Ending the What to Eat Confusion!

Delivering Americans from online "experts", fad eating,
misleading advice and confusion about what to eat.
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Americans are confused about food.
Americans were in denial about what to eat since I was young in the 1950's and still are now, more than ever just plain confused!

Having followed every government recommendations since the early 1900's Americans have been duped by the FDA, food lobby's and bad science. They have undertaken every crazy magic diet plan, pills or injections, adopted the most absurd and dogmatic ways of eating according to some philosophy about saving the planet, anti aging magic weight loss, cancer cures, etc.

My own research lab, my treatment room!
Within my practice I have encountered many individuals following any variety of so called experts or points of view about food to their own harm.

Here are some examples:

• Top of the list! A 50-year-old female on a keto diet to "heal her brain fog". She experienced an extreme version of "keto flu" and followed the advice of an Internet expert to drink more water. After a week she went into hypovolemic shock in my treatment room, and later died of a heart attack! Electrolyte levels of 3.5 Eq/L are dangerous...her level was below 2. Eq/L! Two days previous she had fainted. EMTs were called, the possibility that her electrolytes were low was overlooked! The cause of her death fad dieting!!!

 

• A 65 year-old female, a vegan her entire adult life was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. On further investigation, her doctor discovered that she did not have classic Alzheimer's, but instead was suffering from a brain that had shrunk from lack of long chain fatty acids. This condition was moderately reversible, but at her age full recover did not happen.

 

• An avowed strict carnivore required open-heart surgery due to repeated embolisms in his lungs. The surgeon upon reporting back to the family declared that he had never seen so much fat around a heart as he did with this gentleman. He was not surprised upon learning about this patient's carnivore dedication. He had other carnivore patients with a similar condition. The truth is seen by those who care for fad eaters!

 

• Chronic IBS client discovered he had cancer. Attempting to follow a liver detox, drank large volumes of celery juice! He reporting to me that he was so cold after drinking the juice he would shiver for hours. Celery juice is very yin, energetically cold and the opposite of what he needed. Rather he needed nourishing warming foods would boost his weight and support immunity. Out of fear and desperation he was following "an expert " to his own harm!

Give up eating dogmatically
A word about fads, dogmatic eating and extreme diets.
Don’t shoot the messenger but, these eating notions are not helping folks live longer and healthier lives. Highly restrictive eating of any kind is not healthy and is unsustainable.

Leaving off any food group because someone told you it will harm you is absurd and even foolish! For example...the “NO CARB’ craze. Yes, white bread and processed carbs are not even food! But, grains rich in zinc are essential to immunity and a well functioning gut and microbiome. They enhance neurotransmitter production and make us poop fabulously!
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Here are a few of the most popular eating fads

• Keto, Atkins, Paleo followers are all running into long term problems for those ardent enough to stay on these diets that have nothing to do with what successful ancestral populations actually ate! Learn more with Sally Fallon's book Nourishing Diets, all about what our Paleo ancestors actually ate!

• Vegans at other end of this spectrum. This cult like group are showing consistently have higher rates of thyroid problems, depression, anxiety, body pain and low blood sugar. The lack of animal fats and even eliminating the relatively no harm fats such as cream, butter and ghee are absent from this way of eating. Veganism can lead to malnutrition, brain shrinkage over long term adherence and sugar cravings as the body looks for ways to boost energy.

• Raw food, don’t get me started. So many raw foods contain indigestible nutrient blockers that only a ruminant animals, like a cows with three stomachs to break these food sources. Humans have survived an evolve in part due to our ability to cook foods that would be otherwise difficult to digest. In moderation raw is good. But, as a sole source of foods, not so much. 

Here are some examples of eating gurus:

• Dr. Steven Gundry promotes the controversial and pseudoscientific lectin-free diet. Gundry has made erroneous claims that lectins, a type of plant protein found in numerous foods, cause inflammation resulting in many modern diseases.

 

• Cardiologist Robert Atkins, M.D., published "The Atkins Diet", in 1972, presenting a low-carb diet as ideal for weight loss and heart health. Dr. Atkins died of a heart attack! The low-carb mythology is debunked by nutritional research indicating humans are healthiest when consuming a range of 5 grams of carbs per lb. of body weight for the average active person, 8 to 12 grams per lb. for those in athletic training of more than four to five hours a day. That’s a minimum of 204 grams of carbs for a 150-pound person, twice as much as the Atkins plan advises! 

 

• Viktor Kulvinskas, radical food guru, author and raw food veganism represents a pseudo spiritual approach to eating that has paved the way for many anorexics to become very successful at nearly dying from malnutrition! What is lacking in this diet explains why this man is so gaunt and malnourished!

Don't get me wrong
There's a place for eating lighter, eating vegan for a spell, or focusing on more raw foods. Regular fasting, doing a juice fast or eating a mono diet for a week, 10 days maybe even a month is a good practice, not a lifestyle! There may be times of the year, we may feel like we want to eat more meat or grains. 

Cult like diet gurus create a staunch notion, "this is the only way to eat". That's just ridiculous! It's not normal for any being human or animal to eat according to some mental notion. The fact that most people fail in their following of these eating plans is an indication of the truth, your body will resist your effort to cause it to be malnourished. The truth is most of the folks are making BANK selling their plans, supplements, retreats and seminars. Cashing in on desperate people looking for answers...shameful!

Let me repeat that!! Stop eating according to some mental notion.
I have news for you...your body doesn’t give "a you know what" about your dogma and it will resist efforts to highly restrict your food. When you do this, you have eliminated the most important input you need in order to eat what is healthy for you. That is feedback from your body, it knows what you need to eat and when you need to eat it!

Best source of knowledge about what you should eat is your own body.
The human body has innate intelligence. You see this intelligent at work when you cut a finger and maybe you put a Band-Aid on it, but it basically heals on its own. We also see this intelligence at work in a baby who refuses to eat a certain food. This child has no particular prejudices. It simply knows it does not want to eat that food. The baby feels this way because of biological signals from the body that tell it I don't like this is not the right thing for me.

When we get sick with a cold or the flu we don't feel like eating! Fasting the body's natural way of healing at work. Every normal person will go through phases where they're going to eat more or less of something because it just feels right for them. During the spring and summer months people just generally tend to eat lighter! More salads and vegetables, more fruits, which are abundantly in season over the summer. This is the way human beings are!

When people are not hung up about their food dogma or not addicted to the standard American diet they're able to make healthy choices based on what they feel like they need. What a revolutionary concept!

In order to In order to discern what your body truly needs, you have to be able to pay attention to it. You can reset your natural instinct for what you should be eating by fasting! Allowing yourself to become truly hungry will help you to sort out what is best for you to eat as you will naturally be attracted to what will best serve your body's needs in that moment

We lose our instincts from years of eating junk and non foods, or an overly rich diet. Most of our eating is driven by either our sense of social accomplishment, "Look at me, I'm so rich I can have whatever I want!". Or, we're eating emotionally, turning to sweets in order to soothe our emotions and ease stress with a dopamine hit. Craving alcohol, carbs or cheese because indicates a candida yeast overgrowth is driving what you think you want to eat! 

The body is smarter than the brain
With awareness and a willingness to let go of your acquired notions about food your can tap into your body's intelligence and trust it's guidance. Modeling what you eat based on ancestral diets of populations who enjoyed long and healthy lives, is the best plan. Those healthy foods are outlined below.

General Dietary Recommendation is to eat whole foods.
Whole foods are those which are not highly processed.Observe the 80/20 rule with this. The occasional processed food is not going to kill you! If 80% of what you eat is healthy and whole food you’re doing fine! Many “natural” foods store offer a huge selection of highly processed food...not much better than what you find in a traditional grocery store.

Ideal ratios of protein, whole source carbohydrates and fats are:
10% protein, 60% fats, 30% healthy carbohydrates from whole food sources…grains, tubers, starchy vegetables, legumes and beans.

Fats are crucial to brain and nerve health. Animal fats are the highest sources of the fat soluble vitamins A. D. & K. Our best source of these nutrients come from animal fats.

Ruminate animals…cows, sheep, goats, bison, elk and deer eat grasses high in chlorophyll and other nutrients. Their three stomachs break down and ferment the grasses and other plants into high nutritional content which is stored in their flesh, fat cells and milk. This process benefits humans, who have an evolutionary relationship with animals and are, the ultimate omnivores.

When we eat animal fats (the only sources of long chain fatty acids crucial to our health) our cells thrive. They are buoyant and protected from external toxins, viruses, bacteria and fungi. Saturated fats are stable remaining solid in all temperatures. They do not go rancid and can be used with high heat without breaking down because of their strong chemical bonds.

Coconut, Palm and Olive oil along with sesame and flax oil (used in small amounts) are high in medium chain fatty acids also crucial to good health. These fats are semi solid at warmer room temperatures and solidify when colder. Coconut, palm and olive oils are saturated fats with a percentage of monounsaturated fat. They also do not become rancid…or gummy.

Processed seed oils such as canola, corn oil, safflower, rapeseed, sunflower, walnut, almond and avocado oils are monounsaturated fats. They are unstable on the shelf, prone to becoming rancid and do not hold up well to heat and become toxic ingested regularly. Avocado is okay but not the most ideal source of fat. Better to just eat avocados!

Hydrogenated oils are the worst. They are unsaturated fats stabilized by chemical processing for longer shelf life. Trans fats are are essentially non-foods and are responsible for the cascade of congestive heart failure, clogged arteries and diabetes.

The body absorbs these fats which create a clogging effect leading to anaerobic tissues and high rates of cancer in the US population. Americans consume more of these fats that any other country in the world…something to think about!

It is my hope to relieve you from the confusion about what to eat.

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