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The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com)
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"A bad diet kills more people globally than tobacco," reports Bloomberg, citing a new study
funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published Wednesday in Lancet. The study argues that poor diets led to 11 million deaths in 2017 -- and that more than half of them were caused by just three main dietary factors: low consumption of whole grains, low consumption of fruits, and high intake of sodium.
In fact, bad diets are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause, the researchers concluded. "We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally."
In fact, bad diets are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause, the researchers concluded. "We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally."
If you eat "whole grains", the body just sees a bunch of sugar.
If you eat "fruits", the body just sees a bunch of sugar—the worst kind, in fact: fructose.
Modern Humans didn't evolve on a diet of whole grains or fruits; they at meat and fat. Fat (oil) is the natural energy source for the body, with sugar being a sometime alternative, or required in only very small amounts in the form of glucose (which can be derived from meat protein via gluconeogenesis).
Meat. Fat. Water. Minerals (including salt).
That's the proper diet. The Powers that Be are trying to kill you, and they're trying to prop up existing government-subsidized industries.
I'll add that you should be eating fewer meals a day, too.
Digestion is a dirty, industrial process. You want there to be ample time for your body build up and then tear down that process, and clear away the inflammatory byproducts; at night, when you're sleeping, you want your body putting energy into rebuilding, not digesting.
So, eat at most 2 meals a day, mostly in the middle of the day (e.g., a late lunch and/or and early dinner), and then fast until meal-time the next day; if you're powering yourself by fat rather than by sugar (and thereby keeping your insulin levels relatively low), you'll find that you're never really hungry, anyway.
That's what makes sense for a human: Eating basic food that is readily available in animals, and not being hungry the rest of the time.
Most people would rather have a limb amputated rather than exercise regularly, just like most people won't keep track of what they eat or how many calories it is because if they knew how bad they were screwiing up they'd feel guilty for eating all that shitty food -- and they'd rather stay in denial so they can keep eating things they like, and screw what happens to them later. Broken cookies have no calories, LOL! Then add food companies and fast food into the mix and you get people addicted to cheap shitty unhealthy food that is designed to be addictive so you buy more and more of it, and healthy food in comparison tastes like shit to them because it's not full of sugar and fat.
Also, MCTs are probably the most easily digested form of stored energy, which is why they are a popular addition to coffee.
Fiber is rough on the delicate digestive tract; in contrast, fat induces the production of bile, which coats and protects the digestive tract.
Fats do not result in an increase in blood sugar; they also produce a really small bump in insulin levels as a result. That is key to good health: Keeping insulin levels relatively low and consistent. Fat and sugar are not the same thing; fat is not merely another way to store sugar. This idea that sugar is the main fuel and that fat is some secondary system is nonsense; the main fuel is fat, and sugar is meant for specialized uses in addition to being a secondary fuel in the absence of a good source of dietary fat.
Your body has 2 energy paths, one for sugar and one for fat, and they actually don't play together that well; if you want to be and feel healthy, then you need to switch your metabolism to fat.