Wednesday, 28 November 2012 - 132.4 lbs

Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time by Salvador Dalí, 1939

Up 0.4 lbs from yesterday. Marvelous.

I CRAMMED THESE ALL IN MY FACE HOLE:

white chocolate flavored coffee with cocoa, full fat cream, and coconut oil

2 eggs with full fat cream cooked in bacon grease, with full fat sour cream and salsa

2 slices of bacon

handful of mixed nuts

protein drank (after working back, biceps, forearms, little bit o' abs)

handful of raspberries/strawberries

monster salad (romaine, tomatoes, 2 slices of bacon, turkey meat, full fat sour cream ranch dressing)

handful of nuts

German chocolate wine barrel candy thing

Before we proceed with the Great Fidelio Article Spoon-feed, I found a short video (less than 3 minutes) that is worth a gander that speaks to the whole Keys-fat study fiasco we've been talking about the last couple days. It's actually a brief clip from the movie, Fat Head, about which I will have more to say later. If you dig the clip, though, and think you might like to watch the whole film, a link to it is to your right under the "CLICK 'EM ALL" heading.

Tuesday, 27 November 2012 - 132.0 lbs

Truth by Michael D'Antuono, 2012

Down 0.4 lbs from yesterday and at a new post-boot camp low. Marvelous.

I SWALLOWED THEM ALL:

white chocolate flavored coffee with coconut oil, teaspoon of cocoa, and full fat cream

2 1/2 eggs cooked in bacon grease, w/ salsa and full fat sour cream

2 1/2 slices of bacon

handful of nuts

turkey and havarti and full fat sour cream ranch dressing eaten all willy-nilly like

a piece of chocolate with wine in it. Some German stuff Heather brought home from the store. Yum.

'nother handful of nuts

handful of raspberries and strawberries with a splash of full fat cream

So Yahoo Health posted an interesting article yesterday called Cholesterol Myths that May Surprise You, and I was indeed surprised -- not at the myths that were busted, but rather at the happy realization that more and more mainstream news sources appear to be finally getting wise to the information those in the HFLC community have known about and been discussing for years. Good for them. Hope this stuff gets out to the folks who need to hear it.


THE GREAT FIDELIO ARTICLE SPOON-FEED, PART III
(Part I, Part II)

Well, that was quite a cliffhanger we left off with yesterday, eh? So let's get right to it. What are we to make of Dr. Keys's findings? Well, we should probably consider all the data, and not just that which Dr. Keys chose to publish. To the left are the six countries Dr. Keys used to illustrate the correlation between dietary fat and heart disease mortality. To the right are the twenty-two countries for which the relevant data was available for Dr. Keys to pick and choose from -- and pick and choose he did!

Click me and I get bigger.

So what can we glean when taking into account the data Dr. Keys didn't? Here's a couple items that jump right out at me:

• Mexico ate THREE TIMES the fat Japan did, yet had LOWER heart disease mortality.
• The US and Sweden ate roughly the SAME amount of fat, yet the US had DOUBLE the heart disease mortality.
• Chile and Israel ate roughly the SAME amount of fat, yet Israel had over FOUR TIMES the heart disease mortality.
• France's intake of fat was slightly MORE than that of Australia, but Australia had over SIX TIMES the rate of death by heart disease.
• And here's the big one: Finland had TWENTY-FOUR TIMES the heart disease mortality of Mexico, despite similar fat intake.

Folks, these observations are not mere insignificant anomalies; they are findings that fly directly in the face of Dr. Keys's hypothesis and critically undermine the good doctor's credibility. But even if all we had to go on were the six countries focused on in Keys's study, it is important to remember that correlation does not imply causation. Yet despite the challenges and skepticism from the scientific community that greeted Keys's paper, the media and the American Heart Association took his conclusions and ran with them and never looked back.

And here we are sixty years later...

Bonjour to whoever's dropping in from the land of wine and cheese! Bienvenue!

Monday, 26 November 2012 - 132.4 lbs

The School of Athens by Raphael, 1509-10

Down 0.2 lbs. Marvelous.

items inserted into face hole today:

white chocolate flavored coffee w/ cocoa, full fat cream, and coconut oil

2 slices of bacon

2 eggs & full fat cream cooked in bacon grease, with full fat sour cream and salsa

handful of nuts

protein shake (after working out legs and doing a little cardio)

salad (turkey, romaine lettuce, full fat sour cream ranch dressing [hope to add some avocado and tomato to the mix once we've done some grocery shopping])


THE GREAT FIDELIO ARTICLE SPOON-FEED, PART II
(Part I)

Breakdown of the Men's Health article Saturated Fat: What If Bad Fat Is Actually Good For You? continued: So given the examples of the Masai, the Samburu, and the Fulani, it might be worth asking where and when the whole "saturated fat = heart disease & obesity" belief came from in the first place. Ancel Keys is his name, and data manipulation is his game!

In 1953 Dr. Keys, a physiologist, published his (what would prove to be highly influential) study he titled, "Atherosclerosis, a Problem in Newer Public Health." In it, he looked at the fat intake and heart disease mortality of six countries (the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Italy, and Japan), and found that the higher a country's fat intake, the higher that country's rate of heart disease.

Here's a graph of his findings. Look at it. LOOK AT IT. 

Have you looked at it?

"Goodness gracious, Butch! And you're actually advocating eating this stuff?! Look at the graph, man! LOOK AT IT! It's all there in black and white! The higher the fat, the higher the deaths by heart disease! Please, for the love of Pete, change your crazy ways! Here's a nice bran muffin for breakfast and some tasty granola for a snack! Put down those bacons and eggs and full fat creams! YOUR HEART IS CRYING OUT FOR MERCY!!!"

How will Butch weasel his way out of this one? What can he possibly say in response to the cold, hard data staring him right in his devilishly handsome face? 

Tune in tomorrow! 

(Or, you know, read the article...)