Posted on 08/15/2019 12:15:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People who follow the Paleo diet often do so for health reasons, eschewing many carbs, especially grains, in favor of lean meats and vegetables. Now, research indicates that this “caveman” style of eating may have hidden dangers to your heart health.
The Paleo diet, which draws nutritional guidelines from the diets of our human ancestors, advocates eating like a hunter and gatherer—consuming lots of meat, vegetables, nuts, and some fruits—while excluding agriculturally-based foods such as grains, legumes, and dairy, along with refined sugar and processed oils.
Though no one would argue the nutritional merits of vegetables and lean protein, pulling whole grains out of the diet may have some harmful hidden consequences with regard to the gut microbiome and how it affects cardiovascular health, according to a new study published in the European Journal of Nutrition.
Researchers from Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, compared the gut microbiomes and levels of trimethylamine-n-oxide (TMAO)—a key blood biomarker strongly associated with heart disease—of 44 people who followed the Paleo diet for at least one year with a similar group of 47 people who followed the recommended Australian diet that includes whole grains.
They discovered that those who ate Paleo had levels of TMAO twice as high as their non-Paleo eating peers.
The reason? A lack of whole grains in the Paleo diet, lead researcher Angela Genoni, Ph.D., said in a press release.
“We found the lack of whole grains were associated with TMAO levels, which may provide a link between the reduced risks of cardiovascular disease we see in populations with high intakes of whole grains,” she said in the release.
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““Medical misadventure” remains the leading couse of death, every year.”
...and that’s only the cases they admit to. Not the 10s of millions of people who die or have their lives ruined from complications of eating too many carbs and not enough saturated fats.
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“Lean protein” is decidedly less healthy than normal 25% fat protein.
Dr. Joel Wallach frequently says “a cube of butter a day keeps the doctor away.”
I watched a Dr. Berg video on this last night.
This might be it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7fHYSyvxU0&t=218s
EVOO, according to my bottle label is 10% Poly, 12% Sat and about 78% Mono.
All the omega 3 fats in fish are polyunsaturated fats. In fact all omega 3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fats, no matter where found. Half the fats found in walnuts are polyunsaturated as is about 1/4 of the fat in almonds.
It’s large quantities of omega 6 fatty acids (polysaturated), ESPECIALLY if heated (and turned into trans fats) and/or hydrogenated that are deadly. Whereas the saturated fats in butter, bacon and beef (the heavenly 3) seem to do little, if any harm.
The composite fatty acids are of broad spectrum as far as how man, and where their hydrogen bonds are, making some deadly and some beneficial.
If you’re eating like a cave man, you’ll attain and stay healthy.
But if you’re eating like a farmer, maybe not.
Refined seed oils will most certainly kill you slowly, but directly.
As will any refined sugar or flour.
“Not By Bread Alone”:
“Arctic explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent years living with indigenous Inuit and Eskimo people. He noted their general healthiness (and good teeth), and an absence of many of the diseases that plagued western cultures, such as scurvy, heart disease, and diabetes. Observing their dietary habits, he determined that their primary food was meat, both lean and fatty, and that their diets were very low in sugary or starchy carbohydrates. Was this meaty diet the key to their good health?
Stefansson’s classic Not By Bread Alone chronicles a 1928 scientific experiment, conducted by the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology at Bellevue Hospital in New York, in which Stefansson and his colleague Dr. Karsten Andersen ate a meat-only diet for one year. The two men stayed healthy and fared very well, leading him to claim that we should reexamine our notion of what foods constitute a healthy diet. “
FWIW, I’ve lost 20 pounds using a combination of intermittent fasting and low-carb. Intermittent fasting, by itself, wasn’t enough. Got another 20 lbs to go. Losing 5-6 lbs/month. Feel a lot better after 20 lbs and that gives me incentive to keep going.
I’m pretty sure the weight loss will more than compensate for what kind of bacteria are in my gut. Low-carb, to me, means eating more fat, more meat, but allowing veggies and beans to be eaten. No bread, rice, simple carbs.
Thank you! Every ‘diet’ (and these are still considered, ‘diets’) isn’t right for every BODY.
My plan is NOT to spend 3/4 of my day in a bathroom, THANKS!
I’ve had friends that went on the Atkins Diet and that worked well for them and him - slim and trim at 72 - until he hit his head and went into a coma and later died.
NONE of us are getting out of this life ALIVE. Do what’s best FOR YOU and don’t foist YOUR perceived perfection on others!
Yeesh! I thought this was a Conservative website? Aren’t we all about making our own CHOICES without Government interference?
Look at us all, marching to the beat of Big Medicine via our DIETS, and isn’t healthcare now pretty much Government Run for ANY of us closing in on 65?
I’ve been working for the past 15 YEARS untangling Medicare and Medicaid for Dear Old Dad. I DO NOT disagree with doing an end-run when you can, but not every ‘diet’ is ‘one size fits all’ for each of us.
You’re welcome - I think it was more of a misunderstanding between FRiends.
I’ve made a number of generalized statements in the past - such as saying “School Teachers are Leftists”, and once in a while, one of the 4 school teachers in the United States who happens to NOT be a Leftist comes back at me and says “How DARE you call me a Leftist. Not every teacher is a Leftist”.
It’s pretty funny when you think about it...but goes with the territory in this type of forum.
Truth!
Do NOT have erythritol in the house if you have dogs.
Yep, that’s a really good source to cite, since there wasn’t anything like Big Government, Big Carb, and Big Medicine 100 years ago...at least nothing like today.
By the way, I remember some Canadians telling me about how it all ended for the Inuits. Seems that in the 1950s, at one point, they were having a bad year regarding their food supply in the wild, and some of them were simply starving and did die. The Inuits understood this was part of their lives, as had been for thousands of years, and accepted what was going on.
But NOT the city-slickers in the South of Canada. They said, in effect, “We are an advanced and wealthy country, we CANNOT ALLOW any of our people to die this way”.
And so they built towns and villages in the far north...and forcibly herded the Inuits into a ‘more civilized’ lifestyle. And you can probably guess the rest - they had no tolerance for alcohol or carbs, and so many, if not most, became alcoholics, obese, and often diabetic.
That’s how Canada deal with the ‘problem’ there. Probably happened elsewhere too, but Canada is the only one I’m familiar with.
"Agriculture is 10,000 years old."
Ive had a problem with this thought for a while now. I know its what we are told but I don't believe it anymore for various reasons.
The final nail for me was a series of events this year. Ive done a bit myself over the years but but suddenly entirely relearned this year in an epiphany moment from classes taught to me by a vole. Ive had the unusual chance this year to watch a vole go about its daily business almost every day since the snow melted this spring. I watched her pack away caches for hard times and somehow was amazed when numerous caches sprouted (lol). Of just the sunflowers shes planted there are 4 small gardens about to bloom. I don't believe that there is any way that people living closer to nature wouldn't have seen these types of behaviors in animals and not have a torch spark (there were no lightbulbs). Im confident that agriculture in some form, even if it was little more than guerilla gardening, has been with us for millions of years.
Becoming a creature with a diet based on grains is of course another discussion entirely.
I looked at the ingredients on a bag of Erythritol I have and it doesn’t list Xylitol.
Are you thinking they are the same chemically?
Yes, fasting is very helpful. But you've got to eat some time, and when you do what you eat matters.
I don't know what you mean about not tolerating them, and you may have an unrealistic idea about what people eat on a ketogenic diet.
I'm sure that's what your doctor says, but he's almost certainly wrong. Doctor's in general are very poorly informed about proper nutrition and are just repeating recommendations they've been given. Those recommendations are seriously incorrect.
A DASH diet will improve things some. It is better than the average American diet. But it's better because it slightly reduces things that are bad for you, without actually getting rid of them. They are afraid to tell people to drop the carbohydrates because that would have to me taking in more fat, and eating fat will give you heart disease. Except it doesn't. But that's their fear and why they don't go all the way and tell you to stop eating the things that are causing diabetes and high blood pressure. Carbohydrates.
BTW, my blood pressure at the doctors office the other day was 118/72. I never had high blood pressure, but that's down. I eat very few carbs.
Well, in that case, I'm going to live forever!!!! I use butter for everything.
Swerve is safe for dogs!
Dogs are a huge part of the Swerve family, and we could never live with ourselves if Swerve wasn’t dog-friendly.
Read more on the differences between xylitol and erythritol here: http://www.swervesweetener.com/xylitol-vs-erythritol/
oops, link doesn’t work
Try this...
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/xylitol-vs-erythritol
Who paid for the study?
Probably General Mills.
I use Swerve in my homemade desserts and Chantilly whipped cream.
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