I watched Recipe Rehab this morning and they are still touting the myth that fat makes you fat and is unhealthy. Granted, the show employs a nutritionist who is still teaching what s/he learned when coming up through the ranks in health medicine and is still teaching the chosen members of the Recipe Rehab weekly members to have their recipes rehabbed to be scored by the nutritionist and the chosen family to give up their old unhealthy recipe and try rehabbed recipes by chef Richard and chef Vikki. Some of the rehabbed recipes look and seem quite tasty. The only problem is that the nutritionist still marks down the recipes when there is too much fat -- because fat will make you fat.
Unfortunately, fat does not make you fat, but the potatoes and wheat will continue to make you fat. Go to Recipe Rehab's website and you will see that they (along with the current nutritionists' advice and the FDA food pyramid) cite that exchanging the white bread for the fuller flavor of whole wheat bread. That is still the old thinking that people must have bread, and whole wheat bread is better for you than the old-fashioned white bread that once was the epitome of wealth and taste. It took a few hundred years to change that myth -- white bread is better for you than whole wheat bread. How long will it take for physicians and nutritionists to get the message that dropping wheat, and all cereal grains, from the FDA pyramid.
A recent commercial asking if you want to put your fat food choices behind you and get rid of the fat -- by following their diet plan. The problem is as I have said for quite some time the problem isn't your fat food choices, but the bread (whole wheat or white bread) is the problem. Since vendors who have been making multimillions by pushing their wheat products and inserted them into every meal from breakfast to lunch and dinner and making people fat. Not the fat they have eaten or their choices of fat-dripping chicken thighs and hamburgers or hot dogs, but the bread the thighs, hamburgers, and hot dogs are wrapped in or around and stuffed with like Thanksgiving turkeys. That myth has been disproven by the millions who follow the ketogenic lifestyle and Dr. William Davis's Wheat Belly diet by getting the wheat out of their meals and menus.
Ketogenesis (the creation of use of fat) demonstrates from the millions of weight loss winners in videos throughout YouTube videos and the studies from those who follow Dr. William Davis's Wheat Belly books and dietary advice. It is rather like Dr. Adkins when he used his medical knowledge to guide people into the Adkins lifestyle and diet. As someone who once lost weight quickly, but not definitively because I went back to eating the way I had been trained and taught and the weight returned with a vengeance. That was back before the days of the Internet and YouTube and my much weaker will. I didn't need to have a strong will to keep following the diet, but I didn't drop the wheat or the cereal grains until about a year ago. That is when I also found Dr. William Davis's books about the wheat belly diet and the facts about the bread that I thought was as necessary as the advice about making my own bread and I didn't have to wait a long time or follow a method that meant taking hours waiting for the bread to rise.
I have learned a lot since then, but I had to take time to decide if I was going to give up baking my own wheat bread. It took a week, but I decided I wanted to be healthy and lose weight so I gave up the bread (baking and using or eating) without a second glance. It took a while to give up oats because I love oatmeal cake (especially Beanie's recipe from my Grandma May). That was hard, but losing weight was more important. I should have learned 40 years ago, but even with the Adkins diet, I didn't know about the ketogenic lifestyle or how quick the weight would fall off -- or rather melt off. I am firmly on the ketogenic lifestyle plan, except for the Meals on Wheels delivery which relies heavily on whole wheat bread and pasta. So much for the veggie meal. I prefer the days when the entree consists of vegan burgers and/or sausage patties. The only off-putting part is that the vegan burgers include corn and for the nutritionists that put together the healthy MOW meals (veggie or regular) and that means they have not yet found out that rice, wheat, corn, and oats are cereal grains that are the source of almost all of our health ills, including cancer and arthritis, not to mention psoriasis, obesity, and diabetes.
The myth about fat being hard on your heart and making you fat is dying hard even with the scientific evidence that rules out statins and blood pressure lowering medicine, not to mention the myths about diabetes and obesity. It is much like the movie I watched earlier today Old Dracula where David Niven, Count Valdimir aka Count Dracula who resurrected his wife by giving her an infusion of blood collected from unwilling but suitable donors. Made in 1974, the makers of Old Dracula can be forgiven for underscoring the old myth famous in the South that a single drop of black (African-American) blood would make the person black. David Niven is the quintessential gentleman and he didn't bat an eye or shrink from his revived bride -- a rejuvenated and beautiful Teresa Graves with her stylish and tasteful afro hairdo. She went along with Dracula's plans and got into her newly rejuvenated self by getting down with her bad self and dancing in a style that even David Niven could follow, but wasn't quite down with.
Ms. Graves hammed it up with her own style and taste and didn't stint on the black talk or her changed look (being black instead of white). This was in the days following the civil rights demonstrations and Hollywood cashing in on the black wave in the wake of the civil rights demonstrations. Ms. Graves chose her own way of making her point and decided against the Black Panthers' violence or the demonstrations by her black peers suddenly under the hot spotlight center stage. She is an actress after all and she was riding the crest of the wave. The myth about a single drop of black blood making you black is the focus of this particular movie, but even Sir David Niven went along with the point of the movie, even at last being turned black by a bite from his newly black wife. I would say that Sir David Niven handled black face with his usual charm and gentlemanly demeanor when it was revealed that he had also turned black.
I would call foul on the ending of Old Dracula since Ms. Graves had bitten many white men and women during the course of the movie and only her husband, Count Vladimir, was affected and turned black. I would also cite Blacula released 2 years before Old Dracula and again in 2010 when Blacula took to the television series and continued to menace the population in prime time. At no time did William Marshall turn his white female or male victims black even though he was raised through voodoo and set loose on the populace as Mamuwalde.
Well, there was no mention of black blood in the Blacula series turning victims black, and I do believe Blacula killed victims and didn't turn many -- or any -- victims so it wasn't an issue -- then or now. Blacula was revived in the series from 1995, but I doubt Hollywood had not yet invaded or changed the Dracula myth created by Irishman, Bram Stoker.
The point is that myths take time to die and the truth to become well known enough to stamp out the myths, which are then resurrected when some rebel decides it is best to bring back the myth. People are gullible and are easily molded by good writers and mythmakers. That is why it takes a long time and a lot of hard work and many believers to stamp out a myth. After all, myths live and die, not by truth, but by the power of those propping up the myths and by how rich the myth will make the creators -- like the FDA, nutritionists, and the food pyramid. That is when myths die the hardest and take the longest time dying in the hot spotlight of truth. That is why nutritionists and writers making the most out of the myths and propagating new myths to keep the myths going. That is why nutritionists on Recipe Rehab keep using the scientifically proven and outdated FDA food pyramid keep hyping their myths -- because myths take a long time to die in the spotlight of truth. Nutritionists who are making good money from their myth-laden beliefs are not going down without a fight and certainly not without the backing of the American Medical Association which has been paying off their shills with lots of perks. The AMA is not out to help people or they would have left Big Pharma in the dust because Big Pharma has bigger and better perks than AMA provide for their shills and the AMA is out for the money and don't give a damn about Hippocrates' oath or the first line of the vow physicians no longer swear -- to do no harm.
That is all. Disperse.
