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Skriven 2012-10-09 18:56:34 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
   Kommentar till text 4339 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: And the article, that had too much of personal bias
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Hello Björn,

An interesting topic, and can be discussed from many different
angles.  Could it be a conspiracy to do away with certain groups
of people?  Could it be megacorporations creating a worldwide
monopoly on food production?  Could it be politicians, doctors
and Big Pharma conspiring to make people dependent on certain
drugs (such as statins)?

 BF>                What are you designed to eat?
 BF>                By Björn Felten

 BF> Humans evolved over millions of years as hunter-gatherers, without
 BF> eating large amounts of carbohydrates. We ate the food available to us
 BF> in nature by hunting, fishing and gathering all the edible foods we
 BF> could find.

Please, please.  Only children believe such fairy tales.  Humans
are not trolls, and have a much different diet.  Remember, trolls
are animals, predators.  They eat, shit and mate.  Eat anything
they can.  Humans are far more picky.

 BF> These foods did not include pure starch in the form of bread, pasta, rice
or
 BF> potatoes.

Sicilians have eaten bread and pasta since the beginning of time.
Cajuns (and Asians) have eaten rice since the beginning of time.
Germans (and Irish) have eaten potatoes since the beginning of time.

"Man cannot live by bread alone" has been attributed to Jesus, but
had he been Asian the comment would most likely have been "Man cannot
live by rice alone."  Different peoples around the world have certain
staples that have been consumed for generations on end.  In fact, we
identify certain peoples by the very foods they eat, finding it
difficult to imagine them eating anything different.

How we prepare those foods has changed, especially recently in the
past few decades.  And that is what has caused today's health problems
in regards to diet.  Not so much the foods we eat, but rather the way
those foods are prepared.

 BF> We have only eaten these starchy foods for 5-10 000 years, since the
 BF> development of agriculture.

And when was that?  When exactly did man learn how to start a fire?
Or build a campfire?  Even in the stone age when man lived in caves
he knew how to start a fire and cook a meal.

I seriously doubt that man can live/survive on solely a raw food diet.
For a short time, yes.  But not on a long-term basis.  Our bodies have
been adapted over the centuries and millennia to the point where man
must have cooked foods (including meats).

 BF> Just a limited adaptation of our genes takes place in such a relatively
 BF> short time.

Normally, such modification takes centuries, if not millennia.
However, adaptation can occur at a much more rapid rate, given
mankind's capacity to screw things up (sometimes by accident,
sometimes by design).

How do you think genetically-modified foods (such as corn
and eggs) are affecting man today?  What about milk (cattle eat
the genetically-modified corn - which is a filler not a real food)?
What about water, which is laden with high estrogen levels and
chemicals?  We have all been changed by the foods we eat, by the
water we drink, and by the very air we breathe (due to all sorts
of pollution, including radiation from above ground nuclear testing,
along with nuclear power accidents).

 BF> With the Industrial Revolution, 100-200 years ago, we got factories
 BF> that could manufacture large amounts of pure sugar and white flour.
 BF> Rapidly digested pure carbohydrates. We've hardly had time to
 BF> genetically adapt to these processed foods.

Even the Romans left a carbon imprint on the environment.  Not
as large an imprint as today, but still an imprint nonetheless.
The sailors on Columbus' ships ate sugar on their voyage.  Aside
from gold (the metal), what was it that explorers were most in
search of?  Spices.  And herbs.  Mostly spices.  But lets not
forget about the tomato.  Yes, the mighty tomato.  And eggplant.
Sicilians love eggplant.  Makes the very best wine...

 BF> In the 80s, the fear of fat gripped the western world. Low-fat
 BF> products popped up everywhere. But if you eat less fat you need to eat
 BF> more carbohydrates to feel satiated. And it's at this time in history
 BF> that our disastrous epidemics of obesity and diabetes started. The
 BF> most fat-phobic country in the world, the USA, was hit the hardest and
 BF> is now the world's most obese country.

If that were true, Americans would dethrone Japanese sumo wrestlers
as being the real heavies...

 BF> Today, it's clear that the fear of real food with natural fat contents
 BF> has been a big mistake.

The Atkins Diet (and other similar diets) has been proven to be
a very dangerous diet, and is not recommended by any dietician worth
his/her salt.  Why?  Because by restricting carbohydrates the body
goes into a different metabolic state called ketosis.  When that
happens, the body burns its own fat for fuel, thus depriving the
brain, heart, and other organs of the fuel needed for survival.

 BF> Read more about this in the below languages here:

 BF> http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf

The site fails to mention the dangers of going on such a diet.
Among those dangers are kidney failure, high cholesterol, osteoporosis,
kidney stones, cancer, and ketosis (unhealthy metabolic state).
What groups say these dangers exist?  The American Heart Association
comes to mind...

--Lee

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