and so on.A new Swedish study says decades of official dairy wisdom is wrong. Here, a nutrition expert examines more science that questions standard health advice.
Over the past 70 years the public health establishment in Anglophone countries has issued a number of diet rules, their common thread being that the natural ingredients populations all around the world have eaten for millennia – meat, dairy, eggs and more – and certain components of these foods, notably saturated fat, are dangerous for human health.
The consequences of these diet ordinances are all around us: 60% of Britons are now overweight or obese, and the country’s metabolic health has never been worse.
Government-led lack of trust in the healthfulness of whole foods in their natural forms encouraged us to buy foods that have been physically and chemically modified, such as salt-reduced cheese and skimmed milk, supposedly to make them healthier for us.
Too much meat is probably being eaten nowadays, but we shouldn't just eat the occasional top-price steak! I believe in nose-to-tail-eating, and I do like stew and offal and dishes made with mince - the beef or other meat that isn't steak!
I remember my dad getting pigs' tails from the local butcher who slaughtered his own when I was a child: Grilled they were basically crackling on a stick!
Happy days!
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