A friend of mine, a neurology researcher and a clinical physician, told me once how writing papers for medical journals works. According to him (an insider), you need something new, but based on known material, something controversial, but not strong enough to cause opposition, something unique, but leaving space for others to carry over. Contributing such a paper will help the whole scientific system to continue. You don’t want to write something that will disrupt the system. Even if you are right and it shows from the abstract, and it will save the whole universe.
A different story is with open-market books. There, you go after $$$ and you want to carve out a niche for yourself. You have to create new theories or provide new solutions. You won’t be ok if you recommend taking commonly available and cheap vitamin XX. Repack the vitamin, reframe its preparation, add a blender, add a fruit or two, and you are on the right track. You can even make your own formula from this, advertise it on the back of your book, and become a renowned authority.
So, it’s not about discovering the real, verifiable laws of the nature. It’s about the system. In general, obviously, as certainly there are dedicated, hard-working researchers whose thinking goes outside all boxes. We just don’t hear about them a lot because promoting them is not in the best interest of the system.
Scientists are also suffering from one-word disease. They develop one-word concepts, try to build a small world around it (which may be reasonable and justified), and then sell it as an airtight remedy. Protected against penetration from the outside, it will survive. Critical thinking and asking questions are two major external threats to these airtight worlds. Attempts to explain this small world in the context of broader systems or across disciplines are unwelcome. To some extent, it is justifiable - understanding a mechanism within its own boundaries is easy, and may be a good stepping stone for further research.
The other side of the story is that scientists (or professionals in general) suffer from a huge complex of not being an authority. They always try to present themselves as all-knowing, ready to flood you with answers to all your questions, juggling weird terminology and relating complicated theories and processes. “I don’t know” is out of question. You won’t hear “I haven’t thought about it, it may be interesting.”
The problem is that they will never be an authority. First, there are too many of them. Secondly, there are too many of them working on the same subject and competing. Thirdly, all their knowledge is based on sources written in millions of volumes, freely available for anyone to study. And finally, all their research may be cut off and closed down with a single phone call from the sponsor.
Revisiting (probably) all established concepts is a great way to open a new age of understanding the nature we are only a small part of.
Thank you for a great article about a mysterious word used millions times every day. I have never stopped to think about it, yet, what a surprise.
In the natural health industry it has been said that in the '70's and '80's to have a successful business it was 90% knowledge and 10% marketing. These days it's 10% knowledge and 90% marketing.
One thing to add. I have been a follower of the Weston Price Foundation and have been very appreciative of the work they have done in educating the public about pasture based farming and ancestral diets and wisdom. The part they have left out is that non-native EMF's have changed our ability to regulate our hormones and so for some people it doesn't matter what they do. They will never be able to be healthy if they don't remediate the EMF's they are exposed to, and that can be from geopathic stress as well as cell towers and wifi.
That is going to be much harder to do very soon. What do you recommend we do? I live in a country small town. Towers are everywhere. I do some personal stuff and turn WiFi off at night. No cell phone by my bed, but 🤷🏼♀️
That is the million dollar question. I have researched many solutions. You will have to find which one works for you. There are tensor rings, BioGeometry, pyramid energy, and orgonite. Orgonite is probably the most cost effective, especially if you learn to make it yourself. Here are some vendors that are using mineral powders instead of crystals. Powders are more powerful because they have more surface area. https://www.etsy.com/shop/BittleBoxArt?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=730334989&from_page=listing, https://www.ftwproject.com/.
I would love to piggy back off your research here. If you feel inclined to writing about what you have learnt in this space, aimed at someone knew to the EMF discussion, I'd be happy to publish it.
One more Stack I really like is by Franklin O'Kanu, https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/lies-not-discussed-within-the-truth?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2. I was going to say that you need to start looking at the Flat Earth controversy. Not the Controlled Op but the real thing. Two guys that are at the forefront are Eric Dubay and Flat Earth Dave. https://www.flatearth101.com/fe-david-weiss. I started my journey with just nutrition, that led me to vaccines and our fake political system. One has to really get over their ego to start looking into flat earth and space. Take care of your Spirit. Once you realize that everything is a lie, it can be devastating. You're going to want to Homeschool your kids.
By 14, I was an obese child. One day, after eating 2 huge meals in a row, i was gifted with a divine intervention of sorts. *Something* flipped a switch, and I became aware that I could change the situation.
I learned about exercise and calories. As this was back in the 70's, that meant counting calories and using everything labeled "sugar free" or "fat free."
I did lose weight. Over the course of 1.5 years I got down to 123 lbs.
About 6 months later I was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that typically only presented in boys 1 to 6 years of age. Doctors were mystified.
I'd bet it was related to diet/saccharine (and boatloads of fear from a dysfunctional home), but can't prove it.....
At age 10 the hormones turned on. I'd reached the magic number of 100 lbs. Of 3 girls I'm the only one who is built like my grandmother. short 5 feet tall, top heavy. My mom was a scratch cook. Grew much of what she used. JUNK FOOD was my downfall to being Plump. I began dieting at 18. More veggies no junk food. 4 babies added weight. That I dieted off easily. But keeping it off has been a lifelong battle.
I never knew I was Hypothyroid until the first baby, And once you start the Med role you just need higher dosages. .5 mcg has over the years become 200 mcg. At 75 my spine is destroyed. Gastroparesis from a Menieres Vertigo fall damaged the Vagus nerve. Those veggies J lived on are no longer digestible Breads took their place. That is the new weight gain and Type 2 Diabetes. The 2 diets are not compatible. There is no middle ground.
Processed food is POISON. High in the wrong Fats, Salt, and sugar. Overuse of pesticides containing Glysophates from weed killers and pesticides. The chemicals in them cause illness and early death from cancer, We know about Round Up Glysophate Cancer, heart, and diabetes. Saccharine is another poison.
Most Honey is corn syrup.
Honey is the third most-faked food in the world. Tests have revealed 50 percent to 70 percent of all U.S. honey is fake or adulterated.
Enter Bill Gates and his new poisons Apeel. I try to stay away from processed foods Only to find out the Government is in cahoots with the likes of Gates. You may not remember but sometime under Obama the weight factor was changed, and overnight many people became obese, Reduction surgery became a fad. As did diet pills. Ozempic shots are the latest. A very nasty drug, being prescribed even to kids. What is left out besides the side effects, is when you stop taking it you gain all the weight lost.
Robert Yoho does a great job explaining the role of Healthcare, Government, and Pharma. Spend the $5 on Kindle and read his book Butchered by Healthcare, Gov. and Pharma.
I may not lose weight but I eat healthier. Breast Reduction is not in the cards
Our entire food supply is polluted now. I can get local food, (including raw honey) down to raw milk around me. But for how long🤔? They are trying to kill us. it’s not even for profit anymore. Sorry you’ve had to go through this. Im trying to get off long term low carb and keto. It’s damaged my thyroid, and bones. After 11years it’s not easy. I can only tolerate cooked veg and simple easily digested carbs right now but I am eating fruit again and potatoes. No breads or grains, nuts or seeds. Toxins in them big time. . I was severely undereating and fasting and IF are an absolute no go for me now. 3 decent meals a day is supplying the glucose I need (especially for my brain) and not using glucose created in the stress hormones pathway 24/7. This process catches up with you. I’ve been learning a lot about the duplicity and ignorance even in the health and alternative medicine sphere. I’m old. I gotta get this right. Good luck to you, Gail.
" It all has to do with insulin—meaning the diet sweetener still caused insulin release, while the lactose and fat in the milk didn’t. Plus the fat was satiating, so people ate less. "
I trained my friends to have cream with dessert, naming it Pancreatic Buffer. The fat slows the release of insulin so the sugar spike / high is modulated.
Exactly! When I wake in the morning, instead of coffee and it’s stressors, I sip a bit of orange juice and a piece of cheese to get my blood sugar up after the night fast. The cheese moderates the sugar spike. Then coffee (maybe with cream) and a breakfast. If I wake around 3 am (cortisol spike when blood sugar goes down) and can’t go back to sleep, I swig an orange juice and salt shot. I can usually go back to sleep then. 3 meals a day again after a decade of IF has calmed spikes and I have no cravings anymore. More energy. Cheers, Jayne.
Thanks for posting. I've had Metabolical on my reading list for several months now and it doesn't seem likely I'll get to it any time soon. Too many other health topics have my attention now.
Some thoughts:
First, when I tried to discuss with a physician friend that calories in didn't equal calories out, her eyes instantly rolled back into her head. Her feeling was that it was impossible to converse with someone who could reject such a fundamental truth.
Second, it was Burkitt in the late 70s who developed the notion that fiber was a health component, based upon extensive research by bush doctors (like himself) throughout the British Empire. He noticed that people in the bush didn't have the health problems that he had been taught to solve, and wanted to understand why. He felt it was the fiber in the native diet that conferred health, though I suspect it is diminished nutrition and added toxins in "foods of modern commerce" that bestow disease. So now we have food companies adding cellulose to food, and companies pushing metamucil et al for restoring bowel health. I'm guessing the cellulose (wood fiber) is not something that our 'good' microbiome knows what to do with, so likely it increases the 'bad' gut bugs. And there are studies that the bowel supplements can cause the intestine to dilate several times its normal diameter, so it doesn't solve the problem better than just drinking lots of water, and probably chronic use will result in colon damage. And a damaged colon will change your life quality for the worse quite dramatically.
Third, Dr. Mark Sircus posits that you need to have a deficiency of magnesium to develop diabetes, that it's a lack of mg that prevents sufficient creation of pancreatic enzymes that starts the snowball of problems that culminates in diabetes II. This fits with Dr. Bruce Nathan Ames' Triage Theory of Disease - that when faced with an insufficiency of a nutrient, your body will prioritize preserving those functions that are most critical for your survival. Your heart trumps your pancreas.
Fourth, in 1985 and 1986 I wandered off on a 17,000 mile bicycle tour. I ate 7,000 calories of sugary, low fiber crap every day. Every time I weighed myself (perhaps a half dozen times) I always weighed 167 lbs. And I have never crapped so well in my life. Every day, within ten minutes of waking up, I'd have a massive bowel movement and I'd be good for the day.
The coffee shop I frequented had a customer most days that was a serious biker. Helmet, tight bike pants, 😱 and had an energy drink clipped to his bike. He was also very overweight. He would get some big latte nonsense and a donut. I saw him weekly for a few years. If he was biking to lose weight, it wasn’t working. I haven’t finished the article but the calories in calories out, eat less, move more , low fat is total hogwash invented by the toxic food industry and their handmaidens of death--the U$ government. Vegetable oil overuse directly corresponds to the rise of obesity in all ages. It’s in every commercial food and restaurants are a nightmare source of it. I’m a home cook again.
Omega-3 is mentioned, but not omega-6. Apparently there must be a certain ratio between the two. Seed oils in general have no omega-3 and because of that are inflammatory.
Even 3s are not that good. If supplemented they are almost 100% harmfully oxidized in the container already. You might by it in a dark cold bottle but what did it go through to get processed and on the shelf? Worse than none then. I don’t do that anymore.
On fructose - it's metabolised in the liver using similar pathways to metabolising alcohol. This is why the term NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease was coined as people were upset being told they had cirrhosis. It is one of the most common modern diseases.
I wish everyone a Great Day, whatever they believe.
In an odd way this relates to my thinking about this extensive article. As with most things, I know little about nutrition.
Blessed with a wonderful digestive system, my core philosophy reduces to: ALL THINGS IN MODERATION. That doesn't sound very deep, even to myself?
But, it works for me. Binging or over eating occasionally probably doesn't do a lot of harm, but it doesn't feel good afterwards. Going without or with too little food, is a more obvious pain but also probably not harmful 'occasionally'.
This article's emphasis ob "Quality" is probably the most important factor. If our senses can be tricked into believing a substance is "Food", then our million year old metabolisms will try to process it as "Food"......That can't end well.
Maybe treating others who share your views as competitors is cattywampus. Perhaps some considerations concerning the profit motive and the race to the top. Our mutual welfare should never be placed in the realm of exploitation. Cooperation not competition.
The understanding of food nature by our doctors in the West, even the good ones, is very poor.
Because they see everything in a very materialistic way.
Living beings are made by substances... but by energies too. This is well understood in Asia.
To give you an example, almonds are not good for liver if you are a Bile constitution guy, or if you have liver issues. This happens because the nature of almonds is hot. And so on.
World is not only substances. It's much more than that!
A friend of mine, a neurology researcher and a clinical physician, told me once how writing papers for medical journals works. According to him (an insider), you need something new, but based on known material, something controversial, but not strong enough to cause opposition, something unique, but leaving space for others to carry over. Contributing such a paper will help the whole scientific system to continue. You don’t want to write something that will disrupt the system. Even if you are right and it shows from the abstract, and it will save the whole universe.
A different story is with open-market books. There, you go after $$$ and you want to carve out a niche for yourself. You have to create new theories or provide new solutions. You won’t be ok if you recommend taking commonly available and cheap vitamin XX. Repack the vitamin, reframe its preparation, add a blender, add a fruit or two, and you are on the right track. You can even make your own formula from this, advertise it on the back of your book, and become a renowned authority.
So, it’s not about discovering the real, verifiable laws of the nature. It’s about the system. In general, obviously, as certainly there are dedicated, hard-working researchers whose thinking goes outside all boxes. We just don’t hear about them a lot because promoting them is not in the best interest of the system.
Scientists are also suffering from one-word disease. They develop one-word concepts, try to build a small world around it (which may be reasonable and justified), and then sell it as an airtight remedy. Protected against penetration from the outside, it will survive. Critical thinking and asking questions are two major external threats to these airtight worlds. Attempts to explain this small world in the context of broader systems or across disciplines are unwelcome. To some extent, it is justifiable - understanding a mechanism within its own boundaries is easy, and may be a good stepping stone for further research.
The other side of the story is that scientists (or professionals in general) suffer from a huge complex of not being an authority. They always try to present themselves as all-knowing, ready to flood you with answers to all your questions, juggling weird terminology and relating complicated theories and processes. “I don’t know” is out of question. You won’t hear “I haven’t thought about it, it may be interesting.”
The problem is that they will never be an authority. First, there are too many of them. Secondly, there are too many of them working on the same subject and competing. Thirdly, all their knowledge is based on sources written in millions of volumes, freely available for anyone to study. And finally, all their research may be cut off and closed down with a single phone call from the sponsor.
Revisiting (probably) all established concepts is a great way to open a new age of understanding the nature we are only a small part of.
Thank you for a great article about a mysterious word used millions times every day. I have never stopped to think about it, yet, what a surprise.
Thanks Dan, wonderful and insightful comment as always.
If only more people would say "I don't know", arguably the three most honest words in the English language, followed closely by "it depends".
Love to read your articles, it’s a huge inspiration, and they subtly shake out from me the stuff gathered along the path.
I’d add “why?” and “because I like it this way” as companion phrases to disarm exchanges that go sour.
It's marketing.
In the natural health industry it has been said that in the '70's and '80's to have a successful business it was 90% knowledge and 10% marketing. These days it's 10% knowledge and 90% marketing.
I guess that's in other areas as well?
One thing to add. I have been a follower of the Weston Price Foundation and have been very appreciative of the work they have done in educating the public about pasture based farming and ancestral diets and wisdom. The part they have left out is that non-native EMF's have changed our ability to regulate our hormones and so for some people it doesn't matter what they do. They will never be able to be healthy if they don't remediate the EMF's they are exposed to, and that can be from geopathic stress as well as cell towers and wifi.
That is going to be much harder to do very soon. What do you recommend we do? I live in a country small town. Towers are everywhere. I do some personal stuff and turn WiFi off at night. No cell phone by my bed, but 🤷🏼♀️
That is the million dollar question. I have researched many solutions. You will have to find which one works for you. There are tensor rings, BioGeometry, pyramid energy, and orgonite. Orgonite is probably the most cost effective, especially if you learn to make it yourself. Here are some vendors that are using mineral powders instead of crystals. Powders are more powerful because they have more surface area. https://www.etsy.com/shop/BittleBoxArt?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=730334989&from_page=listing, https://www.ftwproject.com/.
Thanks Tami.
I would love to piggy back off your research here. If you feel inclined to writing about what you have learnt in this space, aimed at someone knew to the EMF discussion, I'd be happy to publish it.
unbekoming@outlook.com
Thank you but there are already great "Stackers" doing excellent work on this topic. I would start by reading The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg, https://archive.org/details/the-invisible-rainbow-a-history-of-electricity-and-life-arthur-firstenberg-z-lib.org/The%20Invisible%20Rainbow%20A%20History%20of%20Electricity%20and%20Life%20%28Arthur%20Firstenberg%29%20%28z-lib.org%29/. Then Roman Shapoval, https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/why-heart-disease-is-an-electrical?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2, and Magda Havas has a great website with declassified military documents. "Microwave weapons are outside the scope of this document, although there is reference to antipersonnel applications of microwave technology including inducing neurological effects, metabolic diseases, heart seizures and neurological pathologies resulting from breaching the blood-brain barrier, as well as intracranial production of sounds and possibly words at very low average power densities. On page 26, a section dealing with microwave weapons seems to have been removed." https://magdahavas.com/. It's a huge topic. There is the work of George Lakhovsky, Tesla, Royal Rife and Dr. Wilhelm Reich. Everything is vibration. Look at cymatics and water. We are mostly water. I don't usually follow Greg Reese but he did a nice little synopsis of Rudolph Steiner, Viktor Schauberger, Masaru Emoto, Gerald Pollack and Tom Cowan. https://gregreese.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-human-heart.
Thanks Tami. Most of those names are new to me, so that's very helpful.
One more Stack I really like is by Franklin O'Kanu, https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/lies-not-discussed-within-the-truth?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2. I was going to say that you need to start looking at the Flat Earth controversy. Not the Controlled Op but the real thing. Two guys that are at the forefront are Eric Dubay and Flat Earth Dave. https://www.flatearth101.com/fe-david-weiss. I started my journey with just nutrition, that led me to vaccines and our fake political system. One has to really get over their ego to start looking into flat earth and space. Take care of your Spirit. Once you realize that everything is a lie, it can be devastating. You're going to want to Homeschool your kids.
This is fascinating. Merry Christmas btw!
By 14, I was an obese child. One day, after eating 2 huge meals in a row, i was gifted with a divine intervention of sorts. *Something* flipped a switch, and I became aware that I could change the situation.
I learned about exercise and calories. As this was back in the 70's, that meant counting calories and using everything labeled "sugar free" or "fat free."
I did lose weight. Over the course of 1.5 years I got down to 123 lbs.
About 6 months later I was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that typically only presented in boys 1 to 6 years of age. Doctors were mystified.
I'd bet it was related to diet/saccharine (and boatloads of fear from a dysfunctional home), but can't prove it.....
At age 10 the hormones turned on. I'd reached the magic number of 100 lbs. Of 3 girls I'm the only one who is built like my grandmother. short 5 feet tall, top heavy. My mom was a scratch cook. Grew much of what she used. JUNK FOOD was my downfall to being Plump. I began dieting at 18. More veggies no junk food. 4 babies added weight. That I dieted off easily. But keeping it off has been a lifelong battle.
I never knew I was Hypothyroid until the first baby, And once you start the Med role you just need higher dosages. .5 mcg has over the years become 200 mcg. At 75 my spine is destroyed. Gastroparesis from a Menieres Vertigo fall damaged the Vagus nerve. Those veggies J lived on are no longer digestible Breads took their place. That is the new weight gain and Type 2 Diabetes. The 2 diets are not compatible. There is no middle ground.
Processed food is POISON. High in the wrong Fats, Salt, and sugar. Overuse of pesticides containing Glysophates from weed killers and pesticides. The chemicals in them cause illness and early death from cancer, We know about Round Up Glysophate Cancer, heart, and diabetes. Saccharine is another poison.
Most Honey is corn syrup.
Honey is the third most-faked food in the world. Tests have revealed 50 percent to 70 percent of all U.S. honey is fake or adulterated.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/honey-laundering-is-your-honey-real-or-fake-5542913
Enter Bill Gates and his new poisons Apeel. I try to stay away from processed foods Only to find out the Government is in cahoots with the likes of Gates. You may not remember but sometime under Obama the weight factor was changed, and overnight many people became obese, Reduction surgery became a fad. As did diet pills. Ozempic shots are the latest. A very nasty drug, being prescribed even to kids. What is left out besides the side effects, is when you stop taking it you gain all the weight lost.
Robert Yoho does a great job explaining the role of Healthcare, Government, and Pharma. Spend the $5 on Kindle and read his book Butchered by Healthcare, Gov. and Pharma.
I may not lose weight but I eat healthier. Breast Reduction is not in the cards
Merry Christmas.
Our entire food supply is polluted now. I can get local food, (including raw honey) down to raw milk around me. But for how long🤔? They are trying to kill us. it’s not even for profit anymore. Sorry you’ve had to go through this. Im trying to get off long term low carb and keto. It’s damaged my thyroid, and bones. After 11years it’s not easy. I can only tolerate cooked veg and simple easily digested carbs right now but I am eating fruit again and potatoes. No breads or grains, nuts or seeds. Toxins in them big time. . I was severely undereating and fasting and IF are an absolute no go for me now. 3 decent meals a day is supplying the glucose I need (especially for my brain) and not using glucose created in the stress hormones pathway 24/7. This process catches up with you. I’ve been learning a lot about the duplicity and ignorance even in the health and alternative medicine sphere. I’m old. I gotta get this right. Good luck to you, Gail.
Thanks Gail. Interesting and useful information as always.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, and Happy New Year.
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Thanks, Kelli, for sharing that, and Merry Christmas to you too.
" It all has to do with insulin—meaning the diet sweetener still caused insulin release, while the lactose and fat in the milk didn’t. Plus the fat was satiating, so people ate less. "
I trained my friends to have cream with dessert, naming it Pancreatic Buffer. The fat slows the release of insulin so the sugar spike / high is modulated.
Exactly! When I wake in the morning, instead of coffee and it’s stressors, I sip a bit of orange juice and a piece of cheese to get my blood sugar up after the night fast. The cheese moderates the sugar spike. Then coffee (maybe with cream) and a breakfast. If I wake around 3 am (cortisol spike when blood sugar goes down) and can’t go back to sleep, I swig an orange juice and salt shot. I can usually go back to sleep then. 3 meals a day again after a decade of IF has calmed spikes and I have no cravings anymore. More energy. Cheers, Jayne.
Thanks for posting. I've had Metabolical on my reading list for several months now and it doesn't seem likely I'll get to it any time soon. Too many other health topics have my attention now.
Some thoughts:
First, when I tried to discuss with a physician friend that calories in didn't equal calories out, her eyes instantly rolled back into her head. Her feeling was that it was impossible to converse with someone who could reject such a fundamental truth.
Second, it was Burkitt in the late 70s who developed the notion that fiber was a health component, based upon extensive research by bush doctors (like himself) throughout the British Empire. He noticed that people in the bush didn't have the health problems that he had been taught to solve, and wanted to understand why. He felt it was the fiber in the native diet that conferred health, though I suspect it is diminished nutrition and added toxins in "foods of modern commerce" that bestow disease. So now we have food companies adding cellulose to food, and companies pushing metamucil et al for restoring bowel health. I'm guessing the cellulose (wood fiber) is not something that our 'good' microbiome knows what to do with, so likely it increases the 'bad' gut bugs. And there are studies that the bowel supplements can cause the intestine to dilate several times its normal diameter, so it doesn't solve the problem better than just drinking lots of water, and probably chronic use will result in colon damage. And a damaged colon will change your life quality for the worse quite dramatically.
Third, Dr. Mark Sircus posits that you need to have a deficiency of magnesium to develop diabetes, that it's a lack of mg that prevents sufficient creation of pancreatic enzymes that starts the snowball of problems that culminates in diabetes II. This fits with Dr. Bruce Nathan Ames' Triage Theory of Disease - that when faced with an insufficiency of a nutrient, your body will prioritize preserving those functions that are most critical for your survival. Your heart trumps your pancreas.
Fourth, in 1985 and 1986 I wandered off on a 17,000 mile bicycle tour. I ate 7,000 calories of sugary, low fiber crap every day. Every time I weighed myself (perhaps a half dozen times) I always weighed 167 lbs. And I have never crapped so well in my life. Every day, within ten minutes of waking up, I'd have a massive bowel movement and I'd be good for the day.
Fifth, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas klimer, thanks for a very interesting, broad sweeping, comment.
The coffee shop I frequented had a customer most days that was a serious biker. Helmet, tight bike pants, 😱 and had an energy drink clipped to his bike. He was also very overweight. He would get some big latte nonsense and a donut. I saw him weekly for a few years. If he was biking to lose weight, it wasn’t working. I haven’t finished the article but the calories in calories out, eat less, move more , low fat is total hogwash invented by the toxic food industry and their handmaidens of death--the U$ government. Vegetable oil overuse directly corresponds to the rise of obesity in all ages. It’s in every commercial food and restaurants are a nightmare source of it. I’m a home cook again.
Omega-3 is mentioned, but not omega-6. Apparently there must be a certain ratio between the two. Seed oils in general have no omega-3 and because of that are inflammatory.
Even 3s are not that good. If supplemented they are almost 100% harmfully oxidized in the container already. You might by it in a dark cold bottle but what did it go through to get processed and on the shelf? Worse than none then. I don’t do that anymore.
Seed oils have no omega-6, sorry.
You are doing great work! Thank you!
On fructose - it's metabolised in the liver using similar pathways to metabolising alcohol. This is why the term NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease was coined as people were upset being told they had cirrhosis. It is one of the most common modern diseases.
Fructose is not the disaster the sugar haters say it is though, is it. Outside the SAD diet it is frankly necessary for health.
I wish everyone a Great Day, whatever they believe.
In an odd way this relates to my thinking about this extensive article. As with most things, I know little about nutrition.
Blessed with a wonderful digestive system, my core philosophy reduces to: ALL THINGS IN MODERATION. That doesn't sound very deep, even to myself?
But, it works for me. Binging or over eating occasionally probably doesn't do a lot of harm, but it doesn't feel good afterwards. Going without or with too little food, is a more obvious pain but also probably not harmful 'occasionally'.
This article's emphasis ob "Quality" is probably the most important factor. If our senses can be tricked into believing a substance is "Food", then our million year old metabolisms will try to process it as "Food"......That can't end well.
Maybe treating others who share your views as competitors is cattywampus. Perhaps some considerations concerning the profit motive and the race to the top. Our mutual welfare should never be placed in the realm of exploitation. Cooperation not competition.
The understanding of food nature by our doctors in the West, even the good ones, is very poor.
Because they see everything in a very materialistic way.
Living beings are made by substances... but by energies too. This is well understood in Asia.
To give you an example, almonds are not good for liver if you are a Bile constitution guy, or if you have liver issues. This happens because the nature of almonds is hot. And so on.
World is not only substances. It's much more than that!