PS if you think 30% protien is high i would disagree. That percentage is not dangerous longterm and if you follow 1 gram per pound a day that is not a high number to achieve.

They cling to the first law like bible but do not even understand it, nor can they explain it in simple terms. They fail to see that calories stored = calories in – calories spent could actually look more like calories stored = calories in – calories spent – “any number of other uses the body may have for that food resource besides energy”

In their small minded and narrow view, the assume that every ounce of every meal is used solely for energy. They ignore that fact that sometimes useable energy is literally excreted away such as ketones in the urine, or even sugar in the urine. Obviously, if energy left the body, the only way possible is to burn it up with exercise, or it gets stored right? I am no physics expert, but to state that we do not sometimes pass useable fuel in our excrement flies in the face of facts as well.

I know enough to know I know next to nothing. I have noticed that the truly competent people are the ones that are open to learning and admitting they may not have all the answers. I never find those people supporting the current “Heart healthy balanced approach to nutrition”. The more we learn, the more we should be realizing we need to learn and that we know very little. Constant certainty is the mindset of a fool, and clinging to dogma the mindset of a blind fanatic.

Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Sadly, I will not get a chance to use it to convince believers that a calorie is a calorie is incorrect. They would rather listen to Jillien Micheals than Einstein in physics circles.

Cheers!

You’ve conjured up a gaggle of old women/witches chanting spells with malevolent glee as they stir the putrid cauldron of their outdated ideas.

To my unenlightened mind, you’ve hit on the perfect description of Kolata, Brody, Burros et al. Do you have a better word to describe them?

I’m a big fan of Gary Taubes and think he represents the Enlightenment after the Dark Ages.

I agree completely with you regarding the biases of Kolata and Brody, but your using the term “coven” several times to describe them betrays a dated, sexist mindset. You’ve conjured up a gaggle of old women/witches chanting spells with malevolent glee as they stir the putrid cauldron of their outdated ideas. I guarantee you would never define a group of men who hold ideas you disagree with, as a coven.