re: Low Fat Diet Is Allegedly Wrong According to Report

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Quit looking for a magic shortcut. It doesn't exist.

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Shortcut/magic?

The rationale I have summarized is neither. It is a more nuanced explanation of the how and why high quality, nutrient dense foods matter (and I didn't even get into the effect on the micro biome..). You take exception to that?

PS: You still have not answered the initial question posed (which was the point of my previous analogy).

Read this. Comment if you think you would be OK feeding your kids/family a twinkie diet (which by your logic should suffice as it is strictly about calories isn't it?).

Image below: Vit A,D,E, K are all FAT soluble vitamins...

Here is the deal. You will not see immediate harm. You may be fine for a few years, It may take DECADES before insidious changes take hold and MANIFEST. This is current state of the American populace from DECADES of poor dietary recommendations with the calories in, calories out model contributing (along with the low fat recommendations). Last image capture this well (although I hate BMI as a metric in general)


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Low micronutrient intake may accelerate the degenerative diseases of aging through allocation of scarce micronutrients by triage

Bruce N. Ames* Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, 5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94609 Contributed by Bruce N. Ames, October 6, 2006 (sent for review September 20, 2006)

Inadequate dietary intakes of vitamins and minerals are widespread, most likely due to excessive consumption of energy-rich, micro- nutrient-poor, refined food. Inadequate intakes may result in chronic metabolic disruption, including mitochondrial decay. Deficien- cies in many micronutrients cause DNA damage, such as chromosome breaks, in cultured human cells or in vivo. Some of these defi- ciencies also cause mitochondrial decay with oxidant leakage and cellular aging and are associated with late onset diseases such as cancer. I propose DNA damage and late onset disease are consequences of a triage allocation response to micronutrient scarcity. Epi- sodic shortages of micronutrients were common during evolution. Natural selection favors short-term survival at the expense of long-term health. I hypothesize that short-term survival was achieved by allocating scarce micronutrients by triage, in part through an adjustment of the binding affinity of proteins for required micronutrients. If this hypothesis is correct, micronutrient deficiencies that trigger the triage response would accelerate cancer, aging, and neural decay but would leave critical metabolic functions, such as ATP production, intact. Evidence that micronutrient malnutrition increases late onset diseases, such as cancer, is discussed. A mul- tivitamin-mineral supplement is one low-cost way to ensure intake of the Recommended Dietary Allowance of micronutrients throughout life

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