Things that make you go Hmmm
There are no paradoxes, only broken models which you are applying to the world.
I don’t know when this phenomena started, but I’m sure it will continue with human thinking drawing conclusions from incomplete ideas.
As I move through the world, and am told things by NGOs, nutritional non-profits and the government myself I find myself repeatedly going “hmmmm, that doesn’t make sense because of X”.
What I have come to believe is that paradoxes do not exist. If you create a paradox, then the model with which you are using to enforce an opinion is incorrect.
Model zealots are best communicated with through the paradoxes. I have found that cardiologists who insist that LDL causes heart disease and is the only important contributor, can be quieted with paradoxes. Not convinced, not won over, but quieted for sure.
The incorrectness can be in a key nuanced detail, or, the entire model can be wrong. I hark back to flat-earth theory, or the idea that the universe revolved around the Earth.
Both “made sense” to many. Both raised paradoxes. Both can be proven wrong.
Here are some of the paradoxes we continue to contend with:
“LDL causes heart disease” - well during hibernation brown bears have a total cholesterol of 430mg/dl and LDL of 166mg/dl “No atherosclerosis, fatty streaks, foam cell infiltration, or inflammation were seen in any arterial samples” - these are borderline Familial Hypercholesterolia numbers
Heart disease has been blamed on some mysterious “modern lifestyle” but the oldest confirmed victims recorded were ancient Egyptians dated from between 1580 and 1550 BC
The French paradox is the observation of low coronary heart disease (CHD) death rates despite high intake of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat in France
“Meat is bad for you”, well total meat consumption correlates to greater life expectancy across countries (see Hong Kong & Argentina)
“Saturated at raises your cholesterol” - Except when you switch from butter to coconut oil - a food much higher in saturated fat your cholesterol goes down
The Israel paradox is the observation that Israel has one of the highest dietary polyunsaturated/saturated fat ratios in the world but despite this, there is a high prevalence of CVD, hypertension, T2D and obesity
Our mainstream models are broken, stop using them.
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