GETTING FIERY & FURIOUS BY INFLAMMATORY DIET NONSENSE

SHORT VERSION: Don't read article at bottom as it is flowery bollocks. Read this instead for a more reality-based account or just go and eat a doughnut: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/…/foods-that-fight-inflamm…

DEEP APOLOGIES FOR THE FOLLOWING INCOHERENT, MEAN-SPIRITED, POORLY-EDITED RANTING VERSION: There is some science to the idea of inflammatory foods (see link above) but frig all in the article linked below! I know I can't expect everyone to get a biochemistry degree or similar, but how about this? Don't contradict yourself in your own article!!! (I'm making assumptions about your grandma, sorry Alice Nicholls, Certified Holistic Health Coach)

Alice Nicholls (according to Google Image Search)

I could ask why your article contains no references, but I'm guessing that you found this stuff out by telepathically communicating with your palm-reader astrologist clairvoyant naturopath who eats nothing but fructose-free fruit. I do realise that I have no references in my rant either, but you're the one making the extraordinary claims, so they need to be backed up by extraordinary evidence before we can even start a discussion based on reality and the laws of the universe. Sorry, but other than for entertainment, I can't have meaningful interactions using the Glong language spoken in the upside-down universe where science is worthless and vague is awesome and 7-legged unicorns are the rulers of planet WooWoo and food actually kills us and light bulbs suck darkness and ...

one more leg and she would rule us all

"A general rule to live by is less processed, less packaged and more the types of foods your Grandma would have recognised and eaten." the author states which is fair enough I guess in a vague-as-shyte sort of way. Now let's go through her 6 foods to see how the Grandma assertion holds up:

1: Gluten: well I don't know about your Grandma but both of mine chugged down way more gluten than any other sticky substance. Show me some real science that supports the health benefits of cutting out gluten for the over-privileged scientific-illiterate worried-well. If you're truly intolerant (not a self-diagnosed worry-wart) then of course eliminate gluten. But don't make the leap that just because some people genuinely can't eat gluten, then all people shouldn't eat gluten. That's like saying that because some people are turned on only by BBW GGILFs, all people should also try getting into that specific peccadillo.

2: Processed sugars: One of my Grandmothers was, according to me at least, the best baker in the world and funnily enough used a crap load of sugar! Did your Grandma really bake only with maple syrup and molasses? What's so special about maple syrup and molasses anyway? Just because maple syrup was processed in a tree then boiled down, it's somehow more healthy? Seriously?

3: Oils including margarine: Again, once margarine came out people loved it as it spread easily on bread (containing gluten). Both my grandmothers heavily used margarine and I'd guess yours did too. There is some science on the evils of partially hydrogenated oils or trans fats, but if they're killing us, they're doing it darn slowly! The privileged populations of the world have never lived longer! In any case, my understanding is that it's pretty easy to eliminate these from your diet and they're starting to be phased out anyway, so don't worry about it.

4: Dairy products: Whaaa? Of course some people are lactose intolerant but I'm definitely not and neither were my grandmothers! Same illogical leap as with gluten? So that's like saying that because some people writing rants on Facebook are wasting their lives, all people are...

udderly ridiculous

5: Alcohol: I think you're just trying to say: "Drink alco-pops in moderation, kids!". You mention your liver working overtime to process alcohol. What exactly is the shift pattern of your liver? Does it get double-time-and-a-half?

6: Chemicals: I love chemicals and so did both my grandmothers. You could almost say that we are all made of chemicals... Please do not blanket demonise ingredients with long names and numbers due to your scientific ignorance! Kindly tell me the specific chemicals that are the problem and cite the peer-reviewed actual science articles, then we can start talking.

(Not really a) Conclusion: Most people are mostly wrong most of the time, but there is this incredibly useful thing called science that helps to separate reality from inflamed brain farts.

There is great information out there and you can easily find it if you learn to smell out and ignore the BS. 

One final time: Sorry Alice Nicholls. I'm so mean and I'm sure you're a lovely person. :) 

BS ARTICLE: http://thewholedaily.com.au/health/6-inflammatory-foods-remove-diet/

A HERD OF UDDER COWARDS!

http://www.bandt.com.au/media/a2-milk-to-sue-the-abc-over-the-checkout

Hey A2 milk, threatening to sue Our Aunty (Australia's public broadcaster) really shows you to be the scamming milk maids you are so close to being!

(and why don't you use some of your milk money to fix your crappy website)

Leave ABC alone! If your science is tight, then why would you care about The Checkout giving their reasonable opinion that your milk is over-priced and no healthier for you than regular milk?

But holy cow, your science is very mixed BS (or CS really). Anyone with any training in how to pull the leather over people's eyes can see your ads and marketing for what they are. Trumped up claims preying on parent's concerns about their kids digestion.
So the milk recipe is: 

1) Start with preliminary science nowhere near consensus.
2) Release a product to try and be ahead of the curve while you wait for the science to be tightened up. (except it may not be) 
3) If you've successfully hacked our flawed brains, our confirmation bias and tendency to confuse correlation with causation will make some believe that your product works and anecdotal evidence will convince you even more fervently that it totally 100% works with your loyal cult-like followers who believe in your product. 
4) And suddenly you have a business to protect from the 'evil people' and you can't back down for fear of losing the mortgage on the milking sheds.

Do you think you're the first 'likely to be BS' business model to do all this? There is a similar pattern with Chiropractic associations who sue skeptics with no money just to shut them up.

Photo: A2 CEO Geoffrey Babidge

Are you going to threaten to sue everyone who doesn't agree with your business model based on unethical but not illegal trickery? Can I expect a letter from your ambulance chasers as well? (I know I'm a small target but I can dream... Maybe I need to give all my assets to my wife or something in case some coward shamsters do decide at some point in the future that I'm worthy enough to be threatened)

If people want to buy your milk and you make no outrageous health claims, knock yourself out. But don't sue our public broadcaster. I don't really understand what you could possibly gain unless you all have extremism spectrum disorder and feel you must protect your ideology and business model at all costs.

You won't shut up the ABC. I'm going to use an argument from popularity, but far more people care about keeping the ABC than your milk infused with special snakecow oil.

Go and milk yourselves instead of taking us all for a cow ride around the pasture then milking us for money....

Photo: A2 Chairman David Hearn