William Davis MD is a preventative cardiologist who has gone back to basics in the treatment of his patients - with outstanding results. Understanding that something in our modern diet must be responsible for our modern diseases, he has isolated wheat as being the overwhelming major player. Not only is our consumption of wheat what has been causing everything from cardiovascular disease to Alzheimers, from acne to psoriasis - eliminating it will reverse many of these disorders. Wheat once digested, releases exorphins that act on the brain in the same way as opiates. Once we are in the cycle of eating wheat it makes us powerless to stop. Just like smoking tobacco. And just like tobacco there are adverse health outcomes - only much more so. Bringing wheat into our diet is probably the biggest evolutionary mistake humankind has made. Fortunately we can fix this error, as many enlightened people are now doing. You need to realise, however, that there are some multi-billion dollar industries that are going to be resisting this change - an even bigger resistance than that of the nicotine pushers. Educate yourself and heal yourself, read the book.
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Having always been a person that adds salt to any meal until it 'tastes right', I had to have a laugh when I found out that reducing our salt intake to that of the recommended government guidelines, will actually reduce our life expectancy. It seems that science has been going in two different directions with this subject over the last 40 years. One school of thought that found a link between high salt intake and hypertension (you know - in the type of study where they feed rats 60 times more salt than humans would normally eat) as opposed to another school of thought that found heart disease patients had a higher mortality with reduced salt over time.
While more recent studies trying to link increased salt intake with poor health outcomes has proved "inconclusive" and "inconsistent", another set of studies trying to link the opposite ie. decreased salt with poor outcomes, seems to have found a much more consistent link. So, if your doctor has you on statins to reduce your cholesterol, low fat diets and reduced salt - what are you going to tell him on your next visit? If you don't believe me, Gary Taubes has written about it all here. WANTED - Medical Practitioner in the Taupo area. Applications are invited for the role of medical consultant to a fifty nine year old male. They would only be needed about once every five years for a medical check-up, or perhaps, on occasion, for a minor sporting mishap. Applicants should ideally have a good working knowledge of LCHF food requirements and not need to have it explained to them. They should, at the least, be as healthy and fit as I am - I would wish to avoid the irony of having to give them medical advice. During interview, applicants can expect to be tested on their knowledge of cholesterol and its role in nature, as well as the nature of statins and their role in society. Less than 100% in this test will disqualify the applicant. Please initiate your application in the comments section of this blog. (Medical practitioners reading this advertisement, who do not understand the requirements, are welcome to contact the writer for consultation - which can be provided at a modest cost, commensurate with their own charge-out rate.) Pictured at the right is an example medicine kit from someone on a post recently from Western Price Facebook page, asking, "What's in your home medical kit?" Well I had a quick browse through mine and produced this picture... Rubbish! I'm sick of hearing that mantra of "Eat less - Exercise more". We keep trying to find reasons that our modern western culture is overweight. Yet these reasons don't seem to help us provide the solution we are after. Many people seem to believe that our modern life is too sedentary compared to our forefathers. I even hear it that when I was a kid we got out more and had more activity and that is why we weren't fat then. Well the fact is, you will burn around 1500 calories a day just by staying in bed. If you don't compensate for those calories by eating less then you will lose weight. If you eat more calories, you will gain weight. It is evident that our modern civilisation is eating more calories than we burn and it is worth investigating why. If you exercise more, but don't change the composition of your diet, you are likely to keep gaining weight. The reason is that you are eating the wrong things. What has changed in our diet?
Eating carbohydrates at the rate we do now overrides our natural mechanisms and balances. Our biology cannot cope and we store more and more fat while craving more carbs. On top of that our high carb diets are creating insulin resistance in us. Two hundred years isn't enough time to for our species evolve to such a radical change in our eating habits. Eating fat, on the other hand, gives our body a more efficient way of getting the energy it needs and we feel satiated on less calories. So, is it necessary to exercise to stay lean? Not at all. We don't even have to starve ourselves if we eat the right food. The only reason our society is getting fat is because we have our food pyramid upside down. I'm losing weight without having changed my level of exercise. I've just stopped eating carbs. Note: I have started exercising more in the last month. But I need to emphasise that is as a result of having more energy and because, having already lost weight, I had a desire to get into even better shape. The weight loss came first, extra exercise came second. Georgia Ede has written excellent articles on the role of fats and carbohydrates in our diet. Click the links for an easy and informative read. With some people, coffee is regarded as an unhealthy food. In my case I make coffee with full cream and no sugar. It is what I make when I get up in the morning and I have no cravings for food during the day. In fact my energy levels are great all day and I can play 18 holes of golf then come home and make dinner for Chris and me. I suspect that having the fat in the form of cream in my coffee 'satiates' me and I'm probably living in fat-burning mode. While I can take or leave coffee, I do enjoy it with full cream (have done since I was a teenager), and since it usually is the only thing I have all day until my evening meal, I felt it an appropriate illustration for the site. ;-)
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Gregg SheehanProblem solver from way back. Currently working on the challenge of weight and health. Hence this website. Archives
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