Medics, Nurse Specialists and Dieticians working in the NHS get all het up with cholesterol numbers.
Funny how those in the private clinics and who have books and regimes of their own to market ( and appear successful because of their feasible arguments) have the completely opposite stance. This goes for control of diabetes and hypertension too.
NHS = high carb, low fat diet, ( minimal saturates, and maximum poly unsaturates), with plenty of exercise "to get the weight off"......'cos you're a lazy, greedy lot out there, who haven't got a clue about your medical condition. And keep counting the CALORIES!!!! And we need to keep the pharmacology industry and the food industry sweet because the government needs the money to run the NHS, to eventually put you on the waiting list for bariatric surgery/ heart bypasses/amputations.
Private sector = minimal carb, use of plenty of fats from animals, and some from unrefined vegetable sources, a certain degree of exercising to keep your body supple, and your heart healthy. And don't worry about the silly calorie in: calorie out theory, its based on bunkum which people with a semblance of intelligence, which is the majority of the general public, can understand.
Yet those same people in the private sector, in UK, were probably trained in the NHS, but have had to escape because they were too intelligent, and honest, to continue spouting poorly researched advice.
I remain a great proponent of the Welfare State. It 's just that medicine and food production policies have been degraded into a desperate state of affairs, whereby professionals are not permitted to voice their true opinions, for fear of vilification by big industry or poor journalism, forcing them to keep their heads down, as they, too, have mortgages to pay!
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