Posted on 10/21/2008 9:07:33 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins
Healthy food can make an individual more susceptible to diseases, according to a new controversial book.
In the book titled, 'Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating Is Making Us Ill,' author Barry Groves claims that healthy eating can sometimes fail to keep an individual hale and hearty.
"Most people are eating in a way that is unnatural to us as a species," the Telegraph quoted Barry, who holds a doctorate in nutritional science, as saying.
"We're a carnivorous species - our gut is identical to that of a big cat. Yet we're encouraged to eat foods that have been padded out with modified starch and vegetable oils, and complex carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and rice, which have all been labelled healthy - but not the fatty meat that our body actually recognises," he added.
He said that's the reason why we don't know when to stop eating.
"Try to eat too much fat - cheese, say - and your body will quickly tell you when it has had enough. But when you eat processed, 'low fat'' food, your body never gets the message it has had enough, so doesn't tell the mind it is full," he said.
Previous studies on rabbits have shown that eating saturated fat would lead to heart disease. This is because, Barry says, the rabbits were fed unnatural diet.
"The first, in 1950, showed that if rabbits were fed a cholesterol-rich diet, it would fur up their arteries.
"Yet, rabbits are only designed to eat plant life, which has no cholesterol. The clogged arteries were caused by feeding them an unnatural diet. It could have been an allergic response.
Taking about the other tenets of a healthy life - five portions of fruit and veg, wholegrain cereals, soya milk, low-fat yogurts, he said, "Vegetables are not the problem but there's no biological or chemical reason to eat them. Liver, for example, has all the minerals and vitamins we need," he added.
"But fruit? The natural sugar it contains - fructose - is much more dangerous than simple glucose or table sugar. It has been linked to the rise in obesity," he added.
He also revealed that wheat collects bacteria and dirt as it grows, and is impossible to clean. Then stored in silos, it is a haven for mice and rats, so it gets sprayed with insecticides. Put a wheat flower under the microscope and you'll see traces of rat faeces," he said.
Soy milk is made with unfermented soya beans - "highly dangerous," claims Barry. As for yogurts made with skimmed milk, they "lack conjugated linoleic acid, which prevents cancer".
For healthy eating he advised, "eat purer foods, and ones that are more natural to us as a species. Cut down on bread and eat more fish, eggs, butter - any animal protein, anything that used to move around, that wasn't stuck in the ground. Liver, kidneys, snails - even insects will do."
The general rule is to eat no more than 55-65g of carbs per meal. Eat three meals a day.
If you don’t eat enough carbs, your liver starts making the blood sugars you need, and that’s not what you want happening.
the dietitians say divide your plate into 3. Put veggies, meat, a carb-(potato, rice, pasta) on each division.
All veggies provide you with is mostly fiber and some vitamins. they don’t effect blood sugar.
Meat gives you minerals proteins and fats, and also does not effect blood sugars.
complex carbohydrates provide you with starch which is converted to glucose, which is directly converted by insulin produced in the pancreas to energy your blood carries to the cells in your muscles.
Gotta have it.
I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat beans, berries, and bushes!
That does it...... I will eat whatever diet will allow me to avoid consuming rat feces!!!!
Have had two vegen friends and they are both dead. They used to try and get me to eat that junk. I said no way was I going to give up my meat.
So? They are omnivores as well, you'd expect them to have similar kinds of teeth.
We also have molars similar to those found in cows. That doesn't mean we are descended from cows, nor were once grass and small grain seed eaters either.
Our teeth, and the way they are arranged proves, as does all recorded and discovered history of mankind prove that we were always omnivores, and meant to be this way.
Not one single tooth, gut part, intestine has 'evolved' from the original design.
I had a spare tire and a BMI of 27 when I ate meat. I now have a 6 pack and a BMI of 20. You can talk all you want about mankind “needing” to eat meat, heck, the 60 pounds of fat I lost probably would agree with you. They want to make a return.
BTW, I get my b12 from yeast, my protein from the massive amounts of soy shakes I drink and my iron from eating fruits and vegetables. Haven’t touched dead animal flesh in a year and a half and I haven’t been fitter since.
“I don’t know of any primates in their natural, wild environs that hunt other animals...”
Chimpanzees do, and there have been videos made of them hunting monkeys for meat.
You know what, I’m just gonna eat whatever the hell I want and not listen to the food police anymore.
Can we come over? Sounds yummy!
Mankind is also designed to survive better than almost any animal as well. Unlike many animals, we can survive on a diet lacking certain things for generations.
Sure, eating a well balanced diet will help you live longer, but sometimes it’s not all available.
We can survive on meat alone for example. lacking any source of carbs, our livers will produce them from proteins in the body. Inuit are a good example of a people who’s diet is mainly meat.
One quart heavy whipping cream
One pound peeled, cooked, tail-less shrimp
Two six-ounce grated parmesain cheese tubs
Four pounds fettuccine pasta
1 tablespoon garlic salt
Pour heavy whipping cream into large saucepan. Put both tubs of parmesain cheese in with cream. Stirring frequently until steaming. Put shrimp into pan with garlic salt, continue stirring. Boil pasta.
Serve to LOTS of people who could care less for, “Healthy food.”
Thinner doesn't mean fitter.
And denying yourself yummy, tasty "dead animal flesh" is not what I call living.
Protein doesn't make you fat. Eating excess fats does, as do other things, like lifestyle.
You can (and many do) become just as fat NOT eating any meat at all. In fact you WILL get fat if you try live on a poor vegan diet without enough carbs and proteins.
But please don't try insult my or anyone elses intelligence by suggesting that you are healthier by not eating meat. It's totaly untrue. And like I said, just because you lost some weight and/or are skinny doesn't in anyway mean you are healthy.
And eating all those beans and processed 'tofu' doesn't make you pleasant to be around either...
The Atkin’s Diet Reborn. phhhhhtttttt.
and pill manufacturer making pills like Metformin to stop the liver from producing sugar
"In-N-Out"?
Very So-Cal.
No carbohydrates in vegtables? Go to the back of the class and write, “starches are carbs”, until instructed otherwise!
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