Posted on 07/12/2013 8:02:36 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Oh yeah!
To be fair, consider how uneducated and stupid the majority of our population tends to be. Doctor's have to provide broad recommendations to ensure someone doesn't go out and, for instance, eat lard because they said that 'SOME' fat is good for you.
Most people aren't smart or motivated enough to read labels or do any research on dietary science. My advice to most people who say they want to lose weight: don't eat anything from a bag or a box.
My doctor put me on the American Heart Association Diet. Completely bland and lifeless, it virtually eliminates all good flavors and textures of food - cheese, sweets, fats, etc. I couldn’t do it.
Tried the South Beach diet, which focuses on eliminating bad carbs and eating the RIGHT fat, and it has been a lot more effective - AND interesting.
Salt - good in moderation, watch intake in winter since we sweat less in cold weather. Lot of salty foods increase my BP and I check my BP daily so I have seen the correlation first hand.
Red Meat - Wonderful nutritionally but good only in moderation. Has lots of saturated fats which will help clog up arteries with prolonged use.
Sugar - Exercise burns it up, sedentary lifestyles should watch intake. Moderation is good.
Fat - Best ingredient in diet to control blood sugar levels and weight, it digests slower than carbs, so you will not get hungry sooner. Moderation is good. In my opinion 100 calories from fat are better than 100 calories from carbs.
Coffee - Stimulates brain activity, but can cause increased release of stomach acid. Good in moderation and with food.
Aspirin - Wonder drug, dissolves blood clots and thins out blood, helps reduce pain and fever, controls arthritic pain. Can cause stomach bleeding because it is a blood thinner. Best taken with food in moderation.
Beer & Wine: Good in moderation, very harmful in large quantities. It kills a few brain cells with every drink and adults do not grow new brain cells. Alcohol is seen as poison by your liver and it has to work hard to get rid of it and can lead to cirrhosis of liver (fatty liver).
Common thread in all of above: MODERATION.
When "medical" organizations endorse the bio-hazard of sodomy as "healthy," you know we have.
moderation in everything even in moderation
Yes, I saw that.
I only use “Real Salt” from Redmond, UT. It is pink and grey, loaded with minerals and the best tasting salt you will ever eat. Have to order it online around here, but it’s sold in a lot of stores elsewhere.
Thanks. I am NOT a scientist, but the heavy reliance of researchers today on statistics has never seemed like the best idea to me, either.
We are to use common sense, We must have salt and people living where crops have depleted the nutrients from the soil, especially in the south, there are many people with ‘goiters’ which is caused by the depletion of iodine. Thus the reason for iodine salt being available. Let us supplement our diets with vitamins in an basic daily on going way to obtain all the body requires to function well. The chemicals pushing the soil to bear abundant crops are not necessarily wise or good for the people eating the food. Thank thee LORD for giving us a beautiful healthy world that has been contaminated by man. Help us LORD, we know not what to do., In Jesus name, amen.
As far as the health effects of Sodium consumption are concerned the fact that entire cities (Salzburg, Austria for example) and ancient civilizations were built around access to salt, and even the old phrases "worth his salt" and "salt of the earth" are still in use, should be clues that the "experts" who counseled people to eliminate salt from their diets are the same kind as those who define the chemical which forms the basis of all life on this planet (Carbon) as a "pollutant".
This doesn't mean people cannot harm themselves by consuming too much Salt, they can't suffocate in a room filled with CO2, and that their hearts won't eventually give out when they approach that magic number 400 lbs. on the bathroom scale. People can die of drinking too much pure water, for God's sake. But when an "expert" comes around crying that the age old wisdom and habits of our ancestors, who if they made it past childhood disease and the blunt force trauma of wars fought with sharpened stones and steel tended to live about as long as we do (three score and ten) take anything they have to say "with a grain of salt".
There have been other studies coming to this conclusion. They were ignored, but not by me. I do better with salt than without it. Give me a double.
Back during the seventies, my father gained some weight, and as a result his blood pressure climbed. He asked his doctor if he needed to cut back on salt (my dad loved the stuff), and the doctor told him, “Nope-—salt isn’t going to hurt you.”
My father lost the weight and his blood pressure dropped back to normal. I guess that doctor was ahead of his time.
funny...I tell people this all the time. For some reason people listen to “scientists” without critical thinking, even if only an assertion (no proof) is made people take it as the truth. Nobody ever asks how often scientists have been right vs. wrong? The very nature of science dictates that scientists have been wrong far more than they’ve been right. It is only by the long process of eliminating everything that isn’t true do you get *closer* to the truth. How many “scientific facts” have been later proven false?
You may fail a 1000 theories and eventually find one that seems to hold up, this is what you hear about, not the failures....even then, the theory that appeared true may later be shown to be false.
This is my issue with so-called “consensus” on climate change. There isn’t “one accepted unified theory”, there’s many different computer models and none of them agree. They’re all about to fail on projected temperature ranges, even if you average them. It seems consensus is quite different than fact.
I’m waiting for the flip-flop on bacon.
Saliva will cause cancer, but only if swalled in small amounts over a long period of time.
Weight loss will not only reduce blood pressure, it will also help reduce blood sugar levels, excess wear of hip & knee joints, and give you more energy.
It is simple physics, the fatter you are, more blood has to be pumped through more blood vessels, which means the heart has to work harder, which requires higher pressure to pump all that excess blood. It is easier to propel a thin body versus fat body, which means increased energy.
I’m waiting for a flip-flop on statin drugs.
Statins do me in. Muscle aches, flu like symptoms.
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