National Dairy Council funded key studies underpinning the dietary fat theory, raising questions about the overall impact of the sugar industry.

"We think it is an error to demonize, almost as a reflex, scientists and their research when there is evidence of private funding," the authors write. "Our analysis illustrates how conspiratorial narratives in science can distort the past in the service of contemporary causes and obscure genuine uncertainty that surrounds aspects of research, impairing efforts to formulate good evidence-informed policies."


There are two questions, does industry distort science, and is this unethical?

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...completed a study showing that consuming saturated fat from foods such as butter raised cholesterol levels-to the dismay of the dairy industry, which had funded the research. The study also looked at sugar, which showed little effect.The sugar industry later learned of the findings and gave the Harvard scientists money to review the literature and elaborate upon their theories.


I recently looked at a study by the Almond Board of California, effects of eating almonds on blood lipids, a metastudy. They found eighteen studies that qualified under their defined parameters for inclusion. A massive number of studies making it through. Maybe two or three were legitimate inquiries into the effects of almonds. After that? We more or less knew the effect of almonds, and that it was repeatable. So what were the next 15 studies, and the meta-study for? You can lie with the truth. Or with what you think is the truth. Constant repetition in the news of the health benefits of almonds, which can be generated by keeping the studies well-funded, inflates the healthfulness of almonds in the public minds. Repeatability is important, but repeatability times 18 is failure to ask new questions.

The idea that there was really no substantive sugar hypothesis for disease going around... what was the motive for the sugar industry providing funding for alternative theories, then?
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Old Fri, Feb-16-18, 12:46
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I agree, reminds me of a line: ". . . thou dost protest too much."

The question in all this, as I no longer care whether there was a conspiracy or not, is how much rigor was applied to these studies to enable the conclusion to be any more than a rough correlation? In a dietary study, how does one isolate sugar or fat to determine either one is a root cause for specific health problems? It can be done, but it would be a very complex study requiring long-term cooperation of the subjects. Not easy to do. In addition, there likely would be an array of confounders that render a factual result impossible to attain.
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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 04:49
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A new interview in Reason, the book was released in paperback end Dec.
I like the interviewer notes that Gary was widely attacked after his 2002 NYT Bug, Fat Lie article, including in Reason. Both video and transcript.

Gary Taubes on How Big Government Made Us Fat
The attack on fatty foods, in favor of carbohydrates, contributed to rising rates of obesity and diabetes.

https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/03...-foods-obesity?

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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 08:35
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Thank you, Janet. Excellent interview with Taubes. It's easy to see in retrospect how the concept of healthy eating has become so distorted and false:

Interesting comments:
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"Government interference worries me . . . . the whole story is about government interference gone awry."

When the government decides to jump in it becomes a free-for-all where businesses will study what the government is recommending and respond. Food manufacturers and Big Pharma are extremely good at understanding and identifying the viable market based on government pronouncements and responding in kind with products supporting the government position. This enables them to get cover from the government in helping to promote their products and protect their business interests. The result is a very powerful symbiotic relationship that when established is almost impossible to argue successfully against or change.

I think of the standards of care that are now part of the treatment protocol for physicians who are bound by insurers and the government to follow regardless of whether they are fact-based or improve health to any degree. This is the dynamic that requires us all to become extremely well informed in order to preserve health and resist recommendations based on faulty and weak science. Today, this dynamic and the requirement to stay informed applies to every facet of our lives.
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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 11:08
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I think of the standards of care that are now part of the treatment protocol for physicians who are bound by insurers and the government to follow regardless of whether they are fact-based or improve health to any degree. This is the dynamic that requires us all to become extremely well informed in order to preserve health and resist recommendations based on faulty and weak science. Today, this dynamic and the requirement to stay informed applies to every facet of our lives.


It is a disheartening to understand that by following the doctor's orders you are often endangering your health except of course for those times when the doctor's orders are precisely what needs to be done. The best thing I did for myself was take the reins of my health care and figure things out for myself, not involving my doctor at all in the process. Not everyone is able to do this, for a variety of reason I suspect. Yet I am grateful for the treatment and care my granddaughter got. It was kind, compassionate and scientifically sound. In the future cancer care may not have to involve such brutal treatments but at least she is OK, for now and for a long time I hope. Negotiating the world of medicine can be a tricky thing.

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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 11:26
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Negotiating the world of medicine can be a tricky thing.

Very tricky and one that requires constant tracking and awareness. The onus for this is on us, as you have demonstrated.

So happy to hear the positive feedback regarding your granddaughter.
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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 12:02
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Fine interview.

But I'm bothered by the fact that throughout the interview, over Gary's shoulder, one sees a large collection of what appear to be medicine bottles or supplement bottles of some sort. It seems like the interview probably took place in Gary's kitchen and, in my opinion, all those medicine bottles basically send a subliminal message that, in order for Gary to be as healthy as he appears to be, he is taking a huge number of supplements and/or medicines.

I just wish Gary had taken 5 seconds to look behind himself and notice what else the camera focused on him was going to be broadcasting...and then just cleared off the counter-top behind himself before they began filming.
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Old Sun, Mar-18-18, 15:01
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Gary Taubes is more than an advocate for low carb diets. He is an advocate for careful science. The state of nutritional science is appalling (Richard Feinman called the term "nutritional science" an oxymoron). There is no reason to trust the so-called "experts". The level of nutritional ignorance coming from those who are supposed to know best is horrifying. Gary Taubes is a breath of fresh air in the miasma of ignorance that envelops most of the "scientific" nutritional world.

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