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I believe there is not one healthy diet solution for everyone.
Medical conditions, like diabetes, etc., prescriptions, like prednisone, and genetics can wreak havok with our body. Yes, I agree a proper diet and exercise is important ... but some things unfortunately we cannot control. Great topic by the way. |
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How many here, arguing against me, have read a book on veganism and actually tried it? How many have taken the time to read information that goes against high protein diets? |
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When I talk about a healthy diet, it's not intended to suit everyone, especially the many special needs people who are already suffering from some disease. If it is intended for a special needs person, I will say so. But your statement above leaves it all up to the imagination. What do you mean when you say, "Our bodies are all very different.? Different in what way? Give an example. Give me an example of "foods [that] make you feel energetic, healthy and happy." |
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Well here is an answer. Over time, you have had a frequent poster on your frequent threads who is a microbiologist, one that is a pediatrician, one that is currently working for the federal government as an MD, seven R.N.s two chemistry teachers, one home economics teacher and one biology teacher, all retired. Not to mention the very well read people who are economists, lawyers, and those who have had stellar military careers and other successful people who are very well read.. We who live here come with varied backgrounds and that is why you get so much argument. You are reading not entirely current books from the library, while other sources give us information that is cutting edge and very up to date. (Such as valid scientific television shows.)Anyone can write a book on nutrition, in fact on anything. Aside from that. I think most of us are not evangelistic about our diets. I think that if you are right about all you say, you will be here. all alone, outliving all of us. I know you will attack that last sentence... being I meant that part in jest. It seems to be your mission to debate miniscule remarks about this subject. I think it is akin to over selling. If it works, people will see you glowing with health, out on a dragon boat or running the multimedia paths or dancing at the squares and ask you...WHAT IS YOUR SECRET???? P.S. I have read The China Study. |
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First, I'd like to say I am not a medical person. I just read a lot. I have read books from The Paleo Diet to Mayim's Vegan Table. I don't have an agenda. I am just really interested in getting to the bottom of what's healthy for us to eat. I have read studies of healthy, long-living populations. Here's the conclusion I have come to: the healthiest groups of people eat mostly fresh, unprocessed food. Whether they eat meat or not, they eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Sugar and other simple carbs, like white flour, are a small part of the diet. To me, this means that The Cinnabon Diet is not a good idea, much as I would like it to be. How I apply this to my own life is to go to the Farmers' Markets in the Squares and spend with abandon. And I try not to beat myself up when I have a piece of apple pie.
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There have been many large controlled scientific studies but it's not easy to discuss them all here, especially due to the fact that no one seems interested enough to actually read them. If people would read them, then they could be discussed. The China Study, The Okinawa Program, The Seventh Day Adventist study, The Mediterranean Diet study, The ongoing AARP Health Study and The Nurses Health Study. |
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And as far as all the Bull about all the professionals you mentioned above, I say bring them on!!!! It would be a welcome relief! |
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Polar Bear looks nothing like his avatar and does not drink a lot of beer. When we dined with the Bears, he took one glass of wine. Neither Mr. OR Mrs. Bear is overweight. In fact, Polar Bear is very tall and slender and could have been the center for the Celtics. Be nice! |
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Note: I have some information that says a high protein diet is not even good for short term weight loss. |
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At the same time, other families living on the same diet had clearcut tendencies of earlier death due to heart disease and cancers. Genetics cannot be ignored. One thing I notice in the other families in my hometown is that many married people from the same nation/provincial areas they or their parents came from, maybe concentrating the recessive genes. My grandparents and great grandparents married immigrants from different nations (Germany, Scandinavia, Great Britain, etc.) and maybe the gene mixture helped. |
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