Did anyone watch Catalyst last night?

[donnashuggy]

I think the jury is out, low fat is out and back to normal eating is in.

[cherry*135]

I do not eat processed food, but I wonder what they mean by "reduced salt", like in butter, which used to be more expensive than slated, I assume it means not so much salt added?  Or do they put heaps of salt in and then reduce it?  LOL

If normal butter has, for example,  4 teaspoons of salt in it, then reduced salt could have 2, or 3 tsps of salt in it.

Butter with no salt in it is readily available and costs the same as butter with salt now.

I don't like salt, none or the lower qty of it added to food the better.

[cherry*135]

donna: Processed food is a no no and that is easy to avoid

Does that mean people rarely buy it or are the fast food businesses booming.. pizza anyone?

As for processed food sold in supermarkets - what about homebrand cheese slices..100% processed probably.. yet people still buy it.

[donnashuggy]

Oh I mean it is easy for me to avoid it. If you have to read ingredients on a label just avoid it........well, something like that.

[donnashuggy]

[polksaladallie]

It wasn't from the internet.  It is from one of Australia's leading cardiologists.  And my GP agrees with it.

The discovery came about when a cardiologist in the US kept seeing heart attack patients with very low cholesterol, and non-heart attack patients with very high cholesterol.

He researched and found that the very low cholesterol heart attack patients had high coronary calcium scores, and the high cholesterol patients had low CC scores.

The consensus is that only those with high cholesterol and high CC scores need to take statins, and others are wasting their money.

[freddie*rooster]

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@am*3 wrote:

Is that a link to Catalyst?

Last year they had  a program about the use of prescription medicine to control  cholesterol levels.. Catalyst concluded the drugs are unnecessary.That the drugs are used to control something that may never happen (stroke, heart attack). That program was controversial and Dr's (rightly or wrongly) stated people should keep taking their cholesterol medication.

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am there was talk also that Doctor's were given incentives, holiday and the like by big drug companies to prescribe cholesterol medication to their patients. It's a drug they say once you start it if you stop your cholesterol goes through the roof. I stopped mine a few years ago and have never taken it again due to horrible side effects. They say if your blood pressure is stable, you exercise, don't smoke, and there isn't a history of heart disease you can live with elevated cholesterol.

[donnashuggy]

Most doctors recommend avoiding the drug and work on diet I thought???

Anyway, this is my tip for the day:

[j*oono]

That's not me in that photo.  Honest.  

This all sounds good to me though.  Bring on Sunday brunch.  I've never gone for low fat anything.  I think it is quite well known now that low fat products are generally less healthy than  full fat or natural.  I accidentally bought some yoghurt with artificial sweeteners and it was horrible.

Have to admit, I am addicted to Jols lollies and Eclipse mints. Usually both together.

Edit: talking about the lolly aisle photo.

[***super_nova***]

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@am*3 wrote:

I do not eat processed food, but I wonder what they mean by "reduced salt", like in butter, which used to be more expensive than slated, I assume it means not so much salt added?  Or do they put heaps of salt in and then reduce it?  LOL

If normal butter has, for example,  4 teaspoons of salt in it, then reduced salt could have 2, or 3 tsps of salt in it.

Butter with no salt in it is readily available and costs the same as butter with salt now.

I don't like salt, none or the lower qty of it added to food the better.

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What I meant is that in other countries, like in Europe, butter never had salt added to it.  Australian butter  had ridiculous amount .  I stopped adding salt to our food some 30+ years ago. 

In shops I do not even look at the salted butter, so I do not know what the difference in price is.  🙂

[nero_bolt]

Excellent show last night and fully agree with it.... 

But now the so called experts are trying to counter the Catalyst show

ABC’s Catalyst program under fire over pushing controversial low carbohydrate diet

EXPERTS have challenged the extreme low carbohydrate diet pushed on the ABCs Catalyst program warning it could be bad for bowel health and does not contain enough nutrients.

Dietician Rosemary Stanton who helped write the NHMRC national dietary guidelines says a lower carbohydrate diet is good if people cut out cakes, biscuits and sugary breakfast cereals.

These junk foods now make up 35 per cent of our diet, she said.

However, she says they should still eat the carbohydrates in wholegrains and fruit.

“I’m not saying the (low carbohydrate diet) will cause bowel cancer but there are plenty of studies showing diets high in wholegrains and fruit reduce the risk of bowel cancer and diabetes,” she said.

“You won’t get all the vitamins you need (on the low carbohydrate diet), you’d have to take supplements,” she said.

She’s also warned the extreme low carbohydrate diets featured on the program will leave you with constipation and bad breath that smells like acetone nail polish remover.

More here 

http://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/health/abcs-catalyst-program-under-fire-over-pushing-controv...