tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post6126870937399888162..comments2024-02-20T16:22:10.042-05:00Comments on Tuit Nutrition: Book Review: Food PoliticsAmy B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08471580967464668110noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-3932871131344876722014-05-24T14:59:50.983-04:002014-05-24T14:59:50.983-04:00Great comment! Couldn't agree more. Dr. Nestle...Great comment! Couldn't agree more. Dr. Nestle is really a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the shady politics behind nutritional legislation, but when it comes to the actual science, it boggles the mind that someone with her academic chops hasn't progressed beyond eat less move more/CICO. This is what we've been trying for about 50 years, and it is NOT working. Doesn't take a PhD to figure that out. Just a pair of eyes and a willingness to look around. I'd love to be able to down a big stack of pancakes loaded with syrup and then go "run it off," but it doesn't work that way.Tuit Nutritionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708859914305178756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833628955058077617.post-13577122435640181622014-05-24T07:44:03.395-04:002014-05-24T07:44:03.395-04:00In some ways, reading Nestle is like the old medie...In some ways, reading Nestle is like the old medieval knights-in-training jousting with the quintain; that was the device mounted on a rotating pole that you amied your lance at but as you passed by it could swing around and hit you from behind. <br /><br />Nestle is great when it comes to reporting on politics and I like her blog and books for that respect. She is absolutely terrible when it comes to nutrition, though, and her ostrich-like stance of simply ignoring more recent data makes her pretty much a non-entity in the field as far as I am concerned. She has repeatedly talked about how it’s a simple question of calories in=calories out and when asked to comment on Gary Taubes’ and others’ writing on the subject she simply refuses to answer.<br /><br />And her stance on obesity can be summed up in her own words: “Want to lose weight? Eat less.” ( http://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/01/want-to-lost-weight-eat-less/ )<br /><br />So here you go, Marion: if Gary Taubes is wrong, PROVE IT to me. I don’t have an advanced degree and you do; I’m not really in a position to evaluate the nuts and bolts of these arguments the way you are (presumably) equipped to do, so since Taubes’ books seem to refute your entire take on how obesity works, why don’t you show me why I am wrong to come to this conclusion? After having asked you to do this several times on your blog, and after having received not even an acknowledgement of the question I can only conclude that you are hoping the question will go away. <br /><br />It will not.<br /><br />At some point you have to acknowlege the elephant in the room, or even kill it if you can. But your continued refusal to even engage the issue speaks volumes about your inability to come to grips with an idea that does not agree with your own thinking; you are doing what you claim to despise in others - you are letting your own bias rule your conclusions.<br /><br />Amy, please keep Netsle’s feet in the fire on this issue; just as the societal paradigm seems to be finally tilting perhaps Nestle can change her attitude if enough people ask her to justify her position rather than simply kneeling at her feet and bowing to the authority figure.<br /><br />-–<br /><br />I am having a heck of a time getting your blog to accept my comment via my Wordpress account; I am having to try under a different name, which is very strange. Please delete any extra copies of this that may have appeared.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com