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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid learned the concept of good foods and bad foods in heath class…[/quote]

Oh, that’s infuriating.  As if any food can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

Ugh, wish they would just skip this class![/quote]

Good: fruit and veggies, fish, lean meats and low fat dairy

Bad: saturated fats, processed carbs, red meats, candy, alcohol etc

There ARE good and bad foods. [/quote]

This is false. Recent studies show saturated fats are meats are NOT bad and are actually good. Plants contain phytates, lectins, and oxalates, which are basically antinutrients, binding to nutrients or otherwise preventing them from being absorbed. Plants also contain poorly available forms of micronutrients like betacarotene instead of vitamin A, ALA instead of EPA/DHA, and vitamin k1 instead of k2. THese forms require conversion at very poor rates to be usable by your body. Older studies that suggested plant-based diets were better are based on terrible large epidemiological surveys with questions like, "how many times did you eat meet per week in the last 5 years?" They contain confounders and usually lump red meat with processed meat; the former is just fine, but the latter is bad. By lumping them together, the studies create poor associations. Finally, the studies also incorrectly correlate cholesterol and LDL to poor heart health. In reality, the actual association is between oxidized or damaged LDL, which is caused by inflammation (itself caused by glycation from diabetes or inflammatory grains high in omega-6 fatty acids. Having higher LDL is indicative of nothing specifically unless you look at the makeup of the LDL, which these studies don't. Instead, they just look at something that increases lipids as bad because of a false assumption that correlation has a transitive relationship.[/quote]

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