Eating nothing but processed foods, sugar, and heavily processed grains? That sounds like the opposite of what Kennedy recommends, which is a recipe for obesity and type 2 diabetes.
He’s got his problems, many of them, but eating real food without a bunch of processing seems like a fairly common sense thing.
Red meat (a known carcinogen) at the top is gold. All that saturated fat the energy will come from (not from protein or veggies) will probably cause heart problems and plaque formation in arteries, not to mention insulin resistance just from increased FFAs in blood.
Vegetarians and vegans have lower T2D incidence on average FWIW.
> Vegetarians and vegans have lower T2D incidence on average FWIW.
Anecdotally, my dad tried vegetarianism for quite a while to address his T2D, but it had no effect. My mom cut out sugar and processed carbohydrates and her T2D was gone in ~3 months or so.
Following any diet is probably better than nothing at all, which could explain the lower incidence of T2D in that group vs the general public. I’d be more curious about the rates in vegetarians/vegans vs people who eat paleo or even carnivore.
Treating T2D and preventing T2D are completely different things from a dietary perspective. Same way you wouldn't give chemotherapy to a healthy person to prevent cancer
There are studies that support it. Here is a meta analysis of low carb diets on T2D, the majority show it works, though as always, there is going to be some individual variability.
Also, red meat isn't a known carcinogen. Processed meat is. And plaque formation in arteries is a consequence of inflammation... which is caused by sugar, a.k.a. carbohydrates. Insulin resistance is also a consequence of increased carbohydrate consumption.
But as I said, it is a combination of fats and carbs that is the worst killed. Eliminating either one of those from the diet leads to an automatic improvement.
The most common argument coming from people like you is X is bad because a lack of evidence, and then you present Y as an absolute truth with zero evidence. This time you've linked two garbage websites, both controlled by special interests. You've also fallen into the common trope of discrediting someone's entire view because of another view (so-called "quackery"). Your opinion is relatively consistent with the reddit/HN zeitgeist. That is to say, you are wrong.
Since you present no actual evidence. I won't either. Instead I'll tell you what is coming out as the truth:
1. Carbohydrates and especially sugars contribute more to various disease processes, including CVD, hyperlipidemia, etc than fat or meat consumption. A trivial google search, which you are clearly capable of doing, would show you that.
2. Eggs are loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat. Egg guidelines have been moved almost as often as salt and sugar. Most doctors will not stop you from eating 2-3 eggs a day because the benefits far outweigh the risks.
3. A balanced diet is better than one that isn't. But if you have no choice meat and fat have the highest level of satiation-to-energy of any kind of food.
4. High levels of exercise in combination with a diet higher in foods that have high levels of nutrition (meat, eggs, butter, and green leafy vegetables) will produce less negative health effects than following the government's health guidelines on either exercise or nutrition.
5. The existence of cultures that subsist entirely on meat and fat invalidates your argument. The eskimos, in particular, have comparable life spans and yet hyperlipidemia is extremely common among them. CVD is not. One factor could be the energy consumption due to exercise and extreme cold. The fact obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc risks all rose with the proliferation of highly processed carbohydrate and the "fat-free" trend is further evidence that something is wrong.
6. It is hard to believe anything the government says on nutrition is valid. Back when people watched the news we heard coffee is bad/coffee is good, salt is bad/salt is good, fat is bad/fat is good, meat is bad/meat is good. You should ask yourself seriously if you're getting your information from valid sources or if you just believe whatever the youtube you watch says.
It is possible to overdo nearly anything. Saturated fat guidelines, along with cholesterol guidelines, are likely too low even for conservative values. That being said, the amount of processed carbohydrate you should eat daily should approach 0 and you should consider it to be more of a snack if you eat it at all.
As for him being a quack, that’s earned through his refusal to follow scientific guidance, and sacking the guidance available. You’re presumably aware of his
views on fluoride and vaccines.
