Although I'd regret it, I'd love ice cream for breakfast
Some cereals are so loaded with sugar and colours you might as well go the whole hog!Technically we are- a lot of cell structures are made from cholesterol in humans and I imagine animals like chickens. Its only when there is too much floating about in your blood it gets crazy.
I do something like this with a full English sometimes.
And since most of the circulating cholesterol is manufactured by the liver and genetically controlled, it's not surprising that the scientific literature on dietary cholesterol as a risk factor has failed to show up major findings. Certainly evidence against saturated fats (but due to a pro-inflammatory effect, not cholesterol) but the evidence on dietary cholesterol continues to be a bit of a media myth...
It does have a bit of a tick tock bad / good / bad thing going on, just like chocolate, wine, cheese etc.
Media science understanding is absolutely dire, and there is always room for an attack on fat people. We released a paper that involved a signalling lipid guiding metastases and the media team repeatedly tried to turn it into "fat people responsible for their own cancer".
That's just food pr0n right there....
THIS is just one of the many things that annoys me so much... media outlets run by arts grads try to "interpret" science to make it as inflammatory and attention grabbing as possible... the cholesterol argument generally is such a typical example - most of the population thinks cholesterol "furs up the arteries" like fat in a kitchen drain because it would be too difficult to explain the whole inflammatory pathway leading to atherosclerosis and platelet aggregation.
It would scare a lot of people though. I was an expert aseptic product pharmacy technician and if I said to patients each syringe has a 5% margin of error due to printing they'd poop themselves- people think science is exact when in many cases its not.That's just food pr0n right there....
THIS is just one of the many things that annoys me so much... media outlets run by arts grads try to "interpret" science to make it a inflammatory and attention grabbing as possible... the cholesterol argument generally is such a typical example - most of the population thinks cholesterol "furs up the arteries" like fat in a kitchen drain because it would be too difficult to explain the whole inflammatory pathway leading to atherosclerosis and platelet aggregation.
It would be refreshing if science journalists were mostly scientists! One of the many reasons I have a soft spot for Ben Goldacre...
One of my favourite stories was a lady years ago who was quite over-bearing with a mousy timid husband in tow who "demanded" a thyroid blood test (as they all do!) to explain her obesity... which came back normal (as they do!)... I said "so the good news is, your thyroid is perfect... you don't have an underactive thyroid"... and this little voice piped up from the other chair "see, told you love... you just have an over-active knife and fork"...
LOL! I bet he got a dinner plate to the head back at homeOne of my favourite stories was a lady years ago who was quite over-bearing with a mousy timid husband in tow who "demanded" a thyroid blood test (as they all do!) to explain her obesity... which came back normal (as they do!)... I said "so the good news is, your thyroid is perfect... you don't have an underactive thyroid"... and this little voice piped up from the other chair "see, told you love... you just have an over-active knife and fork"...
also add in a bit of human error and margins are fluid at best! But then, no-one ever seems to question why doses of all drugs bar chemo are like 20mg, 100mg, 500mg... it's never 374.5mg (apart from neonatal medicine, obvs)... round numbers are so much more appealing!
Even with the most calculated aseptic product there will be variations between bags though, small as they are. I know when I was doing total parenteral nutrition feeds I was always wondering how much of that 1ml syringe really went into the bag compared to a giant 50ml syringe of something else.
There is both a need to accept as a society that fat people can be fit (I know a few obese people who cycle huge distances every day, do martial arts who still get crap even from doctors based on BMI, which is appalling for individual health assessment) and for individual people to accept that, if you don't, your weight may be due to idleness.
Indeed, it comes down to the individual. Its just annoying people are told "if you stay fat you die" and still stuff pies into their faces. The amount of smoker patients who came to me for treatments and then went for a smoke while waiting drove me mad.
It's a difficult one isn't it? Fat and fit beats relatively thin and indolent, but then there are those that come with "oh my knee hurts" at 25 stone... no sh..urprise, Sherlock! But then where do we allow prejudice to stop? Smokers get COPD/cancer, alcoholics get liver failure... but I ride horses and have had some interesting dismounts needing hospital treatment, rugby players break bones, skiers break clavicles, even knitters get RSI... where do we draw the line at "self inflicted"?
I think it comes down to knowing or seeing a patients background and lifestyle to avoid placing people in preset boxes.
