"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but will rather cure and prevent disease with nutrition" Thomas Edison, c 1870
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Modern Diet (unhealthy) Low Fat, High Carbohydrate
Quote:What is particularly shocking is that the effect of the low-fat diet on clinical events was never tested before it was recommended to the public. To get a drug into clinical practice demands that it has been shown to be harmless or at least without serious side effects, first in various laboratory animals, then in healthy voluntary test subjects, and finally its therapeutic value must have been proven in a number of clinical trials. But dietary advices are given to millions of people based on speculation only. End Quote by Dr. Uffe Ravnskov
During the 1980's, based on a still unproven hypothisis, dietary advice was promoted by governments and became the politically correct recommendations. Put simply the advice is:
Base your meals on starchy foods (breads, pastas, breakfast cereals etc)
Eat less sugar
Reduce intake of all fats to less than 35% of calories
Change from eating 'saturated' fats to eating "polyunsaturated" vegetable oils and margerines
Eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day
Eat less salt
Take more exercise
We are told that eating saturated fats blocks our arteries. However when you follow the real evidence that is not driven by commercial interests, it seems to me that it is the starchy foods causing fatty deposits and atherosclerosis and the animal fats protect us. Taking a closer look this is my personal interpretation of the data:
Base your meals on starchy foods
Eat a natural diet and one retains normal body figure with well defined waist (for us women) and for a man a well muscled body free from the "beer belly" shape. Of greater importance is understanding how our bodies handle starchy foods that results in this alteration to our natural body shape. Put simply, these starchy foods are quickly converted to sugars in our blood that has to be quickly removed. That process results in the sugars converted to FAT that our bodies then have to store making us fat. Products added to these processed foods add increasing problems in upsetting our metabolism. Just look at the ingredient list on the foods you purchase and check what ingredients are not ingredients available to purchase independently.*
Eat less sugar
What good is eating less sugar, while still eating all other starchy foods, as starchy foods as the digestion makes no distinction. All carbohydrates enter the blood stream as blood sugar, glucose.
Reduce intake of fats to less than 35% of calories
Reading the data, my interpretation is that a diet consisting of 50% dried meat and 50% rendered animal fat eaten at a rate of 1.5lbs x 2/day provided all the nutrients to sustain life for extended periods under extreme demands on energy. Those eating these diets did not put on fat, did not suffer degenerative diseases, they enjoyed lives free from our current diseases.
Change from eating 'saturated' fats to eating "polyunsaturated" vegetable oils and margerines
In this discussion as I see it, Olive Oil is the only vegetable oil that was available prior to the introduction of the modern vegetable oils such as soya, rape seed (canola in Canada) and sunflower were all introduced to our diets after World War 2. Olive Oil not only has a different fat structure, it also was cold pressed and did not undergo modern chemical processing methods.
All the real evidence we are presented with PROVES that the starchy foods put on fat, eating animal fat does not.
Eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day
Where is the evidence to support this advice? Most fruits have a high sugar (fructose) content. Some vegetables also have a high carbohydrate content.
Eat less salt
Historically salt was so important to life that people were paid in salt as it is essential to life.
Take more exercise
Exercise does improve fitness, but is not essential for weight control as proven by those confined to a wheelchair and unable to exercise.
* Examples of ingredients included in the ingredient lists of many food products we buy today that are not in their raw state:
Clicking on the link at E-Numbers will take you to a full list of all E-Numbers, listed in their categories. Some of the above are allocated E-numbers.
The following links are illustrations of some of the processes used to create these additives used in our processed foods today. The techniques have evolved over the past few decades and must also have implications in many of the diseases of the modern diet.
A pdf file produced by the Minnesota Corn Growers Association with diagrams on the different processes
The following graphic illustrates the many processes the grain undergoes to exctract the various parts that for use in processed foods.
There are many excellent books, studies and articles providing evidence supporting the dangers of the current modern diet. If you care about your health and want to understand the truth - these are the books to read.
Austria: This book is based on more than 40 years of clinical research conducted on over 10,000 patients. This is the English version of the Austrian Doctor, Dr. Wolfgang Lutz, MD.
England: Click here to find out why Barry Groves, PhD wrote the book. Barry has started a Blog since publication to report because studies and evidence continue to be published. The Blog documents those studies and well worth a regular visit.
US: An excellent book by Gary Taubes documenting the many studies over the years proving the current dogma incorrect. This book also puts forward an unrefutable case illustrating the dangers of the current dietary advice.
Poland: These books are authored by Dr. Jan Kwasniewski from Poland. It is based on years of helping people through diet suffering from many of the modern diseases.
Scotland: Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a GP in Scotland. As Scotland have one of the highest rates of heart disease, Dr. Kendrick carried out his own investigations this book documents his findings. The title of the book says it all.
Denmark and Sweden: Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD has brought together a number of distinquished and dedicated specialists under the umbrella or THINCS - The International Network of Cholesterol Sceptics.
All the above authors prove that the primary force behind the anti-cholesterol paradigm is not public health, but profit!
The proof of these authors, and many others, goes well beyond the cholesterol advice, they prove:
That people with low cholesterol levels live shorter lives
Populations consuming high saturated fat diets often enjoy very low rates of heart disease
Many dietary recommendations made by 'experts' to reduce heart disease have actually been shown in animal and human studies to increase heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity
The current advice on eating diets based on carbohydrates and low fat is no more than a deadly experiment
The question we should all be asking is:
How much more evidence will it take before the disastrous 'healthy eating' experiment is called to a close - and those perpetrating it, and who are responsible for the increasing ill-health in our society, are called to account?
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