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People who struggle with obesity carry the label of being lazy and lacking will power, yet every overweight person I know struggles with their weight.\u00a0 They listen to the news reports,\u00a0 follow the doctor\u2019s advice meticulously, and are anything but lazy. They fight a lifelong battle against being fat.\u00a0 This is an issue for bioethics because I\u2019m getting angry at being lied to and so should you.\u00a0 Food producers and the diet industry have a special interest in keeping people fat, and the media is in cahoots with them.\u00a0 This new study shows just how far they will go to give misinformation to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent rise of the Keto\u00a0 and the Paleo diets have seen a sharp drop in the sales of processed food.\u00a0 Both lifestyles stress a low carb diet. People are reporting they are feeling much healthier.\u00a0 They are losing weight without using the diet industry.\u00a0 And Type 2 diabetes is being cured within 2 weeks.\u00a0 The gluten free fad has dropped the sale of carbs even more.\u00a0 So now we see a new study has come out purporting that eating carbs is not only good for you, \u00a0it\u2019s NECESSARY.\u00a0 You will lose years off your life if you don\u2019t eat carbs!\u00a0 Or so the claims go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet a quick read shows the study has serious flaws, and perhaps reached a false conclusion to pay off corporate sponsors.\u00a0 People could die from this misinformation.\u00a0 Yet the media have picked up the cry and run full tilt with it.\u00a0 Yes, the study is legitimate in so far as it was published in the August issue of the Lancet<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0 The Lancet<\/em> is kind of the Harvard standard for medical journals. It\u2019s where your doctors get their information from.\u00a0 It\u2019s where the professors who train medical students get their information from. \u00a0So the study has to be true.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 The medical and bioethics communities are wondering how such a poorly run study made it passed the peer review board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THREE CRITICAL PROBLEMS WITH THE METHODOLOGY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Three critical problems exist with the methodology used to reach their conclusion.\u00a0 The first is that their conclusion is based on a conglomeration of studies done over a 25 year period of time.\u00a0 So while they report a huge sample size over a global perspective, this is a mishmash of independent studies.\u00a0 A scientific study has to have controls.\u00a0 You need a controlled environment to rule out other factors that might influence your research.\u00a0 This is why studies are costly and rare.\u00a0 You need to be precise to be accurate.\u00a0 In this study, it was more like going to a yard sale and sorting through the piles.\u00a0 The researchers picked and chose their data, selecting some and ignoring others.\u00a0 They found data that supported their theory.\u00a0 Yard sale shopping is not considered a valid scientific methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second problem is with the study they actually did.\u00a0 The researchers interviewed a smaller sample of people aged 45-60 three times over a 6 year period.\u00a0 The whole study with its \u201ceat carbs or die\u201d message revolves around a food questionnaire the participants filled out, based on what they think they ate during the year before.\u00a0\u00a0 I can barely remember what I ate yesterday, and have no idea of what I ate last week.\u00a0 I have absolutely no clue what I ate last year.\u00a0 So 15,000 middle aged to older people were asked to guess what they ate and how much of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the very most, this would give results that could offer broad categories \u2013 people who were vegetarians would stand out as not eating animal protein and getting their fats from non-dairy related sources.\u00a0 Some people liked to eat fried food.\u00a0 Some people ate fast food on a regular basis.\u00a0 And others ate mostly yogurt and salads with skinless chicken for dinner.\u00a0 A food questionnaire guessed at over a year-long period of time would give you very broad categories indeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other controlled factors\u00a0 were in the study.\u00a0 Some of the participants smoked, drank heavily, slept poorly, didn\u2019t exercise, exercised excessively, ran marathons.\u00a0 Some people had high stress jobs, other were relaxing in retirement.\u00a0 In other words, a whole gamut of factors outside the supposedly controlled study of carbs affect on life span.\u00a0 While the study concluded that the group who ate less carbs died 4 years sooner on average than those who ate moderate carbs, the study also reports that that group consisted of people who smoked heavily, were primarily sedentary, and had diabetes.\u00a0 As Ally Houston <\/a>put it, perhaps it was the smoking and diabetes that caused an early death and not the carbs?\u00a0 Just asking.\u00a0 And so should they.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final fatal flaw that should dismiss this \u201ceat carbs or die\u201d message is that it did not in any way test a low carb diet.\u00a0 Anyone following a Keto or Paleo diet knows that \u201clow carb\u201d means 20g of carbs or less to get the body into a state of Ketosis.\u00a0 Over 20g and insulin starts kicking in again.\u00a0 This study\u2019s definition of \u201clow carb\u201d was less than 40% (<40%) of the total diet.\u00a0 That\u2019s still a high carb diet.\u00a0 There was no complex dance of chemicals that make a low carb lifestyle so effective.\u00a0 \u00a0The researchers never<\/em>\u00a0 studied the health effects of a low carb diet<\/strong>.\u00a0 The results and conclusions are completely invalid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SO WHY THE HEADLINES?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So why are the headlines screaming we need to eat carbs or die young?\u00a0 Because the milk and walnut industries paid for the study.\u00a0 One of the biggest food groups of carbs that people eat on a daily basis is cereal.\u00a0 When low carb people stop eating cereal, they stop using milk on the cereal they are no longer eating.\u00a0 Sales of milk and cereal hit a record low when millennials go Paleo or Keto.\u00a0 And just to make sure you get paranoid and eat lots of carbs, a second<\/em> study\u00a0<\/a>has also just come out saying eating cereal will improve<\/em> your diabetes, sponsored by guess who?\u00a0 The Milk Advisory Board.\u00a0 Surprise, surprise.\u00a0 This study is a paid propaganda piece for the milk industry.\u00a0 Doctors who treat diabetes are furious, and you should be too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People who struggle with obesity carry the label of being lazy and lacking will power, yet every overweight person I know struggles with their weight.\u00a0 They listen to the news reports,\u00a0 follow the doctor\u2019s advice meticulously, and are anything but lazy. They fight a lifelong battle against being fat.\u00a0 This is an issue for bioethics…<\/p>\n

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