THE NEW FOOD PYRAMID- THE BIF 'FAT' LIE!

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The New Food Pyramid -

The Big 'FAT' Lie!

 

By Alan Graham (with Alfred Lehmberg)

AlienView.net

11-14-5

 

The " New Food Pyramid " (NFP) is a corporate driven lie that is not

about keeping you, remotely healthy, reader... It couldn't be!

On the contrary! The objective, as these corporate interests would

have it, is for us to continue following the same stupid dietary

rules that got us in this mess endured in the first place.

Misleadingly, they prosecute their objective with cleverly worded

half truths, gross obfuscations, lies of omission, and sweeping

generalizations.

Clearly, the major corporations selling a plethora of unhealthful

products want to keep you, the individual, sufficiently

confused... ...so maybe you will consume even more grains, milk, and

margarine... ...thoroughly convinced you're doing the right thing.

You're not. You just haplessly live their aggregate lie.

Additionally, and explicably reader, the persons vested in

the " sickness business " (MDs, HMOs, and Drug Companies) get richer

and richer... ...as our society gets sicker and sicker...

In this iteration? I'm only going to discuss the lies associated with

FATS & OILS ... if I included the other five NFP categories involved,

this paper could turn into a small book... so we'll cover those in

subsequent iterations. There are many astonishing surprises there

too.

To start:

1. The NFP recommends, tragically... ...Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids

(PUFAs) in food oils like Soy, Corn, Canola, Sunflower -- etc.

Naturally, it starts right out " Muddying the Water " ... by lumping

healthful and complex PUFAs (like Omega 6, GLA, and Omega 3 ALA ...

found in seeds, nuts, and legumes) in with the unhealthful and LESS

complex PUFA (Omega 6, LA) like the food oils mentioned above.

In supplemental form? These complex PUFAs are called 'Medicinal Oils'

( Borage, Hemp, Flax Seed, Fish Oil, etc.) and must be " Cold Pressed "

Under Refrigeration. PUFAs that are 'Food Oils'... are " Cold Pressed "

WITHOUT Refrigeration...therein lies the problem. Heat! Heat &

Air " kills " the oil ... makes it toxic. " Cold pressed " only means no

heat was added... ...but it still gets hot due to pressure. More on

that in a moment...

Also, with regard to these oils, it is officially claimed that PUFA

vegetable food oils have beneficial Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs),

Vitamin E, plus... they do not raise LDL (bad cholesterol). These are

the claims. Well... the preceding is almost true... that is to

say ...the preceding is not a complete lie... The truth of the matter

is this:

Poly Unsat food oils will do those positive things... ...but ONLY if

they are the very special kind carefully processed under the much

more stringent conditions required to avoid oxidation and

rancidity... ...A kind you will NEVER find in the typical grocery

store.

These " less processed " oils are much more expensive and require

refrigeration after opening. The cheaper poly oils ( pressed without

refrigeration) you buy at the grocery store have already turned

rancid and toxic (lipid peroxide) at its initial processing...

consequently, it must be Refined, Bleached & Deodorized (RBDed) to

hide the rancid smell. This is what you drive away from your

Neighborhood Grocery Store with, reader -- believe it or not.

This is also why these oils don't need to be refrigerated after

opening... ...because RBDed poly food oil is so " dead " and stripped

of any beneficial nutrition, that it will stay " fresh " for a very

long time, even at room temperature.

So, with regard to the NFPs supposed beneficial EFAs? They have not

only been destroyed... they have been converted to the toxin, lipid

peroxide! ...Less than wholesome, folks, to understate.

This means (...contrary to NFPs Claims...) RBDed oils DO increase LDL

(bad cholesterol) ...but probably of greater significance is oxidized

poly oil is one of the major artery clogging substances known to

science... ...yet all you ever hear MDs complain about is

cholesterol... ...when in fact obligatory cholesterol is an

innocent " victim " that gets unjustly blamed for its roll in blocked

arteries...

....It's oxidized poly oil, Trans Fat from partially Hydrogenated

Vegetable Oil (pHVO) and refined carbohydrates are the real culprits.

A 1994 study appearing in the Lancet showed that almost three

quarters of the fat in artery clogs is unsaturated. The " artery

clogging " fats are not animal fats but vegetable oils. Know a tree by

its fruit reader!

2. Mono Unsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFAs) like Olive and Macadamia nut

oils are heart healthful. Mono oils are non-reactive (unlike highly

reactive poly oils) so they don't go rancid during pressing,

consequently, they do not require being RBDed. These oils are ALIVE

in comparison! AND...they don't need refrigeration after opening !

Unfortunately the NFP does subtle little things to steer you away

from healthful mono oils. For instance, when listing " healthful "

oils, they ALWAYS list poly oils first, when in reality they should

not be lumping mono and poly together to begin with... it makes it

seem that the two are of equal healthfulness. They are most certainly

not equal...

Reader! Is death equal to life?

Consider. In the NFP " 7 day meal planner " , not once do they recommend

olive oil... every example for vinegar & oil dressing or for

frying... ...they recommend sunflower oil! What?

Remember... mono is stable and poly is reactive (turns rancid

easily) -- so of all the examples of PUFAs they could have used,

Sunflower is almost the worst at 70% RBDed poly!

The worst? That would be Safflower oil at 80% poly. The more poly?

The more toxic, reader.

....And Pleeease... don't put Canola oil in the same class with

a " true mono " oil like OLIVE OIL just because it's 54% mono... Canola

is also 37% poly that has been RBDed, which trumps any beneficial

effects of the 54% mono!

In healthy contrast? Olive oil is 76% mono, and has an insignificant

amount of poly at only 8%. Macadamia nut is even better at 80% mono.

3. The NFP demonizes, by association, saturated fat (SatFat) by

always listing SatFat and TransFat together in their

warnings... ...like they were remotely the same thing! This is WRONG!

They are not the same thing! Their very dodgy and suspicious

reasoning is that both fats are solid at room temperature... pause to

gag!

Folks! Being a solid at room temperature does not make a fat " BAD " ...

any more than being a liquid at room temperature makes an oil " GOOD " !

....As evidence, TransFat from pHVO is an *evil*, toxic, man-made,

solid *fat* (...toxic sludge actually!) which has been irrefutably

linked to virtually every chronic disease... especially heart

disease! On the other hand, unburnt / unprocessed / undamaged SatFat

is good for you! Look at the extremely high SatFat (blubber), grain-

free traditional diet of the Inuit ( Eskimos )! With the help of

Omega 3 thrown in, they have about the lowest incidence of heart

disease and MS on the planet! The children eat raw SatFat as if it

were " Cheezy Poofs " .

SatFat is only heart unhealthy when it is burnt or processed- burning

creates a dangerous free radical (HCA), or if damaged through arduous

processing causes oxidation. Folks, even the cholesterol associated

with undamaged SatFat is good for you! It only becomes the enemy when

damaged through processing! The most extreme examples of this are

powdered milk and powdered eggs.

In contrast, undamaged cholesterol in raw or lightly poached eggs is

good for you. The NFP, ridiculously, allows only one hard cooked egg

per week! I'm astonished that the Egg Industry is remotely sitting

still for this slight. If I were the Egg-man I'd be standing on

somebody's Desk!

goo goo g'joob... ( ...You remember the Beatle's ?)

Here's another subtle little trick at the NFP website. They never

mention TransFat and partially Hydrogenated Veg. Oil (pHVO) in the

same breath! Even though the pHVO molecule and the TransFat molecule

are the SAME THING !!... This is so they can slip pHVO into products

without you realizing it. Here's how:

They tell you to avoid TransFat by looking for products, like

margarine, and Peanut Butter, with " ZERO TransFat " ( this might be

prominently displayed on the front label ), and zero transfat is

listed under the " fat content " on the back... This is WITHOUT telling

you to avoid pHVO, which you might then find listed

under " ingredients. " If one of the ingredients is pHVO -- how can it

contain " ZERO " TransFat? Well -- that's the trick! If a serving has

less than 0.5 grams of TransFat, they can then advertise it as " ZERO "

TransFat! Outrage! The substance is still in the FOOD, reader.

So, with certain products like margarine and Peanut butter where they

can make serving sizes very small (like one or two tbsp) then they

put in 0.49 grams of pHVO per serving... which is just enough solid

*fat* to keep the margarine from turning completely liquid and enough

so the oil in Peanut butter won't separate and float to the top...

like in natural peanut butter. See Peanut Butter Paper..

http://www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#Renutbutter

BUT!... If you know pHVO and TransFat are the same thing and you see

pHVO in the ingredients? Then you know it has TransFat, even if the

label SCREAMS " Zero TransFat. "

The only place I saw pHVO even mentioned? It was linked with Oil as

things to avoid in breads and cereals... ...I guess, because it is

called partially Hyd. " VEGETABLE Oil " they can try to pass it off as

oil... ...when it's actually a solid, man-made toxic, *fat*, and not

a real food at all!

When I was young & dumb I use to think pHVO was good for you because

it was...well... uh... " vegetable oil " . ...And isn't a vegetable a

good thing?

Now get this! The NFP advises the individual to avoid pHVO in bread

because it would add extra calories, but NOT because it is the

dangerous TransFat molecule causing or exacerbating virtually every

chronic disease! Noooo!...The only bad thing that they could come up

with, is that it adds a few extra calories...Un-freaking believable!

4. Coconut oil -- Maybe the most blatantly egregious " FAT " lie is

lumping CCNut oil in with " damaged " SatFat and toxic TransFat... They

are from different universes nutritionally!

Again...lumped together just because they are all solid at room

temperature! This is just another " muddy the water " half-truth.

Disabuse yourself of this ludicrous notion, reader!

Yes! CCNut oil is a saturated fat... but it is a MAGICAL SatFat...

unlike Long-Chain Fatty Acids (LCFAs) such as animal SatFat and Food

Oils, which have 18 carbon atoms in the chain... CCNut oil's Medium

Chain Triglyceride (MCT) or Medium Chain Fatty Acid (MCFA) is only 12

carbon atoms long. This makes these MCTs very digestible, which is

why they are in Breast milk and the reason every baby formula on the

shelf contains CCNut oil. Folks! Demonized CCNut Oil is good enough

for babies?!?

YES...Babies have inefficient desaturaese enzyme systems, initially,

making it difficult to break down LCFAs -- but MCTs are easily broken

down with saliva and stomach acid (don't require enzymes), thus

providing instant energy and heat for babies to grow and thrive. All

of these shorter chain FAs, like Coconut Oil and a couple of the

chains that are around 6 atoms long, found in real butter, have truly

unique and powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties!

Well, about now you should be asking - if Coconut oil is so great,

especially for babies... why do medical doctors and non-holistic

dieticians say it is heart unhealthful??

Here's the shameful truth...

4 or 5 decades ago the " Evilly powerful pHVO industry " took wonderful

unrefined CCNut oil and turned it TOXIC by " hydrogenating " it... then

conducted tests with this ringer-oil showing an increase in bad

cholesterol and heart disease! Folks! They cooked their own books!

Why would they do something SO disgustingly dishonest? You already

know the answer...Money !!

They were afraid of the tenuous, yet growing, toehold that CCNut oil

had in this country (in the 50s and 60s many theatre chains used

healthful, solid CCNut oil to make popcorn). Now days they ALL use

the toxic pHVO. This unjust demonizing was easily accomplished

because 90% of the CCNut oil comes from the Philippine Islands, which

is a poor country that multi-national corporatists could

easily " SLAP " around.

This is no secret. Every naturopathic doctor and holistic

practitioner in the " World " knows about this dirty trick... ...and

knows, too, that " non-hydrogenated " Extra Virgin Coconut Oil is

magical stuff. Yet MDs and Dieticians still quote that BOGUS data

from 50 years ago as justification to demonize all tropical

oils... ...while THEY recommend " margarines " with its toxic

complement of hydrogenated TransFat molecules. This is truly sinful

behavior on the part of our institutional leadership!

5. OK... The last big " FAT " lie:

The required (4 to 1) EFA ratio (that's 4 Omega 6 to 1 Omega 3) is

dangerously ignored ... The NFP website claims that poly unsat food

oils contain EFAs that activate beneficial prostaglandins.... Wow!

This is not even a HALF truth...it's more like a QUARTER truth. The

following is the 'down and dirty' version. For a complete explanation

to include illustrations of both EFA Prostaglandin Pathways (PWs)

see " Fat Facts " paper.

http://www.alienview.net/zfat.html

To refresh your memory, PUFAs like corn oil (LA) cascade down the

Omega 6 Prostaglandin Pathway (PW) ultimately activating the PG-1

(Series One Prostaglandin) that reduces inflammation, platelet

stickiness, blood pressure and allergic reactions...

Yes -- it is true that the less complex Omega 6 (LA), like Sunflower

oil, etc. CAN (but probably won't ) cascade down the Omega 6 PW

increasing in complexity before taking the fork in that Pathway that

activates the beneficial PG-1. But, if you closely adhere to the

NFP, " 7 day meal planner " and consume only poly Omega 6 oils and

margarine (which is also poly Omega 6 oil that's been solidified, you

know...pHVO ) then the LA will cascade down the PW and take

the " wrong " fork in the road activating the undesirable PG-2, which

increases inflammation, platelet stickiness, blood pressure and

allergic reactions... leading to heart disease, MS and a host of

other problems?

This is because for optimum good health you need a balanced and

efficient Omega 6 / Omega 3 Prostaglandin system where your EFA ratio

is (4 to 1) or less. With every increase above (4 to 1)... the DEATH

rate increases.

Unfortunately, most Americans are at an " out of whack " , heart

stopping, (20 or 30 to 1 ) ratio. This is a result of consuming TOO

MUCH Omega 6 (LA) and TOO LITTLE Omega 3 (ALA) from flax seed & Omega

3 (EPA / DHA) from fish oil and eggs.

Yes, Omega 6 (LA) is an " Essential " FA, (Essential means- you must

have it, but you can't make it); however, it is everywhere, in every

form of food to include fruit! We need to make a conscious effort to

get Omega 6 out of our life! ...Not look for ways to include it back

in!

The obvious and easiest way is to avoid poly unsat food oils. This is

also the healthiest way because, unlike the LA in food oils, most of

the LA found naturally in foods like seeds, nuts, fruits & veggies

has not been damaged...So, if every time the NFP, " 7 day planner "

calls for Omega 6 sunflower oil... ...you substitute Omega 9 Olive

Oil ... and everyplace it calls for margarine? Switch out with real

butter... then your EFA ratio will be much closer to a healthful (4

to 1) or less.

You can really nail down this ratio if you also add 2 or 3 tbsp of

ground flax seed, 2 or 3 grams of fish oil and avoid ALL forms of

Sugar.

Enough?

Next time we will discuss how the NFP " spits " in Mother Nature's face

by encouraging things we did not evolve to consume -- like bread,

cereal, pasta, milk, and fruit Juice. The preceding, you will

find... ...are not the wholesome foodstuffs you are encouraged to

trust... not by a long shot.

Until next time, then... Well BE!

Alan D. Graham

334 774-0395

NEW E-mail -- alan068

www.alienview.net