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Type 2 Diabetes Rate Doubles

October 30, 2008 2 Comments

Reader Bud sends along this link. Some highlights:

The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first state-by-state review of new diagnoses. […]

About 90 percent of the cases are Type 2 diabetes, the form linked to obesity. The findings echo geographic trends seen with obesity and physical inactivity, which are also tied to heart disease. Southern states rank worst in those measures, too. […]

More than 23 million Americans have diabetes. The number is growing quickly. About 1.6 million new cases were diagnosed in people 20 or older last year, according to the CDC. […]

The annual rate of new diabetes cases rose from about 5 per 1,000 in the mid-1990s to 9 per 1,000 in the mid-2000s […]

Now stop and think about this. What has been the single most common diet drone over the last 10-20 years? Low fat, low fat, and more low fat. Low fat products line the shelves, the fat calories replaced with high fructose corn syrup and other carbohydrate, and as you look around you it's becoming just ridiculous how many grossly obese people there are…many thinking they're still eating too much fat.

And not to get too political, especially now (can we please get this election over with?), but some of you want universal health care? You want to pay for this? Are you insane? Can't you see where this is headed?

And how unnecessary. Everything anyone needs to cure and eliminate their Type 2 diabetes is right here on this blog, and other blogs. Plenty of them. It can be done in a matter of weeks, even if you want to eat only plants.

And yet, "the authorities" wax on about what a mystery this all is. Guess they'll just need to pick your pockets for more millions, for more useless studies in the forever vain attempt to confirm the fantastical falsehood that this has anything to do with saturated fat. It doesn't, and anyone who's taken a hard, honest look at it ought to know good and damn well it doesn't.

Carbohydrate drives insulin drives fat storage (Taubes). Eventually your insulin receptors get tired from overuse, you get resistant, it takes more and more to shunt toxic glucose (carbs) away from your muscle tissues by storing it in fat cells, and voila, you're a Type 2 diabetic. How do you reverse it? You knock out the grains, sugar, and all the derivative junk products that bulk out the center isles of the supermarket. You eat meat of any kind in any amount, its fat in any amount, vegetables smothered in butter, fruit bathed in heavy cream, and some nuts if you like. Within a few months you'll have lost tons of weight if you were fat, and as those fat stores diminish you'll gradually notice a profound change in your appetite and eating habits. You quit thinking about food all the time, and you're almost never very hungry, and even if you are, you'll find you can easily go hours and hours without eating, cause you're busy doing something more important.

The report only asked about diagnosed diabetes. Because an estimated 1 in 4 diabetics have not been diagnosed, the findings probably underestimate the problem, Liese said.

The underestimates may be particularly bad in the rural South and other areas where patients have trouble getting health care, she noted.

They wouldn't need such health care in the first place, but for the "health" authorities who've assured them for years that they need to cut the fat. And, of course, this was an opening for all the purveyors of the processed crap in your local supermarket.

The government-industry low-fat juggernaut is literally killing people.

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Good Books Page

October 29, 2008 1 Comment

I've created a static page that I can edit over time with worthwhile books about food, diet, cooking, exercise, and intermittent fasting. It's quite spare in terms of design, so it can only improve over time.

Thanks to Lisbon, Portugal reader Richard Carvalho for kindly compiling this for me.

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What Causes Heart Disease?

October 27, 2008 11 Comments

In a mental exercise I posted yesterday, I asked readers to speculate as to the order of most likely cause of heart disease and death from myocardial infarction.

The facts are that death by MI was unheard of in 1910 (about 100 years ago), had risen to 3,000 deaths per year by 1930, and to 500,000 by 1960. Then I provided eight food group categories, A – H, and indicated how much each had changed over the last 100 years, but without telling you which group was which. So here we go:

  • A; sugar and sweeteners: 100% increase
  • B; eggs, fruit (excl. citrus), vegetables, whole grain: Moderate decrease
  • C; lowfat milk: 100% increase 
  • D; whole (full fat) milk: 50% decrease
  • E; butter, lard, tallow: 70% decrease (30 lbs. per person per year to under 10)
  • F; vegetable oils (incl. hydrogenated): 437% increase (11 lbs. pppy to 59) 
  • G; poultry: 280% increase (18 lbs. pppy to 70)
  • H; beef; 46% increase (54 lbs. pppy to 79) 

So, if one were to simply line it up by the numbers, the order would be like this:

  1. Massive increase in vegetable oil consumption.
  2. Huge increase in poultry consumption. 
  3. Large increase in sugar and sweeteners.
  4. Large increase in low fat milk consumption. 
  5. Large decrease in animal fat consumption (butter, lard, tallow).
  6. Moderate decrease in whole, full fat milk consumption.
  7. Moderate increase in beef consumption.
  8. Moderate decrease in eggs, fruit, vegetables and whole grains. 

Of course, this is missing junk and highly processed foods.

Now, I agree with the commenter on the previous post. This does not establish causality. And yet, how many decades has it been now that the "health" establishment has been telling you, as though it was certain, that meat and saturated fat are the causes of heart disease? If they even mention junk food, pastries, and all manner of stuff loaded with flour and sugar, it's not those: It's the fat.

It's absurd.

So here's the article with associated references from whence I culled this little exercise. That's Sally Fallon and Mary Enig: It's the Beef. This is an excellent source for all manner of mythbusting with regard to meat and other animal products. Here's another good one.

There was another question posed on my original post speculating that perhaps there weren't heart attacks in 1910 because people didn't live long enough to have them. Average longevity was way lower. The firs thing to note about that is infant and child mortality is what brings the averages way down. There are still people living to 80, 90, 100 and beyond — plenty of them — and they weren't dying of heart attacks. Stephan had a good post last July concerning this exact issue, vis-a-vis the Inuit.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: red meat, saturated fat

“Opposing Views” Asks…

October 27, 2008 Leave a Comment

Are Vegetarians Healthier?

Could veggie burgers increase your lifespan? Many experts insist that switching to a vegetarian lifestyle can greatly increase overall health, leading some to ditch their pork rinds like an old smoking habit. Still others swear by an omnivorous diet, saying that occasional New York steak never hurt anyone. Is a fresh helping of tofu just what the doctor ordered, or only a lot of empty calories?

You do notice the smuggled premise, right? Not to mention the typical smug assurance which, is really the more necessary the more wrong you are.

At any rate, the Weston Price Foundation does a very admirable and thorough job. Much of the veggie stuff is shallow assertion. The comments are generally shill with far too much protestation; but then again, that's what has to happen when you go up against reality in such a stark manner. Thanks to Diana for emailing that link.

Here's one of my recent — and infrequent — posts on vegetarianism.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: vegan, vegetarian

A Mental Exercise

October 26, 2008 4 Comments

I was going to try to design a poll, but let's just get on with it. Do your own personal poll; discipline yourself to create an actual list of probable causality, in oder of most likely to least likely. If you think the causation is likely multiple factors, then place two or more categories next to each other, like 1, 2, 3. In other words: in order of priority, of likely cause.

The most certain vector for approximating the level of heart disease is a data point relatively easy to obtain: death from myocardial infarction ("heart attack"). It's well established that heart attacks are typically caused in first-order by heart disease (generally used to describe a number of related conditions). Naturally, everyone is thusly focussed on second-order causes: what causes heart disease?

Let's take in some statistical data. Myocardial infarction was almost non-existent in 1910 (heart attacks were unheard of). By 1930, deaths from MI had escalated to 3,000 per year. That would constitute a thousands of percentage increase, approaching infinite, the lower the actual number of deaths in 1910. It began to taper off in terms of percentage increase, so that by 1960, there were 500,000 deaths from MI per year. That's very important to understand, as health authorities proclaim that their low-fat diet prescriptions are lowering the rate of death from heart disease.

Now, here's the changes in consumption of various food groupings from 1910 to some point in the recent past, like a few years ago.

  • Food category A: 100% increase
  • Food category B: Moderate decline 
  • Food category C: 100% increase
  • Food category D: 50% decrease 
  • Food category E: 70% decrease 
  • Food category F: 437% increase 
  • Food category G: 280% increase 
  • Food category H: 46% increase 

  Now, in what order would you assign most likely cause, A – H? I'll give you the actual food groups in a post tomorrow, as well as references.

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Alexander’s Steakhouse

October 26, 2008 1 Comment

Three hours and counting…

Do yourself a favor: click on the link, then click the "Food" link in the header, then click on each of the photos in the left sidebar. I can't believe this restaurant has never been on my radar. That's about to change.

Have you gone over there yet? What are you waiting for?

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OK, now are you going?

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Yummy Cauliflower Dish

October 26, 2008 3 Comments

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This is a derivative of a dish my mom makes sometimes. Pretty simple. It's a head of cauliflower steamed, then breadcrumbs browned in butter pored over.

Instead, I chopped up the head and quick fried it in the wok in coconut oil. In a saucepan, I melted ghee (a couple tbsp) on low heat and added 2-3 heaping tbsp of almond flour (almonds ground to the consistency of flour or meal). Even on the low heat they browned to a nice dark pretty quickly. That's a whole head and a third, and Bea & I finished off all but 3 pieces, along with grilled jajapenio burgers from Whole Foods (amazing — try them).

Speaking of Whole Foods, here was my shopping run the other day. Notice the lack of processed foods, sodas, and junk in general. Do notice things like fresh sauerkraut (to go with the pork spareribs in the large brown package). The "beef" in the clear package is actually buffalo, with which I made a Thai mussman curry Friday evening to the astonished delight of Bea and a couple of friends.

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Dr. Barry Groves

October 24, 2008 4 Comments

He and his wife, eating a high fat, low-carb diet since 1962. See how he looks, now, at 72.

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Despite following this shockingly high-fat diet for more than 40 years, Barry now weighs 6lb less than he did on his wedding day in 1957 when he tipped the scales at 11st 7lb.

He and Monica break every single diet diktat that has been trumpeted as “healthy eating”. And yet, here they are, trim, fit and full of beans, albeit metaphorical ones. How on earth do they do it? And where are the rest of us – eating piles of fruit and veg, and steering clear of cholesterol-laden butter – going wrong? After all, we’ve never been subject to so much education on good dietary practice, and yet prey to so many illnesses, ranging from diabetes to heart disease.

“Most people are eating in a way that is unnatural to us as a species,” says Barry, who holds a doctorate in nutritional science and has just written a book called Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating Is Making Us Ill. “We’re a carnivorous species – our gut is identical to that of a big cat. Yet we’re encouraged to eat foods that have been padded out with modified starch and vegetable oils, and complex carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and rice, which have all been labelled healthy – but not the fatty meat that our body actually recognises.”

jimmy moore has a two-part podcast interview with Barry Groves.

Part I

Part II

Jimmy does a lot of work getting some really good interviews. You can subscribe to his podcasts at iTunes, and even access the vast array of past interviews. I like to listen to them in the car on long drives.

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D

October 24, 2008 Leave a Comment

Everybody's on about Vitamin D, now. I've written about it a number of times, including just last week. Now here's a must-read from Stephan the biologist.

Vitamin D was originally identified as necessary for proper mineral absorption and metabolism. Deficiency causes rickets, which results in the demineralization and weakening of bones and teeth. A modest intake of vitamin D is enough to prevent rickets. However, there is a mountain of data accumulating that shows that even a mild form of deficiency is problematic. Low vitamin D levels associate with nearly every common non-communicable disorder, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis and cancer. Clinical trials using vitamin D supplements have shown beneficial and sometimes striking effects on cancer, hypertension, type 1 diabetes, bone fracture and athletic performance. Vitamin D is a fundamental building block of health.

[…]

Here's how to become vitamin D deficient: stay inside all day, wear sunscreen anytime you go out, and eat a low-fat diet. Make sure to avoid animal fats in particular. Rickets, once thought of as an antique disease, is making a comeback in developed countries despite fortification of milk (note- it doesn't need to be fortified with fat-soluble vitamins if you don't skim the fat off in the first place!). The resurgence of rickets is not surprising considering our current lifestyle and diet trends. In a recent study, 40% of infants and toddlers in Boston were vitamin D deficient using 30 ng/mL as the cutoff point. 7.5% of the total had rickets and 32.5% showed demineralization of bone tissue! Part of the problem is that mothers' milk is a poor source of vitamin D when the mother herself is deficient. Bring the mothers' vitamin D level up, and breast milk becomes an excellent source.

Stephan provided links to sources for a lot of the studies showing the relationships he notes. You can get those references on his blog.

Mark Sisson also has a post up about the sunshine vitamin.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: vitamin d, Vitamin K2

Admin Note

October 23, 2008 3 Comments

Sorry for the must & dust around here last few days. I have reader questions in email to get to, some reader food pics, and oodles of other stuff.

Have been very busy with another project, but I'm beginning to get a handle and so should be able to channel more energy to the blog very soon.

Thanks for the support and for the patience.

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Arnold “The Girly-Man” Schwarzenegger Gets Milked By Big Dairy

October 21, 2008 7 Comments

So, how much would you pay to make sure your neighbor doesn’t drink milk or cream in raw form, i.e., non-pasteurized or homogenized? How much? A few bucks a month? No?

I guess The Girly-Man Governor thinks otherwise, having recently vetoed popular, bi-partisan legislation (SB 201) that has the effect of making it even more difficult (AB 1735) than the already ridiculous level of compliance California’s two raw dairies had to go through in order to sell raw milk products to the 40,000 Californians who already enjoy them and have been enjoying them for years. I drank both raw cow milk and goat milk as a kid, and we made various products like butter and cottage cheese ourselves. We didn’t need anyone’s help, especially not from a girly-man (pdf).

I am returning Senate Bill 201 without my signature.

This bill weakens food safety standards in California, something I cannot support.

Translation: it removes onerous, unreasonable ”safety standards” designed for pasteurized milk, lobbied for by Big Dairy in California.

[…]

Based on fears with no basis in fact…

Now it ought to be the plain obvious truth that the baseless fear-mongering taking place is and has always been the hysterical fear mongering contra raw milk. So he’s a lying girly-man too; but, of course, he’s now a politician and he opens his moth, so nothing so surprising there.

I now consume raw milk from Whole Foods Market in pretty modest quantities and have been for the past several months, even though not strictly a paleo food. But I tollerate it very well and have no adverse effects; whereas, pasteurized milk sometimes makes my stomach and intestines churn for several hours. Never happens with the raw. There are two dairies, Organic Pastures and Claravale Farm. Whole Foods has both. I had been getting the Organic Pastures but they were out of whole on the last trip, so I got Claravale. Big, huge difference in taste, with Organic Pastures being so superior I can’t even describe it. Apparently, Organic Pastures are exclusively grass fed, whereas, Claravale uses organic feed (grains). Again: big difference. Here’s Organic Pastures’s Mark McAfeee describing his relationship with his customers. Looks to me like he cares a lot more about them than the Girly-Man, the Dairy Lobby, you, or anyone else. They’re doing just fine without anyone’s “help” or “protection.”

I wish both dairies well, and hopefully, more tax dollars aren’t put to work to “protect you.” Like this, where Mark Nolt, a farmer in Pennsylvania, gets hauled away in cuffs for selling raw milk products to his friends.

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Just another day in the “Land of the Free,” as I like to say. But let me end on a note of magnanimous conciliation for governor Schwarzenegger: next time Big Dairy comes a callin’ for your periodic milking, you might consider applying some old fashioned Bag Balm. I understand it’s udderly fantastic and effective.

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Barefoot

October 20, 2008 10 Comments

It's just hard to beat several million years of evolutionary adaptation, even accounting for the fine craftsmanship of Church's handmade English shoes (all the rage in France, when I lived there).

Nonetheless, just as I blogged in my entry Learning to Walk a few months back, barefoot or nearly so is best. I love my Vibram Five Fingers (which have been dubbed my "feet" by my wife; as in: "should I toss down your feet?") and I even walk just plain barefoot now and then. People tease me about the soles of my feet, often on display, and thoroughly black.

It's quite easy to get used to.

Matt Metzgar dug up a study, and guess what? Shoes increase stress on your knees and hips (pdf). He quotes a portion and I can personally attest to part of the speculation: "A final explanation of the biomechanical advantages of barefoot walking may be attributed to increased proprioceptive input from skin contact with the ground compared with an insulated foot contacting the ground." This is exactly what I have been noting when discussing the issue with people (the Vibrams are quite a conversation piece). Just as I have often commented that flexible, intermittent fasting gives you high resolution into your personal hunger and appetite signaling, so too does going barefoot outside where there exists all manner of things that can cause pain and injury give you high resolution into your walking. After a time, you don't even notice small sharp pebbles as you lighten your step on the fly, instantly. You also gain awareness of your peripheral vision and avoid stepping on things you shouldn't — without even being conscious of it. At first, it's sensory overload. After a time, it becomes thoroughly natural. Go figure.

Now, I don't know about you, but my gut reaction is that any modern thing that actually cuts me off from sensory perception (the root of knowledge of reality) had better be good and damn necessary. Guilty, until proven innocent, I'd say. Given the added stress on joins and hips, and the resultant chronic injury with surgery and replacement experienced by so many, I'd say the jury is in. …So go frollic barefoot. What the hell? You know people are going to envy you for it.

Walking. Bi-ped hominoid. It's pretty damn fundamental.

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Doubling of Vitamin D for Children Is Urged; I Also “Urge” K2, Menatetrenone (MK-4)

October 17, 2008 21 Comments

Yet again, something I blogged about 18 months ago may just now be coming to the mainstream. Stay tuned, and it’s not the only thing. Within another 18 months, you might hear a bombshell about K2, Menatetrenone (MK-4) as well. More on that, below.

Here are my past entries on Vitamin D.

  • Politicized Science: How the Sun Might Save Your Life
  • Vitamin D
  • An elegant slice of evolution
  • "Loving Lard"

The first of those is the most important. Feel free to go take a look at how I used to blog (political), but the important thing is the article I linked. How-a-bouts a couple of quick excerpts?

For decades, researchers have puzzled over why rich northern countries have cancer rates many times higher than those in developing countries — and many have laid the blame on dangerous pollutants spewed out by industry.

But research into vitamin D is suggesting both a plausible answer to this medical puzzle and a heretical notion: that cancers and other disorders in rich countries aren’t caused mainly by pollutants but by a vitamin deficiency known to be less acute or even non-existent in poor nations. […]

What’s more, researchers are linking low vitamin D status to a host of other serious ailments, including multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes, influenza, osteoporosis and bone fractures among the elderly. […]

But perhaps the biggest bombshell about vitamin D’s effects is about to go off. In June, U.S. researchers will announce the first direct link between cancer prevention and the sunshine vitamin. Their results are nothing short of astounding.

A four-year clinical trial involving 1,200 women found those taking the vitamin had about a 60-per-cent reduction in cancer incidence, compared with those who didn’t take it, a drop so large — twice the impact on cancer attributed to smoking — it almost looks like a typographical error.

Now, think about this from an evolutionary perspective, prior to modern mass migration. Northern latitude: white skin. As you proceeed south, toward the equator, increasingly dark skin on average. Vitamin D is fat soluable, which means, it can build up. At certain high levels it can produce a toxic effect. Final piece of the puzzle: white skin absorbes UV and synthesizes vitamin D way faster than increasingly dark skin. So, natural selection being what it was, those able to make use of the far shorter summers and lower angle of exposure to sunlight (white skin) fared better in the harshness of life; whereas, those in the south where the sun is year-round — and very high in the sky for efficient exposure — fared better by having protection against too much (dark skin), with consequent toxicity.

Now, apply the facts, again: "rich northern countries have cancer rates many times higher than those in developing countries."

So, now to the next article, in The New Yort Times: Doubling of Vitamin D for Children Is Urged. It’s short, so do read the whole thing. One interesting tidbit: mother’s milk, just like virtually all our foods, doesn’t cut it for vitamin D. And why? God (or nature, take your pick) stupid? Well, I think Occam compels me to conclude that vitamin D from food was no more necessary for ancestral man than was getting air from food. And, since we spent a great deal of time outdoors exposed to sunlight, just like we spent a great deal of time breathing the atmosphere, there was no problem. There was no evolutionary pressure to get D from food.

Then modern ignorance happened, and everyone’s afraid of the sun because of a minuscule risk of skin cancer (1,500 people die per year), and they leave all the other cancers on the table (1,500 die PER DAY from the others), most of which aren’t found in developing countries where there’s lots of sun and people spend a lot of time in it. If that’s not a fool’s wager, then I don’t know what is.

I said I’d mention K2. Let me give you the references. Later, I will blog about the amazing results both my wife and I have experienced in having supplemented with this fat soluble vitamin for these past months (in combo with A and D from cod liver oil, as well). You really owe it to yourself to look into this. Think of it this way: 60 years ago they were curing cavities in teeth by getting them to re-calcify using this exact thing. Now, think of what happens with a vitamin D deficiency; rickets, right? rubbery bones. Calcium. Other mineral salts. What you will find is that these vitamins, in combination, essentially cause your minerals to go everyplace they should, and no place they shouldn’t (such as the walls of your arteries).

  • Activator X
  • Vitamin K2, menatetrenone (MK-4)
  • Vitamin Deficiency
  • More Fat-Soluble Vitamin Musing
  • On the Trail of the Elusive X-Factor

You are not going to get through that in a short time, but you must get through it. Please read all of those references. The first four are by Stephan the biologist, and the last, by Chris Masterjohn of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Oh, and K2 (MK-4) is only found in animal sources. Vegans and vegetarians lose, again.

Later: A final thought. If you’re a dark skin living in a place that doesn’t get a lot of sun, or you don’t get a lot of sun, you should look into supplementation. Conversely, if you’re a white skin living in a place that gets a lot of sun, or you happen to get a lot of sun, you should look into protection. The bottom line is that you ought to understand this, think about how your experience may be different from the ancestors who came before you and the conditions under which they evolved and set your genes in motion, and take action accordingly.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: cancer, vitamin d, Vitamin K2

Mother Earth News…

October 17, 2008 1 Comment

Has published an article by Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, and whom I've blogged about several times in the past.

  • Fasting, Diet, Carbohydrates, Cause & Effect
  • 180 Degree Errors
  • Big Fat Lies
  • Good Calories, Bad Calories 
  • What Do You Really Know About Dietary Fat? 

Anyway, there's all your background. Those first two are the more important, as I attempt to explain his "alternate hypothesis." Now that I've read the principal part in GCBC that relates to that I'm soon going to have another post about that.

In the meantime, check out the Mother Earth News article, and most particularly, the comments (in reverse chronological order). Lots of vegan & vegetarian ignorance, hysteria, and old myths and modern ignorance. As always, I wish them well. I even wish that sort of diet was healthy from an evolutionary perspective. But it's not; and I don't make up the facts, just report them to you.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: fat, gary taubes, good calories bad calories

Notice to Readers

October 16, 2008 Leave a Comment

Just wanted to let my readers know that since Tuesday morning I’ve been absorbed full time (which means: mostly consumed in thought) in an emergent business project having to so with another company.

But fear not, valued patrons. I shall make my return soon, and I have a list.

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More on Cancer

October 15, 2008 1 Comment

I previously blogged about a couple of different cancer therapies a couple of weeks ago. That was to call attention to two previous posts dealing with what I'll just call a pretty obvious way to prevent cancer in the first place, or treat existing ones.

If indeed this evolutionary, ancestral, primal way of eating, going hungry, and engaging in activity represents an effective treatment for cancer, then what do you suppose that says as to the validity of this evolutionary approach, and how might you suspect this approach to living works to prevent cancer?

Now Dr. Eades blogs about this issue. Actually, it turns out to be about one of the articles I alerted my readers to way back in April.

Cancer cells get their energy, not like normal cells, from the mitochondrial oxidation of fat, but from glycolysis, the breakdown of glucose withing the cytoplasm (the liquid part of the cell). This different metabolism of cancer cells that sets them apart from normal cells is called the Warburg effect. Warburg thought until his dying day that this difference is what causes cancer, and although it is true that people with elevated levels of insulin and glucose do develop more cancers, most scientists in the field don’t believe that the Warburg effect is the driving force behind the development of cancer.

But it stands to reason that it can be used to treat cancer that is already growing. Since cancers can’t really get nourishment from anything but glucose, it stands to reason that cutting off this supply would, at the very least, slow down tumor growth, especially in aggressive, fast-growing cancers requiring a lot of glucose to fuel their rapid growth.

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If you understand the Warburg effect and the metabolism of cancer cells, it’s easy to see why this therapy works, even in patients who at at death’s door. Since the cancers can use only glucose, and since glucose is made in the cancer cells slowly and inefficiently, the cancer cells have to rely on outside glucose to provide nourishment for their rapid growth and replication. People on very-low-carb diets produce ketones, which take the place of glucose in other cells that can use these ketones for fuel. But cancer cells can’t use the ketones since ketones have to be burned in the mitochondria, which are dysfunctional in cancer cells. If you can keep blood sugar low, then growth of the cancer cells may be held in check long enough for the body’s own previously overwhelmed immune system to rally and beat the vulnerable cancer back.

Just imagine it. How strange; and unlikely, eh? You take a diet that approximates that of pre-agricultural man, i.e., the diet he ate for 2.5 million years vs. the last ten thousand years, and you can slow or beat cancer in many cases. And if you fast three days prior to having chemo, contrary to not "building up your strength," it actually sets up your healthy cells to be five times more resistant to the chemical poisoning of chemotherapy than cancer cells.

No miracles or silver bullets. Just a simple and nutritious existence, and doing what animals do when they get sick: stop eating.

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A Dozen Training Ideas

October 13, 2008 2 Comments

In only three minutes. It's all brief, and very intense. Remember: endurance and intensity are inversely related. The more intense, the briefer. Watch this and you'll soon understand why so many fool themselves about "working out" doing slow, boring "cardio." Very few of them could handle a minute of this, much less three or more. Right here is real cardio, modeled after the way nature intended you to get it: all in, but briefly.

That's from Chris, and the facility is Mountain Athlete in Jackson, Wyoming.

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Hey, Wheyt a Minute!

October 12, 2008 2 Comments

So there's no doubt about it: protein shakes are a processed food; but do they have a place in a Freed Animal's diet?

I think so, but in a very limited way. I'll have one about twice per week, usually on the morning after a previous day's workout for a real nice boost of good quality whey protein. Chris at Zen to Fitness lays out a lot of the nutritional benefits.

For me, sometimes it's by itself, and other times, along with something like maybe a few slices of bacon, a small 2-egger plain omelet, and/or a little fruit. The shake alone really appeals to me when I'm hungry but really feel like a very light meal — not so much in terms of calories, as just bulk. As far as the flavorings and sweeteners go, it's so infrequent, I don't do diet sodas or other artificially sweetened things, so it's one of those convenience flexibilities for me.

But as with all things, I just can't mix them like the package says (1 scoop in a cup of water). Yuko! Here's how it goes.

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 scoop of whey protein (chocolate or vanilla – I use Gold Standard) 
  • (if vanilla whey – a dash of vanilla extract) 
  • 1 heaping tsp to 1 heaping tbsp of Coconut Oil (critical secret ingredient — don't forget to lick the spoon clean) 
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream 
  • 1/2 cup whole milk (raw, non-homogenized, if you can get it)
  • a handful of ice cubes 

All that goes in the blender. Bonus if you can get yourself a smoothie maker with the spout at the bottom. That's what I use and it's really convenient and it breaks up all the ice easily. Have a supplemental handful of ice cubes that you can add in one at a time until it gets to your desired thickness. Sometimes if I really want it light, I'll just do 1/4 cup cream and 3/4 milk. Doesn't make a difference in taste or smoothness that I can tell.

So, what you get is either an amazingly delicious chocolate-coconut or vanilla-coconut. The flavor of the very healthful coconut oil really comes through. I guarantee you're gonna love it if you try it. It's whey good.

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Making Cauliflower-Crust Pizza

October 12, 2008 11 Comments

I prepared it last night. Did it on a baking stone and it came out just fine. See for yourself.

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It was a 15-incher, half & half. One side was pepperoni & onion, and the other ham & mushroom. Greek Kalamata Olives par tout — with the pits, which is the only way to go on a pizza. They shrivel just a bit and the tastiest part is the meat right up next to the pit. In order to get max flavor from both the onion and the mushroom, I ran them through a cheese grater. The canned sauces at the supermarket all had dammed high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). …The hell? So, I just got a small can of tomato sauce and added pizza spice (oregano, basil, garlic) and some additional garlic powder. Also, even though there's lots of cheese in the crust, I did put additional over the sauce in the standard pizza-making fashion.

I doubled the recipe, and like Debs, didn't spice the crust. For a 15" stone, I first spread some bacon drippings very thinly, then used a plastic spatula to spread the dough. The stone had an edge, so I was able to build it up around the side, rendering a pretty thin crust in the middle. The one downside is that it's not nearly as rigid as wheat dough. I think next time I'll try a thicker crust. I also intend to experiment with things like celery root and almond flour.

It was very filling. I had not eaten a thing since breakfast and I was stuffed midway through that second slice. Very filling and satisfying. All that said, and it's very good, it does lack the wonderful chewiness of standard pizza.

Final tip: get some of those red pepper seeds, and rather than sprinkle them on the pizza, add a load of them to a few tablespoons of olive oil, mix them around, and let 'em set for a while, as you're making the pizza. Then drizzle the olive oil all around.

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The Free the Animal T-Shirt

October 12, 2008 4 Comments

Help promote the easy and fun Life Way that's working for me and others. Buy an FTA T-Shirt. Or, get sweatshirts, long-sleeve shirts, tank tops, hats, mugs, pet products and other odds & ends. Great to wear at the gym, around and about, or to give as gifts. Christmas is just around the bend.

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More designs and other products to follow.

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Reader Food Pics

October 11, 2008 4 Comments

Adam sends this along. Meat & eggs, over some greens. Never thought of putting eggs with greens, but why not?

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Do you sometimes want something light, different, and a little unconventional for breakfast? Brigitte emails this one.

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