I've been seeing lots of pro-vegan, anti-meat and anti low-carb media recently. So, reading this article by Nina Teicholtz was very timely.
Is there a propaganda campaign against low-carb?
(In case you can't get to the article via the above, here's another version, though not complete - https://archive.is/rxTur. To get the full version, you may have to subscribe to her Substack).
Here's some quotes:
Many of us challenging mainstream health advice find ourselves continually questioning whether the unending stream of inaccurate information from newspapers, academics, and experts is intentional or just ill-advised. The latter explanation would be a far more comforting idea, as it would imply a non-malevolent world where I’m guessing we’d all prefer to live. Yet, having spent two decades investigating diet and health, I’ve concluded that while there are many well-meaning experts out there, the forces suppressing good science and intentionally promoting misinformation—technically known as “disinformation”—are driving the narrative.
The example that she goes into in great depth is a recent article from Australia, entitled "The fad diet linked to an increasing risk of chronic disease" (https://archive.is/PYZaF). But the research article that it uses as evidence is from 20 years ago! And Teicholtz goes through the research in great detail, and how poorly it was done.
Another interesting quote, which also demonstrates how corrupt the American Heart Association is:
The AHA gives us our final example of apparent disinformation. Last year, it issued a scientific statement that generated headlines such as “Popular keto and paleo diets aren’t helping your heart” (Washington Post). As I wrote at the time, a reader would think that the paper examined the heart disease outcomes of these diets, but in fact, it did not.
Instead, the paper compared how closely different diets aligned with the AHA’s own diet plan. The AHA asked, in essence: Are you like us? By this standard, the #1 diet on their list was DASH (Dietary Alternatives to Stop Hypertension), because…that’s the AHA’s own diet!
The AHA report was, in effect, a self-affirmation exercise, a purity test. Headlines should have read: The AHA prefers its own diet and disapproves of others. (Worth noting: In a head-to-head diet trial, a very low-carb diet showed greater improvements in systolic blood pressure, glycemic control, and weight, compared to DASH).
For me personally, a low-carb (actually almost zero, since I'm doing carnivore with dairy/eggs) diet has been amazing for my health. After years of eating "healthy", with all the superfoods, fruits, veggies, fiber, and very limited red meat, switching to carnivore 11 months ago has boosted my energy tremendously. Instead of walking around the house, it's more accurate to say that I zip around the house.
I really wish I had known about this decades ago.
I'll write another post in the near future of how things are going. Meanwhile, here's what I've written up on this topic so far, in reverse chronological order:
Carnivore diet - looks like it fixed this nighttime disorder for me
Carnivore diet - believe it or not, it healed this oddball disorder for me
Can a keto/carnivore diet heal issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar?
Latest steps in my carnivore path - and why you should consider a carnivore diet
Carnivore achievements unlocked
Taking a temporary break from mostly-carnivore diet during holidays
Sugar and Alzheimers
Kinda-carnivore diet is leading to WAY more energy
Question for carnivores/carnivore-curious folks
I'm transitioning ... to a more MEAT centric diet
This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz