Strategic Research in Preventing Hunger and Obesity

Recorded on 10/25/2017. Series: "UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 33235]

[pauljackson]

Good talk. There is another issue that Brownell doesn't address: the assumptions within scientific disciplines. His team is looking at nutrition and accepts (at the ten-minute mark) two assumptions that many critical analysts reject: that both breakfast and cereal grains are healthy. I reject both of those premises. He does the same thing around the 25 minute mark, where he assumes that plants can grow on the world's savannas without the big herbivores (historically bison, wildebeest, elephants, caribou, etc). See Allan Savory on this issue. Academics are part of the power elite and they accept false premises from other disciplines, propagated by other members of the power elite.

[moirawendy]

Sadly, he provides no evidence for many of his statements. Saturated fat, even 5 years ago when this was made, had been exonerated (though it was slow trickling through to many academics, even those here in Cambridge). His comments on grains (that we should eat them) are just as spurious and lacking evidence. They make me as ill as cattle fed them (read the veterinary science on this. Yes, I'm a cow). Nice chap, but very much in need of a keto diet, grass-fed steak, and a good read of the biochemistry of sat fat.