A Major NOTMILK Investigation!!! Watching CBS New York News at 4:44 AM on Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Their story: New Information on Butter: Why it is Actually Good for your Health! OK, the first pre-commercial teaser got my attention. Reading from his teleprompter, Chris Wragge, the good-looking brain-dead mannequin-actor talking head reported the news to consumers after the networks third pre-ad teaser: Fear not! Butter and other saturated fats are not tied to heart disease, according to a new study by British researchers. Butter is also rich in vitamins. I accessed the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrient database to clarify just what those rich vitamins and nutrients were. A 100-gram (3.5 ounce) portion of butter contains: According to USDA, one pat of butter contains no iron, no zinc, and just one milligram each of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and sodium. It also contains zero folate, zero niacin, zero Vitamin B-6, one one-hundredth of one microgram of Vitamin B-12, and one-tenth of a microgram of added Vitamin D. That pat also contains 4 grams of fat and 11 milligrams of cholesterol. Since when have fat & cholesterol become vitamins? Vitamin F? Vitamin CH? Why did CBS report this as a new study four months after the actual publication? Why? Because this week, the new press-kit arrived with a biased article written by dairy industry marketing geniuses. The press kit might have included a check for future CBS prime time dairy commercials. Such is the manner in which consumers are betrayed by business-as-usual practices. The actual publication CBS neglected to cite appeared in the March 18, 2014 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, and it was not actually a study. It was a biased review of the scientific literature which included studies friendly to the saturated fat industry, and omitted the T-word; Truth. Conflicts of interests, anyone? The Notmilk investigation revealed that one of the authors, Dr. Mozaffarian, received grants and fees from two major dairy manufacturers, Unilever which owns Ben & Jerrys, Breyers, Klondike ice cream bars, and many other fat-rich dairy products, and Quaker Oats, a subsidiary of PepsiCo which manufactures and distributes dozens of saturated fat-rich dairy products including $tarbuck$ Frappuccino. Another author, Dr. Franco, received grants from Nestle, the company which owns and markets saturated fat-rich Edys, Skinny Cow, and Haagen-Dazs. Dr. Butterworth (an appropriate name for this study) received grants and fees from three major Biotech Pharmaceutical companies. In addition to being absolutely devoid of even one butter benefit, as CBS TV reported, this sloppily researched, poorly written not-so scientific paper included one statistical and numerical inaccuracy after another. See: annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1867071 CAUTION: Watching television can be hazardous to your health.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:34:54 +0000