Not a new idea

Taken from Taubes:

Farinaceous and vegetable foods are fattening, and saccharine matters are especially so…. In sugar-growing countries the negroes and cattle employed on the plantations grow remarkably stout while the cane is being gathered and the sugar extracted. During this harvest the saccharine juices are freely consumed; but when the season is over, the superabundant adipose tissue is gradually lost.
THOMAS HAWKES TANNER, The Practice of Medicine, 1869

Starch, carbs and sugar make you fat. They're all the same thing, anyway. We've known this for a long time. Note there's no mention of dietary fat, or calories consumed and burned off.

More support for fats

Go keto:

In recent years, evidence has come from another quarter of the influence of diet on resistance to infection. I refer to the observations of Helmholz40 and Clark 41 on the curative effect of a ketogenic diet in many cases of urinary infection. It is true that the effectiveness of this therapy is regarded as depending on the actual excretion of ß-oxybutyric acid (Fuller42), and the acid reaction of the urine, but it would be surprising to me if these cereal-free and high vitamin A-containing diets commonly given to such patients had not the power of raising the resistance of the body to infection, apart from the ketogenesis they produce. Evidence of this nature ought to be examined and the use of such diets extended to other forms of infection than those of the urinary tract. The curative effect of diets devoid of cereal and rich in fat-soluble vitamins on dental caries (M. Mellanby and Pattison) has already been referred to (p. 25). It may prove that the best form of diet for combating sepsis is a combination of high vitamin qualities, especially of high fat-soluble vitamin content, with low cereal and a definite ketogenic action.

Dead Tree Media, null points

I see this on the same day as this. As a I learn more about the issue of health, fats and carbs, I now get pretty pissed off when I see things like that written in the Twatgraph. There's just no need for anyone to be so sloppy: the writer, the editor, or the "scientist" making the claims.

Good to see Free the Animal spotting the same appalling load of bollocks.

Smokin'

Nicely-done post from Leg Iron, saying what needs to be said about the smoking ban.

I love the smell of napalmed tofu in the morning

Stumbled across this, and it made me quite happy. This is someone who has bee blogging for over a year and a half about vegan "food" and how it is the right way to go. All the vegans I've known have converted in the end - sometimes for serious health reasons. What a load of old bollocks it all is.

Are we meat eaters? You betcha.

A remarkable blog posting here from Dr Michael Eades, who shows, stunningly, that we didn't just evolve to eat meat, but actually evolved because we eat meat. The argument is clear, well-structured, and very difficult to refute. It derives from the "Expensive Tissue Hypothesis", and an article in the 1995 journal "Current Anthropology" by Aiello and Wheeler. Read it, it's gripping and may change the way you see food forever.

Can't see the HIV for the BS

There’s a movie coming out next year called House of Numbers.
Its about HIV and AIDS and how we’re not being told the truth. From Lew Rockwell:

Particularly problematical for the orthodoxy is the interview with Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who discovered HIV (if you accept that he discovered something). You can watch this interview today on YouTube.

The most interesting part of the exchange goes like this:

Montagnier "We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus in a few weeks, if you have a good immune system."

Leung "If you have a good immune system, then your body can naturally get rid of HIV?"

Montagnier "Yes."

Montagnier goes on to say that a neglected point in battling sickness in Africa is that nutrition and hygiene are very important, and people are only thinking of drugs and vaccines.

The significance of such comments coming from, of all people, the man who supposedly discovered the HIV virus, cannot be overstated. To understand why, you must understand that the whole problem of HIV boils down to one very simple concept: people get sick – why?

Why indeed. And in fact, if “being healthy” gets rid of HIV just like that, well then in what way does HIV even exist? We could in fact, define “it” as what happens when we’re not healthy – we get sick. Which is, of course, a truism. Another way of saying this is that HIV is not a virus: it’s just a name that we give to whatever virus comes along to take advantage of a sick person.
This is kind of backed up by this piece, which shows the evident controversy over whether HIV even exists as a unique virus.

By the way, in response to critics who claimed the excerpt above was edited in a special way, he released the full interview.
I mean, this guy isn’t just saying that nutrition and hygiene can help prevent getting AIDS – he’s saying it’ll cure it! Amazing to think this is coming from the guy who “discovered” it. No doubt Big Pharma will have him discredited and carted off, if they get their way.

By the way, those of us who follow people like Dr Eades, Gary Taubes, and the Weston A Price Foundation already have a good idea at how important nutrition is. But... more than that... what is good nutrition? It’s not what we’re being told by the establishment! It’s not low-fat, high-grain, and pasteurised. It’s the exact opposite.

Anyway, back to AIDS. The phantom menace. There’s a great piece here about Celia Farber, who was in Africa for a while. It’s an eye-opener, and basically re-iterates the importance of hygiene in particular – and even the sinister possibility of treatments themselves causing the problems.
There’s more second opinions here, here, and here. More than enough to get you thinking.

There’s also a handy wallchart-style list of the inconsistencies in AIDS claims here.