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And for a marked contrast to the dietary guildlines in my last post... The Healthy Skeptic's blog today is on Nine Steps To Perfect Health – #1: Don’t Eat Toxins http://thehealthyskeptic.org/9-steps-to-perfect-health-1-dont-eat-toxins
Today, most people accept diseases like obesity, diabetes, infertility and Alzheimer’s as “normal”. But while these diseases may now be common, they’re anything but normal. Humans evolved roughly 2.5 million years ago, and for roughly 84,000 generations we were naturally free of the modern diseases which kill millions of people each year and make countless others miserable. In fact, the world I asked you to imagine above – which may seem preposterous and unattainable today – was the natural human state for our entire history on this planet up until a couple hundred years ago.
What was responsible for the change? What transformed us from naturally healthy and vital people free of degenerative disease into a world of sick, fat, infertile and unhappy people?
In a word? The modern lifestyle. And though there are several aspects of our current lifestyle that contribute to disease, the widespread consumption of food toxins is by far the greatest offender. Specifically, the following four dietary toxins are to blame:
* Cereal grains (especially refined flour)
* Omega-6 industrial seed oils (corn, cottonseed, safflower, soybean, etc.)
* Sugar (especially high-fructose corn syrup)
* Processed soy (soy milk, soy protein, soy flour, etc.)
Read his blog for *why* he makes the recommendation to avoid those toxins. Chris (the blogger) is a paleo dieter and he and I don't always see eye to eye, but his blog is always food for thought and his series on heartburn last spring was the spur to my current WoE.
Diet Calendar Entry for 01 February 2011:
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1260 kcal
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Fat: 103.43g | Prot: 67.86g | Carb: 22.84g.
Breakfast: almond butter, crustless orange cheesecake. Lunch: tomato, spinach, Fearless uncured beef franks. Dinner: Parmesan, salmon, Caesar dressing, Romaine. Snacks/Other: almonds, heavy whipping cream, sugar free whipped cream. more...
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