The Primal Blueprint named one of the most unhealthy books!

Kimia

The Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010

A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
December 2010

The Primal Blueprint Cookbook: Primal, Low Carb, Paleo, Grain-Free, Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free
By Mark Sisson and Jennifer Meier
The Primal Blueprint sets back evidence-based nutrition nearly 2 million years with its meat-heavy diet. Along with artery-clogging “Paleo” recipes for Primal Pot Roast and Sausage Stew, this book includes an entire section of cholesterol-laden recipes for offal—entrails and internal organs. The authors say recipes like these are ideal for followers of Atkins and other low-carb diets. But a recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that a low-carbohydrate diet based on animal food sources increases mortality risk from all causes, including cancer and heart disease.

How do you know who to believe? It's all so confusing.

Link: http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/five_worst_cookbooks_2010.html

Dixie Chick

I know, im hoping some of more sciency-brained friends will come on and tell us that the above report is actually bunk, cos i love the Primal book

El_Dangeroso

It's from the PCRM, the medical wing of PETA, these people aren't doctors, or even scientists for the most part, they're a radical animal rights organisation.

The American Medical Association has called PCRM a “fringe organization” that uses “unethical tactics” and is “interested in perverting medical science.”

Look at the language they use, very emotive, hardly what you'd call scientific objectivity. Every person with half a brain knows that dietary cholesterol doesn't bear any influence on blood cholesterol, but the PCRM never let facts get in the way of a good smear campaign. These are the people that called cheese 'morphine on a cracker' lol!

Also, the 'low carbohydrate' diet study wasn't a low carbohydrate diet study at all, no where near in fact. Great debunking in this article:

New Study Shows that Lying About Your Hamburger Intake Prevents Disease and Death When You Eat a Low-Carb Diet High in Carbohydrates

These people crack me up, it's just too easy to show them up. I consider the appearance on this list to be a great endorsement. I'm checking out the other books on the list to add to my amazon wishlist in fact.

Kimia

Hurrah! It's just so hard to separate this scare-mongering with real fact.

FTGFOP

WRT their criticism of offal dishes: I thought the role of dietary cholesterol in hypercholesterolemia is now considered minor? I'm far from a low-carber, but that struck me anyway.

I have a problem with them ragging on cookbooks in a more general way though, it's as if it hasn't occurred to them that one can eat and cook purely for pleasure and that there's no role for food other than maximising our lifespans, like we're all bloody robots or something.

As for the recent study funded by the National Institutes of Health, I'd be surprised if the paleos on here couldn't find their own study to say the opposite.

Nobody has a clue what's good and what's bad, diet-wise, for long term human health. First off no two humans are identical and second the body is a hugely complicated system. Given how much difficulty long range weather prediction causes meteorologists, I'd take with a pinch of salt (yum) the criticisms of the Medical / Nutritional Science fraternity of what's on peoples plates.

I'll leave the last word to Lewis Black NSFW (swears a lot):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXS5GBuk-GQ

Edit: This post was relevant an hour ago.

Renn

British Pheasant Casserole (two pheasants, smoked bacon, butter, and double cream)

Sounds delicious

FTGFOP

I'm a Lewis Black spammer all-of-a-sudden, but it was this bit of the show more than the video above that I wanted to put up. :rolleyes:
(Again, NSFW)

I'm going to eat some sausages now, F U Peta! ...sort of, they're free-range pork :cool:

Sapsorrow

Kimia wrote: »

How do you know who to believe? It's all so confusing.

Link: http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/five_worst_cookbooks_2010.html

Ha Colin T Campbell is a senior member of that organisation! Surprised much!? :pac:

El_Dangeroso

Kimia wrote: »

Hurrah! It's just so hard to separate this scare-mongering with real fact.

Very true, I came across a good quote on twitter for this:

"When someone tells you to give up real, whole food & replace it with anything else, question their theory & question them. Incessantly."

Sapsorrow

Not to mention Esselstyn, McDougall and Weil! :eek: All vegan or at a stretch veggie diet gurus!

El_Dangeroso

Sapsorrow wrote: »

Not to mention Esselstyn, McDougall and Weil! :eek: All vegan or at a stretch veggie diet gurus!

I know, in fairness they do get good results in the short term, but mostly down to ditching the refined carbs and reducing fat so low that it's impossible to get that much omega 6. Ain't nothing to do with butter, cream or meat.