Have A Doughnut: FDA
Scare Debunked by Study
by Steve Milloy 23 Sep 2015
The quality of baked goods and processed foods is slated
to take a hit over the next few years, since the Food
& Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that
trans fats will be phased out of the foods we enjoy. But a new study has
exposed the trans fat worry as junk science-based.
Trans fats are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils that
are solid at room temperature. Some are natural and some are manmade. They have
been long been a key ingredient in products like margarine, doughnuts,
microwave popcorn, cookies, coffee creamers, ready-to-use frostings and much
more. Trans fats help make products creamy and have a much longer shelf-life
than their alternative, lard.
Where did the trans fats scare come from? As it became
obvious in the 1990s that the health scare over dietary saturated (animal) fats
was entirely bogus, a couple of Harvard researchers decided to shift the scare
over saturated fats to trans fats.
Walter Willett and Albert Ascherio thus began a crusade to
demagogue trans fats. They published a number of studies and then published
reviews of their own studies condemning trans fats as a cause of heart disease.
The studies were readily embraced without question by the food nanny
establishment, which never misses a chance to scare us about the food we eat.
Eventually, a panel of food nannies at the National Institute of
Medicine concluded that there was
“no safe level” of trans fat consumption. Finally last June, the FDA revoked the
Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) status for trans fats claiming that
eating food with trans fats “increased risk of coronary heart disease by
contributing to the buildup of plaque inside the arteries that may cause a heart
attack.” The same ill-fated claim had been previously made about saturated
fats, which is why consumers switched from butter to margarine in the first
place.
Now come government-funded German researchers who have had
the guts to publish in the European Heart Journal their
politically incorrect and myth-shattering results.
Studying more than 3,200 people for an average of ten years,
the researchers measured the trans fatty acid composition of their blood cell
membranes and compared those levels with cardiac disease outcomes. Neither
natural nor industrial trans fats were statistically associated with adverse
cardiac outcomes.
This is not unexpected as there never has been any credible
evidence that trans fats are associated with heart disease. The Willet/Ascherio
series of studies were all exercises in cherry-picked statistical noise. No
study contained reliable data on how much trans fats (or really anything else)
any study subject consumed or what other confounding risk factors for heart
disease the study subjects may have had. No heart attack had ever been
biologically or medically determined to have been caused by trans fats.
While clinical studies indicate that eating trans fats
temporarily raises LDL (so called “bad”) cholesterol and temporarily lowers HDL
(so-called “good” cholesterol), this is a transient physiological phenomenon
without demonstrated long-term effect. Not only does no one really understand
cholesterol — despite the “good” and “bad” monikers any physiological
effect (even drinking water) can be mindlessly extrapolated into a health risk.
Time has nothing but expose food nannies for the frauds they
are. Long-demagogued animal fat, cholesterol, and salt, for example, have all
been rehabilitated by science and reality, though they remain lodged in the
fact-free food nanny doghouse.
Like all successful long-term grifters, the
government-funded food nanny establishment has been able to survive despite its
many failures because it has been able to successfully shift public focus from
one new scare to another. By the time reality catches up with the old scare,
the new scare is already way down the road, with a gullible and/or complicit media
greasing the skids.
Consumers pay a heavy price from these scares through
misplaced and unnecessary worry, higher food costs, fewer choices and worse
tasting food. Billions of dollars of taxpayer money are spent propping up
scares in order to maintain the reputation of the government-university food
nanny industrial complex.
Cut its funding. Cut the scares. Pass the doughnuts.
Food
& Drug Administration (FDA)
Margaret A.
Hamburg was the commissioner for the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is David
A. Hamburg’s daughter, and the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Note: David A. Hamburg
is Margaret A. Hamburg’s father, an adviser
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, was the president of the Institute of Medicine, and a professor at Harvard University.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the National Academy of Sciences, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Institute
of Medicine is the health arm for the National
Academy of Sciences.
Harvey V.
Fineberg is the president of the Institute
of Medicine, and a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and
a supporter for the the Center for
American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Center
for American Progress.
Donald
Kennedy was a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Mark B. McClellan
was a commissioner for the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Margaret A.
Hamburg is the VP for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank), David
A. Hamburg’s daughter, and was the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
David A. Hamburg
is Margaret A. Hamburg’s father, an adviser
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, was the president of the Institute of Medicine, and a professor at Harvard University.
Harvard is a 'hedge fund with a university attached to
it' Slate (PAST RESEARCH ON HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Sunday, September
20, 2015
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the National Academy of Sciences, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Institute
of Medicine is the health arm for the National
Academy of Sciences.
Newton
N. Minow is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, and was
the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress, was a health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a founding chair of the Department
of Bioethics at the National Institutes
of Health.
National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is a division of the National Institutes of Health.
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