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1. Not all potatoes are equal. Some have much higher glycemic loads than others. Russets are the worst common ones. Sweet potatoes aren't even comparable to what most Americans are eating.

Glycemic index and glycemic load is not an index of healthiness, it's just one characteristic of food.

An average Chocolate Cake has an index of 30 while Shredded Wheat has 83 and Carrots have 92. Is carrots going to give you diabetes?

Inuit/Eskimo diets didn't have a lot of carbs until recently, and then their health went to hell along with everyone else.

The Inuit were healthy myth was propragated by researchers Band & Dyerberg:
"The fact is they never examined the cardiovascular status of the Eskimos; they just accepted at face value this notion that coronary atherosclerosis is almost unknown among the Eskimo, a concept that has been disproven over and over starting in the 30s. In fact, going back over a thousand years, we have frozen Eskimo mummies with atherosclerosis. Another from 500 years ago, a woman in her early 40s – atherosclerosis in her aorta and coronary arteries. And these aren’t just isolated cases. The totality of evidence from actual clinical investigations, autopsies, and imaging techniques is that they have the same plague of coronary artery disease that non Eskimo populations have, and actually have twice the fatal stroke rate and don’t live particularly long."

The fact is the Eskimo died relatively young, had high rates of atherosclerosis, heart disease, and strokes.

"Such dismal health that the Westernization of their diets actually lowered their rates of ischemic heart disease. You know your diet’s bad when the arrival of Twinkies improves your health."

Even today they live 10 years shorter than the surrounding population.

Fat isn't the problem; at least not for diabetes.

Look up diabetes and lipotoxicity. Dietary fat converts readily to body fat with somewhere around 97% conversion rate. Carbohydrates do not (very low conversion even on moderate overfeeding) but an excess of carbs will signal to the body to story any dietary fat. Important thing is to eat carbs as grown, and less from a package, since it's more calorie dilute. Pasta with it's water content is the one exception I know, although whole foods still is better. Try to minimize fats, vegetable or animal, as they're much more rare in nature.

Stop passing complete misinformation. All plants foods have complete protein.

I've been vegan 15 years. No great knowledge needed.

Yeah, about that, read this.

And then, when you're done, you can watch this.

Then read up on human heritage, specifically our ~60 millions years of herbivourous heritage. Indeed, I have only heard one factor more compelling than saturated fat in relation to heart disease, consumption of animal proteins. Satfat and Animal proteins are often married together though.

Like the Tobacco Industry of the 1950s and 1960s, meat/dairy/egg industry loves funding studies to confuse the issue. Tobacco had near a thousand studies on its side when the surgeon general made his landmark 1964 report (something like 6,000-7,000 studies on the other side).

and incapable of truly deriving the conclusion it suggests. An explanation of a similar study can be found here: https://nutritionfacts.org/vid...

Dietary science isn't as contradictory as it seems. A lot of industry-sponsored science just tries to manufacture doubt in order to make it harder for consumers to be decisive in their dietary choices.

nutrition for depression

Now if we stop talking about mice and start talking about people we can look at what the science has always shown. There are things called diseases of modern culture. As in indigenous people who don't eat like western cultures have low cancer and mental illness rates and no heart attacks.

Except that science has never shown that. Atherosclerosis has been found in mummies (not just from Egypt but also Peru, the southwest America, and the Aleutian Islands), and the idea that modern Inuit have low rates of heart disease was never evidence-based

Fats and proteins don't spike the blood sugar.

But protein does spike insulin.

What science actually shows is what it's always shown: a diet based around whole plant foods, high in fiber and moderate to low in fat and protein, is the most healthful for primates, including those weird bald ones.

It has RDA of calories, and if you're drinking soda, then 100% of the calories are from sugar (or corn syrup, for most soda in the US). There is no RDA for sugar specifically because there are no scientific guidelines, not because the FDA is part of some grand conspiracy to keep it a secret.

Well, the WHO tried to set very specific and LOW limits on what human daily sugar consumption should have been a few years ago. The US sugar consortium had our govt basically tell the WHO to remove such bad and low recommendations or we'd withhold our funds and a lot of that language was stricken from the WHO recommendations.

There was apparently an attempt to lower sugar recommendations from The McGovern committee to study food and the US.

Here

And interesting video on the report too HERE.

Here's a little of what WHO was proposing

. Give this movie a watch, it is free to stream on Netflix, called Fed Up . It has some very interesting insights into sugar and its impact on society from since about the 70's...

NutritionFacts: studies on alzheimers

Ooops sorry wrong link. This one talks about risk plateau: http://nutritionfacts.org/vide...

It seems awfully unscientific to come to any kind of conclusion based on a study of 16 people over a 3 week period with engineered diets.

There is a saturated fat plateau. When you consume enough saturate fats, you cannot absorb them, but that doesn't mean it's a healthy amount to eat.

Add this to the list of misleading studies: http://nutritionfacts.org/vide...

It's usually injected salt water: http://nutritionfacts.org/vide...

Even more rubbish. You clearly did not see Michael's Greger video like I said. He cite all the studies in every video he post. This is mainstream science, however it is too recent to be mainstream (most are 2009 to 2012) so I understand why people are not aware of it yet. The media is slow to pick up these facts. Please, spend a few minutes to do a search for "eggs" on his website www.nutritionfacts.org trust me you will be amazed to what you find. Don't forget to click the "Sources cited" too! Here's a good one for you to start: http://nutritionfacts.org/vide...

A page about nutrition and what science has to say about it. All videos have links to the original research so that you can check that the good Dr isn't making shit up.
There are a few videos about endotoxins and their effect. Feel free to have a look.
http://nutritionfacts.org/index.php?s=endotoxins

The guys solution is probably not what most people have in mind.
So far I haven't seen anyone well researched refute the guy.
This was the video lecture that got me interested in what he had to say: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/

A page about nutrition and what science has to say about it. All videos have links to the original research so that you can check that the good Dr isn't making shit up.
There are a few videos about endotoxins and their effect. Feel free to have a look.
http://nutritionfacts.org/index.php?s=endotoxins

The guys solution is probably not what most people have in mind.
So far I haven't seen anyone well researched refute the guy.
This was the video lecture that got me interested in what he had to say: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/