Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Save the Planet. Starve Pregnant Women!

I don't believe the extent of the madness invading reputedly scientific bodies in this country. Some of the more colourful people around the place have often claimed that dietary guidelines are often political rather than scientifically based.


Now Andrew Bolt shows that that the green agenda has invaded Austalia's health standards body.


The lunatics are in charge of Asylum Australia:


AUSTRALIA’S top health standards body has been accused of subverting food science to fit a green agenda.


It did this by suggesting caps on meat and fish intake on environmental grounds—even though pregnant women risk nutritional deficiencies as a result.


The National Health and Medical Research Council, in redrawing Australia’s official dietary guidelines, has triggered a storm of protest from expert bodies, which warn that no good evidence has been provided to back its approach.


Two of Australia’s top health science organisations, the CSIRO and the National Heart Foundation, also warn there is insufficient evidence for limiting red meat intake to 455g a week, or fish to just one weekly serving…


The NHMRC’s document itself admits the environmentally-driven limits “challenged the ability to attain some RDIs (recommended dietary intakes) within the energy constraints of the foundation diets"… While it admitted a goal of the modelling exercise was to consider eating patterns that were “culturally acceptable, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable”, it denied the science had been downgraded. [/quote]


It’s one small glimmer of hope in this midnight of madness that even the warmist CSIRO is now accusing other bodies of been corrupted by the green faith.[/quote]

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