A good video popped up in my YouTube recommended and I wonder if the success of the keto and carnivore diet is less about the meat itself and more the avoidance of the unhealthy and highly processed polyunsaturated fats found in vegetable oils that basically nobody used to cook with prior to 1900's (when heart disease and obesity were extremely rare) but are now found in EVERYTHING.
Kind of a lightbulb going off for me, cuz grains are in fact overepresented on the bogus food pyramid but they have been around in diets for along time and are not bad for people on their own. Not the case for these vegetable oils, which are found in loads of shit, especially grain like snack items. Their wide use pretty much exclusively attributed to corporate marketing and greed rather than any sort of actual benefit as a product.
You're absolutely right. Vegetable oil, in small amounts once in a while is not too harmful, but the fact that it's in everything that we eat is the problem. Same with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, refined flour, etc.
Grains are definitely over-represented, we should be eating more meat than grains, but grains have been in the human diet for thousands of years. I think it's just our modern version of grains that's caused the issue. Heavily refined soft white flour has almost no nutritional value and is carb heavy with no fiber. Whole wheat flour is better for sure, but flour will always have carbs so it's best to eat less of it, but at least wheat flour has more fiber.
A good video popped up in my YouTube recommended and I wonder if the success of the keto and carnivore diet is less about the meat itself and more the avoidance of the unhealthy and highly processed polyunsaturated fats found in vegetable oils that basically nobody used to cook with prior to 1900's (when heart disease and obesity were extremely rare) but are now found in EVERYTHING.
Kind of a lightbulb going off for me, cuz grains are in fact overepresented on the bogus food pyramid but they have been around in diets for along time and are not bad for people on their own. Not the case for these vegetable oils, which are found in loads of shit, especially grain like snack items. Their wide use pretty much exclusively attributed to corporate marketing and greed rather than any sort of actual benefit as a product.
You're absolutely right. Vegetable oil, in small amounts once in a while is not too harmful, but the fact that it's in everything that we eat is the problem. Same with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, refined flour, etc.
Grains are definitely over-represented, we should be eating more meat than grains, but grains have been in the human diet for thousands of years. I think it's just our modern version of grains that's caused the issue. Heavily refined soft white flour has almost no nutritional value and is carb heavy with no fiber. Whole wheat flour is better for sure, but flour will always have carbs so it's best to eat less of it, but at least wheat flour has more fiber.
True....and Frankenwheat is more than likely the difference historically anyway.