Gyroscopic Investing

Our distrust of saturated fat can be traced back to the 1950s, to a man named Ancel Benjamin Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Keys was formidably persuasive and, through sheer force of will, rose to the top of the nutrition world—even gracing the cover of Time magazine—for relentlessly championing the idea that saturated fats raise cholesterol and, as a result, cause heart attacks.

MangoMan wrote:

Benko wrote: It is nice to see more mainstream articles along these lines, but it will be a long time before the cholesterol demon is dead.

1.  Conventional medicine.  I have asked several highly competent cardiologists their opinion of medical articles casting doubt on the choleterol demon and they were skeptical.

2.  The vegetarian mafia as well as all the plant based diet folks.

3. People still hung up on the TMAO study that came out relatively recently. 

Happened to catch 2 min of Dr. Oz, who had some really good books out ages ago and still has some good info.  He quoted the TMAO study and suggested red meat only once per week.  FOrtunately his other new recommendations were better and included:

--Omega 7 fatty acids (anchovies, macademia nuts)
--in addition to eating cruciferous veggies and garlic, onion, etc, he recommended foods which contain apigenin which can help prevent cancer and include: parsley, celery, artichoke.
--not sitting for prolonged periods.  HIs take is standing every 15 min and 10 min walk every 2 hours, but the details are less important than getting up regularly.

Seriously? Dr. Oz? That guy is a snake oil shill. Like with all media, sensationalism sells, so he takes some poorly studied data and then twists it and oversells it as the next miracle cure for whatever ails you.

edit: fixed typo: sanke -> snake

Reub wrote: Dr. Oz is far from a snake oil shill. His credentials are excellent. I think that he is trying to market healthier living and holistic medicine to the masses and that is why he sometimes comes off as pedestrian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz

ROBERT T CARROLL of skepdic dot org wrote:Nobody promotes ancient superstitions as if they were enlightenment insights like Oprah Winfrey and her medical mandarin Dr. Mehmet Oz. This time the pair promotes ancient Chinese superstitions about energy healing. (According to Wikipedia, Oz is married to an energy healer, a practitioner of Reiki.) Oz, the product of a modern medical school (the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine), confidently proclaims that "acupuncture has been around for 2,500 years in China" and "there are a billion people in another part of the world who use these therapies." He could say the same about belief in ghosts and a number of other Chinese superstitions that have been around for thousands of years. I wonder what Dr. Oz would say about this list of forty Chinese superstitions. A billion people believe that some numbers are lucky and some are unlucky. They believe the same about colors. They've had these  beliefs and many others like them for thousands of years. So what?

Benko wrote: and  http://skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia5.html and placeslike that turn their nose up at any place even slightly unconventional.  They are the equivalent of places that tell you you are crazy for holding any gold.

MG wrote:BTW, obesity is one of the common side effects of taking statins.  I realized earlier today that isn't it interesting that the rise of obesity started at the same time statins were pushed?  Has this been looking into with any seriousness?

dualstow wrote: The forum's been down so long that I can't remember how I was going to respond to this! I don't know Carroll's views on gold, but I would say that he turns his nose up at anything which avoids the scientific method. The permanent portfolio is scientific.

MG wrote:BTW, obesity is one of the common side effects of taking statins.  I realized earlier today that isn't it Interesting. I recently learned that oyster mushrooms have a natural statin-like component. I eat those every week, so hopefully some good will come out of it besides the wonderful flavor.