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In India, when they ate a lot of dairy fat, ghee is clarified butter. I made ghee famous in the US by putting it in coffee. Well, they didn't have all this diabetes, all this heart attack stuff. It was only when American companies came to India, and then we convinced them to get rid of their traditional oils to have healthy vegetable oil and charge them more for it, that obesity skyrocketed. So we know that it's seed oils that are causing diabetes and even cancer. So he's claiming that the U.S. to eat ghee and weren't obese. But now they replaced their ghee with seed oils, and that's the cause of the increasing obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates. Let's play debunkadeve! First, it is true that obesity rates in India and most of the world have been skyrocketing. Not good. Same with diabetes. What is it caused by people changing their answer to the age-old question of to-gee or not to-gee? It took me a while to find some good stats on this. You know, because I'm a scientist who cites his sources rather than just make stuff up. But I found this study published just a few months. Looking at the health benefits and risks of ghee and comparing Western medicine to traditional Ayurvedic texts. And it mentions that back in 2006, ghee consumption in India was 7.4 grams per person per day, a little under 2 teaspoons. But in 2020, that number increased to 12.3 grams per person per day. Almost 3 teaspoons. One bulletproof coffee is 3 to 6 teaspoons. So by Dave's reductionist logic, this would mean that eating ghee actually causes obesity, diabetes, and cancer. disease. Thankfully, that's about as scientific as thinking that the solar power industry in Bulgaria is driven by Google searches for why do I have green poop. If I get 100 comments asking for real geese science, I'll do a deep dive.
Additional notes
The ACTUAL cause of rising obesity in India is both the shift from a healthy traditional home-cooked high-fiber, low-fat, low-calorie diet, towards increasing consumption of packaged, ready-to-eat foods which are calorie-dense and contain refined carbohydrates, high fat, salt and sugar; and less fiber. This is combined with the fact that fewer than 10% of the population engage in recreational physical activity (DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-11-26) As for ghee? It can be a healthy part of a diet, especially when used in the TRADITIONAL FASHION 🗒️ NOTE: Another source puts the annual growth of per capita consumption of ghee from 2007 to 2015 at only +1.9%– which is still enough to clearly separate it out from the rising obesity. 📚 References: PMID: 37218876 PMID: 38181707 PMID: 30219315 #science #edutok #stem #health #nutrition #ghee
References
- Original source notes.
- Physical activity prevalence source from caption. DOI: 10.1186/1479-5868-11-26.
- Ghee / India nutrition source. PMID: 37218876.
- Ghee / India nutrition source. PMID: 38181707.
- Ghee / India nutrition source. PMID: 30219315.