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“How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies”
A randomized, crossover trial, which compared a high-fat cheese diet, to a high-fat meat diet, to a low-fat diet. And, people ended up with the same cholesterol levels.
Half the study was paid for in part by the dairy industry, and the other half paid for by dairy, dairy, dairy, and dairy. If you’re the dairy industry, and you’re trying to design a study to show that a high-cheese diet doesn’t raise cholesterol, how would you go about doing that? They added so much coconut oil and cookies to the so-called low-fat diet that they all had the same amount of saturated fat. That’s how you can make a cheese- or meat-rich diet that doesn’t raise cholesterol.
Milk consumption has plummeted in recent years. What’s the National Dairy Council to do? How are you going to design a study that shows it’s healthier to eat cheese; design a study where cheese causes less inflammation than the vegan alternative. Daiya is no health food by any stretch, but definitely three times less saturated fat than cow cheese.
There is one fat that may cause more inflammation than milk fat: palm oil. In fact, it may raise cholesterol levels as much as trans fat—laden partially hydrogenated oil. They compared cheese to Daiya “plus palm oil”—so much extra palm oil that the vegan alternative meal ended up having the same amount of saturated fat as the cheese meal.
That’s like proving tofu is worse than beef by doing a study where they compared a beef burger to a tofu patty…stuffed with lard. Oh, wait, the meat industry already did that, but at least they had the decency to concede that “Replacement of meat with tofu in the habitual diet would not usually be accompanied by the addition of butter and lard.”
“奶制品行业是如何设计误导性研究的”
这是一项随机的交叉试验，在试验过程中比较了高脂奶酪膳食、高脂肉类膳食和低脂膳食这三者的区别。人们发现，三种饮食的受试者胆固醇值的最终结果是一样的。
这个研究的一半经费是由某个国家的奶制品行业支付的，另一半经费则是由其他多个国家的奶制品行业联合分担的。如果你是奶制品行业的人，你要尝试设计一项研究，来表明高奶酪膳食并不会增加胆固醇的话，你会怎么做呢？他们在所谓的低脂无奶膳食中添加了非常多的椰子油和饼干，以至于3种膳食的饱和脂肪量最终相等了。这样的话，即使是富含奶酪或肉类的膳食也不会令受试者的胆固醇升高了。
近年来人们的牛奶消费量急剧下降。那国家奶制品委员会又要如何应对呢？该如何设计一项研究，以表明吃牛奶奶酪更健康呢？该如何设计一项研究，使得食用牛奶奶酪比起植物奶酪来说，更不容易使人得炎症呢？植物奶酪虽然也不是什么健康食品，但比起牛奶奶酪来说，它的饱和脂肪确确实实少了将近三倍。
实际上的确有一样东西比乳脂更容易导致炎症：棕榈油。事实上，棕榈油和含有反式脂肪的部分氢化油，在提升胆固醇值的能力上，水平不相上下。奶制品委员会把牛奶奶酪和添加了棕榈油的植物奶酪相比较。这些大量额外添加的棕榈油，使得植物奶酪替代品和牛奶奶酪里的饱和脂肪含量变得一样多了。
这就像为了证明豆腐不如牛肉健康，就把牛肉汉堡和塞了很多猪油的豆腐“肉饼”进行比较一样。哦，等等，原来肉类产业已经在这么做了。但起码他们还大方的承认了，“通常在饮食中用豆腐作为肉类替代品的时候，我们是不会在豆腐里添加黄油和猪油的”。