Food charts
Why I don't believe anything I see in the news
Look at this from Tufts University.
This is their list ranking best to worst foods for your health.
Yes, they believe Frosted Mini Wheats, chocolate covered almonds and Honey Nut Cheerios are 3 of the top 8 foods to eat for your health.
Are they out of their minds??
Where did they come up with this?
Did they write this or was it ghostwritten perhaps by their sponsors?
Please click in the link above.
Pretty please if the first please did not get you to click.
If you don’t like links I put the pic below.
Examples of organizations that have recently provided research grant funding:
Foundations - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates Medical Research Institute, Lupus Research Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Hemophilia Foundation
Private Sector - Abbvie, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Biogen, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, CSL Behring, Covance, Eli Lilly, EMD Serono, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM Watson Health, ICON, IQVIA, J&J, Medidata Solutions, Merck, Oracle Clinical, Otsuka, Parexel, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Seagen, Syneos Health, Takeda, UCB, Veeva Systems, Veristat, Quotient Sciences, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Daiichi Sankyo, Novo Nordisk
Associations - Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP), Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Drug Information Association (DIA), International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS)
Government Agencies - Department of Defense, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Mental Health
Public-Private Partnership - Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
Consulting Firms - Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, ZS
Do ya think maybe the $$$ for the research grants had any effect on what Tufts put out for healthiest foods????
I guess Tufts nor their sponsors have heard about nutrient bioavailabilty, meaning of the food you consume, how much of it is absorbed and assimilated safely into your body.
You should click this link and read it for yourself.
But I doubt Tufts cares about bioavailabilty. They have their marching orders to sway public opinion in the direction of their sponsors. If not I suppose it would possibly cause them to lose some sponsor $$ for future research???
FYI:
Most of research done today in the health and sciences that is funded by either government or corporations are funded to proclaim the desired outcome of the funders. So please read the news/media with a grain of salt.
Someone took the time to fix Tufts original chart to make it healthier.
Sorry it is not larger but they just turned it upside down to make it healthier, just like should be done to the food pyramid.
I know, you keep hearing every day how it is the fat that is causing all the obesity in our country. Well let’s look at a quick diagram.
It stopped charting in 2010 but let’s look at this anywho..
The red at the bottom shows the amount of calories from meat, eggs and nuts from 1970 thru 2010. These are the fatty foods we are told to limit. There is no change over those 40 years. The same can be said for dairy, fruits and vegetables, you know, #RealFood.
Now let’s see what increased over those 40 years.
They be the following:
flour and cereal products
ADDED fats and oils and dairy fats
ADDED sugars and sweeteners
So why don’t we hear from the government dietary “experts” that the changes over 40 years that brought on Obesity and its related diseases was not from meat and natural foods, but instead from all the processed carbohydrate and fake fat food “products” they told us to consume more of???
I have an idea why.
Tell me if you agree or disagree in the comments.
If you look at the sponsors for the Tufts Food Compass Score, how much would you bet that they also sponsor the government recommendations??
If you want to get healthier and eat a cleaner diet, think back about 4-5-6 generations and ask yourself what your great-great-great grandparents would have eaten, and eat like them. I can almost guarantee you they did not eat anything like what Tufts wants you to eat, and they only ate #RealFood .
I will end with this pic/meme/quote just because I liked it and think it is very accurate in today’s world.
As always questions and comments welcome.
I love what Michael Pollan says about only eat foods your grandmother would have recognized. These heavily processed "foods" affect our body's immune system's ability to fight germs, invaders, foreign substances because the lines get too fuzzy.
And then ya have to consider the associations that those associations are tied to which also happen to influence their agendas (or their collective agenda) as sponsors, but don't directly appear on the list themselves.
The cereal and candy aisles have given me the heebie jeebies for awhile now. The fact that half of the items on that chart were even considered common food choices is enough to leave one feeling very alone 🥲