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If you want to change the direction of your health, and want to want to, I would read just two books: "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Dr. Esselstyn, and The China Study
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well...remember them, for the day you start having angina or after your first heart attach or the day you get diagnosed with diabetes ;P
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animal protein, any amount of dietary cholesterol intake, and saturated fats
thats really THE problem
its amazing when you read about the scientific studies that have been done
animal protein, but not plant protein, is literally like a western-disease switch
take 16-20% of animal protein in your diet, and western disease is turned on (most studies like that have been done on cancers...and cancer LITERALLY start growing when a high animal protein diet is started, and slows to a near stop when animal protein is reduced to 5% or less, and never even progresses in the first place on a whole plant foods, low oil diet)
They do not yet know specifically what is different about animal protein that makes it do that, or why plant protein does not.
The only solidly correlated factors are the percentage of animal protein taken in, combined with any amount of dietary cholesterol, and anything more than minimal saturated fat intake, are strong factors for the progression of western disease.
I am still kind of having a hard time giving up nuts and avocado, but reading Dr. Esselstyn's book, the amount of saturated fat in them is not good either...they can be eaten in considerable moderation, but not as a normal dietary staple.
its like food for artery blockage and cancer and whatever makes autoimmune disorders be disorders
they don't know the specific chemical processes of why yet, there are just really strong correlations between meat in the diet and the progression (quite frequently the silent, unknown progression in outwardly superbly healthy people) of western disease (the kinds of disease people in america, much of europe, and the more "westernized" parts of china/japan encounter...heart disease, diabetes, obesity, autism, alzheimers, auto-immune disorders, etc.)
The china study originally started to demonstrate that more meat in the diets of poorer, third-world populations who normally ate a primarily plant-based diet would benefit and become healthier.
The result of that study was exactly the opposite. Third-world poor populations don't die from the same diseases we do, they die from malnutrition due to too little food in general, which leads to parasitic infestations and dangerous infections.
Oh, yeah, I know. The China Study is very scientific, and he makes it very clear that they are talking about correlation and association, not causation.
However, strong correlations are a significant positive factor in any scientific study.
And I would be right there with you, if it were not for the fact that the China Study alone has been ongoing and still going for over 30 years...its not some new study, they have been gathering and correlating data from tens of thousands (possibly more) people over decades.
In addition, they have done dozens of lab studies to either strengthen or falsify their hypotheses, and they keep getting positively correlated results.
thats pretty much the scientific method as I know it
hypothesize, test, observe, analyze, and rehypothesize
just because you start out with one hypothesis doesn't mean its correct, and in light of counter evidence to your hypothesis, it is only responsible to reevaluate and rehypothesise base on the outcome of prior test data
thats effectively what the china study did
the china study eventually intersected with other studies, one being done by Caldwell B. Esselstyne
another by Dr. Dean Ornish
same basic subject...curing heart disease via diet
a vegetarian diet
over the last decade, the study has factored in results from numerous other scientific studies done in our own country by other doctors for things like cancer, obesity, etc., as well as studies done in other countries
there is also an extremely high positive correlation between the consumption of a whole-foods plant based diet and the reduction and eventual total remission of present western disease in patients, as well as the prevention of western diseases from ever becoming present in patients who already are healthy
the studies are extensive, and they cover partial dietary changes...people who chose to keep eating meat but also eat more plant foods. There are actual scientific studies with control groups, comparing those who keep eating a western diet, those who partially eat a plant foods diet, and those who completely move to a plant foods diet
let me quote esselstynes diet that HAS, in reality, CURED heart disease in dozens of highly progressed patients who were literally "the walking dead", as he puts it in his book:
and I quote:"
* You may not eat anything with a mother or a face (no meat, poultry, or fish.)
* You cannot eat dairy products.
* You must not consume oil of any kind - not a drop. (Yes, you devotees of the Mediterranian Diet, that includes olive oil, as I'll explain in Chapter 10.)
Thats his heart disease curing (and as they now know, cancer, diabetes, and most western disease curing) diet that has literally cured people of their debilitating, and nearly life-ending heart problems.
yeah...well, most people seem to be skeptics...and most people seem to love their comfort zones ;)
By the dictionary fish is meat, but biologically? I wonder how similar/different it is from mammals. For one thing, the type of oil and fat in fish is very different.
most people criticize what they don't know and don't understand, or what infringes on their <ego|reputation|cash cow|grounds for grant money|insert personal factor here>
@Sean Well, meat is the primary source of intake for cholesterol and saturated fats, as well as a variety of enzymes, hormones, etc that only exist in animals.
The "complex" of meat...the protein, cholesterols, fats, and the enzymes and hormones, are the problem.
Science likes to break things down to single vectors and figure out if that particular single vector is the problem.
I guess the difference with the china study is its not a vector study, its a complex study.
It was a study that approached the problem holistically.
LDL and HDL
LDL is pretty bad
HDL is good, in small amounts
but there are more complex factors to cholesterols than that
I don't fully understand them all, so I won't get into that
And again, with the article linked by rfusca, it appears the woman is breaking down the study into single vectors, and looking at the correlations of those single vectors.
Not that that is an invalid approach, but its the approach of analyzing the whole complex at once that is intriguing about the china study.
And there are real-world results that speak for themselves...its not just about a bunch of numbers, data points, and charts.
Thats why I like Dr. Ornish and Dr. Esselstyns studies. They CURED patients...cured them.
people who would have been dead a decade ago, who had already had heart attacks, who were already told they were dead, as there was nothing more that could be done
they dropped meat in their diet, switched to a plant foods diet, and within 2 years showed remission
It seems like (and I only have what little you have written about it to go on here, so...) but it seems like the China study is more focused on finding a solution to the meat/health problem than pinning down an exact cause. Not a bad thing, and I tend to agree with the results, but my inner skeptic/scientist wants to know the cause.
@jrista well I understand what you say but taken too literally sayint that there's no proof in science is a bit extreme ;-) I for one see some difference between the scientific method and some other approaches...
If you choose to keep eating meat, thats your choice. It seems evident if you DO want to keep eating meat, 5% or less of your diet is still 90% healthy.
@Francesco Well, aside from Newtons laws of physics, I don't know of anything in science that is literally undeniable and irrefutable. ;)
@jrista which ones? that's not what I know. Rather it seems to me that it's the only among the competing theories (like loop quantum gravity or some versions of string) which has got some experimental proofs
@jrista And at the risk of belaboring my point to death and then beating the dead horse meat, I still would want to see more on how different meat sources differ in their negative effects, rather than lump all meat together.
I don't know this books that you are talking about, but I have tried to exclude meat from my diet. At first I was rather happy because it seemed to work properly and I had greatly reduced headaches. Furthermore when, in the first few days, I relapsed and ate a bit of meat, I immediately had a
but then after some three months I was rather more weak and white :-). I have since took again to eat meat, only in smaller amounts. I feel much better now than previously.
I apparently am not good at explaining things, so you'll just have to read. The authors are extremely well versed in plasma dynamics, and really know their shit.
Does anyone know what happened to ShutterStock.com website? I was just on the site this weekend, but every day this week it has been down. Does anyone know why their website is not working anymore? I thought I had the incorrect URL, but I guess not.
