The Calorie Conspiracy
For generations, it has been known to scientists and society that carbohydrates are fattening and that fat food helps keeping people slim.
It’s not just that the Atkins and South Beach diets corroborate this – succesful diets are easy targets for dogmatic attacks. Science has learned generations ago about the mechanism to store fat: Fat storage happens due to abnormally elevated levels of insulin. And insulin levels can only become highly elevated when “fast” carbohydrates are consumed.
The human organism is designed to be homeostatic (maintaining balance), not permitting obesity without a survival-related reason. If you are on a normal diet, and you overeat, you do not get fat. You excrete the excess calories. What constitutes a normal diet is determined by evolution (genetics) and not by politics, advertizing, culture, dieticians, doctors or taste. Human evolution moved at a snail’s pace the past 100 000 years and our metabolism hasn’t adapted to the the agricultural age, which started around 4 000 years ago. Implying that a normal human diet consists mainly of fish and game, suppleted with berries, nuts, honey, grubs and roots. Most of the year this means mainly fat and protein. People are biologically-proven omnivores and archeologists say we have been hunters and fishermen through the ages.
Over millions of years, the body has evolved to an efficient system. When we splurge on fat and protein, we do not gain weight because as long as game is plentiful, we need to be lean to hunt it successfully. A surplus can be turned to pemmikan so we do not need to store it as debilitating body fat. In autumn, when berries are abundant, we do not need to waste energy hunting, as we live of pemmikan and collect the abundant, vitamin-rich berries. The body stores the excess “autumn carbs” as winter fat, when any kind of food is hard to come by. A perfect system, unless you mess it up by inventing agriculture – constantly fooling it into thinking it’s autumn by over-eating rice, potatoes, bread and pasta.
The conspiracy is that medical doctors don’t tell us how fat storage works: All food is metabolized into simpler chemicals and when excessive carbohydrate intake raises the insulin level and this gets above a critical treshold, fat is deposited. Under influence of this hormone, those chemicals get assembled into lipids. Instead doctors tell us that because fat contains more energy per gram than carbohydrates, fat makes you fatter than carbs. Sounds reasonable, no?
They don’t know any better. Fat contains more calories than carbohydrates and protein only when you burn it in a calorimeter, not when you eat it. People have been shown to be a little bit more complex than calorimeters, and that is ignored by the currupt policy makers in the medical establishment. They have understood the carbohydrate/insulin priciple of weight gain for decades. Ordinary doctors are kept in the dark because Big Pharma publishes or sponsors corrupted course material, -research and high-profile public education programs on the menace of fat and the blessings of carbs.
Qui bono? The only corporate entity that greatly benefits from a morbidly obese population is Big Pharma. Most Western doctors are little more than Big Pharma’s glorified snake-oil salesmen.
Big Pharma needs us to be overweight to sell more expensive meds to lower cholesterol, keep diabetics on life-support and symptom-relieve the many obesity-related ailments. It’s all about shareholder payouts. Their goal is achieved by fooling folks into fattening eating habits, and Big Pharma’s loyal footsoldier – the family physician – can be relied on to ignore all scientific research, obey the dogma and tell you to eat more fattening carbs and less slimming fats. Big Pharma throws a lot of cash around, “educating” the public through government and media brainwashing on how “fat is bad”.
It is up to independent researchers science writers to uncover the scandal.
