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Karl Loren On Diet Relative To Diabetes And Life |
Our Government recommends EXACTLY the wrong diet, and we eat it!
It is painfully obvious to me that the medical profession urges you to use EXACTLY the wrong diet for diabetes, and for that matter, heart disease. The government then enforces this wrong diet. Unbelievably they tell you that it is OK to eat sugar and that your diet should be high in carbohydrates, low in protein. The exact opposite of these recommendations is the truth.
In all my 15+ years of exposing government
lies, this is now the biggest and worst of them all!![[obesity chart]](images/2f_obese_c06122002223119.gif)
These Government-recommended diets CAUSE diabetes and heart disease! This page was first published in 2000. Now, near the end of 2001, the government is finally admitting that the data here is true!
Here is a note added in June 2002. The US government is finally looking at its own food proportion recommendations as a possible cause of the poor health and overweight in America. Click here to read a June 2002 article in the Wall Street Journal on the Food Pyramid. Another article in that same WSJ describes how various food companies are starting to worry that they will be sued, like the tobacco companies, for misleading people into thinking that their food was healthy. Of course, much of it is not!
How can I, a mere author from California (of all places) disagree with eminent authorities? Well, it is easy. When you read the research, even the research paid for by the drug companies, (more than 2,000 pages of research studies in this section alone) you cannot avoid the conclusion that a diabetic should NOT be eating sugar and MUST have supplemental chromium in his diet. This article is connected to more than 3,000 pages I have compiled to bring you the truth about diet!
This page presents the "Karl Loren Diet," but it is different from any diet you have ever looked at. I do NOT suggest particular foods. I suggest you LEARN the principles of food. When you understand these principles you can then make food decisions without reference to some "authority." We suffer from too much authority in our lives now, anyway!
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The American Diabetes Association does NOT recommend chromium but DOES recommend sugar! Here is what they say about sugar: |
CARBOHYDRATE AND SWEETENERS -- The percentage of calories from carbohydrate will also vary, and is individualized based on the patient's eating habits and glucose and lipid goals. For most of this century, the most widely held belief about the dietary treatment of diabetes has been that "simple" sugars should be avoided and replaced with complex carbohydrates. This belief appears to be based on the assumption that sugars are more rapidly digested and absorbed than are starches and thereby aggravate hyperglycemia to a greater degree. There is, however, very little scientific evidence that supports this assumption. Fruits and milk have been shown to have a lower glycemic response than most starches, and sucrose produces a glycemic response similar to that of bread, rice, and potatoes. Although various starches do have different glycemic responses, from a clinical perspective first priority should be given to the total amount of carbohydrate consumed rather than the source of the carbohydrate. [Source]
I can't consider this anything different from mass murder! The portion in larger type, and underlined, above, is where the American Diabetes Association is linking to the government-sponsored high-carbohydrate diet. What the ADA is saying is that you should be on a high carbohydrate diet, and that within THAT diet it doesn't make any difference what type of carbohydrates you get -- sugar or vegetables. That is criminal!
"Sarah," in late October 2000, wrote to me for suggestions on handling some of her health problems. I referred "Sarah" to this page on November 1, 2000, and she and I then engaged in a lengthy exchange in which she claimed that it was more healthy to eat potato chips than baked potatoes! This is what the false information does in our society. Click here to read the remarkable story of a woman who is badly delusional about health -- who has many, many health problems, but continues to believe that "fine quality" junk foods are OK!
She will remain sick because of the earlier illness -- the willingness to accept and believe false data on health!
Later, "Mary" wrote to me about her health problems. We had a very lengthy exchange of eMails, all available HERE. You will probably not believe the magnitude of her health problems and the terrible diet she was on because she thought it was RIGHT -- the recommended diet from the American Diabetic Association!
Here is a different Mary! She writes to ask how she get off Dilantin -- and when she tells me abut her diet -- you won't believe the diet she was on. Click to read the actual dialogue between us as I helped her recover her health. This story, by the way, allows me to comment on the terrible commercial baby formulas -- the ones a good mother would never feed her baby.
There is one author whose books are mostly out
of print -- Adelle Davis -- who has the best advice and information on nutrition
of anyone I've ever read.
Click here to
review some of her material.
There is much evidence that "politically correct" concepts about health are causing disease and death! There is, for instance, fascinating evidence that autism is caused by or aggravated by milk and grain. Click here for the heartwarming story of how one mother cured her son's autism despite doctors telling her that it could not be done.
The American Heart Association has proposed a diet that causes heart disease. When I published that, some years ago, the AHA lawyers actually sent me a lengthy letter demanding that I remove certain information from my web pages, and threatened to sue me if I did not! I have their letter published on my web site, along with my response. I haven't heard a peep out of them since I published my reply on the web. Obviously I have not removed any of my material.
What should your diet be? My first answer is that you should NOT trust the government's recommendations, nor those of the American Heart Association nor those of the American Diabetes Association. For that matter, your doctor, in the grip of authority, is not a source of good diet information either!
The first evil substance you should recognize is sugar.
If you cannot agree with this about sugar, even after reading this entire article, then there is not much chance you will accept my further advice on diet. Diet is mostly a matter of mental discipline, not magic pills!
This diet article certainly includes concepts first developed by many others, but the final diet recommendation is different from that developed by any other person -- it is my own very personal research and finding.
And the progress has to be on a gradient you can handle in your life. Successfully reducing your sugar intake is more important than trying to stop completely and failing. So, if you can move through and adapt this diet in one day, more power to you. But if it takes a year to get off sugar, do it on your own pace. Just be sure you are making constant progress, not fooling yourself about your progress!
Just get on this steps leading up to health and make constant progress.
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Basic Instinct!
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Wolves Howl! It is a basic instinct that has probably not changed for millions of years! Man has basic instincts -- we don't even question their existence! (That howl you may have heard when this page loaded comes from this Timber Wolf! Click your refresh button to hear it again!)
I believe that man has several instincts that seem very basic. Of these, the most basic is the instinct to survive -- to continue living. This is the driving motivation in all living things - man, animal and plant.
But, very close to that instinct is another -- that is the instinct to desire and experience sensations. The two sensations that probably come first to mind are sex and food. The human body seems to desire the sensations of sex and food. They also seem "natural," since without sex, there would be no children, and no future. Without food there would be starvations and death.
So, these desires for the sensations related to the basics of life seem very rational. But, it is also obvious that a person can be very insane on the subject of sex -- seeking sexual sensation far, far beyond that needed to create children. There are vast quantities of energy devoted to sexual activities that have nothing to do with creating children -- these would all be classified as pursuing this instinctive desire for sensation for the sake of the sensation itself -- not for the sake of survival.
The desire for food sensation has obviously gone far beyond the needs of the body -- to a degree of obesity in our society that is now contrary to survival.
The drive to survive is sane and logical for any living thing. The next instinct may have seemed to have survival value, but it certainly doesn't in today's world! Desire For Sensation is, I think you'll find, exactly contrary to survival, and thus an aberration today.
The original survival value of the desire for sensation probably related to "good things taste good" and "bad things taste bad." If that were always true, then the desire for sensation would be wholly useful. And, it may even BE true of natural tastes -- that is, food items that have never been cooked or processed beyond their original natural form.
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I had an interesting experience while writing this. I live high in the hills of Burbank, with a beautiful view of the San Fernando Valley. My wife, Jean Ross, and I live in an area where we have coyotes walking past our front door and our back yard every night -- and deer walking down the street and coming into our yard. I had heard complaints from my wife, and from neighbors, that the deer ate the roses. Well, I never saw that and we have so many rose bushes that it seemed to me that we always had fresh roses in the house. |
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We also have a large bird feeder in the back. It holds 25 pounds of bird seed, and often will be emptied in just a few days. The bird feeder is on a pole stuck in the ground just 18" from the backyard fence.
One day, as my daughter looked out the back picture window, onto the back yard, she saw a deer eating our roses! He had a five point horn (each side) so that's a pretty big deer. He was IN BETWEEN the bird feeder and the fence -- stuck in that 18" space, gently poking his nose through the bars of the fence and nibbling the rose blossoms and buds.
We stood not 12 feet from him, glass door closed, dogs all growling and eager to go out and defend the territory, but he just kept eating.
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I believe my wife now when she says that virtually ALL our roses are eaten by the visiting deer. The point of this? Well, I think that the desire for sensation in the deer leads him to eat exactly the right foods for him, at the time he needs them. |
To eat JUST the rose blossom, or bud, must mean that there is something in that flower that is needed in the deer's diet -- something he doesn't get from grass or other food sources. After all he has to come close to a house, where dogs bark, and poke his nose THROUGH a fence to reach a rose bush, and then even put himself into a tight spot -- just to eat a rose flower.
I don't know what is in the rose that the deer needs and I don't think the deer "thinks" about it the way I might, but I do know that deer like roses.
So, as I've suggested, man's instinctive desire to satisfy his cravings based on sensation seems to work not very well for man, but the similar desire for sensation must be leading the deer to eat what he eats.
Well Done! Deer!
Among the various sensations we experience are those of hunger, thirst and pain. Certainly the sensation of pain would seem to be designed to warn us away from something -- seems pretty sane to me.
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The sensation of hunger, I've learned, can become very misleading. I've written extensively on the fact that a body not getting enough water will experience a "sensation" that you usually perceive as "hunger" when, in fact, it is "thirst." You react to this sensation of "hunger" by eating when, in fact, the true need is for water -- which is not well served by food. So, the sensation of "hunger" continues (being really "thirst") and you eat more food -- not what the body needs. |
People often wrongly believe that coffee, soda or tea will handle the body's need for water -- they do not. You experience "thirst" and drink a soda. Somewhere there the proper sensation (thirst) is being handled with the wrong response (coffee) --- so that, again, is an example of the instinct for survival being overthrown by the desire for the sensation of the coffee or soda. These are, of course, both addictive drugs!
So, it is clear to me that sensations can be false signals, or perceived wrongly.
In this same way the desire for sensation for sweet, for instance, can lead one astray -- trying to satisfy this desire with sugar which is harmful, when some other nutrient might much better serve the body. Click here for an extensive set of pages about SPLENDA -- the artificial sweetener -- I am against it, but mostly because it simply is a cave-in to the desire for the sensation of sweet!
t could be that the first "drug" on our planet was cooked food -- it appeared to taste better, but it was harmful to survival. Animals will eat cooked food, but I think only when they have no other choice.
Man's desire for sensation seems to be implanted , not natural. Even Aristotle wrote about it. Aristotle didn't have the depth of wisdom of The Buddha on this subject. The Lord Buddha rightly counseled that man would not be spiritually free as long as he was tied to the desire for body sensations.
If you study carefully I think you'll find that a great deal of man's behavior is motivated by his desire for sensation.
This "sensation" doesn't have some fancy, strange definition.
I am talking about, primarily, the desire for sexual sensation and the desire for taste sensation. You might have a sensation of "success" but I am talking about the obvious physical sensations that can be experience by our bodies.
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I think you'll find that most of the pattern of social behavior you observe can be understood to be man's unending quest for sensation -- sexual and taste. That may be controversial enough to get you off the diet track I'm on -- but let's stay on the diet track and accept for a moment that ancient man, as well as modern man, has an inherent desire for sensation. Sweet things taste "good." Bitter things don't. There are some who would say that "bad" tastes are simply nature's warnings of toxicity? But that is too glib, and not universally true. |
The desire for sex sensation is probably more harmful and more pervasive, and obviously more hidden than the desire for taste sensation. An article in the Wall Street Journal gives us a peek. Americans spend millions of dollars ever year on internet pornography -- "web sex" is the ultimate in "safe" since you experience it in the privacy of your home, and no matter what foolish psychologist might defend one-handed sex, there can be nothing healthy or natural about this type of "sex." Yet people seek it desperately!
The porn viewers were told they were being charged to view sex videos over a phone line to Madagascar at a rate of $3.99 a minute, the complaint says. But the FTC concluded that the phone calls actually terminated in the United Kingdom and should have cost only eight cents a minute. Verity, the agency alleged, intended to pocket the difference.
The operation described by the FTC appears to have been huge. In a single week in September, about 67,000 U.S. households received bills from Verity, according to the FTC. The average overcharge was $222, with some overcharges topping $4,000, the agency said.
For now I'll limit my writing to man's desire for taste sensation, even though the desire for sex sensation is probably much stronger and has more impact on behavior. I do have an entire web site on the morality of sex and drugs -- click to see.
When you have a built-in desire for sensation, along with a desire for simple survival, you can get conflicts.
You KNOW (don't you) that cocaine is not healthy, but those who desire this sensation let the desire for sensation overpower their desire for survival.
The whole drug scene on this planet can be understood, now, as the drug addict's desire for sensation at the expense of survival.
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Food Sensation Is Not Actually Usually Taste Sensation -- But SMELL! |
You might think that McDonalds French Fries have a wonderful taste? Well, read the secret to that "taste" by clicking here.
While I spoke of the desire for taste sensation above, and many people would agree that they enjoy the "taste" of food, the terrible truth is that very little of what you consider a sensation of taste actually takes place in your mouth!
The great majority of what YOU think is a taste sensation, is actually an aroma that you smell.
Man does not at all distinguish between taste and smell in food.
Click here to read an amazing expose of how food companies manipulate the "smells" in the food you eat -- you think it "tastes good" but in fact it just "smells good." The REAL expose is how the food companies, with or without their own knowledge, are starting to add addictive substances to their foods -- so you will feel the need of eating more. MSG is just such an additive and found in almost all processed foods. The more deadly additives have already arrived in the form of additives that mimic the role of psychotropic drugs, including Prozac. Yes, the ingredients in your soup may be turning you into a drugged zombie! I have a major study on this subject HERE>
One of the proofs of this is when you have such a head cold that your nose is all stopped up -- when eat at such times you experience that "nothing tastes good." Sure enough! It's because you can't smell that food doesn't seem to have much taste.
The smell of food is very largely controlled by a large number of well-known chemicals that are used widely in the food industry.
So, here is yet another reason why the "desire for sensation" is so insane -- it is something we think is the taste of food, but more often is the smell -- and fragrances have as their origin in history the attempt to hide rotten smells of rotten food -- or even poisons.
Take another whiff!
There is another source of problem in getting onto the correct diet!
Your friends don't do it!
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Social pressures have a great deal to do
with diet. As I've said, my wife doesn't share at all in this diet
and I'm going to my son's home for Thanksgiving dinner. He and his
family don't share in this diet either. So, I'll be the "only
one" eating in this strange way on this special occasion. That
is tough to do for anyone!
It's hard to go to a birthday party and refuse the cake! It is even harder to then start lecturing to the party-goers about the evils of sugar! |
If you with your American values were to try to live in an African village of cannibals, you could hardly find it "right" to kill and eat your enemies. What is right for them is not right for you. You would have a hard time "fitting in" that group.
So, we are a society of cooked food eaters! We are a society of sugar eaters. When you deviate THIS much from such a basic behavior, you will not fit in. Click here to read about my personal experience with compromising my own reality and eating a full complement of cooked food just to "fit in." I regretted it soon thereafter.Even if you suppress your disgust at others eating cooked stuff, you feel it. Even when they are polite to you, they consider you weird.
I don't know what the solution for this is, but I am obviously looking for it.
This desire to be with people who are "like you" certainly explains why Catholics marry Catholics, usually, and why it is a big deal when it doesn't happen. That is not so rigid today as it used to be, so it's a safe example to use here.
When I was young it was a real deviant behavior for a black person and a white person to marry -- still not "normal" but more accepted.
In this same way, I suppose, we will arrive at a social acceptance of "raw food eaters."
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I have "put up with" my wife's smoking for more than 30 years. I don't like her smoking, but I knew she smoked when I married her, and it has never been a 'test' for my love. |
Or, you may decide that you would rather have friends and eat sugar. So be it! Just recognize that BOTH you and your friends will be abandoning logic and good health at the same time. If you can handle this problem in your life, read on!
Social pressures don't seem to rise to the level of hostile suppression, but suppression, itself, exists in our society. You will find it hard to get onto any healthy activity, including this diet, if you are constantly harassed by suppressive influences.
Suppression is the source of stress -- and stress is often cited as the source of disease and death.
What is suppression? It is the act and words of some person, generally who is very close to you (a spouse or family member). These acts and words add up to putting you down, telling you that your goals and dreams are not practical. This is the person who tells you that you cannot do something you have announced you intend to do. We are all aware of them. When they are close to you, and persistent in their "put downs" you will eventually get sick, even die. |
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Another part of this suppression is that person who tells you what to think about some subject.
You might think of suppression as someone trying to kill or injure you? Yes, that's true, too, but the more subtle forms of suppression are more hidden and need to be understood.
I am often requested to give health advice and while I often do this in a straightforward manner, I am always sensitive to the good chance that the person with a health problem is being so suppressed that NO advice will be helpful.
Here is an example -- click here -- about a woman whose first question to me was whether one of my vitamin products would conflict with her use of Methadone! Can you believe that?
As I explored this subject with her I had to finally suggest that even though she was trying hard to get off methadone, she would have a very hard time doing that as long as she was in an atmosphere of suppression directed toward her. I've obviously changed her name in these exchanges.
Here is a story of a great success. This woman didn't even talk to me or send me an eMail. She simply read this page, and the links, and then sent me this story of success.
Write to me to describe some situation and I'll help you identify likely sources and examples of suppression in your life -- suppression that would not only make you sick, but prevent you from adopting much in the way of a healthy life style, including a good diet.
Don't wear perfumes, or suffer them around you.
The give you a false sensation of "goodness," and are often used to hide bad smells that might warn you away from something. Perfumes would be covered as to technical by the same material I wrote about the smell of food is usually more important than the taste. Click Here.
There is another interesting factor that can prevent many people from accepting this diet.
They are trying to die!
One reason people want to die is that they get depressed. That is very often caused by something you may not have thought of -- I call it "wrong relationships" and cover it HERE.
Oh! They will loudly claim that this is not true. But, I get message all the time from people who say, "Dear Karl, I want to cure my XX (Diabetes or whatever)!" I might suggest they stop eating sugar! Then I get back the angry message, "Oh, the American Diabetes Association says that sugar is OK!" I point them to my several thousands of pages about the evils of sugar; they come back to me saying, "Oh, my doctor says you are wrong!"
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I've done this with some number of people -- the exchanges of messages could go on for some length, but finally I realize that there is NOTHING I could recommend as a "cure" that they will actually accept -- that they have a mental condition where they KNOW they can't be cured -- where they would RATHER DIE than admit they might wrong about their diet. Oh, they might be willing to try some "magic bullet" that will make them slim without diet! They don't exist, but the market for them is in the billions of dollars. |
If this ANGERS you as you read, you may well be one of these people. There is no sense in your reading further. However, there is another aspect to this. If you understand that "YOU" are a spiritual being, occupying a body, and that the spiritual being is immortal, while the body is obviously not -- if you accept that viewpoint, you might then realize that the body goes through a cycle of birth, growth for about 18 years, and then begins a period of slow, then rapid decay to reach death. Thus, the body of just about anyone over 18 years of age is moving toward death. There have been no exceptions to this!
If the body IS moving toward death, is it possible that the body is TRYING to move toward death? |
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That's a heretical thought for many -- and I don't insist you accept it, but such a viewpoint can explain how it is that people seem to do things that the body finds helpful toward death. We "KNOW" that sugar is bad for us, but we eat it any way. There are so many of these illogics in our lives, having to do with diet as well as other things, that it is hard to NOT consider that we who occupy these bodies go into agreement with the body's desire for death -- and we, making the decisions, feed it sugar and junk to help it achieve the body goal of death.
Think about it.
But, the body doesn't have to be so sick.
And, do you realize that virtually ALL mammals live to be about 6 times the period it takes them to achieve maturity -- except man?
Wild animals (not on human diets) will normally live six times the period it takes for them to reach maturity. Man doesn't make it! Man eats all sorts of crazy things. Wild animals live basically on the diet described on this page. Is it possible that wild animals DO NOT have this desire for death, and therefore don't eat crazy things? And live to the full potential of their species, while man, alone, does not live to the full potential of his species.
And, factor in those primitive groups, such as the Hunza, who generally live to the full potential of man's age span -- and, of course, don't eat the crazy things!
Food to ponder!
But most of the people who are in this mental condition of wanting death will very strongly deny it, but will, nonetheless neglect completely any of the steps toward actual cure. You are the decision maker for your body and you don't have to cave in to the body's desire for death by sugar!
The very idea that each person is exactly responsible for whatever condition he is in appeals to only a minority of people -- and only that group will, ultimately, benefit fully from this diet.
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Pomerleau, who
practices a Calorie Restriction diet
It is calorie restriction.
This really has impressed me, over the years, that longer life, and less disease, in animals and probably in man, comes from calorie restriction more than any other cause.
Click on this link to read the story.
Could Self Deprivation Be the Secret To a Longer, Albeit Famished, Life?
I suspect that this is very valid science, even while, in the same breath I don't think I'm ready to go for it. If I did go for it, I would sure make all that tiny amount of food, for me, to be raw!
But, you should know the choice!
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Probably the single most destructive addictive drug on this planet is refined sugar. Are you addicted to sugar? Click here to take the test for sugar addiction. On the average each American consumes 150 pounds of refined sugar per year -- some eat much less, and teenagers generally eat about double that average!
Probably the single most terrible drug on the planet just now is white sugar!
You may think that hard drugs, street drugs, are the only true problem: In fact, they are a great problem:
More than 6 million Americans are estimated to require treatment for drug abuse problems. New approaches to treatment are urgently needed. [Source]
These addicts are publicly identified and cause serious disruption in their families and neighborhoods. But, there are probably 200 million sugar addicts. They don't SEEM to be a source of trouble, but then our "health bill" is measured in the trillions. If 200 million Americans quit eating any sugar I think the savings in life and health care would dwarf the costs of treating the problems caused by hard drugs. We have spread the sugar problem out so much that it can't be seen clearly. It is there.
Incidentally, if you are reading this because you are in search of a new and better diet for yourself, don't take street drugs. I will be writing on the natural foods that can help you kick drugs, but you can't become healthy with this diet while continuing to do drugs.
So, if you are a druggie -- get off drugs. Then take a look at sugar, your next big drug addiction.
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What Do You Suppose They Eat?These Are Not Likely Readers Of This Page! |
Cigarettes, coffee and tea are in there somewhere -- and millions are addicted to these. Those who suffer these addictions experience withdrawal symptoms when they try to stop -- so they prefer the sensation of the drug to the sensation of withdrawal symptoms.
It would be hard to get on the diet I recommend while you are still addicted to coffee, cigarettes, tea, street drugs or sugar.
So, the "market" for my diet ideas is dreadfully small!
There is no question that sugar is addictive -- one of the important components of the definition of an "addictive drug" is that you desire it with great ferocity! That plain white sugar is harmful is not controversial except to the millions of people for whom the addiction overcomes reason. Man tends to justify and continue his errors rather than change!
Thousands of scientific studies show that eating plain white sugar is, for one, not necessary since you can get all the sugar you need in more complex (and less harmful) forms, but overwhelmingly the science shows that sugar causes disease.
Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, noticed in 1929 in Panama that, among sugar plantation owners who ate large amounts of their refined stuff, diabetes was common. Among native cane-cutters, who only got to chew the raw cane, he saw no diabetes. [Click here for the source of the quote and an excellent article on the dangers of eating sugar.]
So, man has a built-in desire for sensation and one of the most desirable taste sensations is "sweet."
I won't try yet to get archeologically accurate, but man has been on this planet for millions of years. During most of that time he was wandering and eating what he could find. I've found that there are actually many people who have no notion of how it has been determined that man has existed on this planet for millions of years. Here is a good article on that question. This article, incidentally, demolishes the concept of a vegetarian having a good diet -- it cannot be done! At least, it was never man's natural diet!
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Man never stumbled across white sugar in his millions of years! |
He never found sugar in any form much more than honey (which, incidentally, is one of the finest sources that exists for many enzymes and vitamins -- but only UNHEATED honey). Honey is on my diet, but no refined sugar.
Do you want to improve your diet -- in alignment with the most basic and historical needs of the physical body?
Well, start by knocking out ALL simple sugar.
Why don't you?
Because you have this inherent desire for sensation. The desire for sensation OFTEN wins over the desire for survival. You could not erase the desire for survival because that is the most basic of all instincts. But, I think the desire for sensation can be handled -- perhaps not 100%, but you can make progress.
I would help you in that progress.
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Religious orders recognized the truth of this, and tried to solve it in ways that "worked" in a mechanical sense, at least. Priests were forbidden to marry -- forbidden to have sex sensations. Many religious groups have tried to get away from their desire for taste sensation with simple living -- look at the Quakers and Amish for their simple lives. |
There are actually foods, and life-styles, which decrease sexual desires, and thus reduce the desire for sexual sensation. But, desire for taste sensation is not so easy to eliminate.
What we do, instead, is eat foods that are bad for us, but since they are then acting like addictive drugs, we get "withdrawal symptoms" when we try to kick the habit. In order to avoid the withdrawal symptoms we keep eating the bad stuff -- the same applies to street drugs.
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The druggie can "know" that it's bad for him, but he also knows that he'll go through living hell if he quits. The better alternative, he thinks, is to keep taking the stuff. |
So, sugar can be viewed as one of the most basic of all health problems on the planet -- not just plain white sugar, but the overwhelming foolishness of "official" diets that put your ideal intake at 60% carbohydrates, and a much-too-low percentage of proteins
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Now, take a look at how hard commercial companies try to addict children to sugar. Many of the top cereals in the world have very large amounts of pure sugar. Then, click (or click the image) to see the home page for Kellogg's Cereals. That page is a drug pusher's dream -- entrap the kids into playing games that make them want sugar -- feed them "healthy" cereal that is 53% pure sugar, and there goes civilization. I don't think they are ignorant of the evil they represent! |
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If you would like the history of how sugar got started in the Western world, read here.
If you think the artificial sweeteners are better?? click here -- they are not!
You've heard it many times: "Sugar contains no nutrition of any kind -- it adds calories, but no food value." Our society is grossly overweight, yet we eat more sugar than most other countries in the world, and far, far more than we did a few hundred years ago.
Sugar is the number one health hazard in our society. It's no surprise that the Government subsidizes production of sugar -- spending billions to support an industry that is both harmful to consumers and no longer economical to have within the United States. Sugar growers are a powerful force for evil in our society.
I've already mentioned cigarettes, but consider that the government not only subsidizes production of sugar, and promotes its use, but also subsidizes the production of tobacco. Obviously the evils of tobacco are now public, while the evils of sugar are not.
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Warning Labels For Cigarettes! |
The above are official warning labels in Canada! I don't know if they convince people to stop smoking, but they certainly portray the truth about one health effect from smoking! Interestingly, there were many other, equally gross, graphics on the web, now all of them have been withdrawn and cannot be found. The Wall Street Journal wrote about them, but you can no longer find these pictures except on THIS page??? Is the tobacco lobby that strong??
Do you know any smoker who would willingly carry and show off a pack of cigarettes with that image?
The nature of this evil is to visit the eventual wrath of society onto the tobacco farmer, for the sins of his fathers! We have generations of otherwise honest men and women, grown corrupt by the money from selling tobacco, and now not able to see the truth of the evil they bring to the planet. The same is true about sugar growers. To paraphrase Jesus:
The government subsidizes tobacco production while at the same time collecting fines and money from the cigarette producers -- who pays? You know! You do. How would YOU feel if you were a tobacco farmer? or a worker in the cigarette factory? You are robbing from your neighbors while you murder them! Sugar plantations are no better, nor the companies producing and selling sugar.
And Kellogg's Cereals!
Incidentally, the solution is NOT to try to regulate these evil industries, but to raise the awareness of individuals so that they no longer seek such sensations. The desire for sensation would be fine, as a survival instinct, if we could predict the consequences of the substance causing the sensation. Food that is good FOR you should taste good! It doesn't always, but if you had sufficient awareness you would know about the future consequences of some food-based sensation.
No diet of any kind should include any processed sugar, nor any foods to which sugar (including fructose, corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, etc.) have been added.
This one change, alone, can improve your health very dramatically, yet this change, alone is one of the hardest to make. Sugar is more addictive than cigarettes, caffeine or cocaine -- and more deadly.
Yet the government suggests that you can eat the stuff, even if you are a diabetic.
If you can't accept this simple truth, there is no need to read further about the true natural diet of man. I didn't say that you feel strong enough to kick the habit -- that takes a lot of determination. But, even many people who can't kick the sugar habit understand, intellectually, that sugar is bad for them. They just acknowledge that they can't break the addiction. Likewise, they could not go onto the diet I recommend here.
Click here to go to a summary page of all the research material about sugar, on this web site.
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Coca Cola!An Addictive Drug! |
A close cousin to pure, processed sugar, certainly is your common, every-day soda!
You know, of course, that sodas contain a great deal of sugar. But there are other harmful ingredients too.
For instance, even when artificial sweeteners are used (which are usually deadly), there is almost always a large amount of phosphoric acid in the soda. Phosphoric acid provides our society with far more phosphorus than we need and thus our bones become weak because we cannot absorb the calcium from our food -- too much phosphorus being neutralized to too little calcium. Result? No calcium available for the bones and teeth. Click here to read what Adelle Davis has to say on this subject.
Early on Coca Cola actually contained cocaine == that's where it got the name. Now the addictive ingredients are sugar, caffeine and sugar substitutes! The filthy origin of Coca Cola is one of those well-known secrets. The sins of its past don't guarantee that the sin continues, but there is so much fresh evidence of the evil of Coca Cola that any person who drinks it is obviously unaware of its history, or its harm!
Click here to read a simple and damning description of the health harm done by sodas.
Consumption of soft drinks has risen 900% in 55 years. Here are figures showing consumption per kid!
Children start drinking soda pop at a remarkably young age, and consumption increases through young adulthood. One fifth of one- and two-year-old children consume soft drinks.6 Those toddlers drink an average of seven ounces -- nearly one cup -- per day. Toddlers' consumption changed little between the late 1970s and mid 1990s.
The above table includes ALL kids in that age group. But, there is a wide disparity among children -- with some drinking zero, and others drinking large quantities. And, if the truth be told, the ones drinking the most are the poor and the minorities -- making them all the more likely to remain at the bottom of the economic pile.
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For the average 13- to 18-year-old boy or girl drinker, soft drinks provide about 9% of calories. Boys and girls in the 75th percentile of consumption obtained 12% of their calories from soft drinks, and those in the 90th percentile about 18% of their calories.
There certainly should be some sort of warning signal here to any responsible parent, and to any teenager who can see further than a few years into the future!
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Junk Foods |
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Sugar added to foods and sodas are just the beginning of the deadly diet of today's youth -- when you add junk foods you have about ended any chance for health in later years.
Not too long ago Zoos would encourage visitors to feed the animals -- until a group of school kids visited one zoo and gave a bunch of spider monkeys snacks from their brown-bag lunches -- brought from home and "loving moms." All the monkeys got deathly sick. Now, all over the country zoos are absolutely strict -- no feeding of the animals by visitors. Why could the kids eat this stuff and the monkeys not?
Once a batch of my 15+ grandchildren visited and I had the pleasure of taking them to the store for picnic supplies. I was amazed at what they thought was food. I got so saddened, and inspired, that I recorded a lecture, then wrote an article, the first in my series called The Four Roads To Ruin. If you have read this far, in this long article, my interim reward is that you can write and get a free cassette tape of that lecture -- I think it is great.
Many people feel that the "nutritional drinks" like Ensure, etc., are good for seniors. They are just slightly better than pure sugar. Once a person is on the Ensure diet, he is on the way down the tubes. Unfortunately, many of these greedy companies are now marketing these instant drinks to young people -- pushing them further into poor health and away from natural foods. Click here for a story about Ensure and Carnation Instant Breakfast -- all fine sources of processed food -- and sugar. They are, of course, nothing more than junk foods.
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I don't really expect many youth to read this page, but there are still millions of beer and potato chip adults watching Sunday TV, and cookie and milk moms watching afternoon soap -- dulling their senses enough with TV to be totally ignorant of the dangers of their constant snacks. |
Let me throw it in here. I've mentioned that the solution to your desire for sensation is to be able to see, and predict, the consequences of today's diet. One of the most dulling actions for your awareness is television. TV is a passive inflow of mostly useless information -- from the viewpoint of survival. And, much of the advertising on TV promotes exactly the wrong diet for you. When you couple the dulling effect of TV with the promotion of junk food, you get what we have -- a society on its way down the tubes in terms of health. Click here for a cute, but practical, set of advices on how to reduce the TV addiction rate in your home.
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All I have to do is mention three items!!! And, you will recognize immediately that most of our entire society has a terrible addiction to TV. These items?
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These three items have consumed America -- Americans glued to their TV sets following the "news" and agonizing about what they can DO nothing about.
The correlation between overweight and TV watching is very great!
Here are some links on just that:
Health experts blame TV for overweight kids
Risks for ill-health in adulthood (excerpt here:)
New enticing sedentary activities such as TV, video- and computer games compete with the time children and adolescents could use to exercise. Studies from the USA show that children who spent a lot of time watching TV were often overweight and had poor blood lipid values.
Executive Director of TV-Free America (excerpt here:)
Today, children spend almost twice as much time watching TV as they do in school, yet numerous studies demonstrate a strong link between the increase in television-watching and the decline in reading and literacy. In conjunction with the 1995 National TV-Turnoff Week, the U.S. Department of Education released a report showing that reading comprehension among young people had reached an all-time low. In his statement, Education Secretary Richard Riley attributed the decline to "too many students...spending too little time reading and too much time watching mind-numbing television." Most educators agree that excessive television-watching:
Time spent reading in the U.S. fell by a third between 1965 and 1985.
- Induces cognitive passivity;
- Stifles/displaces creativity, reflection and imagination;
- Displaces opportunities for play and social interaction;
- Shortens attention spans and increases hyperactivity;
- Cultivates visual processing skills incompatible with print-based skills.
About the worst of the TV fare is news coverage. You must realize that news companies, particularly the 24-hours per day cable news networks, have one primary goal. To report on controversy, even when it doesn't exist -- to create controversy when necessary. You cannot watch the cable news networks without becoming worried about all the dangers facing you and society. These dangers, you will finally realize, are greatly exaggerated and often created out of whole cloth just in order to put you under more stress. This is a control mechanism over society -- to put them into fear and apathy so that those in control can do what they wish. They are virtually succeeding in this goal, and if you want a healthy diet, it should not include cable news TV!
I've found, now that I have started on "man's natural diet" that I have less compulsion to watch TV. Like many parts of this diet, if you can reduce TV watching, you'll do better on the diet, and once you start the diet you'll find it is easier to watch less TV. Start with either and work for both!
Another side issue that is important is so-called health insurance. As long as people don't have to pay for their diet mistakes, because insurance will give them a drug to ease the pain, then there is little motivation to change. Much of society is rigged to reduce your awareness or concern for future consequences. Read an article I've written on this.
But, you don't have to agree with all this. Just start your road to health by knocking out sugar, then sodas, then junk foods. With just those changes you will feel better, I guarantee. Want to go further, then read further!
Throw potato chips out of your life!
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Pastas, Cereals, Bread & Grains |
I am writing, now, about refined foods in the grain family. the picture above certainly looks "healthy" but every bit of that "food" has been heated and processed. There is nothing "natural" about it.
"Whole grains" are just as dead as "refined flour." The whole grains just have more of the dead remains of the valuable nutrients that are removed early in the refining process. So, yes, whole grains have a better effect on your health than refined grains, but the real comparison should be with sprouted grains and live foods.
I happen to believe that live, sprouted beans and sprouted grains are very healthy, but once you take the grain and process it == then cook it into bread, pasta and other refined carbohydrates, you no longer have food -- you have glue!
The smell of baking bread has to be one of the most addicting, and appetizing aromas around -- I am not immune to it. Coming back to this point -- I do not suggest that I have somehow erased my desire for sensation. Rather I would say that I have increased my ability to predict consequences. Even at my advanced age (69 at this writing) I can foresee a long and healthy life ahead of me, but ONLY if I apply sense and logic to overcome my desire for sensation.
ALL of these foods, grains, pasta, bread, cereal, are converted by the body into sugar. There may be small amounts of protein in some of them (5% to 15% protein in various forms of flour, for instance). But, as soon as that grain has been "processed" there is no life remaining. It is not much different from eating cooked meat -- the protein has been heated and damaged.
I've not yet mentioned much about the vast number of people who are allergic to grains, particularly wheat. I, personally, was diagnosed in March 2001 as being allergic to wheat and advised to just stop eating it.
I did stop all wheat!
I have found a significant improvement in many small health problems after getting off wheat.
Since writing this article a couple years ago the popular press is starting to report the dangers of eating grain:
But now two American clinicians, James Braly and Ron Hoggan, have published a book, Dangerous Grains, claiming that what was thought to be a relatively rare condition may be more widespread than was previously thought. Braly and Hoggan suggest that gluten intolerance does not just affect a few people with CD, but as much as 2-3% of the population. They claim that gluten sensitivity (GS) is at the root of a proportion of cases of cancer, auto-immune disorders, neurological and psychiatric conditions and liver disease. The implication is that the heavily wheat-based western diet - bread, cereals, pastries, pasta - is actually making millions of people ill. (source)
The percentage who can't handle grains is far, far higher. The people behind the scenes are letting you know "gradually." It may take many more years for you to get the full truth.
Here, with this revision in March 2005, a new popular diet book includes the strong advice to limit or remove both grain and dairy from the diet. It is simplistic to do that without reading the book, but that would be a tremendous improvement in the diet of the vast number of people.
False Fat refers to the bloating and swelling that looks and feels like "real fat." It comes from food reactions that occur when we consume (and over-consume) certain foods. What's more, if we don't fully digest these foods, 'abnormal' molecules can be absorbed into our blood stream, raising havoc with the immune system, hormones, and body chemistry. This "cascade" of events can create many symptoms that cause us to feel unhealthy – headaches, insomnia, intestinal problems, sinus congestion, and problems with fatigue and mood. (Source)
Allergies to dairy and wheat are probably the two most common food allergies. Even without any fancy diagnosis, is is very easy for any consumer to test this -- get off either or both of these foods for about one week -- see if some health problem doesn't go away. You will lose weight if you need to, and increase your energy level -- guaranteed!
I've now written about sugar, soda and grains -- the first two, obviously, have nothing alive in them. There is still a sentimental attractiveness to "whole grain cereal" even if not to white bread.
But, no matter how "whole" the grain is, more than 80% of the grain turns into sugar in the body, and if the protein in this processed product is useless to the body, then the whole subject belongs in the Halls of Boondoggle!
Fats have gotten a bad rap for many years. The pot is now boiling and the lid is blowing off. On July 7, 2002, the New York Times published an article in the Sunday Magazine, by Gary Taubes. The article destroys much of the government-sponsored fraud about diet. In this article Gary Taubes shows how the low-fat diet has never worked, and that it leads to obesity. This is a wake-up call! Who will heed! Don't miss this one. Click here. Linked to that page is another "sea change." The Wall Street Journal came out around the same time with an editorial on the values of the Paleolithic Diet!!!
Fats and oils are almost always harmful in
their processed forms. And, even
when
you think you are getting healthy oils such as "cold pressed" oils, they are
usually never "cold"
pressed. Click here for that story.
Margarine is a travesty against honesty. There is a whole story of how we have been duped into believing that margarine is safer than butter. Click here to read that story in my Book.
Raw
butter would be about the only safe form of fat in your diet -- and, of course,
it is basically illegal in most states.
Go figure!
If you eat raw meat, of course, the fat in that raw meat is quite fine!
Toxins in the body are generally stored in the fatty tissues. This is the safe place for them. If a skinny person takes in those toxins, and there is little or no fat where they can be stored, they WILL be stored in organs, bones and flesh. So, the growing obesity of society is actually a survival mechanism -- we have accumulated SO much toxic stuff in our bodies that we NEED the fat to store it safely.
This should give warning to someone who thinks it is all so healthy to lose weight, get rid of fat. As you get rid of the fat, the toxins come out into the blood stream. Where do they go?
The best approach to THIS subject of toxins in the fat is any of several good detoxification programs -- one of those is by Aajonus Vonderplanitz -- he suggest you eat LOTS of fat -- but it must be raw fat -- so that the new fat coming into your system can absorb some of the toxins coming out of the old fat. This is NOT a method of losing (or gaining) weight -- but a concept of changing the toxin-loaded fat you have, for new fat without toxins -- you would then have a gradual reduction of toxins in the body.
The Wall Street Journal in an excellent validating article, July 2002, endorses the diet based on what our ancestors ate -- the same concept as endorsed by Aajonus. The Wall Street Journal has taken on a vital role in America. I now consider it to be THE leading news source in the world. Their readership is extremely high. This means that whatever they publish gets a very wide readership. They have been publishing many articles exposing the harm or evil of drugs and drug companies. But, in June and July 2002 they really laid into the diet and food people. In addition to that article, linked above, don't miss THIS page. There are two articles at the end of that link -- articles about FAT and why it is not the villain that so many "authorities" say it is! From that link you'll see how foolish has been all the noise about obesity in America -- it is measure by a technique that makes anyone a fool for repeating it. In accordance with that formula, fully explained on the link, some of America's most famous athletes movie stars are overweight or obese!
Is this important? Not quite. It is vital!
Overweight people DO have many health problems, often not realizing that their weight is contributing to these problems. Here is just one -- sleep apnea:
Sleep apnea is a serious, potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than
generally understood. First described in 1965, sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. It owes its name to a Greek word, apnea, meaning “want of breath.” There are two types of sleep apnea: central and obstructive. Central sleep apnea, which is less common, occurs when the brain fails to send the appropriate signals to the breathing muscles to initiate respirations. Obstructive sleep apnea is far more common and occurs when air cannot flow into or out of the person’s nose or mouth although efforts to breathe continue.
In a given night, the number of involuntary breathing pauses or “apneic events” may be as high as 20 to 60 or more per hour. These breathing pauses are almost always accompanied by snoring between apnea episodes, although not everyone who snores has this condition. Sleep apnea can also be characterized by choking sensations. The frequent interruptions of deep, restorative sleep often leads to excessive daytime sleepiness and may be associated with an early morning headache.
Early recognition and treatment of sleep apnea is important because it may be associated with irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke. (source)
Using the standard formula for calculating Body Mass Index, or BMI*, several muscular Hollywood hunks and star athletes could be considered overweight or obese, according to weight and height statistics posted on various celebrity and sports Web sites. Meantime, many of their female counterparts are normal or underweight, according to these statistics. [Madonna image on right]
| Actor or athlete | Height | Weight in lbs.) | BMI | Actress or athlete | Height | Weight (in lbs.) | BMI |
| Sylvester Stallone | 5'9" | 228 | 34 | Rebecca Lobo | 6'4" | 185 | 22 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | 6'2" | 257 | 33 | Venus Williams | 6'1" | 169 | 22 |
| Sammy Sosa | 6'0" | 220 | 30 | Demi Moore | 5'5" | 130 | 22 |
| Harrison Ford | 6'1" | 218 | 29 | Lisa Leslie | 6'5" | 170 | 20 |
| George Clooney | 5'11" | 211 | 29 | Julia Roberts | 5'9" | 121 | 18 |
| Bruce Willis | 6'0" | 211 | 29 | Hilary Swank | 5'7" | 118 | 18 |
| Mike Piazza | 6'3" | 215 | 27 | Nicole Kidman | 5'10" | 120 | 17 |
| Brad Pitt | 6'0" | 203 | 27 | Madonna | 5'4" | 101 | 17 |
| Michael Jordan | 6'6" | 216 | 25 | Gwyneth Paltrow | 5'10" | 111 | 16 |
Perhaps the common denominator of all the negative comments I've put here about types of food relate to the fact that these comments relate to "processed" foods rather than foods as they might exist in nature.
But, even foods that exist in nature can no longer be trusted as "natural." Click here to read a very discouraging report about genetically engineered foods that you are probably eating even when you get a government approved label that claims the food is FREE of material that have been genetically engineered.
Click here to learn how the current political (2001) administration is proposing that irradiated meat be allowed to be used in school lunch programs without notice of the irradiation.
I suppose it is impossible to avoid processed, irradiated and genetically engineered foods, but you could realize that the percentage of your food supply in these states is increasing at the same time that health is decreasing.
You might, at least, lend a bit of your political interests to these issues -- and spend more time becoming better informed on them.
Generally all of the material above has been my strong urging for you to STOP eating the bad stuff.
We have come, now, to an important part of this article on diet. While there is still more bad stuff to learn about, and avoid, we are moving much more into what is the good stuff!
Water is an extremely important part of any diet. How much should you drink and what type of water should you drink.
The quantity of water I think you should drink may just amaze you -- LOTS OF WATER.
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Karl Loren's Book:Life Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease |
When I was writing my 400 page book on heart disease, Life Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease, I included more than 60 pages on the importance of drinking more water. I urge you to jump to that section, right now, and read material you have probably never heard before, about why you should be drinking more water than you are! Click Here to go Chapter 14 of my Book.
In the many pages I wrote about the importance of drinking more water, I openly avoided answering the question of "what type of water should I drink?"
My answer was that it was far more important to drink MORE water than to worry about what type of water you should drink.
Now, however, that I am writing about diet, I am ready to strongly recommend what type of water you should drink.
I would think you know by now that you should NOT drink water with chlorine in it! It is hard to believe all the harm done by the government, in the name of help! When the government insists that you MUST have chlorinated drinking water, and you know with certainty that this is deadly, why do you put up with the government's actions?
Click here to read one of the many articles about the dangers of drinking chlorinated water.
When you get further along in this article, and get into the core of the Aajonus diet, you'll find that I now drink mostly naturally carbonated water with no chlorine or any other chemicals added. Yes, it is expensive, but yes it is good for you.
You cannot live without enzymes. You are born with a fixed supply, and you use them up every time you eat heated foods. Every raw, fresh food you eat comes with its own supply of exactly the right enzymes needed to digest THAT food. If you heat that food, or freeze it, you destroy those enzymes, and you have to then call on your body's limited supply of enzymes to digest that food.
Here is the startling data that makes THIS diet so different from every other one. Virtually all other diets you will examine include heated, cooked, frozen, processed foods. NONE of those on this diet when you finally get to its complete application in your life. An excellent book about enzymes is HERE.
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Enzyme Nutrition points out that each one of us is given a limited supply of bodily enzyme energy at birth. This supply, like the energy supply in your new battery, has to last a lifetime. The faster you use up your enzyme supply, the shorter your life. A great deal of our enzyme energy is wasted haphazardly throughout life. The habit of cooking our food and eating it processed with chemicals; and the use of alcohol, drugs, and junk food all draw out tremendous quantities of enzymes from our limited supply. Frequent colds and fevers and exposure to extremes of temperature also deplete the supply. A body in such a weakened, enzyme-deficient stat is a prime target for cancer, obesity, heart disease, or other degenerative problems. A lifetime of such abuse often ends in the tragedy of death at middle age. |
The digestion of food takes a high priority and forces the body to produce a copious flow of concentrated digestive enzymes when there are no enzymes in our food. All of us loose our ability to produce concentrated digestive enzymes as we grow older. As this happens, we are less able to use the vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in our food, and we lose the ability to produce adequate amounts of all the other enzymes we need.
Dr. David G. Williams explains some
of the consequences of inadequate enzyme production:
"As we age, our digestive system
becomes less efficient. This should be obvious when you consider that anywhere
from 60 to 75 percent of all hospitalizations are related to problems concerning
the digestive system...ulcer and indigestion medications, both prescription and
over-the-counter, are among the top sellers of any class of drugs; as we age,
our stomach’s ability to produce hydrochloric acid lessens (New England
Journal of Medicine 85; 313: 70 - 74); and by age 65, almost 35 percent of
us don’t produce any hydrochloric acid at all."
Researchers such as Dr. Edward Howell
have shown that much of this breakdown in the body’s ability to produce enough
enzymes is due to the overproduction of concentrated digestive enzymes over many
years. It should be obvious from all this that our bodies were made to eat far
more raw food than we currently eat. The body has only a limited capacity to
make enzymes, and this overproduction of digestive enzymes over many years is
directly responsible for the body’s loss of all the other enzymes.
By squandering our enzyme-making
capacity on digestive enzymes, the production and activity of all the other
enzymes needed in our body is reduced. This is one reason why enzymes are
depleted from our cells as we age. As enzyme activity is diminished in the
cells, there is an acceleration of the aging process caused by free radical
damage and other things that make us increasingly susceptible to disease.
When we get enzymes from our food, it
spares our body from having to make such concentrated digestive enzymes. This
sparing effect increases the activity of all the other enzymes in our body.
Eating enzyme-rich foods such as sprouts allows our body to maximize its
production of non-digestive enzymes, and that helps us produce an adequate level
of enzymes all our life. And the higher the level of enzyme activity, the
healthier and biologically younger we are going to be.
Since aging is, to a large extent, caused by enzyme depletion, slowing the aging process might be a matter of eating lots of enzyme-rich food every day along with an adequate intake of vitamins and minerals. Sprouted seeds, grains, and legumes are the most powerful enzyme-rich foods that exist. [Source]
The best answer to that poses, first, the question: "What would man's natural diet consist of?"
And answers by looking, first at how "man" has evolved during his time on this planet.
Five years ago this was on my mind as I wrote my Book, Life Flow One, The Solution For Heart Disease:
Someone, some day, will realize that man's body has not changed significantly over the last hundred thousand years. Someone will ask the question, what is man's natural diet? What did he eat 10,000 years ago? What does man need from the sources nature has provided, rather than what the chemical companies have provided, that will restore his health and vitality? [Source]
Today I am researching and answering the question I posed five years ago!
The Body we each inhabit may look far different from the bodies of 5,000,000 years ago, but internally we still have very much the same plumbing. Virtually all the organs, and all their functions, have remained unchanged. Perhaps all of man was, at one time one color? I don't know, but the change of race did NOT change the plumbing.
Here is a quote:
Before the advent of agriculture about 10,000 years ago, all people were hunter-gatherers; they gathered various fruits and vegetables to eat and they hunted animals for their meat. Of course, the ratio of meat and vegetables varied with geographic location, climate and season. Until they began cultivating grains and livestock, people rarely, if ever, ate grains or drank animal's milk.
With the spread of agriculture, people shifted from nomadic groups to relatively stable and larger societies to tend the fields. Culture and knowledge flourished. People also began consuming large amounts of grain, milk and domesticated meat. When communities became more localized, humans became more sedentary as well. Then, with the industrial revolution of the 18th century, the human diet changed even more dramatically. Beginning around 1900, whole grains were routinely refined, removing much of their nutritional value, and refined sugar became commonplace. Reflecting on the changes in 1939, nutritionist Jean Bogert noted, "The machine age has had the effect of forcing upon the peoples of the industrial nations (especially the United States) the most gigantic human feeding experiment ever attempted."4
Bogert was also disturbed by the growing use of refined grains and sugar and the preference for processed foods over fresh fruits and vegetables. During the past 40 years, the growth of fast-food restaurants has altered the average diet more dramatically than Bogert could have imagined. People now rely even more on processed rather than fresh foods. In fact, the many dietary changes during the past 10,000 years have outpaced our ability to genetically adapt to them, according to Eaton. "That the vast majority of our genes are ancient in origin means that nearly all of our biochemistry and physiology are fine-tuned to conditions of life that existed before 10,000 years ago," he says.5 Looked at in another way, 100,000 generations of people were hunter-gatherers, 500 generations have depended on agriculture, only 10 generations have lived since the start of the industrial age, and only two generations have grown up with highly processed fast foods.
"The problem is that our genes don't know it," Eaton points out. "They are programming us today in much the same way they have been programming humans for at least 40,000 years. Genetically, our bodies now are virtually the same as they were then."6
The Paleolithic Diet
By working with anthropologists, Eaton has created what many experts consider a clear picture of our prehistoric diet and lifestyle. Today's panoply of diets--from fast-food burgers to various concepts of balanced diets and food groups--bears little resemblance, superficially or in actual nutritional constituents, to the diet earliest H. sapiens and their descendants consumed over millions of years. For example, vitamin intake is lower today, and the dietary fatty acid profile is substantially different from our evolutionary diet. In other words, our diet today fails to provide the biochemical and molecular requirements of H. sapiens.7
Here's how the major dietary constituents stack up past and present.
Carbohydrates: Early humans obtained about half of their calories from carbohydrates, but these carbohydrates were rarely grains. Most carbohydrates came from vegetables and fruit.
"Current carbohydrates often take the form of sugars and sweeteners. ... Products of this sort, together with items made from highly refined grain flours, constitute empty calories ... devoid of accompanying essential amino and fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and possibly phytochemicals," Eaton says.8
Fruits, vegetables and fiber: Over the course of one year, hunter-gatherers typically consumed more than 100 different species of fruits and vegetables. Today, fewer than 9 percent of Americans eat the recommended five daily servings of fruits and vegetables, according to Gladys Block, Ph.D., a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Even people who regularly do eat fruits and vegetables generally limit themselves to a handful of different foods, she says.9 The fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds of H. sapiens provided more than 100 g of fiber daily, far above the typical recommendation of 20 g to 30 g, and even farther above what the average American actually eats. Additionally, Eaton says, "The fiber in preagricultural diets came almost exclusively from fruits, roots, legumes, nuts and other naturally occurring noncereal plant sources, so it was less associated with phytic acid than is fiber from cereal grains [phytic acid interferes with mineral absorption]."
Protein and fat: Early humans consumed about 30 percent protein, although consumption varied with the season and geographic location. Current dietary recommendations suggest much less protein--about 12 percent to 15 percent of total caloric intake. Much of this protein came from what people now call "game meat"--undomesticated animals such as deer and bison.10 [Source]
Click here for an excellent reference to literally thousands of pages, different web sites, about the Paleolithic diet.
Here is the experience of another person:
He cut out everything from his diet that research showed hunter-gatherers didn't eat, such as flour, grains, milk, butter, sugar and oils. Anything processed, such as luncheon meat, or anything fermented, like vinegar, wine, and beer, were off-limits. Research shows hunter-gatherers didn't eat starches like potatoes, corn, and most beans -- probably because they can't be digested raw -- so Audette cut those out, too.
Audette expected some positive results, but nothing like he got. Testing his blood at home with a kit from the pharmacy, Audette says that within a week of starting his diet his blood sugar levels were normal, indicating the diabetes had ceased. As he stayed with meats and off grains, Audette's blood levels stayed constant, no matter when he tested himself, he says. Within a month, the arthritis that had plagued him for 12 years was gone too, he claims.
Although he was never overweight, the six-foot Audette went from about 165 to 145 pounds. The fat seemed to dissolve from his body while muscle tone improved. "All of a sudden it seemed as if I was growing muscle," he says. His concentration and energy level improved; his hair, which had been rapidly thinning, stopped falling out.
"It was such a dramatic change," he says. "It wasn't just a change from what I had been a few months before, it was a change from what I had been my whole life." [Source]
There is a great deal to be said of understanding and returning to man's natural diet -- man has not really changed as his diet has! Man's natural diet is a raw food diet. Interestingly, if you enter the search phrase "raw food diet" on any of the popular search engines you WILL not get pages referencing THIS diet. You will get pages relative to raw food for dogs and you will get many pages relative to raw vegetable diets. This is a "raw meat" diet (combined with raw vegetables, etc.) So, information on this type of diet is almost completely unknown on the Internet.
I have more information about the "raw food diet for humans, including raw meat" than all other pages on the web combined at the time of my original writing. Taking into account the tremendous social aversion to eating raw meat, I will probably have more information on this subject than all other web sites, combined, for many years. This has NOT been a popular subject, yet I am urging you to read this material with an open mind -- because on the other side of this, when you start on this diet, you'll find health and vitality that you could never have suspected might exist.
The raw food diet will probably need to be introduced on a gradient scale. My own wife couldn't imagine joining me in this!
So, I have started this article by condemning sugar. Sugar is a &qu
