Big Cheese vs. Real Cheese

[marmar]

from the Civil Eats blog:



Big Cheese vs. Real Cheese
November 12th, 2010 By Kristin Wartman


As shocking as the news is that the United States Department of Agriculture facilitated a cheese bailout with a $12 million marketing campaign to help sell Domino’s Pizza, I believe there is much more to the New York Times story as it affects average Americans and their ever-expanding waist lines.

The story makes a strong case for the correlation between saturated fat consumption and obesity. Michael Moss nails the issue of the USDA’s two-sided policy: promoting cheese consumption in the form of Domino’s Pizza, while simultaneously working to fight obesity by discouraging some of these very same foods.

But as I see it, cheese in itself is not the problem—the issues are deeper and more complex than that. Conventional wisdom says that saturated fat is bad and at the root of the American obesity and diabetes epidemics. The Times article says, “One slice contains as much as two-thirds of the day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease.” But let’s look a little deeper at this claim.

Animal products, the primary sources of saturated fats, are foods that human beings have eaten since our beginnings. In fact, often times these were the only foods around in the form of wild game or fish and seafood. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors thrived on these animals as well as foraged vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and other plant materials.

These foods were unadulterated and in their full-fat form. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://civileats.com/2010/11/12/big-cheese-vs-the-real-cheese/

[madrchsod]

1. our ancient ancestors burned off the fat and we do`t.

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2. Thanks So Much..

as someone recently diagnosed with CColitis I've been changing my diet. This is a wonderful website that I'll be learning from.

Our ancient ancestors didn't have access to the fat we eat, or the salt, and then there are the chemicals and corn syrup. It's more than physical activity but that is part of it.