NPR: The gut response to what we eat

November 13, 2009

I heard that report too and they make some valid points. But they did manage to

blame fat again! First, they start with the assumption that fat will make you

fat, as in " a healthy low-fat plant based mouse chow " . I'ts already been

disproven in research that fat does not make you fat unless you eat it in

excess, but it keeps getting perpetuated by poor science and the media anyway.

There are several other flaws in this study, or at least in the part they're

reporting on the news. They don't mention what high-fat, high-sugar foods were

fed to the mice, only that they were high-fat and high-sugar. Their number one

huge mistake here is that they have too many variables. If they didn't test the

high-fat separately from high-sugar, they don't know which variable caused the

restructuring of the microflora. It's already proven that sugar can do that all

by itself.

Then they don't make any distinctions about what kind of fats were used, even

though we all know that transfats aren't natural and are killers. Perhaps bad

fats alone could cause restructuring. But they're lumping all fat together as

bad.

So, once again, fats get a bad rap in the media even though every cell membrane

in our body is made up of various kinds of fats that are of the utmost

importance to our health, determining what does and doesn't get into our cells!

Do they ever stop to consider that if all fats were really bad for us, there

would be no such thing as human life? There is no French Paradox, only stuck

old thought thinking and flawed research!!!

Too bad, as this research could have actually found out if any kinds of fats,

good and/or bad, cause restructuring.

My rant for the day.....

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