Everyone wants to eat a healthy diet, and many people spend a considerable amount of time trying desperately to determine what that diet should be. Opinions by doctors and nutritional experts vary widely, which leads one to a mass of conflicting data and statistics. In frustration, most people either give up or lean toward the majority or "official" low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. Numerous health organizations exist which are connected to some educational institution or government agency. These health organizations align themselves in solidarity which gives the surface appearance of correctness beyond question. The major responsibility for our diet recommendation rests on the shoulders of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). The USDA has published the official diet in the form of an icon called the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. The USFDA has published the official USFDA Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for carbohydrate, protein and fat. However, therein lies a big flaw. Neither the Food Guide Pyramid nor the RDA is based on scientific facts. If you follow the Food Guide Pyramid as your daily nutritional guide, you will encounter many related degenerative diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, bowel disease, autoimmune diseases and many more. The USDA Food Guide Pyramid and FDA Recommended Daily Allowance are solely responsible for the current high incidence of adult onset Type II diabetes which has tripled in the last 30 years. Type II diabetes is becoming common among teenagers who were once thought to be excluded from this "age related" disease.
USDA - Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000.
The USFDA Nutritional Guidelines Are Not Scientific.
Many people think the Atkins’ low-carbohydrate diet is lacking essential nutrients because it doesn't match the results of the Food Guide Pyramid. Their reference is the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) Nutritional Guide for Daily Values (DV) as shown on all nutrition labels. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Guide Pyramid was developed by vegetarians with an agenda. Nathan Pritikin and Senator George McGovern were the perpetrators. There is no science behind the Food Guide Pyramid. It was a scam from the beginning - a make believe nutritional plan to limit the consumption of animal products. The results has been rampant heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, intestinal diseases and a medical handbook full of other ailments. The USFDA Nutritional Guide is based on the Food Guide Pyramid. This is easy to prove. Simply go to a food count book or http://www.fitday.com and enter a 2000 calorie diet exactly according to the pyramid. The results will show every nutritional requirement to be perfectly achieved. It’s all a scam. There is no hard science behind the establishment of the USFDA daily nutritional requirements.
Professional nutritionists argue to the death in support of these myths but will supply no solid science to support them. Their arguments are based on theories, conjecture or outright lies. Unbiased research, the study of primitive societies and eating a low-carbohydrate diet easily proves these myths are fraud and ignorance.
Many large food manufacturing organizations have lobbied the US Congress and pushed money into newspapers, books, universities, nutritional organization and medical organizations during the last 60 years to convince the consumer these myths are true. You can test yourself to see the degree of brainwashing that has crept into your thinking. Extensive study and searching are required to get past the lies and distortions of these organizations, politicians and religious vegetarians to reach the facts presented here for your benefit.
This web site will prove the most healthy diet for humans is:
70% total fat on a calorie basis
31% saturated fat
7% polyunsaturated fat
25% monounsaturated fat
27% protein
3% carbohydrates (20 gm of which 3 gm or less is fiber).
Nutrition, Healing, Health, Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate & Cholesterol Science.
Myth No. 1 - Saturated Animal Fats Cause Heart Disease and Cancer.
This myth is so widespread and often repeated that it is believed my most people without question. However, a quick review of the health and diet of people in 1900 easily shows they ate a very high level of saturated fat from meat, butter and lard but had virtually no heart disease or cancer. Proponents will site a study which shows an increase in saturated fat in the diet will raise the blood cholesterol level, a claimed precursor to heart disease. Other studies claim saturated fats increase the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women. These studies always include a large portion of carbohydrates which are never blamed. They will site studies which show some country that eats a higher amount of saturated fat than another country and has a greater incidence of some form of cancer while ignoring a vast amount of other differences between the two countries. These are big fat lies backed by slick schemes to distort the truth. They call a study of France a "paradox" because the people of France ate a diet very high in saturated fat but had a heart disease rate only one third that of the United States. The French people have a much lower intake of carbohydrates and a higher intake of saturated fats which are the true reasons for their superior health.
Proof Saturated Fats Are Healthy - News You Can Use.
Feeding the Irrational Fear of Cholesterol.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Framingham Study has been ongoing since 1948. According to NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant, “This study suggests that obesity is an important risk factor for heart failure in both women and men." The study found a small correlation between heart disease and elevated LDL cholesterol and total cholesterol; however, these are dependent variables because high cholesterol is associated with obesity. The Framingham study also found that those who ate the most saturated fat, the most calories and the most cholesterol were the most active physically. They also weighed the least and had the lowest levels of serum cholesterol. The people who ate the most saturated fat were the most healthy and had the lowest risk of heart disease.
What Causes Heart Disease?
LDL cholesterol lowering is not supported by changes in calcified plaque progression.
NHLBI Framingham Heart Study.
NHLBI’s Framingham Heart Study Finds Strong Link Between
Overweight/Obesity And Risk For Heart Failure.
There are two major reasons people lie about saturated fat.
Vegetarians don't want other people to kill animals and eat the fatty meat.
The edible oil industry wants people to buy more of their vegetable oil products.
Vegetarianism is a religion which is falsely disguised as a healthy way of eating. True vegetarianism is the worship of animals. These people place animals on the same value level as human beings and sometimes above that of the human race. The result of their spreading myths, distortions and lies about healthy eating has lead to a dramatic surge in obesity, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease and cancer that are not found in low-carbohydrate, high-fat, meat-eating societies. The low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet of the last 40 years has caused the early deaths of millions of people and untold suffering, both of which continue unabated to this day.
Learn the truth about the terribly unhealthy vegetarian diet at:
The Myths of Vegetarianism by Dr. Stephen Byrnes, ND, RNCP.
The Naive Vegetarian.
Vegan vs High-Protein Diet Debate.
Vegetarians develop high cholesterol and can't correct it.
Beyond Vegetarianism - Raw Food, Vegan, Fruitarian and Paleo Diets.
Animal Rights Terrorists Strike Again?
The edible oil industry produces Omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable, seed and grain oils such as corn oil, soybean oil, Canola oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and cottonseed oil. These oils are highly suspect as one of the leading causes of heart disease and cancer, both of which increased in concert with increases of Omega-6 fatty acids in the diet. Omega-6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory and proven to cause or contribute to a long list of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease and many others.
Postmenopausal breast cancer is associated with high intakes of omega-6 fatty acids (Sweden).
The edible oil industry also produces hydrogenated forms of these oils which make them more saturated. These hydrogenated oil are known by their opponents as the "deadly trans fats."
Secrets of the Edible Oil Industry Part 1 and Part 2.
Natural saturated fats don't cause heart disease
and never did. It has all been a big fat lie.
Twisting a study to produce a lie is very easy. These fraudulent studies are based on a high-carbohydrate diet as the base and increase the saturated fat as the variable. The results will always show an increase in the triglycerides and LDL cholesterol. They blame the saturated fat when the real cause is the excessive amount of carbohydrates in the diet. Saturated fat in a low-carbohydrate diet improves cholesterol ratios. Triglycerides are lowered while the good HDL cholesterol is increased.
Saturated fat in the diet is necessary for healthy body cells. Saturated fat produces strong cell walls that would otherwise be soft and floppy. The saturated fat resists penetration of the cell by invaders and resists oxidation and attack by free radical molecules, ions and elements. "Unsaturated FFAs stimulated the proliferation of human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells, whereas saturated FFAs inhibited it and caused apoptosis (process limiting growth of tumors)."
Saturated fatty acids induced apoptosis in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.
Atkins Nutritionals - Big Fat Lies
"Saturated fat has gotten a bum rap. The real enemy of your health is trans fat, which lurks in many processed foods. Many people mistakenly think all fats are nutritional villains responsible for everything from coronary artery disease to obesity. To the contrary, many health problems may actually be caused by deficiencies of certain fats—even the much maligned saturated fats. Fats serve an array of important functions, including cushioning our organs against shock and insulating vital tissues against cold. They also influence body temperature regulation, pain sensitivity, appetite control and cognitive performance."
"Saturated fats, found in large proportions in meat, butter and other animal products, as well as in such tropical vegetable oils as palm and coconut, are usually solid at room temperature. Numerous studies show that these fats play many beneficial roles in our bodies, such as enhancing the immune system, protecting the liver and helping build healthy bones."
Low-Carb Pavilion -- What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? - New York Times.
The Truth About Saturated Fat by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. and Sally Fallon.
Know Your Fats by Dr. Mary G. Enig.
The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol.
Are Saturated Fats Really Dangerous For You?
"Although it is commonly believed that saturated fats and dietary cholesterol "clog arteries" and cause heart disease, such ideas have been shown to be false by such scientists as Linus Pauling, Russell Smith, George Mann, John Yudkin, Abram Hoffer, Mary Enig, Uffe Ravnskov and other prominent researchers (49). On the contrary, studies have shown that arterial plaque is primarily composed of unsaturated fats, particularly polyunsaturated ones, and not the saturated fat of animals, palm or coconut (50)."
Weston A. Price, DDS, traveled worldwide in the 1930's to investigate the health of primitive peoples who could not obtain foods of the western world. He and his wife found that all of these primitive groups ate a diet very high in fat. Some ate primarily animal meat and fat while others ate primarily seafood. Their diets did not make a difference in their health. They were all extremely healthy, strong, robust and had almost no dental cavities. They all had a broad dental arch (jaw shapes) and the women had very easy childbirths because of the broad pelvic structure. Children of these people who moved to a modern society area developed crowded teeth with many cavities, and the women suffered difficulties in childbirth similar to our present western society. The "civilized" Indians of northern Canada also suffered greatly from tuberculosis and were sent back to live with the primitives where they were cured of their disease by the primitive diet which was nearly 100% meat with the fat.
A recent TV documentary was produced in the country of Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union, by a Professor from the University of Colorado in Boulder. The Georgian people who were visited live on the high Caucasus mountain slopes at about 8,000 feet elevation on small farm plots surrounded by high peaks. The terrain was similar to that of people living on small farmers high in the Swiss Alps as reported by Dr. Weston A. Price. Their diet is identical to that of the Swiss people. Reaching the area was very difficult, even using a four-wheel drive Jeep. The amazing characteristic of these people is their longevity, where members living 100 years of age are common. The people raise farm animals and grow hay, vegetables and some grain. They had no fruit because of the high elevation, and they had no imports because of their remote location. The animals were protected from the harsh winters on the ground floor of the house which served as a barn. The people lived on the second and third floors. The commentator said they ate meat, butter and high-fat yogurt with every meal. The commentator described it as "very un-Boulder" in reference to the liberal college community of Boulder, Colorado, where a low-fat, vegetarian diet philosophy is rampant. They made good use of the farm animal products. They ate lots of meat, saturated fats, butter and lard. The remaining food was a small amount of bread made from whole grain and a few seasonal vegetables. They did not import high-carbohydrate foods such as sugar, honey, white flour, orange juice, or fruit. They did not have Omega-6 vegetable oils, trans-fats or hydrogenated oil. They are lucky people. Their food supply is a perfect example of the Atkins' low-carbohydrate diet. The long-term health benefits of the low-carbohydrate diet are clearly demonstrated by the these mountain people of Georgia. A study of Georgian people found the people who ate the most meat and fat lived the longest. The Long-Living of Soviet Georgia by G.Z. Pitskhelauri.
Frenchwomen have the low rate of heart disease in the Western world. They eat high levels of butter, cheese and animal fats. France is reported to have 265 brands of cheese typically containing 45% to 50% saturated fats. They are more healthy because of their high level of saturated fat and low level of sugar and refined carbohydrates in the diet. This high level of saturated fat with a low heart disease rate has become known as the "French paradox" by the confused low-fat dietitians. Unfortunately, the French are turning away from their natural foods to manufactured high-carbohydrate foods.
The peoples of Thailand are another paradox. They have a very low level of heart disease and diabetes but consume exceedingly high levels of saturated fat in coconut oil and pork lard.
The Grecian "Mediterranean Diet" has been touted as healthy because of the consumption of olive oil and fish. Indeed, olive oil and fish are healthy foods, but the people of Greece have a high consumption of saturated fat in feta cheese, butter, lard and poultry fats. Those who claim the "Mediterranean Diet" is low in saturated fats are liars.
The "Okinawa Diet" has been falsely presented in books claiming the seafood, fruits and vegetables gave the people their extra longevity as the "longest-lived people." The fact that the Okinawians consume a lot of pork, lard and saturated fat from coconut oil is hidden and distorted.
The people of Sweden have a high level of heart disease which is erroneously blamed on dairy products, especially butter. The real reason for their heart disease rate is obvious - sugar. They consume a very high level of sugar in the form of sugar laden desserts.
Don't believe the myths, distortions and lies propagated against saturated fat. Saturated fats actually heal the body and are highly resistant to oxidation and attack from free radicals. Saturated fats help prevent diabetes, heart disease, cancer and bowel diseases.
People buy lean cuts of meat and avoid the fatty cuts like ribeye steaks only because they are brainwashed into thinking fat is unhealthy. It is intuitively obvious and proven from the study of primitive tribes that humans and carnivorous animals prefer and eat the meat with the most fat. Ribeye steaks are delicious, but lean round steak requires a high fat dressing to make it palatable. Most dressings contain unhealthy Omega-6 fatty acids as described in Myth No. 10 below rather than healthy animal fats.
Myth No. 2 - Carbohydrates are Healthy and Required in the Diet.
This myth that carbohydrates are an essential in the diet is stated over and over in health and diet articles, books and web sites. Yet, every person who goes on the low-carbohydrate diet quickly proves the fallacy of this myth. The lower the amount of carbohydrates in the diet the healthier one becomes. Carbohydrates cause many diseases which take years to develop and have come to be called "age related" diseases, a convenient excuse.
The anti-meat vegetarians are trying to justify eating unhealthy carbohydrates by saying "there are bad carbohydrates and good carbohydrates." This is untrue. All carbohydrates are bad, but simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour are killers. Complex carbohydrates cause debilitating age-related disease also. It just takes longer. There are no healthy carbohydrates.
Saying there are bad carbs and good carbs is a LIE.
Some carbs are dreadful and the rest simply bad.
The standard recommendation states that 60 percent of calories in the diet should come from carbohydrates. Text books on human anatomy and physiology may accurately state that carbohydrates are not one of the scientific essentials to human life but erroneously stress they are highly recommended for good health. The United States Department of Agriculture Food Guide Pyramid recommends a high level of carbohydrates in the diet as shown in the graph above. The sweetener and grain lobbies are powerful organizations whose members infiltrate universities, government and nutritional organizations to ensure that their high-carbohydrate products are strongly recommended. They twist and distort scientific studies to justify their products.
All of the claims that carbohydrates are scientifically required by humans or they are necessary for energy or good health is absolutely false. The body can easily create the required amount of glucose from protein and fat without causing the insulin rush that occurs when carbohydrates are eaten. As an example, the author was on a highly restricted low-carbohydrate diet for several months prior to restricting all food during a 12-hour fast in preparation for a blood test. The blood test showed a perfect blood glucose level of 92 MG/DL which was midrange in the desirable range of 65 to 109 MG/DL. The common claims that carbohydrates are required in the diet to maintain a proper blood glucose level is a myth. Eating carbohydrates places the body in a continual blood sugar control crisis that is very unhealthy.
The body can maintain a perfectly normal level of blood glucose by gluconeogenesis of either dietary protein or fats. The figure in the following reference book shows the entire process in graphic form. The process is reversible and can go either way in order for the body to maintain the proper blood glucose level without eating any carbohydrates.
"Both triglyceride molecules and protein molecules may be broken down and converted to glucose in the liver. The process by which new glucose is formed from noncarbohydrate sources is called gluconeogenesis. In the process of gluconeogenesis, glucose is formed from lactic acid, certain amino acids, and glycerol portion of triglyceride molecules (Fig. 25.10)." Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, Seventh Edition by Gerard J. Tortora and Sandra Reynolds Grabowski, page 835.
It is an embarrassment that highly educated doctors and nutritionists still insist that a healthy diet requires a high level of carbohydrates. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz in his book, "Life Without Bread," labels carbohydrates as pathogenic (disease causing). Carbohydrates cause flatulence (intestinal gas) when the gut bacteria feed on the undigested carbohydrates. Some of the byproducts produced by the bacteria are toxic, and pathogenic bacteria flourish because they are opportunistic. The colon resists the presence of undigested carbohydrates and triggers a constipation reaction in an attempt to keep the carbohydrates from entering. Over time the colon reverses this defense measure and triggers diarrhea in an attempt to flush the undigested carbohydrates from the body. The excessive consumption of carbohydrates leads to a whole host of intestinal diseases and autoimmune diseases like arthritis.
Absolute Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Are Pathogenic.
Bowel Diseases and Candida - News You Can Use.
College text books are a prime location to read the myths, distortions and lies about carbohydrates in the diet. As an example, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry by Pamela C. Champe and Richard A. Harvey, Ph.D., claims that dietary carbohydrates are "protein sparing" which means the body will cannibalize muscle protein when carbohydrates are not eaten. This concept is absolutely ridiculous since many body builders use a low-carbohydrate diet which they call the ketogenic diet to build highly muscular bodies. The high-protein, high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet is called the "Anabolic Diet" because it places the body into a state of building muscle and other body structures. All body building diets are relatively high-protein diets.
Ketogenic Diets for Bodybuilders.
The vegetarians of Southern India eat a low-calorie diet very high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat. They have the shortest life span of any society on Earth, and their bodies have an extremely low muscle mass. They are weak and frail and the children clearly exhibit a failure to thrive. Their heart disease rate is double that of the meat eaters in Northern India. HL Abrams. Vegetarianism: An anthropological/nutritional evaluation. Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1980, 32:2:53-87. Anthropological Research Reveals Human Dietary Requirements for Optimal Health
by H. Leon Abrams, Jr., MA, EDS
Carbohydrates cause obesity. A diet high in refined carbohydrates has been directly linked to obesity and disease. Obesity has been shown to greatly increase the risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and intestinal diseases. The high-carbohydrate diet is common as a resulted of the false assumption that dietary fats caused obesity. The low-fat, low-cholesterol mania propagated for the last 40 years has resulted in the current epidemic obesity trend. The low-carbohydrate diet has been proven to be an excellent diet for losing weight and improving health.
Top Ten Historical Events That Created Our Current Health & Nutritional Quagmire.
Experts Warn 40% 'Will be Obese' in the United Kingdom.
'Timebomb' Alert Over Child Obesity in the United Kingdom.
Carbohydrates cause diabetes. Carbohydrates have been solidly linked to diabetes because the body reduces all carbohydrates to simple blood glucose. The excess glucose causes high levels of insulin, insulin resistance in cells and failure of the pancreas. Those with diabetes suffer a much higher incidence of heart disease, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and osteoporosis.
Low Grain and Carbohydrate Diets Treat Hypoglycemia, Heart Disease, Diabetes Cancer and Nearly ALL Chronic Illness.
Study Shows Which Men at Highest Heart Risk.
Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance.
Carbohydrates cause intestinal diseases. Complex carbohydrates are not healthy as often claimed. They appear to be healthier for the hypoglycemic because they do not cause the sharp glucose and insulin spikes, but they lead to bowel diseases like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The complex carbohydrates delay the onslaught of full-blown diabetes only for a few years. This is no answer for our current surging diabetes and irritable bowel disease epidemic.
Bowel Diseases and Candida - News You Can Use.
Carbohydrates cause osteoporosis, bone loss, hip fractures and degenerative disk disease. Carbohydrates raise the insulin hormone level to an extreme as people become insulin resistant and hypoglycemic from eating to many carbohydrates. The body reacts by increase the levels of cortisol and adrenalin hormones which demineralize the skeleton.
Osteoporosis, Bone Loss, Hip Fractures and Degenerative Disk Disease.
Carbohydrates cause cancer. Carbohydrates cause cancer by invoking intestinal diseases, reducing the effectiveness of the immune system by the stimulation of cortisol hormone, and general overall all degenerative diseases.
Carbohydrates Gave Diet Guru Nathan Pritikin Cancer.
Dietary Glycemic Load and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Women's Health Study.
Carbohydrates cause heart disease. Carbohydrates invoke heart disease by raising the blood level of the bad triglycerides and lowering the level of the good HDL, high density lipoproteins. Diabetic are a good example. Heart disease kills diabetics at a 50% rate, which is several time greater than other people.
Absolute Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Are Pathogenic.
Carbohydrates Gave Marathon Runner James F. Fixx Heart Disease.
Diet low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables caused an increase in the plasma levels of bad oxidized LDL cholesterol.
"High triglyceride levels, in conjunction with high LDL and low HDL, significantly increase the risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Controlled carbohydrate nutrition effectively lowers triglycerides while raising HDL cholesterol. Lowering the LDL to HDL ratio in conjunction with lowering triglycerides will significantly reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."
Triglyceride, LDL and HDL Cholesterol Concentrations on Coronary Heart Disease Risk.
Carbohydrates cause dental and bone diseases. Tooth decay (caries) occur when plaque bacteria turn carbohydrates into acids. These acids attack tooth enamel, which eventually results in cavities. Carbohydrates also cause the dental arch (shape of the mouth) to be narrow which crowds teeth and makes them come in crooked. Carbohydrates cause the pelvic arch to be narrow which makes child birth more difficult. All of these conditions were solidly proven nearly 80 years ago by dentist Weston A. Price, DDS, who traveled the world with his wife in the 1920's studying the health of isolated people and tribes. He found that all those who lived on a low-carbohydrate diet had excellent dental health and bone formation. His studies are well documented in his book and web site.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS.
Weston A. Price Foundation.
Beginning in 1906, arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his companion, Karsen Anderson, spent several years living with Eskimos in Northern Canada. They lived on an all meat and fat diet of salmon. Doctors and nutritionists insisted that was impossible. The Eskimos had no carbohydrates and no fiber in their diets but suffered no detectable health effects. In fact, their health was excellent with absolutely no dental caries, no heart disease, no cancer and excellent bone health. To prove his statements were true, both men entered Bellevue Hospital in New York City to live for a full year on a supervised diet of meat and fat only. At the end of the year both men had improvements in health as could be measured by all the tests available at the time.
Stefansson 1 - Eskimos Prove an All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.
The universally accepted concept of a "balanced diet" is without any basis in fact or science. We are told to eat high quantities of fruit and whole grains, but we should avoid red mead and saturated fats. A high percentage of the population in English speaking countries follow this dogma without the slightest question. Mankind has lived thousands of years with very little or no fruit or grain in the diet. Primitive people never had fruit available year round and many lived in a climate where fruit was never available. Many people are fructose intolerant, and fructose causes insulin resistance which contributes to diabetes and heart disease. Today 75% of the space in the fresh fruit and vegetable sections of the typical supermarket in the USA is loaded with high-carbohydrate fruits and starchy-vegetables like potatoes and yams. Only 25% of the space is allotted to the healthy low-carbohydrate vegetables. Shopping carts can be observed loaded with fruit and products made from grains as the obese customer waddles to the checkout area pushing their "balanced diet."
Grains are new as a human food source. Many people are gluten intolerant or have other allergies to grain products which leads to many different bowel diseases. The "balanced diet" concept is a myth that will harm your health rather than make it better. The current epidemic of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and bowel diseases has proven the "balanced diet" of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid will make you sick and shorten your life. The balanced diet concept is a myth and a lie.
Do not eat honey. Honey is pure carbohydrate sugar consisting of fructose and glucose, sucrose, maltose, isomaltose, maltulose, turanose, kojibiose, erlose, theanderose and panose. It is very confusing why people worship honey. Many people are wrong on this point. They claim it is acceptable because ancient cavemen may have eaten it and somehow became adapted to honey as a healthy food. That is an incorrect conclusion. Ancient Paleo man may have eaten it once in a lifetime, but probably not. They didn't want to be stung by bees any more than we do, and they didn't have any protective netting.
The Chemistry of Bees.
Carbohydrates are highly addictive and many people have lived their entire life with an insulin rush from an excessive glucose intake. Insulin is the body's most powerful hormone and makes it extremely difficult to resist carbohydrates. Many would rather be sick than give up their fruit with the high levels of fructose, the second most addictive carbohydrate. To be healthy one must break these addictions.
Myth No. 3 - Fiber is Healthy and Required in the Diet.
The myth that fiber is required in the diet is so widespread and universally accepted that even many low-carbohydrate proponents believe the lie without hesitation. The fiber theory was generated by the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet supporters to combat the symptoms of constipation and diarrhea caused by eating carbohydrates. They recommend a high-fiber diet as the solution for both constipation and diarrhea, but these symptoms are the result of an excessive amount of carbohydrate in the diet. They claim fiber increases mobility of the material in the intestines as a positive; however, much of the bulk in the stool is live and dead bacteria which are produced in mass by the carbohydrate and fiber. The high-carbohydrate diet promotes the overgrowth of bacteria and yeasts which becomes a serious problem as mobility slows. Many of these are unhealthy pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenic bacteria cause irritation of the gut and eventually leads to "leaky gut syndrome," bowel diseases and other autoimmune diseases. Fiber is a cellulose that cannot be digested as a human food because we lack the cellulace enzyme; however, bacteria feast on fiber, especially in the colon where they reek havoc.
Fiber is not required in a low-carbohydrate diet because gut bacteria are restricted by the lack of a food source - carbohydrates. High-fiber foods like grains, seeds and fruit are also very high in carbohydrates. Grains are the product most used as the raw material for the manufacture of high-carbohydrate foods. The grain lobby is very powerful in promoting their products and their resources to do so are almost limitless. They claim fiber reduces diabetes, cancer, heart disease and intestinal diseases, but it is a well-proven fact that high-carbohydrate diets cause these diseases as explained in the book,
Syndrome X.
Leaky Gut Syndrome.
A study of ancient societies who lived on a high-fiber, high-carbohydrate diet easily proves the unhealthy effects. Ancient Egyptians are a perfect example. Their diet was based on a high percentage of whole grains, fruit and vegetables. The fiber content was very high. The diet was low-fat. They did not eat refined sugars. These Egyptians of the times of the Pharaohs ate a highly vegetarian diet. The results were disastrous. Their writings and the study of mummies shows they had a high incidence of diabetes, heart disease, intestinal diseases, arthritis, osteoporosis and poor dental health. Their high-fiber diet which had no refined carbohydrates did not produce the good health as promised by all of our modern dietary references and professional medical and nutritional associations. The tens of thousands of well-preserved Egyptian mummies give us the absolutely solid scientific proof the high-fiber, high-carbohydrate diet is very unhealthy.
The common advice that one should have several bowel movements each day is a myth. The low-fat, low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet usually produces several bowel movements per day but also causes diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Chronic constipation and chronic diarrhea are common body reactions to the constant bombardment to the digestive system with fiber and carbohydrates. Sufferers attempt to correct the condition by added fiber supplements as recommended by their doctor only to discover it is not effective. The low-carbohydrate, low-fiber diet will produce normal stools with bowel movements that sometimes skip two days and frequently skip one day. The intestinal tract becomes calm and bowel movements are natural. One should not expect several bowel movements each day which is typical of the disease causing high-fiber, high-carbohydrate diet.
Bowel Diseases and Candida - News You Can Use.
Fiber absorbs vitamins and minerals and discharges them from the body. Fiber leaches calcium from the digestive tract and discharges it in the stool when it is desperately needed to prevent osteoporosis, bone loss, hip fractures and degenerative disk disease.
Comparison of the influence of dietary fibre sources with different proportions of soluble and insoluble fibre on Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Mn and Cu apparent absorption in rats.
Mineral contents of brans passed through the human GI tract.
Preventing Osteoporosis, Bone Loss, Hip Fractures and Degenerative Disk Disease.
Low-Fat, High-Fiber Diet May Lower Calcium Absorption.
Do not take fiber supplements. Do not take psyllium seed husks which are very abrasive to the digestive system. Do not eat wheat bran or rice bran. Fiber is a bad dude. Dietary fiber may not be digestible by the healthy individual, but it certainly is digestible by pathogenic gut bacteria and yeasts. Fiber is the perfect time-release food for bad gut bugs and one of the worst thing a person can eat for good health. These bacteria and yeasts ferment the fiber to produce alcohol, acetaldehyde, lactic acid, acetic acid and a host of other toxic chemicals when they break down the fiber. Intestinal gas is a sure sign fiber and/or sugars are being fermented. The vegetarian concept of turning the gut into a fermentation tube is ridiculous. Avoid all whole grains, brown rice, fruit and dried beans as they are high in both fiber and complex carbohydrates, a double blow to the digestive system. The reason many gastroenterologists recommend a high fiber diet is based on the faulty logic of Dr. Dennis Burkitt, a British surgeon working in Africa more than half a century ago. Dr. Burkitt's theory that barley bread prevented irritable bowel disorders was seriously flawed. The Africans were simply showing the benefits of not eating fruit and refined carbohydrates like sugar and flour. Their barley grain was probably not ground very well and thus the fiber was difficult for the gut bacteria to attack, saving them from the health hazards of eating fiber. Our finely ground grains of today do not produce the same result. Fiber not only does not prevent or cure irritable bowel diseases but actually makes them worse. Studies of many other primitive or remote societies have proven a very low-fiber diet prevents intestinal diseases and cancer as proven by Weston A. Price, DDS in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and arctic explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson during many years of living with the Eskimos. Most current doctors and nutritionists simply ignore their more extensive studies proving a zero-fiber diet produces excellent health and prevents colon cancer. New scientific studies are also ignored that prove fiber may raise the risk of colon cancer, not prevent cancer as erroneous claimed by most current-day professionals.
Fiber May Raise Colon Cancer Risk.
Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.
Do not fall for the "colon cleanse and detoxification" scam. The colon does not contain a lining of putrid material that looks like "chunks of debris that resembled cooked liver, long black twisted rope-like pieces." A colon cleanse and/or a detox program of harsh herbs and fiber products only serves to create more problems that may lead to leaky gut syndrome.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of 25 grams of fiber per day. Yet, there is no scientific basis for this value and research studies on fiber are scant. No studies support the requirement for fiber but many expose health hazards associated to fiber. The low-carbohydrate diet contains about three grams of fiber from non starchy vegetables.
The Eskimos observed by Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson clearly proved that eating a diet totally devoid of fiber is perfectly healthy. In fact, it is more healthy than eating a diet with fiber.
Stefansson 1 - Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health.
Fiber is strongly advocated by vegetarians because of its high content in grains, legumes and fruits and its low content in meat. The Bran Wagon article by Barry Groves, PhD, exposes many of the common myths about high-fiber foods. Dietary fiber actually causes or increases the severity of many diseases.
Myth No. 4 - Red Meat Like Beef, Lamb and Pork is Unhealthy.
The claims that red meats like beef, lamb and pork are unhealthy are myths with absolutely no basis in scientific studies or logical nutritional data. The reverse is actually true. Red meat with its natural fat is a very healthy food and heals the body of many diseases. These meats do not contain unnatural levels of hormones as stated by the numerous myths, distortions and lies. Any hormone given to a steer is eliminated naturally by the animal's body well before slaughter. These meats do not contain unhealthy levels of pesticides. Any pesticide which may have been on the animal's food or sprayed on the animals to control pests is eliminated naturally by the animal before slaughter. Laws and meat inspections prevent the sale of red meat with any unhealthy level of hormones or pesticides.
Myths, Distortions and Lies About Beef.
Studies Prove Beef Is A Safe And Healthy Food.
The North American Plains Indians are a prime example of a society that lived for centuries on the red meat of the buffalo. The Indians made pemmican, which was a mixture of dried, crushed and shredded buffalo meat mixed with heated buffalo fat at a 50% rate. The fat content was about 70% on a calorie basis. Protein was 30% with no carbohydrates or fiber. Dried berries were sometimes added, which provided a small amount of carbohydrate. The lean meat was best for drying, but the fat and fatty meat was favored for immediate consumption. The pemmican would keep for years and provided complete nourishment. The Hudson Bay Company (fur traders) purchased pemmican from the Indians by the ton and even had a specification whereby they would pay a higher price for premium pemmican made with bone marrow fat. The Indians and European explorers to North America also preferred the buffalo tongue for consumption after a kill due to its high-fat content. There is no documented data that this primarily red meat diet had any adverse health effects on the Indians. The opposite is true. They were extremely healthy until the white man gave them high-carbohydrate foods. Now the Pima Indians of Arizona have the highest diabetes rate in the world and a very high level of obesity. Many Indians are returning to the red meat pemmican of their ancestors in order to regain their health.
Weston A. Price, DDS reported excellent health among the Indians of Northern Canada east of the Rock Mountains in his book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" in 1933. These Indians lived almost entirely on "animals of the chase." They were nomadic wandering tribes following the moose and caribou herds as their source of food. They had no access to the ocean or river running salmon. They had no dairy animals and no source of grains, seeds, nuts or fruits. They obtained vitamin C from the adrenal glands and from other organs of the animals. Those Indians who lived in the settlements of the white man had access to carbohydrate foods from which they suffered a sharp drop in health. Many Indians in these settlements suffered from tuberculosis. They were healed when they were sent to live with the primitive Indians where they consumed the red meat diet.
However, highly processed meats have been linked to colon cancer. Early results of a major new study suggested that eating lots of preserved meats such as salami, bacon, cured ham and hot dogs could increase the risk of bowel cancer by 50 percent. When it came to fresh red meat - beef, lamb, pork and veal - there is no link. Previous studies have linked a high-meat intake to colorectal cancer, but these studies grouped fresh and processed meats together and gave a distorted result.
Study Links Processed Meat to Cancer.
Nutritional books and reference resources consistently understate or neglect to state the high vitamin and mineral content of meat. Fruits and whole grains are generally listed first as a source to give the impression that they are the preferred source. Primitive Indian and Eskimo tribes have proven that a meat only diet not only provides a healthy diet but will prevent and heal many diseases. Vitamin B-12 is only available from animal sources and vegetarians are at a constant risk of deficiency.
Red meat does not cause or contribute to diabetes, heart disease and cancer according to the myths, distortions and lies of opponents.
The key to cancer prevention is awesome health and a robust immune system.
Cancer is caused by a combination of free radical damage to normal cells and the lack of body building amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Another major cause for cancer is believed by a growing number of professionals to be the excessive consumption of carbohydrates in the form of sugars, grains, fruits and starchy vegetables. The third major cause for cancer is believed to be the consumption of hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans fats) in the diet.
Cancer is NOT caused by eating animal products and natural saturated fats.
Instead, meat and natural fats are just the foods which promote health and prevent cancer. The rate of cancer has risen in all populations that increased their consumption of carbohydrates such as grains and sugars, and factory-made trans fats. Our modern diet as recommended by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid and other health organizations has replaced the healthy natural animal fats with carbohydrates and trans fats. The result has been a very high level of cancer even though many have stopped smoking.
The harsh criticisms of red meat and saturated fat are not supported by scientific research or anthropological surveys.
Studies Prove Beef Is A Safe And Healthy Food.
Proof Saturated Fats Are Healthy.
Animal Rights Terrorists Strike Again?
Facts about Fats - The Skinny on Fats by Dr. Mary G. Enig and Sally Fallon.
Myth No. 5 - Organic Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs and Meat are More Healthy.
Organic fruits and vegetables are more likely to contain bacterial contamination than conventionally grown foods and are therefore less healthy. The sale of organic fruits and vegetables is a scam because many of these products could only be grown using pesticides. Those big, beautiful, perfectly formed "organic" apples in the store are a fraud because worm-free apples are absolutely impossible to grow without pesticides. Organic producers are driven by outrageous profit margins to support their propaganda.
"Researchers are still looking for the first human death from pesticide residues, fifty years after DDT was introduced and thirty years after its use was banned in the United States, but manure is apparently claiming lives almost daily through bacterial contamination of organic food."
"What most people don't realize - and activists try to hide - is that organic farmers are allowed to use a wide array of natural chemicals as pest killers. Moreover, these natural poisons pose the same theoretical (but remote) dangers as the synthetic pesticides so hated by organic devotees."
Exposing the Myths, Dangers and Lies About Organic Food.
Imported meats and most of our winter fruits and vegetables come from foreign countries in Central America or the Southern Hemisphere. Some come from local hot houses. Growers can be growing plants of illegal drugs in one field and animals, fruits or vegetables in another. They will quickly sell their meat and produce with the fraudulent claim that it is "organically grown" in order to get the larger price premium. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Not only are they using pesticides, antibiotics and hormones to get the most productivity, but many products have been found contaminated with chemicals which are illegal in all English speaking countries. The word "organic" is almost meaningless because of cheating in the food industry. Buying organic products is a foolish waste of money that only serves to encourage and benefit the cheaters.
No studies have proven that organic fruits and vegetables provide any health benefit. The assumptions is purely conjecture based on assuming non-organic foods contain unhealthy levels of pesticides or herbicides. To the contrary, studies have consistently shown no discernable health difference between organic and non organic foods.
Organic Food: Food for Thought?
by David M. Klurfeld, Ph.D., American Council on Science and Health.
On February 4, 2000, the ABC News show 20/20 presented a report about organic foods by John Stossel—a report that asked these questions about cleanliness, nutritional value and environmental impact of organic versus conventionally grown produce.
The 20/20 investigators examined produce for cleanliness by measuring the bacterial count in water used to wash it, as well as the presence of pesticide residues. They found that only about five percent of all food samples were contaminated with bacteria. But, organic produce had more bacterial contamination than conventional products. Specifically, sprouts and precut salad greens from organic suppliers had more bacteria. One-third of all sprouts sampled had E. coli bacteria on them and organic ones had twice the number of bacteria as the nonorganic vegetables. E. coli bacteria are markers of fecal contamination—probably due to the use of manure as fertilizer.
Interestingly, there were not any pesticide residues on any of the produce sampled—organic or conventional, collected in two states. This is an important point. Relatively small percentages of produce have detectable levels of pesticides. This same result was found by Consumers Reports in March 1999, but that publication emphasized the presence of the pesticides which came from only a few products.
If we look at these results on cleanliness in terms of current risks, it is important to note that we have an estimated 5,000 - 10,000 deaths a year in the United States from food-borne bacteria but none from pesticides.
What about the nutrition issue? There is no evidence that organic food is more nutritious or healthier for people even though they pay a high premium. Not a single published study has shown any difference in the nutrient content of organic versus conventional farm products.
Organic crops do not score better than traditional ones in terms of safety, nutrition, or the environment. In fact, sometimes they may not be as safe and they almost always cost more.
Dr. Klurfeld is Scientific Advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University.
Organic foods do not taste better than conventionally grown foods. Taste is a matter of freshness and being allowed to grow to ripeness before harvest.
Organic fruits and vegetables are much more likely to be contaminated with unhealthy E. coli and other bacteria. Many deaths have been traced to fruits and vegetables from an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. Conventionally grown vegetables have been shown to be more healthy because they contain less bacterial contamination.
Organic Foods: Will Certification Protect Consumers?
Organic Food May Hold Hidden Dangers - Angelo State University.
The Contamination of Organic Produce by Human Pathogens in Animal Manures.
Many people have become so paranoid about pesticides that they think they will surely develop cancer if conventionally farmed produce is eaten. This is a myth because present day pesticides are tested extensively for safety. As a teenager on a farm the author was literally drenched in pesticides including DDT, Malathion and two others. My father put four different pesticides in the tank of a heavy duty sprayer that was pulled behind the tractor. The sprayer had a 1" (25 mm) diameter hose and a pump discharge pressure of 400 pounds per square inch (27.6 bars) that would literally drench a full-grown apple tree in seconds. The high-pressure, high-volume spray created a cloudy mist of over spray which left me with a pure white coating of pesticides as the moisture evaporated. The pesticide remained on my arms, neck and face for several hours until spraying was completed. I received more pesticide in each spraying than the average person receives in a lifetime. This was repeated for many years with spraying done several times each year. My mother was not exposed to the pesticide to any significant extent but died of cancer at age 50. Neither of my sisters was exposed but both have had cancer. One sister also had an appendectomy and gallbladder removal. She is diabetic and has irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Her height has decreased a full inch (25mm) and she appears to have degenerative disk disease. The other sister has also had an appendectomy, a heart attack and a Candida yeast infection. Yet, I continue to be in perfect health with absolutely no discernable effect from the pesticide overdose. Maybe the pesticides prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes and IBS.
The myth that "free-range" chicken eggs is more healthy is related to the beef scam concerning Omega-3 fatty acids. The plea to eat eggs only from "free-range" chickens is a scam. Keeping chickens and turkeys in cages is perfectly fine. Chickens and turkeys must be the dumbest birds in the world, as those who have raised them can attest. Commercial "free-range" chickens may be given an access to an outside area but it is usually nothing but barren dirt where they rarely go. The idea they are walking around in the grass eating insects is simple ignorance. When given the chance to be free they will return to their cage. Chickens would certainly stop laying eggs if the cage caused them to be under stress, but they lay eggs even more frequently. The Omega-3 egg is also a scam. Oh, certainly they could have a tiny bit more Omega-3 fatty acids, if the producer is not cheating. Eggs should not be depended upon as your source for Omega-3 fats because all eggs are inadequate in Omega-3 fats. It is much less expensive to buy regular eggs and eat some cold water fish or take cod liver oil as mentioned below. A reader sent comments about "free-range" chickens.
"I agree with you the "free range" idea is bunk. I have been to a "free range" farm. It consisted of huge barns of chickens (10,000 per barn) that were meandering across concrete floors. That's what free range means here in New England."
One tablespoon of cod liver oil has more Omega-3 fatty acid than four (4) dozen eggs.
Look for Carlson's Lemon Flavored Cod Liver Oil and avoid the capsules. Omega-3 fats become easily oxidized and rancid as identified by the smell. Food processors remove them from their products to increase shelf life and eliminate the need for refrigeration.
Myth No. 6 - Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease.
This myth may never go away. The profit motive behind specialty foods, prescription cholesterol lowering drugs, blood testing and doctor visits results in billions of dollars of business each year. The amount of money spent to keep this myth going is astronomical. The United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding studies to support this myth only to fail in proving any connection between cholesterol and heart disease. Half of the people with heart disease have normal cholesterol levels. The only connection is among people with hypercholesterolemia which is a rare disease of extremely high cholesterol.
Feeding the Irrational Fear of Cholesterol by Owen Richard Fonorow.
There are strong indications that low HDL cholesterol is related to an increase in heart disease, and this is common in people with low total cholesterol readings, not high cholesterol. Eating a low cholesterol diet does not reduce blood cholesterol because the liver simply produces more. The liver produces cholesterol which is necessary for the transport and storage of body fat.
The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics.
The Cholesterol Myth by Thomas J. Moore ( pdf file ).
The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, Ph.D.
Low cholesterol increases the risk of cerebral hemorrhage (stroke), gallbladder disease and many types of cancers. Two major factors in the cause of heart disease are lipoprotein, Lp(a) and homocysteine, neither of which is normally checked by doctors. A lipoprotein reading of 20 mg/dl is normal and above 30 mg/dl is elevated. Homocysteine readings below 13 micromoles/L are normal.
What Causes Heart Disease by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.
"For almost forty years, the lipid hypothesis or diet-heart idea has dominated medical thinking about heart disease. In broad outlines, this theory proposes that when we eat foods rich in saturated fat and cholesterol, cholesterol is then deposited in our arteries in the form of plaque or atheromas that cause blockages. If the blockages become severe, or if a clot forms that cannot get past the plaque, the heart is starved of blood and a heart attack occurs.
Many distinguished scientists have pointed to serious flaws in this theory, beginning with the fact that heart disease in America has increased during the period when consumption of saturated fat has decreased. “The diet-heart idea,” said the distinguished George Mann, “is the greatest scam in the history of medicine.” And the chorus of dissidents continues to grow, even as this increasingly untenable theory has been applied to the whole population, starting with low-fat diets for growing children and mass medication with cholesterol-lowering drugs for adults."
Anthropological Research Reveals Human Dietary Requirements for Optimal Health
by H. Leon Abrams, Jr., MA, EDS
"Michael DeBakey, world renowned heart surgeon from Houston, who has devoted extensive research into the cholesterol coronary disease theory, states that out of every ten people in the United States who have atherosclerotic heart disease, only three or four of these ten have high cholesterol levels; this is approximately the identical rate of elevated cholesterol found in the general population. (10) His comment: “If you say cholesterol is the cause, how do you explain the other 60 percent to 70 percent with heart disease who don’t have a high cholesterol?” In 1964 DeBakey made an analysis of cholesterol levels from usual hospital laboratory testing of 1,700 patients with atherosclerotic disease and found there was no positive or definitive relationship or correlation between serum cholesterol levels and the extent or nature of atherosclerotic disease."
Myth No. 7 - Dietary Protein Requirement is 10% on a Calorie Basis.
This statement is absolutely false even though it is the official position of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid.
Protein, especially from red meat, is falsely labeled as causing heart disease, colon cancer and kidney disease. These claims are myths, distortions and lies.
Diabetes Solution - Chapter 9 by Dr. Richard K. Bernstein
"If you are a long-standing diabetic and are frustrated with the care you've received over the years, you have probably been conditioned to think that protein is more of a poison than sugar and is the cause of kidney disease. I was conditioned the same way—many years ago, as I mentioned, I had laboratory evidence of advanced proteinuria, signifying potentially fatal kidney disease—but in this case, the conventional wisdom is just a myth."
"Non-diabetics who eat a lot of protein don't get diabetic kidney disease. Diabetics with normalized blood sugars don't get diabetic kidney disease. High levels of dietary protein do not cause kidney disease in diabetics or anyone else. There is no higher incidence of kidney disease in the cattle-growing states of the United States, where many people eat steak every day, than there is in the states where beef is more expensive and consumed to a much lesser degree. Similarly, the incidence of kidney disease in vegetarians is the same as the incidence of kidney disease in non-vegetarians. It is the high blood sugar levels that are unique to diabetes, and to a much lesser degree the high levels of insulin required to cover them (causing hypertension), that cause the complications associated with diabetes."
Actually, natural unprocessed fresh beef and other natural meats are used by the body to heal and prevent disease. The human immune system is composed of protein molecules made from meat. A diet high in meat will provide a robust immune system which prevents and cures diseases. Animal protein does not cause osteoporosis, reduce bone density or cause kidney stones as claimed by many vegetarians and others who propagate lies.
High-Protein Diets: Separating Fact From Fiction
Stephen Byrnes, Ph.D., RNCP
"It is excessive carbohydrate intake, not protein or animal protein intake, that can result in heart disease and cancer (1). Readers should note that the type of diet Gilbert advocates in her article is a high-carbohydrate one because that is exactly what diets that are low in protein and fat are. Furthermore, the idea that animal products, specifically protein, cholesterol, and saturated fatty acids, somehow factor in causing atherosclerosis, stroke, and/or heart disease is a popular idea that is not supported by available data, including the field of lipid biochemistry (2)."
"The claim that animal protein intake causes calcium loss from the bones is another popular nutritional myth that has no backing in nutritional science. The studies that supposedly showed protein to cause calcium loss in the urine were NOT done with real, whole foods, but with isolated amino acids and fractionated protein powders (3). When studies were done with people eating meat with its fat, NO calcium loss was detected in the urine, even over a long period of time (3). Other studies have confirmed that meat eating does not affect calcium balance (4) and that protein promotes stronger bones (5). Furthermore, the saturated fats that Gilbert thinks are so evil are actually required for proper calcium deposition in the bones (6)."
"The reason why the amino acids and fat-free protein powders caused calcium loss while the meat/fat did not is because protein, calcium, and minerals, require the fat-soluble vitamins A and D for their assimilation and utilization by the body. When protein is consumed without these factors, it upsets the normal biochemistry of the body and mineral loss results (7). True vitamin A and full-complex vitamin D are only found in animal fats."
"If the protein-causes-osteoporosis theory teaches us anything, it is to avoid fractionated foods (like soy protein isolate, something Gilbert would no doubt encourage readers to consume given her zeal for soy) and isolated amino acids, and to eat meat with its fat. New evidence shows that men and women who ate the most animal protein had better bone mass compared to those who avoided it (8) and that vegan diets (most likely also advocated by Gilbert) place women at a greater risk for osteoporosis (9)."
"The claim that protein intake leads to kidney stones is another popular myth that is not supported by the facts. Although protein restricted diets are helpful for people who have kidney disease, eating meat does not cause kidney problems (10). Furthermore, the fat-soluble vitamins and saturated fatty acids found in animal foods are pivotal for properly functioning kidneys (11)."
Life Without Bread by Christian B. Allan, Ph.D. and Wolfgang Lutz, M.D.
This book shows how the connection between high-carbohydrate consumption and cancer is becoming more evident.
"After carbohydrates are consumed, the levels of sugar and glucose in the blood rise. The body responds by releasing insulin from the pancreas into the bloodstream. The carbohydrate theory of cancer is simple:
"Too much insulin and glucose in the blood can cause cells to dedifferentiate, just as they do in cell lines, and thus can be a primary cause of dietary-related cancer." Pages 169-170.
"There have been many studies done, in animals and people, that indicate that fat content in the diet is not responsible for breast cancer or any other cancer. We know there's a tendency to blame dietary fat for just about everything that goes wrong, but that's just a lazy way out. Time after time, the studies show it just isn't true." Page 173.
"The Eskimos who ate only fat and protein never had any cancer in their population until a Western (high-carbohydrate) diet was introduced. Why don't we ever hear of cancer of the heart? Probably because the heart uses almost all fat for energy, thus cancer does not have a chance to develop in those cells. We hope that researchers will take the next step and start looking at what has been known for a long time. Dietary related cancer is a sugar metabolism disease just like all the others." Page 177.
Compound in meat prevents diabetes, study suggests
"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A common type of fat found in red meats and cheeses may prevent diabetes, according to a research team from Purdue University and The Pennsylvania State University."
A high-protein diet boost healthy antioxidant levels while low protein induces oxidative stress.
Myths, Distortions and Lies About BEEF.
High-protein Diet Found Beneficial.
Study Links Processed Meat to Cancer.
Saturated Fat Reduces Children's Allergies and Trans Fats Increase Them.
A large study published by the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research shows both elderly men and women who consumed the most animal protein had the lowest rate of bone loss while those who consumed the least amount of animal protein had the highest rate of bone loss. A study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has shown that postmenopausal women who consumed the highest amount of animal protein had the strongest bones and the lowest percentage of hip fractures. Diets lowest in meat required a longer time for healing of a bone fracture and the slowest recovery time for illnesses in general. Eating meat improves healing and health.
Preventing Osteoporosis, Bone Loss, Hip Fractures and Degenerative Disk Disease.
Myth No. 8 - Dietary Fat Should Be No More Than 30% of Calories.
This myth seems so true, innocent, wonderfully healthy and wholesome that most people swallow it without question, but it is the most deadly myth of all dietary dogma and lies. The fat phobia is the result of worldwide mental brainwashing. One does not have much choice but to increase carbohydrates in the diet to replace a reduction in fats, therein lies the road to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and the entire medical book of autoimmune diseases. Carbohydrates are slow in their destruction of the body, but they eventually prove to be extremely deadly. The delay between the start of a high-carbohydrate diet and disease has been labeled as the "20 year rule."
The low-fat Diet Actually Causes Diabetes and Heart Disease.
This is the true story of an acquaintance who has been living according to the recommendations of the American Medical Association (AMA), American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Diabetic Association (ADA), but still got hypoglycemia at age 52 and plugged heart arteries at age 59. There are millions of these cases each year in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. This is the story of a real person.
David is a doctor employed at the local hospital. His wife, Susie, also works there. They have followed the AMA and AHA recommended low-fat diet religiously most of their adult lives. They always picked the low-fat selections in the grocery store and ate lots of "healthy" fruit and whole grains. They did recognize the necessity of eating meat but always selected the low-fat cuts, removed the visible fat on their plates and always removed the skin from chicken.
Dr. David and Susie were "health nuts." They jogged several times a week until it damaged Susie's knees. The switch was then made to hiking the mountain where they live and riding bikes on the mountain roads. Exercise was a major priority. They ran the local 10K race every year. When Susie could no longer run because of her knees, David continued to run the race religiously. It was the highlight of their health activity.
Neither Dr. David nor Susie was ever fat or overweight. They never went on yo-yo diets because it wasn't necessary. They never smoked or drank alcohol. They didn't eat many simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour. They presented bodies that appeared to be the optimum in health but inside they were sick, sick, sick.
Dr. David's low-fat diet caused his hypoglycemia and heart disease. By age 52 Dr. David was having blood sugar metabolism problems. His blood sugar would surge when he ate his normal high-carbohydrate meals but plunged later giving the typical symptoms of someone who is pre-diabetic. Being a doctor, David followed the recommendations of the ADA and snacked on peanut butter and crackers between meals to keep his blood sugar stable. Dr. David's biggest disadvantage was being a doctor. He believed the nonsense put forth by the above professional societies. The low-fat diet is always high in carbohydrates and produces high blood insulin levels. Dr. David is suffering because he believed the "big fat lies" about the low-fat diet.
Dr. David was complacent about learning nutritional facts and didn't question recommendations put forth by his professional societies. He didn't do his own research into the history of heart disease. Otherwise, he would have discovered that heart disease was so rare in 1900 it was not listed in the medical books. He didn't realize the cook books of the era show people eating lots of saturated fat in the form of pork lard, beef suet, butter, bacon and eggs. Eating the skin from chicken and turkey was considered the "best part of the bird." Dr. David still doesn't realize the low-fat diet is an attempt by vegetarians to discourage the eating of animals and has nothing to do with healthy nutrition. He doesn't realize how deadly carbohydrates like fruit, bread, whole grains, cereals, sugar, flour, rice, potatoes and soy really are.
Dr. David must now decide which mechanical method to use to unplug his heart arteries. But what can he eat? He has been on the recommended low-fat diet for many years. His exercise has been unrelenting. His lifestyle was in perfect accordance with all the recommendations. His doctors will, no doubt, recommend the same diet for the cure when actually it was the cause of his heart disease. Dr. David is in big trouble. What does a doctor do now? His erroneous training had double-crossed him, and he doesn't even know it.
Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects by Ron Rosedale, M.D.
The low-fat Diet Causes Gallbladder Disease.
"The gallbladder resembles a pouch and collects green bile fluid as it drains from the liver through the common bile duct. This bile fluid is made, in part, to help with digestion (the salts in bile make it easier for you to digest fats). However, bile also contains some waste products including bilirubin (generated when old red blood cells are destroyed to make room for fresh ones) and cholesterol. Gallstones form when cholesterol or bilirubin particles begin to cluster together into a solid lump. The stone grows in size as the bile fluid washes over it, much like a pearl can form inside an oyster."
Gallbladder Disease and Gallstones.
The gallbladder collects bile fluid but does not discharge it all when a low-fat diet is eaten. This bile fluid stagnates causing the formation of gallstones from the precipitates. The gallstones get large enough to plug the discharge of the gallbladder bile duct. A single meal of fatty food can set off a gallbladder attack when the gallbladder attempts to discharge its contents including the stone or stones. Doctors generally remove the gallbladder rather than attempting to remove the stones. The common bile duct at the junction of the liver bile duct and the gallbladder bile duct cannot be removed when plugged; therefore, the stone must be removed.
A high-fat diet prevents gallbladder disease by causing the gallbladder to discharge the bile fluids for the digestion of the fats. The system remains healthy on the high-fat diet. Gallbladder disease has become epidemic as more people have switched to the low-fat diet during the last 40 years. One woman on a nutritional message board stated, "Several friends and I decided to go on a low-fat diet. We didn't lose any weight, but we all lost our gallbladder."
Myth No. 9 - Soy Products are Healthy Foods.
The money and power behind the soy industry are monumental. Soy sales are growing at a tremendous rate and heavily advertised, but soy has a sick nutritional foundation. Soy is not a healthy food. Soybeans in their natural state are not an edible food for animal, birds or man. The raw beans are highly processed in order to make the hundreds, if not thousands, of products based on a vegetable source of protein for the vegetarian market. However, this processing cannot remove all of the inherent unhealthy nutritional features of the products. Science is finding serious problems with soy products on a regular basis.
Soy Online Service
Presents the facts about the unhealthy dangers of eating soy.
The push behind the sale of soy products began with soybean oil as a substitute cooking oil for animal fats, but soybean oil is an Omega-6 fatty acid which has been scientifically proven to be pro-inflammatory and contributes too many diseases (see Myth No. 10 below). It is highly suspect in contributing to heart disease and intestinal diseases. Soybean oil is widely used for deep frying in fast-food restaurants. The manufacturers of soybean oil were left with a soy meal after extraction of the oil. This meal was a waste product that the manufacturers wanted to sell. Soy meal is high in protein and the push was on to sell this protein as a substitute for meat and fish. However, soy products contribute too many health problems. Soy products are full of isoflavones, the mega-doses of phytoestrogens that disrupt normal sex hormone functions, cause hypothyroidism and disrupt endocrine functions. Unfermented soy products contain enzyme inhibitors and unhealthy phytates that are not deactivated by cooking. Phytic acid combines with minerals in the intestines and prevent absorption. Beware of the health and nutritional myths, distortions and lies behind the soy recommendations.
Soy Danger: Why you should avoid eating Soy.
Truths & Myths About Soy.
Newest Research On Why You Should Avoid Soy.
Concerns Regarding Soybeans.
More On Soy.
Environmental estrogens affect sperm. More bad news about soy.
Do not eat any soy products unless fermented or sprouted. Miso, tempeh, and natto are acceptable in very limited quantities. Better yet, don't eat any of those either because you never know if the required longtime fermentation process was used. It probably was not because of our current hurried manufacturing processes. Do not use soy protein powders, but whey protein powders are acceptable. Soy protein is missing several of the amino acids and one that is classified as an essential. Do not eat soy products as a substitute for eating meat, fowl, fish and seafood. Do not eat soy protein chips or cereals. Tofu made from soybeans has been shown to shirk the brain and cause cognitive impairment. See the soy index of studies.
Dr. Mercola - Soybeans Can Damage Your Health - Part 1 of 3.
Soy Online Service Home Page.
The Weston A. Price Foundation - Soy Alert!
The Third International Soy Symposium - Tragedy and Hype.
Myth No. 10 - Omega-6 Vegetable, Seed and Nut Oils are Healthy.
Absolutely avoid Omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable, seed, nut and grain oils made from corn, soybean, Canola, safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, almond, apricot, grapeseed, hazelnut, peanut, poppyseed, rice bran, sesame, teaseed, tomato seed, walnut, and wheat germ. These are high-volume and high-profit oils. The companies involved strongly support the myths, distortions and lies about their unrealistic and incorrect health claims. Although Omega-6 fatty acids are essential in the diet, the amount obtained from meat, fish and fowl far exceeds the requirement. The dietary goal must be to obtain adequate Omega-3 fatty acids. Carlson's lemon flavored cod liver oil is the best source for Omega-3 fatty acids because it contains no Omega-6 fatty acid as found in flax seed oil, and it is a great source for Vitamin D. Omega-6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory. The Omega-6 oils cancel the benefits of the good Omega-3 fat. Flax is not the best Omega-3 fat because your body must convert the shorter fat ALA in flax to EPA and DHA before you will receive major benefits, and most of us don't do that very well. Flax seed oil also contains a high level of Omega-6 fatty acids which should be limited. Do not take flax seed oil or eat flax seeds. The following links are to studies which should be read.
Fish oil fatty acid supplementation in active ulcerative colitis: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study.
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids and inflammatory mediator production.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases.
n-3 fatty acids and the immune system in autoimmunity.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids, inflammation, and immunity.
Dietary modification of inflammation with lipids.
Secrets of the Edible Oil Industry Part 1 and Part 2.
The most commonly used unhealthy polyunsaturated Omega-6 fatty acids are:
Safflower Oil (80%)
Sunflower Oil (68%)
Corn Oil (57%)
Soybean Oil (53%)
Cottonseed Oil (53%)
Peanut Oil (46%)
However, Omega-6 gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) is the bright spot in the Omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid family. A person should supplement with Omega-6 gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) by taking borage oil which contains a greater amount of GLA than primrose oil. The body does not produce essential fatty acids. They can only be ingested through food. GLA and Omega-3 fatty acids together produce a type of prostaglandin, called E1 series. This type of prostaglandin helps reduce inflammation and aids in digestion. Solid scientific research shows Omega-6 fatty acids are highly inflammatory and should never be eaten by anyone with a bowel disease, heart disease, arthritis or any other autoimmune disease. Healthy people should seriously limit these Omega-6 fatty acids. Dr. Robert C. Atkins' in his book, "Age-Defying Diet Revolution" and Dr. Michael Eades in his book, "Protein Power Lifeplan" both have long sections describing the unhealthy effect of these oils.
Bonus Myth No. 11 - People Are All Different.
This myth is so rampant that it just had to be added to the list of ten. The scientific design of the human body is held within very tight restraints. People are not different in the manner claimed. Humans react in the very same way when they are given the same environment, same beginning health condition and same nutrition. People only appear to be different because they have some have health condition which restrict the normal scientific functions. A typical example is the diabetic who attempts to go on the low-carbohydrate diet or eats a large piece of high-sugar cherry pie with a glass of orange juice. They react much differently than a healthy person. People think everyone is different because someone developed a disease while another family member does not. They don't realize that people in the same family can sit at the same table and eat completely different meals as defined by protein, fat and carbohydrate content. A person can go into a restaurant and eat a low-carbohydrate dinner while others at the same table are eating a very high carbohydrate dinner.
Many people use a common cliché to side-step scientific absolutes by saying, "Oh, that may work for them or for you, but that doesn't work for me at all." This is the typical logic people use not realizing that the case in point violates universal laws of science. This excuse should be challenged or dismissed immediately, but instead, it is readily accepted by almost everyone. The myths and nonsense about nutrition and health goes on and on.
People search for an excuse to continue their high-carbohydrate addiction. Claiming that all people are different is one of the most popular excuses given in order to continue in their addictive lifestyle without providing justification. These people are deceiving themselves.
People seem to go ballistic when told they are the same as everyone else. The excuse for their obesity or disease is snatched away by the scientific truth that everyone is basically the same. They know they must hang onto the excuse that they are somehow different. They want a scapegoat for their problem. They maintain, "It's not my fault. People are different." They want to blame their condition on anything else, but not their diet. When every other excuse has been exhausted they resort to nonsense that can't be readily disproved, "It is in my genes."
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