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1 in 4 American’s WERE significantly over weight…25%
we now have a epidemic in America where each year some 2 million new cases develop. When last quantified the decades damage was officially measured to be increase of 32% {20% or more above their ideal weight}
LOW-Fat diets are dangerous…
USDA study statistics proves it. Low fat started in 1975 and for the last 20 years the movement in this direction has become steady. But the figures carry with them an ominous warning. 200 years ago the average person ate less than ten pounds of sugar a year. Then almost exactly a hundred years ago, the lid blew off. In the 1890’s the craze for cola beverages swept the nation-which means that when we were thirsty and craved water, we got sugar as well. The net result was that the sugar intake, which had been twelve pounds a year in 1828, was nearly ten times that in 1928.
In those 20 years the per-capita consumption of sugar {including corn syrup} has escalated from a world leading 118lbs. a year to 150lbs. Meaning we are consuming 750 calories of sugar A DAY! And that is the average man and women, or child, not the sugar addicted! That means that over 1/3 of the all the calories an adult puts into his or her body each day come from the nutritionally empty and metabolically harmful caloric sweeteners! 190 grams of sugar and corn syrup A DAY! Compare that with the 300 gram of carb the government expects us to consume each day and we see that sugar now comprise over 60 percent of the carb total! To make things worse, the refined –white flour-has been exalted to a “MUST HAVE” by our government agencies that invented a new UNTESTED food pyramid!
Note: The cereals that have the highest sugar content on them have the seal of approval forms the American Heart Association. Often ½ of there calories are sugar.
Calorie Myth:
A calorie is an interesting little word that simply stands for a unit of
energy ~ precisely the amount of heat needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius at 1 atmospheric pressure.
Now, it has always been supposed that gaining weight results from taking in more calories than you expend through exercise, thermogenesis {the body’s own heat production}, and all the body’s other metabolic functions. And in fact, this is quite true.
What isn’t true is the notion that the only way to lose weight is to strictly control your intake of calories. That all diets are equal…and all that matters is how many calories you take in. THIS ISN’T SO!
Different diets have different effects on the amount of calories a person’s body consumes daily, and, by taking different metabolic pathways can cause the body to require different amounts of energy to do its work.
EATTING MEAT IS NOT BAD FOR YOU! It is what the human carnivore has eaten for MILLIONS OF YEARS!
In the 19 century people were liberal in the use of butter and lard, they where beef and pork eaters, and there eggs where unrestricted! Yet hardly anyone died of heart attacks. The first heart attack was describe in the medical journal in 1912…Dr. Paul Dudley White, who was Eisenhower’s personal cardiologist, recalled the he didn’t see his first heart attack until after his first year of postgraduate training in 1920’s. The 20th century Frenchman with his butter, cheese and goose-liver-pate’-laden diet has a heart disease rate 60% lower than American peers. The Frenchwomen does EVEN BETTER! She has the LOWEST heart disease rate in the western world. The French are less afflicted with obesity and heart disease than Americans. Yet there diet is HIGHER in FAT! {They eat a comparable amount of meat and fish, 4 times as much butter, and twice as much cheese as Americans.}
Now add the 60-year time span between 1910 and 1970 when coronary heart disease escalated from yet-to-be-recognized problem to the killer of more than half of us, this is what happened to our diet: The intake of animal fat and butter dropped SIGNIFICANTLY, while the intake of cholesterol was not changed, but the intake of refined carbs {mainly sugar, corn syrup and white flour} went up by 60%.
But all that fat is the problem…RIGHT? WRONG!
COMMON SENSE DICTATES THAT WHEN A LOT OF PEOPLE TRY THE SAME ANSWER TO THE SAME PROBLEM AND THEY ALL FAIL, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG!
Remember that the body was designed per-Neanderthal days when we didn’t have any candy bars. Your body’s capacity to deal with unrefined foods as they occur in nature is quite adequate; its capacity to deal with an excess of quick-energy, simple sugars is pretty poor, which is the true reason why out 20th century diet gets us into trouble.
SUGAR IS A METABOLISM POISON!
REMEMBER…WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES! NO OTHER CULTURE IN WORLD HISTORY HAS EVER CONSUMED EVEN A FRACTION OF THE SUGAR WE 20th-CENTURY WESTERNERS DO NOW!
American Medical Association has ignored all finding. Although they did acknowledge reading ONE of the reports by Kekwick/Pawan. And all carb studies they have preformed in there “RESEARCH” never allowed patience to reach the stage of ketosis nor did they do the intro that jumpstarts your system to burn fat. AMA claimed that the low-carb diets produce mainly water loss, Kekwick/Pawan prove it only produced a SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER LOSS.
American Medical Association also reviewed two more studies on metabolic advantage. One was by Olesen and Quaade, which again showed extremely favorable results on a low-carb diet. The other was the Pikington study who also showed favorable results. The AMA attributed it to water weight…again.
STUDIES THAT WHERE DELIBERATELY EXCLUDED FROM THE AMA: First lets look at the study by Frederick Benoit and associates at the Naval Hospital. The study was a 1000 calories diet with 10 grams carb’s. 7 other men where put on a 10-day fasting diet. The men weigh between 230 and 290. The man who where fasting lost 21lbs BUT most of that was lean body weight: only 7.5lbs was body fat. The men on the Ketogenic diet lost 14.5lbs…14 was body fat. They lost twice as fast as those who ate NOTHING AT ALL! All Beniot’s {his papers where published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1965}other exciting discovery was that on the ketogenic diet the dieters maintained their potassium levels, while there were major potassium losses when fasting. If you remember many dieters were losing there lives on very low-calorie formula’s diet that where very much like FASTING, presumably due to potassium losses leading to heart arrhythmia’s. Had the AMA excepted these studies for what they where these people lives might have been spared. WHY WASN’T THIS INCLUDED IN THE AMA’s CRITIQUE? Could they be INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST! The AMA also failed to acknowledge a paper by Charlotte Young {professor of clinical nutrition at Cornell University} she prove the diet worked better…but stated she still preferred the low-cal diet she had been working with for the last 20 years. GO FIGURE! Should she really be allowed to PREFER one diet to another…or should she be providing ALL the options and letting her patience decide what they want to do to help their body’s?
ONE MORE THING ABOUT THE AMA…WHEN THEY SPOKE OUT, NO FUTHER RESEARCH ON THE QUESTION OF METABOLIC ADVANTAGE WAS EVER DONE IN THE U.S. SOUNDS A LITTLE FISHY TO ME!
BRAKE IT DOWN:
NUMBER OF STUDIES SHOWING METABOLIC ADVANTAGE-10
NUMBER OF STUDIES SHOWING NO ADVANTAGE ON KETOGENIC DIET-0
Industry-dominated nutritionists held uncontested sway and convinced the unsuspecting public that white flour was so good for you everyone should have at least SIX SERVINGS each day! And that meat, eggs and butter were bad for EVERYONE! No voices pointed to the fact that meat eggs and butter are all produced by indecent producers and cannot be sold above the FAIR MARKET PRICE, whereas food consisting mainly of cheap reined ingredients {flour, sugar, corn syrup and corn starch} could be sold at an ENORMOUSE MARKUP! Doesn’t this prove that nutrition teaching is strongly influenced by economics!
MAKES MEEE SOOOOOO MAD! I have family dropping dead left an right from heart attacks...and then I think about my poor grandmother...SHE LOVED FAT! But the family wouldn't allow her to have it or to much meat because of her health! She died of a heart attack too!! But it was what we where told was best for her.
Hopefully this way of thinking will change SSSOOON!!!!
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RRAINE