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The American Heart Association

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…continues to preach junk science:

The American Heart Association recommends a heart-healthy dietary pattern emphasizing fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other nutritious foods and specifically that at least half of grain consumption should be whole grains. Whole grains provide many nutrients, such as fiber, B vitamins, and minerals, which are removed during the refining process.

No protein, no fat. This is the kind of diet that helped kill my father from his second heart attack decades ago, at age 55.

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  1. Actually, whole grains have some protein and fat grams — in the wheat germ, for example. If you are not going to be on a no-grains Atkins-type diet, the fiber in whole grains helps with . . . you get the idea. I take that fiber effect as I purchase multi-grain bread for its richer taste, but when I don’t get that fiber, I certainly notice it.

    There is a lot of sugar in fruit, but I guess the thinking goes that the fiber content moderates the absorption of that sugar. I have heard it said that drinking fruit juice with the fiber strained out is maybe not that much different from drinking soda pop, although that has phosphoric acid that does a number on your teeth. But whole fruit has the fiber.

    1. I’ve not once found the need for fiber once I started eating fat. I think the whole issue with constipation these days is that people don’t eat enough fat.

        1. Word. It was reported in medical journals in the 1930s that a ketogenic diet is an effective treatment for constipation.

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