Market research firm misinforms on health

Nielson’s health and nutrition forum in Vietnam misinforms. It appears Nielson got its data from out-of-date theories of the 1950s, those bandied around by the corrupt dieticians from the US, who are funded by “big food” and “big pharma”.

Nielson claims the Vietnamese now drink more milk products. “Product” indicates that milk will be sugared as well as pasteurised. Is Nielson unaware that pasteurisation destroys 90 per cent of the phosphotase enzyme needed for calcium absorption? That it kills the immunity-boosting  “friendly” bacteria, which are also needed for vitamin B6 synthesis in the gut (Vitamin B6 reduces homocysteine, one of the major causes of arterial calcification)? That it does not kill the dangerous bacteria, the samonella, listeria nor e-coli, since that requires boiling? Also, heat-sensitive immunity-boosting whey proteins, lactalbumins, are damaged.

The result: a newborn calf fed only pasteurised milk dies in six weeks!

Nielson is also happy that the Vietnamese use low-cholesterol cooking oil. That theory is based on a faulty 1953 study in Framingham, Massachusetts, in the US, and today perpetuated to market the toxic and useless statin drugs. Cholesterol is one of the most important molecules in your body, indispensable in building cells and producing stress and sex hormones, as well as Vitamin D. The idea that cholesterol in the blood should kill us if its concentration is a little higher than normal is idiotic. 

What else would Nielson like the Vietnamese to do to reduce dietary cholesterol? Eat only two egg yolks a week – when three yolks a day contain sufficient anti-oxidants to normalise LDL and stop calcification in the artery? Drink skimmed milk – when the cream in the milk synthesises protective Vitamin B6? Or cut down on animal fats, those high in protective Omega3, CLA and LCFA?

The blatantly inaccurate advice to the Vietnamese is a gross disservice to a people attempting to eat healthfully and relying on Western know-how for advice.

Thomas Turk

Phuket