Low Carb and Lowfat Diets...A Scam?!
If anyone knows anything about fitness, it's that a low fat diet is the healthiest way to avoid serious diseases, right?
Maybe wrong.
In many instances quality research has shown just the opposite?that a low fat diet, sometimes even a vegetarian diet, can be harmful to your health.
Although vegetarian and low-fat diets have been proven to reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels, they have not demonstrated significant reductions in deaths from any disease.
The Low-Fat ApproachPopular diets of today encouraging low-fat approaches, such as the diets of Dr. Pritkin, Dr.
Ornish, Macrobiotics, and Weight Watchers, are generally effective with weight-loss and reduction in blood fats.
The low-fat approach has even been proven to overcome serious illness successfully.
But the majority of dieters find these plans
difficult to stick with.
And most research trials have not shown these diets effective in decreasing death rates from diseases in general, long-term.
Fats in a meal make you feel more ?full'.
They slow the time it takes for your stomach to empty, thus ensuring you will not feel hungry too soon.
Generally, high-carb, low-fat meals have the opposite effect.
The stomach empties quicker
and insulin levels increase following the meal.
This means you may be hungry sooner than you'd like.
Research shows the higher insulin levels of a low-fat, high-carb diet may predispose you to adult onset diabetes, hypoglycemia, and even heart disease.The Low-Carb ApproachThese diets claim that limiting carbs, like sugars, grains, fruits, and some vegetables, is the solution.
The Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, and even the Zone Diet all suggest if you cut out the carbs or have a balance of fat/carbs/protein in every meal, you will experience weight loss and better health.
Many dedicated dieters find this to be true. Although a low-carb diet can cause weight loss, the goal of any program should be life long radiant health.
It is still up for debate if this approach leads to any significant health advantages.
It is possible to hasten heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and aging with a diet too high in the wrong fats and too low in essential nutrients from various fruits and veggies.Many health care professionals find it difficult to prescribe to either of the above theories.
If there is no definitive answer in either direction that is indisputable, then there must be a middle ground.
A Healthy Solution for EveryoneIt is difficult to imagine that reducing intake of the wonderful fruits and vegetables that keep people
well is the way to a healthy future.
Research will back this up. The average American already ingests too little fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other factors present in whole, unprocessed fruits and vegetables.In much of our history, it was rare to have many of the diseases we live with today.
Most people in native cultures eating diets dictated by availability experienced vibrant health.
Their death was caused by accidents, bacterial or viral diseases, or by old age.
Very few died of our number one killers:
cardiovascular disease and cancer.People did not begin to experience heart disease and cancer in such great numbers until the advent of our more modern diet and lifestyle customs.
These "advances" included:
- growing and eating more grains
- discovering how to ?refine' and ?preserve'
foods to extend shelf-life - consuming sugar and ?simple? carbohydrates
- pasteurizing and homogenizing dairy
products
Almost exclusively we now eat, even in so called ?healthy? or ?organic? foods, the following:
refined products, products with added sugar, preservatives, additives, petroleum products, animal products laden with antibiotics and hormones, and animals that are fed diets that they would never eat in the wild (wild cattle do not eat other cattle, poultry by-products, or even grains; cattle eat grass).Native cultures worldwide, before being indoctrinated with more westernized food choices, eat remarkably similar diets.Since many food products spoil without refrigeration or freezing, most people fermented their foods.
This supplies necessary probiotic bacteria, which many people supplement with today since we eat natural fermented foods so infrequently.
Whether or not they inhabited the same regions, most people ate a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and animal products in season.
Very few societies tip the scales by eating mostly animal products (Inuit cultures) or mostly vegetarian (a few tribes in Africa and South America). The similarities that bind the historical human diet together are:
- A diet based on fresh or fermented whole, unrefined foods
- A diet high in essential fatty acids with an omega 6 to omega 3 ratio of 4:1 (current US diets have a ratio of 16:1)
- A diet where spirituality around food is more meaningful than the material
- A diet with 10 times the level of fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K)
- A diet lower in total calories overall
In almost all cultures this means a diet, as available, of fresh or dried wild meats and fish, fermented cheeses, fresh whole or fermented milk, butter, eggs, fresh, dried, or
fermented fruits, fresh or fermented vegetables, whole grains (these were fermented normally, even if dried), some beans, and water or fermented beverages to drink.It is interesting to note that instead of eating fresh foods or those naturally fermented, we chose to cook or destroy what could spoil in our foods then add
additives and preservatives.
Are these ?foods' as digestible?
Do they supply the same nutrients?
Does the magic number of carbohydrates versus fats or proteins really matter?
What if the answer lies in ancient wisdom and thousands of years of knowledge?
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