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If those dodos even knew what it takes to make an adult "well nourished", I might be more disposed to believe them. But they don't. The official party line from most scientists, doctors, and governments is still that fat is bad for you and so you need to fill up with carbohydrates. However, all the evidence points to the opposite conclusion: it's carbohydrates (most of all sugar and wheat) that cause many "Western" diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer.

Since they persist in saying that unhealthy foods are healthy, and healthy foods are unhealthy, only a simpleton would pay attention to their conclusions about vitamins and minerals. Once NuSI reports in, we'll have a better idea about what's healthy and what isn't.

http://nusi.org/
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/banting.html

Mod parent up.

The first thing that came to mind from reading the article is that both obesity and reduced brain mass are caused by consumption of carbohydrates.

We can all thank the U.S. Government and the USDA for telling us to eat more carbohydrates, thereby making us obese, sick, and dumb!

Diet with Some Meat Uses Less Land than Vegetarian Diets - http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/534100

Myth #1: Meat consumption contributes to famine and depletes the Earth's natural resources. - http://www.westonaprice.org/mythstruths/mtvegetarianism.html#1

Animal farming is an efficient use of land - http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/vegetarian.html#link1

It's how much energy you consume vs how much you use which decide if you get fatter, stay the same or thinner.

Not the quality of the food.

In fact it's completely the opposite. You need an update on the state of nutritional science in 2009.

You could start by reading Gary Taubes. Or this article here.

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Whatever you do, don't get Alzheimer's disease. It sucks. ...
But she especially likes bananas and squash and sweet potatoes and chocolate chip cookies. I know this because I'm there sometimes to remind her to take another bite. She says "This is good, thank you!"

it may well be that those bananas, sweet potatoes and chocolate chip cookies played a large role in alzheimer's becoming an issue in the first place.

diabetes is about insulin gone awry. this article indicates that alzheimer's is about insulin gone awry.

insulin tends to go awry because of genetics and/or a diet high in carbohydrates (eg, bananas, sweet potatoes and chocolate chip cookies). usually, but not always, diet can resolve the issue - but the diet must have moderate carbs with a moderate glycemic load to prevent spikes in insulin.

what diet does this? the zone diet. i have mentioned this diet before when someone said they wanted to lose weight, but couldn't and it wasn't their fault because they didn't know how. last i checked, my post received ZERO responses.

we need to learn a bit about the problems with the current dietary recommendation and recognize that they aren't science based.

http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/taubes.html

insulin is a hormonal response to protect the brain from excess glucose... when levels rise too high, insulin levels rise and store the glucose, primarily as fat, and locks in the fat stores already in place. glucose is good - it is the main source of brain food. too much is bad and too little is bad. the insulin response is why kids get the "sugar high, sugar crash". adults even get this when they overeat and eat too many carbs (thanksgiving, anyone?). they get massive amounts of carbs causing massive spikes in insulin, causing a reduction in blood glucose and then a crash as the brain no longer gets sufficient glucose to function properly. a starving brain signals hunger and the vicious cycle repeats until one eventually gets over weight.

http://drsears.com/understandingcarbs.page

the zone also works on the eicosanoid level to balance out silent inflammation within the body. aspirin mode is to work on eicosanoids. the zone is like getting all the benefits of aspirin without any of the down sides.

http://drsears.com/understandingeicosanoids.page

science backs up the zone philosophy, too.

http://drsears.com/zoneresearch.page

the anecdotal evidence is nothing short of staggering.

let's start with me. i've lost ~1 lb of pure fat per week since early june. i starting low weight (measured in morning) was 178.5 lbs and my recent low weight was 162 lbs. i've lost 2+ inches of my waist (belly button high). i went from 10 minutes of cardio to exhaustion to 50 minutes without being too winded (legs get tired before wind goes). i've never had this wind in my life - even when i ran cross country in high school. i literally look for ways to burn up my energy.

i've gained lean muscle mass and my strength is up pretty dramatically. my resting heart rate, which was steady at 68, is now 56... and dropping. that's 17,200 fewer beats every day, over 6.3 million fewer beats per year. my tg/hdl ratio is significantly less than 1 (average american is 3.3). i'm about 5-7 lbs away from ripped, abs, the fat has just melted away at about 2 oz. per day. my stomach is already flat and you can see my 4 pack with decent definition already. this is something i could never achieve in my youth (i'm now in my 40s) - and i tried VERY hard. remember, i just lost about 19 lbs of fat in the last 4 months, so 7 more is a layup. my goal was a wahboard stomach before january 1st and i ought to beat that goal handily.

my energy is way up, i

Sure, much of the fat epidemic in the US might be because of high fructose, but more likely it's because you eat more sugar and carbon hydrates and less fat. I know many type II diabetics that can stop medication by eating a diet high in saturated fats and low in carbon hydrates (5% carbon hydrates, 20% protein and 75% fat (energy %)). Myself I'm not a diabetic, but when I slowly started getting overweight in my late twenties I changed my diet to the above and I lost the extra weight I had put on in about 4 weeks (maybe 13 pounds).

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/291/ 5513/2536
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/taubes.html

The conclusions of the study are nonsense because cholesterol has never been tied to mortality.

http://www.thincs.org/
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/cvd_index.html

Also, look in the mirror. You probably do not have huge "fangs," which are characteristics of meat eaters.


That's true. But it is also true that we do not have flat molars (they're ridged), and a jaw with rotary movements designed to crush and grind food.

We probably shouldn't need to study a fact that was obvious to our parents. We are omnivors and thrive when we receive food from all four food groups.
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