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Originally Posted by B767drvr
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Dr McDougal is the author of many books promoting vegetarianism. It's not exactly like he doesn't have a horse in the race here.
Yes, there are conflicting sides and there are doctors on both sides of the issue that can make a seemingly solid case for their side.
For the past fifty years or so, we have been told that a low fat, high carb diet is what we all need to stay healthy. The result has been that Americans are now fatter and less healthy than ever. What we are doing is not working. It seems to me that our mothers and grandmothers knew and took for granted that breads and pastas were fattening. Somewhere in the sixties or seventies we rejected that idea. Just look at all of the low fat foods we are consuming? Do you see Americans getting thinner? Do you know that when fat is removed from a product that it is usually replaced with some kind of sugar?
There are approximately 600,000 different processed, packaged foods sold in this country today. Eight percent of them have corn syrup as one of their top ingredients.
Corn is a huge business, as is wheat. Most of the corn produced is turned into corn syrup and corn starch and modified corn starch which is in almost everything we eat.
If we stopped eating those foods it would cause a huge financial problem in this country. Of course the people that make money from the production of these foods are going to come out in force and spend millions to try to save their industry. There is a wheat council and a corn council that are simply lobbyists for these industries. Do you think they are interested in the truth?
The fact is that sugar is addictive and Americans are addicted to sugar. Sugar is a serious addiction and it is killing us.
Eric Clapton, whose battles with drug addiction and alcoholism are well documented was once asked what was the first thing that he was addicted to. His reply was "sugar". He would eat anything with sugar in it all the time. In fact his friend George Harrison wrote a song about the dental problems that Clapton suffered as a result of this addiction. Clapton has also stated that giving up sugar was as difficult as getting free of alcohol or heroin.
The AMA and the FDA can't exactly come out and say that what they been telling us concerning diet for the past fifty years has been wrong. Imagine all the law suits from people whose relatives have died from the various diseases cause by the AMA recommended diet.
They can't come out and say that they allowed these huge companies to get all of us addicted to sugar and that is having and negative effect on our well being.
And I understand. There are thousands of conflicting books and studies out there. Who do we believe? I have doubts myself. But I will repeat this. What we've been doing for the past fifty years is not working.