Oh and modern nutritional science is not confused about what is a healthy diet at all. Reductionist science has tried to boil it down to individual nutrients etc. but the consensus is definitely the more fruits and vegetables the better.
I agree with you that the current government dietary guidelines don't go far enough. They recommend 70g fat for example for an average women or 32% calories from fat, far far too high.
But fat intake in people's diet has been growing every year for the past 50yrs so regardless of these guidelines our fat intake has continued to rise.
I agree that processed foods can help cause obesity because they are so calorifically dense but heart disease is on the rise year after year...
I don't really care what our ancestors were or weren't doing. They were trying to survive day to day we are trying to live long happy lives and we have modern science to help up determine what nutrition is best for us now.
Sorry why are they silly? He explains the results of real scientific studies often double blind controlled studies. Why is that silly?
Have you actually watched any of them?
I think you just love meat and you have fitted the evidence to suit that preference.
Ok i take your point, i did come out all guns blazing and i apologise for that. I care, i really do, and it isn't that i haven't got my own experiences but as a T1 it just seems to me that T2s have so much more control and power over their destiny and i don't want people to waste that, that's all.
Ok i realise that i am not popular and haven't been all that constructive but i still don't think the definition of what people says is "working" is really all that great. T2 diabetes is a choice, it is not your fate it is in your hands and all i want to do is let people see that there is an...