Consensus diet? RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 19:27:41 MDT

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    Last week I purchased a piece of salami with peppercorns and some garlic
    butter.

    I haven't had salami for about 5 years, and butter for at least ten.

    Delicious.

    I wonder if we could come up with a consensus about what we really know
    about diet based on the highest quality studies (leaving aside quibbles
    about the validity of e.g. evolutionary arguments). All this without trying
    to agree on all the hundreds of less well established observations.

    For the consensus I would nominate:

    1) Ingestion of hydrogenated lipids in any amount is bad for you

    2) Ingestion of calories from any source, if leading to obesity, is bad for
    you

    3) Failure to provide at least 100% of RDA for established vitamins is bad
    for you

    4) Consumption of raw vegetables (with some exceptions), and most types of
    fruit, is good for you

    6) For persons with homocysteine levels exceeding 10 to 15, supplementation
    with vit B12, folic acid and thiamine, is beneficial

    7) There is no consensus on the efficacy of antioxidant supplementation

    8) Ingestion of vit A significantly above the RDA is bad for you

    9) Ingestion of iron above the RDA, is bad for you, except in some special
    circumstances

    10) There is no consensus as to the benefits of organic foods, as compared
    to conventionally produced ones of the same general composition

    11) Ingestion of certain high-caloric density foods with highly refined
    palatability (a.k.a. sweets) may contribute to obesity

    12) Certain types of moderately calorie-dense foods, consisting
    predominantly of highly absorbable, processed carbohydrates (e.g. most
    brands of cereal, fries, many types of bread, some types of pasta, pizza)
    may contribute to obesity

    Any more?

    Rafal



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