Posted on 03/10/2015 8:44:57 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
At 25, Russ Crandall was the picture of health. In 2005, the Navy translator—fluent in Russian and Indonesian—was so fit that he was often enlisted to whip out-of-shape recruits into, well, shape. And then, out of the blue, everything changed.
"I had a stroke, and my body just stopped working the way I was expecting," the force behind paleo blog The Domestic Man told Yahoo Food. “The doctors couldn’t figure out why. They were like, ‘Figure out how to write again. Figure out how to walk.’”
Within six months, Crandall had relearned both—he credits the speedy recovery to his youth and otherwise good health—but the absence of an explanation left him rattled. His concerns only worsened a year later, when he began feeling sick again. “I was out of breath all the time, but I couldn’t figure out what it was,” Crandall said. “Eventually, the doctors figured out I had some sort of pulmonary heart disease.”
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1. Isn't genetic tampering with our food supply playing God?
2. Do we really understand the downstream impact of genetic grain modification?
3. Why are so many people reporting food allergies today that were unknown years ago?
Leviticus 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Liberals rarely resort to the Bible in context.
Thanks for posting. I have an over active immune system.
Jan, thank you for posting this.
I agree with you and the author’s recommendation to stay away from US grains, and Vegetable oils.
US grains are genetically modified, heavily sprayed with pesticides, herbicides, for producer’s benefit (Corp yield), Not consumer health.
Grain consumption is often identified by credible allergist and GI tract physicians as having a role in causing inflammation related maladies, Krohn, irritated bowel syndrome, etc.
Canola oil is a scandalous product. There is No Canola plant. Canola stands for: Canada Oil company. They were able to genetically modify toxic rape seed plant and diminish offending toxic compounds. Rape seed oil used to be designated as unfit for human consumption.
Anyway, I know that if you eat “clean” you’re doing what our creator intended us to do.
It works for me, my marathon running grown kids, and physicians that I know.
Imagine how well our Healthcare system would run if lifestyle related diseases were greatly reduced (thru voluntary cultural shift, not coercion).
I will admit, carb craving is difficult at times.
Best of health to every Freeper here!
I won’t call you a liberal for that.
Interesting article. I was not familiar with the term “neutral carb.” I may buy one of ISIS books to learn more.
“1. Isn’t genetic tampering with our food supply playing God?
2. Do we really understand the downstream impact of genetic grain modification?
3. Why are so many people reporting food allergies today that were unknown years ago?”
Im not being a troll here. This is my real opinion.
1) Since man began doing anything above hunter gatherer, the story has been one of relentless improvement through selective breeding (genetic tampering) Every crop and domestic animal has been down this road.
2)We do understand. It is crops that resist blight of all types, produce unbelievable yields. Olive trees are an example, normal ones produce 35 pound or so a year. Israeli modified ones make almost 10 times that. Corn,,even more. Apples, better than ever. Starvation is unknown today unless it is caused politically. That is the downstream result.
3)People are reporting more than ever because they are whiney, bored, and like to feel important. They do not have a wild west to tame. They do not have a great depression to survive. They do not have Nazis and Japanese to defeat. They do not worry about the nuclear war issues circa 1960. They do not think about getting to the moon. They are not conquering polio.
Dabbling in scary food stories is the phrenology and general parlor game of spoiled bored mothers, who due to the newness of the internet, now have a greater voice than ever for every nutty idea they dream up. IE,,, the vaccination scare.
I feel for the poor SOB that had a stroke. But sometimes, it just isn’t your day. The food is fine and I just cannot let myself trust an admitted damaged brain to tell me what not to eat.
Lets leave this to the food pros.
And honestly, watch out for Leviticus. Two verses later, it tells you to slaughter a ram to atone for your transgressions. Jesus came and ended all that kind of old testament law. New covenant now....
That rapeseed oil considered unfit for human consumption is very misleading. Rapeseed is a fine oil. It used to taste bitter. It was crossbred into a variety that lost the cause of that. But it was never unhealthy.
Almonds used to kill you with cyanide. A few handfuls would do it. Ever wonder about that “bitter almond” scent they warn you about in NBC training? There’s a reason for that. After a few mutated trees were found, they were crossbred and cultivated until now almonds are our friends.
And also, canola is for Canadian Oil, low acid. Because if you call it rapeseed, those same loony housewives with a hobby would freak out again. I wish they would just go back to watching CSI.
But on the other hand, that lead them to stare at their kids every moment 24/7, never let them play unsupervised, and create a generation of Ritalin addled overconfident kids who can’t pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel. But that’s just my opinion.
But rapeseed oil was never toxic. It just had a bitter taste people didn’t like. But many crops we find common today such as almond really were toxic.
And I remember something about god giving us dominion over everything and it being here for our use.
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28
I think all of our methods of improving crops, the size of corns, apples, better rices, better grains, crossbreeding animals, aquaculture of salmon, etc etc all falls withing the Genesis 1:28 prime directive.
And honestly, that Starlink thing was just PR and mass hysteria. There was no issue with GM corn being in the yellow taco shells. But when the fear stampede begins, hats the end of the road for a product.
That variety of corn was better resistant to insects and produced even better yields.
It was and is approved as animal feed. So you are still eating it in beef. And if you picked it today and boiled a few ears, slathered in butter, you’d be in for a real treat.
I understand researching, but that’s exactly my issue. The net is utterly flooded with silly theories and “research” that is funded (through hidden channels) by luddite and leftist money.
They hate everything productive. Oil, Gas, cars, electricity, and yes,,,, the astounding productivity of American agriculture. I believe a lot of this constant drumbeat comes from foreign “research” trying to prove that their stagnant methods and low productivity are best, thereby, protecting their domestic farmers.
Japan famously did this with rice. Ours was better and cheaper, so they pretend it is unsafe or low quality.
I don’t doubt some of what you are saying is true. I am absolutely pro-business, pro-american, pro-technology, etc. But I am pro-God first and foremost. Every time I have “rethought” my positions in light of scripture, I have found God to be correct, and all men liars ;-)
Yes, I love the Genesis verse and agree with it. At the same time, I do believe God sets limits on our subduing.
Critical thinking skills, reasonable due care and diligence.
Love that oleo margarine, hydronated trans-fatty oils, olestra, cyclamates, artifical food color dyes, flavors, pesticides, herbicides, and GMO tinkered food.
Bon appetite, normalacy bias trusting sheep of our unaccountable Mega-corp (godly?) men in white lab coats!
Facts:
Rapeseed oil naturally contains a high percentage (30-60%) of erucic acid, a substance associated with heart lesions in laboratory animals. For this reason rapeseed oil was not used for consumption in the United States prior to 1974, although it was used in other countries. (Americans chose to use it as a lubricant to maintain Allied naval and merchant ships during World War II.)
In 1974, rapeseed varieties with a low erucic content were introduced. Scientists had found a way to replace almost all of rapeseed’s erucic acid with oleic acid, a type of monounsaturated fatty acid. (This change was accomplished through the cross-breeding of plants, not by the techniques commonly referred to as “genetic engineering.”) By 1978, all Canadian rapeseed produced for food use contained less than 2% erucic acid. The Canadian seed oil industry rechristened the product “canola oil” (Canadian oil) in 1978 in an attempt to distance the product from negative associations with the word “rape.” Canola was introduced to American consumers in 1986. By 1990, erucic acid levels in canola oil ranged from 0.5% to 1.0%, in compliance with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) .
***Note: Vegetable oils such as Canola, Corn, Cottonseed oils use Industrial solvents, such as Hexane, to extract as much oil as possible from canola oil mash.
Significant levels of solvents are left behind within the final product.
It is highly recommended to use cold-expeler expressed oils, such as extra virgin olive oil, and avoid solvent derived vegetable oils.
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