http:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/exclusives\/display_exclusive.html?id=8992<\/a><\/p>\nOn the other hand, I also have quite a problem with so many experts who pass themselves off as experts, too.\u00a0 I was stunned, not long ago, visiting a friend in the hospital who had just barely survived a heart attack.\u00a0 The nutritionist there had him watching a video which insisted on the long-discredited Food Pyramid.\u00a0 It also specifically warned against eating any fats…at all!<\/p>\n
My own conclusion is:\u00a0 as with money, nobody cares about your health as you do.\u00a0 Gather as much information as you can…try what makes sense….and listen to your body.\u00a0 Mine tells me to stay aware from grains—increases the aches in this 77-year old body—but stay close to grass fed beef and red wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At first glance, it’s another case of Pointy-Head Over-reach.\u00a0 Bureaucrats cracking down on a blogger when he has the temerity to recommend the Paleo (Cave Man) diet even though he’s not a professional nutritionist. What he seemed to be doing was recommending the diet to his readers based on his happy experience with what it had done to cure him of diabetes.\u00a0 We recommend the diet, too.\u00a0 But to others, we’re too weak and addicted to coffee, sugar and wine.\u00a0 (Not a complete list) But a careful reading of the story from North Carolina indicates the authorities are making a good point.\u00a0 That you can go too far in passing yourself off as an expert. http:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/exclusives\/display_exclusive.html?id=8992 On the other hand, I also have quite a problem with so many experts who pass themselves off as experts, too.\u00a0 I was stunned, not long ago, visiting a friend in the hospital who had just barely survived a heart attack.\u00a0 The nutritionist there had him watching a video which insisted on the long-discredited Food Pyramid.\u00a0 It also specifically warned against eating any fats…at all! My own conclusion is:\u00a0 as with money, nobody cares about your health as you do.\u00a0 Gather as much information as you can…try what makes sense….and listen to your body.\u00a0 Mine tells me to stay aware from grains—increases the aches in this 77-year old body—but stay close to grass fed beef and red wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-on-the-soap-box"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}