Protecting the Status Quo

She is a clever lady. She knows the game is up, but she'll go down fighting.

The status quo won't change on her watch. Too much money involved.

Many people, before and since, have tried to stand against the paradigm

I've told you about the end on George Mann's career.

There are dozens of people now protesting that the Dietary Guidelines are wrong, and risking their careers to say so.

Dr Elizabeth Nabel Affirms the Guidelines

Dr Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH appeared on television to confirm that people should strive to eat the recommended diet. (2006)

The recommended diet is a low-fat and high-carbohydrate diet.

She laid emphasis on the need to reduce the saturated fat in the diet.

Ten years later, this is much the same stance, as that taken by the highly respected Dr Jim Mann, here in New Zealand, in 2016.

Today in South Africa, and in Australia, there is also a strenuous defence of the status quo. Dr Tim Noakes, wonders why the attack against him is so robust and determined. He suspects that forces in the food industry and pharmaceutical companies, are funding both research, and public statements, in support of the status quo.

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