Surgeon wants butter banned!

[jackass]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1244048/Ban-butter-save-thousands-lives-says-heart-surgeon.html?ITO=1490

[plateau2]

"healthy spread" - WTF is one of those?

"no facts" - exactly.

"Mr Kolvekar's comments were issued by KTB, a public relations company that works for Unilever, the maker of Flora margarine."

Then the article goes on about banning trans fats - ban those healthy spreads then eh?

[ATZ]

Again, why read anything the mainstream media put out with regards to nutrition. It's normally wrong, misinformed, poorly interpreted or all three.

[Narc]

There is one simple rule I live by; question everything anyone says, about anything, regardless of who they are, or how many of them there are.

[JonnyJames]

Cicero would be proud, Narcus Magnus.

[Narc]

Har! I am the 21st century's preeminent, postmodern, existential nihilist, hear me roar!

[ATZ]

The fact is the main body of research into saturated fats and coronary heart disease shows no statistical link between the two. Anthony Colopo's "Great Cholesterol Con" is well worth a read in this respect including the content relating to it's title.

As Narcus says. Question EVERYTHING.

[FAT SAM]

I'll be the one laughing when the faggot doctors and other manufactured so called intellectuals who spurt out this crap get their 140lb SKINNY FAT arse stuck under a body weight bench or squat.

Now that i've got that off my chest, time for buttered crumpets.

[JB]

I'll be the one laughing when the faggot doctors and other manufactured so called intellectuals who spurt out this crap get their 140lb SKINNY FAT arse stuck under a body weight bench or squat.

Now that i've got that off my chest, time for buttered crumpets.Why would a doctor who doesn't train care what he squats?

[chi]

I'll be the one laughing when the faggot doctors and other manufactured so called intellectuals who spurt out this crap get their 140lb SKINNY FAT arse stuck under a body weight bench or squat.

Now that i've got that off my chest, time for buttered crumpets.

yeah but they will be able to perform your life saving heart surgery without getting cramp from bending over you

[FAT SAM]

Point is general practitioners (and surgeons for that matter) know very little about what is and what isn't 'good' for those of us who lift. A GP once told me it was unhealthy to have more than 100 grams of protein a day, and i weighed 240 at the time.

[ATZ]

Sam's right regarding what GP's know about nutrition. They spend very little time on it during their training as my mate who's a doctor confirmed, a few might be switched on but most pedal the mainstream and government crap. Mine told me for instance I had a high BMI so could do with losing weight, I told him to **** off!

[chi]

But Aled, does it really matter how much GPs know about nutrition? The whole point of a GENERAL practitioner is that they have to be able to cover all kinds of illness and injuries. In any case you preach that macro breakdown is far less important that calorie restriction which is all the general population requires.

[plateau2]

Sam's right regarding what GP's know about nutrition. They spend very little time on it during their training as my mate who's a doctor confirmed, a few might be switched on but most pedal the mainstream and government crap. Mine told me for instance I had a high BMI so could do with losing weight, I told him to **** off!

That was your convincing arguement to highlight that we're not all meatheads?

[BengDogg]

I think the problem is the G in GP is of course short for general and generally people don't train, eat the wrong things and are overweight so things like BMI and the like can assess the main stream so that's what they are trained to deal with. I am overweight according to BMI and I am probably one of the skinniest weakest buggers on here.