A WORD ABOUT FAD DIETS & THE BENEFITS OF EATING RIGHT
Fad diets come and go, but they are here to stay, since there are enormous amounts of money to be made peddling them. Some contain tidbits of correct nutritional information. Most are very poor at that level. Others, downright disastrous.
The current winner in the fad diet class is "The Atkins Diet".
The "Atkins Diet" offers you total non-sense dieting based on a complete miscomprehension of nutrition, why the body needs it, and how it works. It's not that the "Atkins Diet" doesn't work if you want to lose weight. If you follow it religiously, it does work!
At what costs it achieves temporary weightloss, that's another issue, as it is one of the few "diets" that has the potential to kill people. Which it regularly does.
But of course "dieting" is not a recognized cause of death, so officially it will be "cardiac arrest", "liver poisoning", or just "natural causes". That one ending being a perfectly correct diagnosis, since indeed, it is perfectly natural to die if you eat that way.
The Atkins Diet is so unbalanced that most people eat it "plus some carbs", as common sense sometimes prevails. Of course, "plus some carbs", it does not work to lose weight anymore...
The current winner in the fad diet class is "The Atkins Diet".
The "Atkins Diet" offers you total non-sense dieting based on a complete miscomprehension of nutrition, why the body needs it, and how it works. It's not that the "Atkins Diet" doesn't work if you want to lose weight. If you follow it religiously, it does work!
At what costs it achieves temporary weightloss, that's another issue, as it is one of the few "diets" that has the potential to kill people. Which it regularly does.
But of course "dieting" is not a recognized cause of death, so officially it will be "cardiac arrest", "liver poisoning", or just "natural causes". That one ending being a perfectly correct diagnosis, since indeed, it is perfectly natural to die if you eat that way.
The Atkins Diet is so unbalanced that most people eat it "plus some carbs", as common sense sometimes prevails. Of course, "plus some carbs", it does not work to lose weight anymore...
More, as Dr T. Colin Campbell put it in "The China Study", "if you have the Atkins Diet plus some "carbs", how different is this diet from the Standard American Diet -- the toxic diet that has been shown to make us fat, give us heart disease, destroy our kidneys, make us blind and lead us to Altzheimer's, cancer, and a host of other medical problems?"
He finishes that same chapter telling us: "At the beginning of this book, I said my goal was to redefine how we think of nutrition information -- eliminate confusion, make health simple and base my claims on the evidence generated by peer-reviewed nutrition research published in peer-reviewed, professional publications. So far you have seen a broad sample - and it is only a sample - of that evidence. You have seen that there is overwhelming scientific support for one, simple optimal diet -- a whole foods, plant-based diet.
Basically, Dr Campbell's book is the most eloquent advocation of why we should all create and maintain our own gardens, although it is definitely anot a book about gardening.
His next chapter starts this way:
"THE BENEFITS OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ARE ENORMOUS. I want you to know that you can:
- Live longer.
- Look and feel younger.
- Have more energy.
- Lose weight.
- Lower your blood cholesterol.
- Prevent and reverse heart disease.
- Lower your risk of breast, prostate and other cancers.
- Preserve your eyesight in your later years.
- Prevent and treat diabetes.
- Avoid surgery in many instances.
- Vastly decrease the need for pharmaceutical drugs.
- Keep your bones strong.
- Avoid impotence [and frigidity].
- Avoid strokes.
- Prevent kidney stones.
- Keep your baby from getting Type 1 diabetes.
- Alleviate constipation.
- Lower your blood pressure.
- Avoid Altzheimer's."
And this is just a sample list...
Sure, eating right does not absolutely compel you to maintain your own Organic and Sustainable Garden. Doing so just makes it 10 times easier and lest expensive, that's all.
He finishes that same chapter telling us: "At the beginning of this book, I said my goal was to redefine how we think of nutrition information -- eliminate confusion, make health simple and base my claims on the evidence generated by peer-reviewed nutrition research published in peer-reviewed, professional publications. So far you have seen a broad sample - and it is only a sample - of that evidence. You have seen that there is overwhelming scientific support for one, simple optimal diet -- a whole foods, plant-based diet.
Basically, Dr Campbell's book is the most eloquent advocation of why we should all create and maintain our own gardens, although it is definitely anot a book about gardening.
His next chapter starts this way:
"THE BENEFITS OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ARE ENORMOUS. I want you to know that you can:
- Live longer.
- Look and feel younger.
- Have more energy.
- Lose weight.
- Lower your blood cholesterol.
- Prevent and reverse heart disease.
- Lower your risk of breast, prostate and other cancers.
- Preserve your eyesight in your later years.
- Prevent and treat diabetes.
- Avoid surgery in many instances.
- Vastly decrease the need for pharmaceutical drugs.
- Keep your bones strong.
- Avoid impotence [and frigidity].
- Avoid strokes.
- Prevent kidney stones.
- Keep your baby from getting Type 1 diabetes.
- Alleviate constipation.
- Lower your blood pressure.
- Avoid Altzheimer's."
And this is just a sample list...
Sure, eating right does not absolutely compel you to maintain your own Organic and Sustainable Garden. Doing so just makes it 10 times easier and lest expensive, that's all.
Perhaps it's time YOU thought about it!
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