Et tu, NIH?

One of the rewards of what we do is talking to our friends and neighbors as they get their latest grass fed beef and pork fix.  There were a couple of those conversations yesterday.  One about the federal study that says the low carb diet is best for losing weight after all….and another with a woman who says she depends on the perfect fats in grass fed beef to supply just the right amount of fat she needs.

We’ve ranted here before about the nonsense masquerading as science that comes out of not only the government but the medical industry.  Anyone for the food pyramid?

Now, though, this latest study from the National Institutes for Health seems to be penetrating, finally.  Here’s just a sampling of what we have been reading across the blogosphere.  It’s from a blogger who calls himself “Ace”:

So, for 50 years now, the medical establishment and the government have been telling fat people to do the exact opposite thing they should be doing.

They’ve been telling them to replace fat with carbohydrates. Be healthy — hey, have eight ounces of orange juice every morning (and ignore the fact that eight ounces of orange juice has just as much sugar as eight ounces of Coca-Cola).

And yet the fat get fatter. But then, the fat are being put on a diet which is inadvertently designed to do just that, make them fatter.

So by all means let’s create a new government agency to tell fat people how to make themselves even fatter. And let’s all pay for that.

And, though it’s not yet suggested, you know this would come within a couple of years — let’s use coercive government force to compel fat people to follow a diet which will make them even fatter.

It’s for their own good, you know. And we’re from The Government, so we know we’re right. And we’re so sure we’re right, we’ll use all of our powers to force you to do what we say.

Even though we’re completely wrong.

There’s lots I could say (and probably will later) but we’re right in the middle of de-horning, castrating and sorting our calves which to take priority over blogging.

There is, though, one more piece of evidence this morning that those Coffee Experts can be very wrong, too.  (Are they the same Experts who told me to stop drinking red wine?)  Turns out that coffee like wine…in moderation…is almost as good for you as grass fed meat, which you should eat as much of as you can.

Boston, MA – Once again, a study points to coffee as cardioprotection, at least when it’s consumed in moderation. A meta-analysis of prospective studies mostly of people with no MI history saw their risk of incident heart failure follow a J-shaped curve in relation to coffee intake [1].

“That protection slowly goes away with five or more cups per day,” according to lead author Dr Elizabeth Mostofsky (Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA). And at levels of 10 European cups per day or more, she told heartwire, “there may potentially be harm.”

In light of the findings, current heart-failure prevention guidelines based on the view that coffee raises risk [2] should be reconsidered, according to Mostofsky. Those recommendations “were based on the best available evidence at the time, but it didn’t account for other differences between coffee drinkers and non-coffee drinkers.”

Indeed, the new meta-analysis is consistent with abundant other evidence for lower risk of diabetes, stroke, and other conditions with increasing coffee intake.