Conventional Wisdom in Nutrition
From: “Elaine Gottschall”
To: scd-list-longisland, elainesChildren-yahoogroups
Subject: Mythology in nutrition
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:19:26 -0500
Dear All,
Recently, during a private conversation with a listserv member, the idea
of fiber and conventional wisdom came up.
Firstly, conventional wisdom in nutrition has gotten most of you to
where we are now and SCD has gotten many of you back to health. So you
know what we think of conventional wisdom.
In fact, we have recently discussed the Food Pyramid which has been
foisted upon the victimized population to result in epidemics of
obesity and diabetes especially in the very young.
To recall, Dr. Willet of Harvard School of Public Health says that the
Food Pyramid should be garbaged!!!!(By the way, his predecessor, Dr.
Fred Stare, was notorious in setting precedents for university nutrition
departments to sell out to industry so Dr. Willet of Harvard owes us
one!)
These mythologies are the result of food politics and look who has
become the victims! I well remember my raising my kids and pushing,
pushing, pushing the wrong things until finally the axe fell!
The following is an excerpt from a message I just sent
>The whole fiber story, supposedly based on Denis Burkett’s book (long
before your time) was another example of PERVERSION by Kellogg’s to get rid of
a waste product that they could not give away. Burkett maintained that
the African people with whom he worked did not get these digestive problems
because they ate whole food (which, of course, means that refinement,
processing of foods was not part of their lifestyle at that time). Just
like whey from cheese production, , fiber from processing wheat flour, etc.
were WASTE products and the Dept. of Agriculture, along with industry,
wanting to be good to the farmers (and to industry) and knowing “beans
all” about health, started this campaign.
My whole academic life has been geared to try and alert people to these
mythologies. You, evidently, have bought into it. Soluble fiber is the
most highly fermentable carb that I can think of. It is the last thing
I would push on a person with bowel problems.
In fact, it is believed by anyone who knows anything (and not the
dietitians from the Depts of Nutrition where I had first hand contact with them)
and not those in the business of selling things to sick people with no
background in pathology and physiology – it is known that this push for
bran, fiber, etc. can actually result in colon cancer.
Please, I studied too long and too hard to hear about “what everyone
is saying.”
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