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Web Master
Feb 15, 2012, 6:05:42 AM2/15/12
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I am fat, but not happy! What could I do apart from making one of 4000
different diets, why did I get to this weight and is there peer
pressure when it comes to my body ?
We will publish facts on our food behavior, why we are hard wired for
fat, sugar and salt, what this means for our nutrition and what kind
of foods are good for us without tasting nasty.
You will feel better and have a higher quality of life at a weight
which suits you.
We will publish links, posts by restaurateurs, scientists and your
next door neighbor, (if he joins).
We would like to contribute to a guilt free, happy life style without
hunger pangs and a mutilated body feeling. We encourage you to publish
what helped you here, as long as it is without the help of pills.
You could seek answers within the community here just the same or post
some useful information. We do not accept ads nor commercial
promotions nor do we offer personal advice.
different diets, why did I get to this weight and is there peer
pressure when it comes to my body ?
We will publish facts on our food behavior, why we are hard wired for
fat, sugar and salt, what this means for our nutrition and what kind
of foods are good for us without tasting nasty.
You will feel better and have a higher quality of life at a weight
which suits you.
We will publish links, posts by restaurateurs, scientists and your
next door neighbor, (if he joins).
We would like to contribute to a guilt free, happy life style without
hunger pangs and a mutilated body feeling. We encourage you to publish
what helped you here, as long as it is without the help of pills.
You could seek answers within the community here just the same or post
some useful information. We do not accept ads nor commercial
promotions nor do we offer personal advice.
Web Master
Feb 15, 2012, 6:06:18 AM2/15/12
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Jamie Oliver's TED speech on teaching food in school
by crackerman » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:14 pm
Imagine what could be the consequences by teaching kids how to cook:
- obesity issues diminished because use of unprocessed foods
- state money could be spent someplace else
- families could eat and cook together, resulting in stronger families
- people would actually spend less on food
- closer ties to mother nature
- so much more, you name them
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html
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by crackerman » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:14 pm
Imagine what could be the consequences by teaching kids how to cook:
- obesity issues diminished because use of unprocessed foods
- state money could be spent someplace else
- families could eat and cook together, resulting in stronger families
- people would actually spend less on food
- closer ties to mother nature
- so much more, you name them
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html
On Feb 15, 12:05 pm, Web Master <webmas...@realfood-project.com>
wrote:
Web Master
Feb 15, 2012, 6:06:52 AM2/15/12
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myth colesterol
by crackerman » Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:58 pm
Many opinions out there, many tainted views as well. I like this one
because save for the view on white flour I could relate to this post
published by someone reputable:
Without inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in blood vessel
walls and cause heart disease.
Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!
By Dwight Lundell, MD
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often
acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we
are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart
surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-
heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and
scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled
“opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually
attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease
resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower
cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter
of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.
Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could
quite possibly result in malpractice.
It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally
defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the
artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a
paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be
treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of
obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical
plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic
consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin
medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of
our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than
ever before.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million
Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have
diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are
affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there
is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood
vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation,
cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended.
It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's
natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or
virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your
body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we
chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human
body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic
inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute
inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to
foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body?
Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet
that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates,
not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This
repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease,
Stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels
is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream
medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply,
they are the Overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates
(sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess
consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower
that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft
skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up
several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate
this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected
area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way
to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your
body right now.
Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or
internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon
thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a
brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day,
every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into
more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and
appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies
respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war.
Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with
omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the
American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning
everyone.
How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation
to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what
occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as
sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In
response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to
drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell
is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar
gumming up the works.
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises
producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is
controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a
variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This
repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When
you spike your blood Sugar level several times a day, every day, it is
exactly like taking Sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood
vessels.
While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw
it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared
one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only
contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as
soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods
are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While
omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell membrane
controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the
correct balance with omega-3’s.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell
membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause
inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of
these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as
30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines
causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would
be optimal and healthy.
To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating
these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large
quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused
by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll
turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high
blood pressure, diabetesand finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the
inflammatory process continues unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and
processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by
little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to
consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is
returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat
more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as
colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-
causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods
that are made from them. One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg
of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or
butter from grass-fed beef.
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to
cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled
polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your
head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart
disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood
cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is
not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is
even more absurd today.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that
in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of
inflammation.
Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to
avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now
have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and
other silent killers.
What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not
those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with
manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding
essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse
years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from
consuming the typical American diet.
[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of
Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice,
Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa , AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left
surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is
the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health
with a focus on helping large corporations promote wellness. He is the
author of "The Cure for Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol
Lie"] .
by crackerman » Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:58 pm
Many opinions out there, many tainted views as well. I like this one
because save for the view on white flour I could relate to this post
published by someone reputable:
Without inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in blood vessel
walls and cause heart disease.
Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!
By Dwight Lundell, MD
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often
acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we
are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart
surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-
heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and
scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled
“opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually
attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease
resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower
cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter
of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.
Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could
quite possibly result in malpractice.
It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally
defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the
artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a
paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be
treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of
obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical
plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic
consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin
medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of
our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than
ever before.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million
Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have
diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are
affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there
is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood
vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation,
cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended.
It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's
natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or
virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your
body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we
chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human
body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic
inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute
inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to
foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body?
Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet
that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates,
not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This
repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease,
Stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels
is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream
medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply,
they are the Overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates
(sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess
consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower
that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft
skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up
several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate
this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected
area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way
to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your
body right now.
Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or
internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon
thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a
brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day,
every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into
more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and
appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies
respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war.
Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with
omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the
American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning
everyone.
How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation
to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what
occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as
sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In
response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to
drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell
is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar
gumming up the works.
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises
producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is
controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a
variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This
repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When
you spike your blood Sugar level several times a day, every day, it is
exactly like taking Sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood
vessels.
While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw
it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared
one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only
contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as
soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods
are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While
omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell membrane
controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the
correct balance with omega-3’s.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell
membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause
inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of
these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as
30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines
causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would
be optimal and healthy.
To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating
these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large
quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused
by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll
turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high
blood pressure, diabetesand finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the
inflammatory process continues unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and
processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by
little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to
consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is
returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat
more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as
colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-
causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods
that are made from them. One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg
of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or
butter from grass-fed beef.
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to
cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled
polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your
head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart
disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood
cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is
not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is
even more absurd today.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that
in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of
inflammation.
Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to
avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now
have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and
other silent killers.
What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not
those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with
manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding
essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse
years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from
consuming the typical American diet.
[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of
Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice,
Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa , AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left
surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is
the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health
with a focus on helping large corporations promote wellness. He is the
author of "The Cure for Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol
Lie"] .
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Cleveland clinic discoveries for a better life
by crackerman » Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:51 am
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders ... esity.aspx
The Cleveland clinic published ground breaking studies on how to avoid
and fight obesity, check them out!
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by crackerman » Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:51 am
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders ... esity.aspx
The Cleveland clinic published ground breaking studies on how to avoid
and fight obesity, check them out!
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