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Originally Posted by pennsiveguy
The health care industry puts a lot of effort into telling us what we should do to be healthy, because it saves them money. They want me to eat a salad instead of a bacon cheeseburger, because it'll lower the likelihood that I'll need care that they'll have to pay for.
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I had an interesting conversation with my endocrinologist last year, and he could not find a fault with my logic. The "food pyramid" that dictated everything we were forced to eat in our younger days was formulated by lobbyists, not nutritionists. Bread/grain lobby, dairy lobby, even if these things are not good for us, they are still at the proverbial table pitching their stuff. I'm sure that the Metformin and insulin folks are funding the bread lobby, and whoever said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away never saw a blood sugar spike to 325 after eating just one honeycrisp.....