Shocking Dietary Advice?

For those of you who think cholesterol and saturated fats are your enemy and a low-fat diet is your salvation: THINK AGAIN!

Modern "health authorities" are dishing out poor advice based on garbage "science" pushed by big business interests. Money talks and money is the root of all evil when it comes to these misguided conventional dietary recommendations.

The cholesterol theory of heart disease is based on shoddy "science" that has been promoted by big food companies and pushed by big pharmaceutical companies - the biggest drug pushers in the world! Anthony Colpo's excellent book, "The Great Cholesterol Con" exposes this flawed "science" as a sham. The first major proponent of the cholesterol theory, Ancel Keys, selectively chose six countries that fit his theory to show a correlation between cholesterol and heart disease. However, he conveniently ignored data from eight other countries that did not support his theory. And this is just the beginning tip of the iceberg. Read Anthony Colpo's book for more details on how this unfortunate myth was perpetuated.

Cholesterol is vitally important to our health. It is involved in the body's immune and repair processes and is the precursor to many important hormones as well as vitamin D via sunshine. Elderly people with higher cholesterol levels live longer than those with lower cholesterol levels! There is no real evidence that cholesterol and saturated fat "clog" our arteries to cause heart disease. Evidence more strongly points to oxidation of unsaturated fats and glycation of associated lipoproteins as important factors in heart disease. These lipoproteins also contain cholesterol, but there is no evidence that the cholesterol itself causes any harm. Glycation is aggravated by excess blood sugar that can result from diets high in sugar and refined carbohydrates.

Saturated fats have been falsely accused of causing problems that are more correctly blamed on artificial trans-fats, another recently-invented processed-damaged food. Can you say "hydrogenated"? If you see that word on a label, that food has artificial trans-fats in it. Now even the "health authorities" have finally recognized that artificial trans-fats are bad. Just a few years ago, they were touting margarines loaded with trans-fat as "healthy".

The real culprits in heart disease and even cancer and diabetes appear to be huge increases in sugars and often rancid refined vegetable oils in the modern diet. Our ancestors did not eat these foods. One hundred years ago, heart attacks, cancer, and diabetes were rare - even in the elderly. Lots of sugars and vegetable oils are packaged with modern foods of convenience and heavily advertised, often as "healthy" foods. Low-fat diets for many people contribute to cravings for sweets and ironically, excess sugar is converted into saturated fat by our bodies, leading to obesity. Our healthy ancestors ate good quality animal and dairy fats, with mainly fruits for sweets. Now people are addicted to processed convenient foods laden with sugar and high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners as well as "healthy" vegetable oils (not to mention all the other artificial junk in them). Too much sugar and refined carbohydrates raise insulin levels. Too much insulin causes accelerated aging. Elevated blood sugar and too much polyunsaturated fats from vegetable oils also suppress the immune system and are major factors leading to diabetes and autoimmune diseases. No wonder obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are running rampant!

So, avoid processed fake foods like the plague! Choose foods that have nurtured our ancestors for thousands of years. The most nutritious foods are meats, organs, and raw dairy from fully pastured or wild animals along with organic vegetables, heritage whole grains, nuts, and fruits. This is what our healthy ancestors ate!

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Let food be your medicine. Say NO to drugs :)