Medscape's dietary recommendations are getting more ridiculous.
What is concerning is that based on my experience with younger clients, they are falling for this brainwashing propoganda.
Medscape. Their inaccurate dietary recommendations keep coming. And they are getting more ridiculous.
A Medscape post from June 28, 2024, wanted to inform you that eggs and meat are the cause of heart disease and that you need to stop eating them and instead eat fake meat and egg alternatives.
Basically, the writer is advising you to stop eating whole foods and consume only processed foods.
The article starts off by assuming that LDL-C is bad and that reducing it can reduce your CVD risk.
The author states
"Our take-home is that plant-based meats are a healthy alternative to animal meat, based on intermediate cardiovascular endpoints such as lipids, triglycerides, blood pressure, and other cardiovascular disease risk factors."
Yet in the next paragraph, the author concluded that they are basing the assumption that fake meat is healthier than real meat on….oh, that is right, on no science to support the above statement.
We also found that there's a lack of clinical outcome trials that would determine definitively whether plant-based meats are healthy.
The author is boasting about the health benefits of fake meat to push a meatless agenda that also supports lab-grown foods, declining health, and more significant healthcare profit via more medications and vaccinations.
But the article information gets even worse!
They want you to consume ultra-processed food because the article’s author says it is healthier than real meat and eggs.
PBMAs are foods that mimic meats and contain ingredients such as protein derivatives from soy, pea, wheat, and fungi.
Does that sound healthy to you?
I do not even know what PBMA stands for, and perhaps I missed the clarification in the article.
"No currently available evidence suggests that the concerning aspects of PBMAs (eg, food processing and high sodium content) negate the potential cardiovascular benefits," wrote the researchers.
However, like with fake meat alternatives, there is no data to conclude that they are healthy and no data to support that ultra-processed foods are healthy.
Unfortunately, no long-term research has evaluated how these alternatives may affect the risk of developing a myocardial infarction or stroke. Similarly, there is little research on the healthfulness of some common components of PBMAs, such as vital wheat gluten.
At least the article’s writer admits with these statements, “Hey, we want you to eat crap food and will tell you it's good for you, but in reality, we have no data to support that.”
The article explains why there is a lack of data…well, you know, research is expensive!
To shed light on these important issues would require large clinical trials, involving many patients, and great expense, said Ur.
The article’s grand finale!
Ur added. “Then there is the issue of global warming.”
More brainwashing that we need to consume less meat to save the planet.
But another doctor’s comments in the post, David Spence, MD, professor emeritus of neurology and clinical pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, made me think that the article was pure brainwashing propaganda.
Spence wants you to know a few things about eggs.
Eating too much meat and egg yolk increases cardiovascular risk
There is great potential for the reduction of cardiovascular risk with the use of egg substitutes
Eggs are terrible and should not be eaten by people at risk for cardiovascular disease.
The yolk is terrible.
The egg marketing board is extremely effective in persuading people that eggs are healthy, and they're not.
Spence recommends using egg substitutes, such as Egg Beaters or Better'n Eggs instead of whole eggs
If I understand this correctly, a medical doctor with no background in nutrition (but a background in pharmacology) is telling you that ancestral WHOLE foods are unhealthy, but eating fake processed foods made in a lab or factory with seed oils and dyes, colorings, additives, preservatives, refined flours and sugars, and much more is somehow healthier for humans.
How is that possible?
Here is the link to my egg post on choosing optimal eggs for the best nutrition. Yesterday, I watched several chickens on top of an alpaca manure pile scratching and pecking away for bugs and insects to eat. You want eggs from chickens like these, outside all day pecking at the ground!
If you are still on the fence about meat and eggs, cholesterol, and the CVD connection, here are some links for you:
This substack post is about the fake butter that Gates has invested in. Gates stated that fake butter created in a lab with synthetic oil is the SAME thing as real butter.
A 2024 study in the BMJ concluded that ultra-processed food was directly associated with all causes of mortality, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
DiNiclantonio (2014) explains how a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet can increase small, dense LDL particles, which are more atherogenic than large, fluffy LDL. The article states that a diet high in carbohydrates (refined) and sugar is the driver of CVD. (This was written in 2014, yet 10 years later, medical professionals are telling you to consume more processed foods high in refined carbohydrates and refined seed oils.) (note: I cannot access a link to the full article, but I have a pdf saved if anyone wants it).
Evidence continues to mount, showing no link between cholesterol and heart disease. Ravnskov et al. (2018) found that authors of 3 large reviews supporting the cholesterol myth are also statin advocates. Ravnskov et al. (2018) discuss the flaws in the reviews that support the cholesterol-CVD link.
Lastly, a research article by Tsoupras et al. (2018) indicated inflammation, not cholesterol, is the driver behind chronic disease.
INSTEAD, ask those medical doctors about
Low magnesium and CVD risk
Low vitamin D and CVD risk
Sugar and CVD
Eating out several times per week and CVD risk
Inflammation and CVD risk
Sedentary lifestyle and CVD risk
Poor sleep/poor sleep habits and CVD risk
These allopathic doctors are focusing on the wrong things, but we both know there is a reason for that.
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Just an FYI, at the top of the article it tells you what PMBA stands for:
"Replacing meat with plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) can improve cardiovascular disease risk factors, including low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), a review of randomized controlled trials suggested."
I scrolled thru this but honestly people touting all thus fake food stuff are just in the money game or morons. Notice the research is rarely between grass fed/finished meats and what people buy at Walmart or eat at McDs.