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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
My point exactly. We can never all agree on what is a healthy diet. Fruit raises you blood sugar level very rapidly causing your triglyceride levels to rise turning your blood into sludge. Also sugar is inflammatory as is gluten.
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Is there any credible doctor saying that a high protein diet is not acidic and not potentially inflammatory? What doctors go back and forth on this?
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We can go back and forth on this forever as the doctors do. You feel that you have the answer and that's good for you. There a many experts in the field that feel very strongly that they have the answer and many of them disagree.
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Then, essentially, do you feel that the field of nutrition should be shut down? Should universities be offering degrees in nutrition if there's too much disagreement? I say there's plenty of agreement on the basics.
There's no harm done in going back and forth because it may be a learning experience. The problem is when some people shut out opposing views altogether by only reading the books that agree with the foods they like.
If you read the Glucose Revolution or any book similar to it, you will find that you can eat some fruit without raising your blood sugar too much. Of course some people may be sensitive to the sugar in fruit if they already have diabetes, especially type 1. But when we talk on this board about a good diet we are not talking about a diet that will suit every person who may already have one disease or another, that would be impossible.
Certainly the Okinawan elders have a reputation for being among the healthiest, longest lived people in the world, and they eat very little fruit. But they compensate by eating lots of vegetables, whole grains and very little animal protein.
Show me a study of a large population of people anywhere in the world that eats a diet high in animal protein and animal fat that enjoys excellent health and longevity. (Not a small group or tribe.) To my knowledge there's no such population of people.
You can't go back and forth if there's no "forth".
Anyway, I thought this board was for discussion. If not, why was this thread started?