Best books about nutrition according to redditors
We found 404 Reddit comments discussing the best books about nutrition. We ranked the 173 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 404 Reddit comments discussing the best books about nutrition. We ranked the 173 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
When I decided I did not want to be fat any more, because I was concerned about living to see my son graduate from high school, I found a lot of conflicting information.
It's calories. No, it's about carbohydrate. No, it's about refined sugars. No, it's about all monosaccharides. No, it's about processed foods. No, it's about organic foods and endocrine disruptors. No, it's about PUFAs. And so on.
It's simple but difficult to lose weight. No, it's not possible. It's about genetics. No, it's really about epigenetics. No, it's mostly about hormones. No, it's about when you eat. No, it's about exercise.
etc etc.
So I spent a few years trying to untangle it all. And learned before too long that reading blogs, unsourced websites, and NYTimes bestsellers was a good way to confuse yourself.
I will humbly suggest to this person a few resources that will help cut through that confusion:
Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism and good old PubMed. Those sources gave me a pretty good idea how human metabolism works. And 8 years later, the 40" waist jeans are still untouched on a shelf.
I'm still leaner and stronger than at any time in my 20s and 30s (NSFW, boxers!). And I'm very much in agreement with the accepted conventional wisdom in r/fatlogic. Because it's the truth, and it works.
The amount of broscience in this infographic is quite concerning. It's no surprise the sources section is just a bunch of websites, with no real studies links. They even cite the huffington post and bbcom as a source of info!
To anyone interested in real advice, go read something like:
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Sports-Nutrition-2nd-Dan-Benardot/dp/1450401619/qid=1523991868&sr=8-1&keywords=Advanced-Sports-Nutrition-2nd-Dan-Benardot
or
https://www.amazon.com/Questions-Answers-Sports-Nutrition-Exercise/dp/0763778869/qid=1523991918&sr=8-1&keywords=Questions-Answers-Sports-Nutrition-Exercise
The later is quite good if you are in a hurry and want to debunk the most common misconceptions
edit: fixed the links
edit2: BTW, thank you OP for posting. Even if I don't agree with the info, I still believe that any blueprint that motivates people to train and eat better is always valuable. cheers
> The fact that the Daily Mail's story proved to be defamatory is irrelevant
This is liberals folks. The court of law is a fucking joke to them. No wonder they can't figure anything out. They're so based in the "feels" world that real stats, real laws, and real ANYTHING is a fucking scary insurmountable obstacle to them.
Any idea how many books Obama and Michelle slung while in office, shit for brains?
Any idea how they managed to grow their net worth to the tune of MILLIONS while in office ?!
https://www.amazon.com/American-Grown-Kitchen-Gardens-America/dp/0307956024
https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Obama-Speeches-American-Values/dp/0982375638
https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Obama-her-Own-Words/dp/1586487620
Eat a fucking cock dude. You got grifted by the First Man.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/01/20/how-barack-obama-has-made-20-million-since-arriving-in-washington/#125be4e45bf0
Meanwhile the Trumps are dumping everything they got into the US and little trolls like you who couldn't pay taxes if your life depended on it are literally mocking immigrants with your greasy racist hands all a twitter.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/17/news/trump-billionaires-forbes-richest-americans/index.html
There seems to be a huge amount of unsupported speculation in this thread... Anyway, the answer is fairly simple, it's usually cardiac arrhythmias that kill a starving person in the end.
I did a great deal of reading into this in the early 2000s when I was putting together a lecture unit on human starvation. The rule of thumb given in most of the phys literature turns out to be: A starving person will die when they have used up all their body fat or about half their body protein, whichever comes first. And usually the immediate cause of death is heart failure, typically due to ventricular arrhythmias that occur as the heart atrophies. If all fat is lost, the heart just plain and simple runs out of fuel, and heart cells die. If 50% of body protein is lost, the heart muscle tissue atrophies so much that it begins to malfunction. I posted a few cites on this in another comment, but basically the core problem is that the brain always requires a small bit of glucose for fuel. Most other organs in the body can adapt to live entirely on fats (specifially, on ketone bodies). But the brain cannot. Starvation then plays out like a game of Fortunately-Unfortunately:
The #weeks you can keep chipping away at your muscles before you actually die is pretty variable. Obese people often have enlarged hearts to start with, and thus are able to go quite a long time (months even, over a year in some famous cases) before the heart shrinks to a dangerous level. Also, intake of even a tiny bit of protein or carbs can completely eliminate the protein catabolism. There are also some complications regarding malfunctioning of the autonomic nervous system and also certain electrolyte imbalances, which seems to contribute to ventricular arrhythmias. But basically, starved people have atrophied hearts that are not functioning properly. Anyway, the rule of thumb for non-obese people, and most animal species, is that total starvation will kill you in 2-8 weeks depending on fat stores.
cites: All the nutrition texts cover this - see this one. And here and here are a couple cites about the cardiac issues.
She already did
I've made some using the Feedzone Cookbook and they taste amazing, are easy to pack and I get to control what is in there. Overall, it's cheaper than buying Clif bars.
great suggestions - i’d also recommend ellen satter’s books. they completely changed how i fed our kids when we had similar feeding issues.
how to get your kid to eat
I'm a Registered Dietitian in the U.S. and work within the powdered foods community doing consulting for both Powdered Foods Market and invidiual clients. In school we used a slightly older version of Krause Food and Nutrition Therapy which is an excellent in depth resource for medical diets. This is a great starting point to understand general needs as well as specialized disease/condition needs. If you're like me you will quickly want to know the biochemistry that the body is going through, to which I'd recommend Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism. In med-school the idea is "teach the framework of the body, instead of memorizing the pieces". When I'm really struggling to figure out what a patient needs, this is the resource I fall back on. Either way, if you ever have questions feel free to jump over to PFM and check out some of the questions I've already answered, I guarantee you'll learn a few things!
I only have a very basic understanding of Dr. Seyfried's observations and analysis but the general gist is that extended fasting promotes cell autophagy and starves many tumorous growths (iirc most malignant tumors metabolize glucose).
edit: Looked into it more. HGH affects certain types of cancer. Not sure what this means from a preventive standpoint.
>why do so many doctors stand behind these drugs, the money?
That's one big reason among several, yes. Maybe not money directly, but there are always the nice little gifts, the friendly sales rep with his helpful "research" to save them time chasing down and analysing debate between researchers, and the corporate-sponsored medical conferences in exotic countries etc (I personally know a doctor who loves going on these every year). There's also the little item that if your research funding comes from corporations and "non-profit" organisations with funding links to the corporate world, you are less likely to want to bite the hand that feeds you.
Re the logic, isn't it pretty obvious? You have a drug that is supposed to promote heart health which actually puts it at risk. I feel sorry for the trusting people who suffered or perhaps even died before it was realised that statin-induced Co-enzyme Q10 deficiency causes serious harm. And the problems of statins aren't just related to CoQ10. Statins suppress one of the precursors of CoQ10 and cholesterol, HMG-CoA reductase. That enzyme is a precursor about half a dozen steps prior to cholesterol - which means that about five other substances besides cholesterol are suppressed when a statin drug is present. Cholesterol of course is used to make other things, like the sex hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. Like bile, which helps with the absorbtion of fat and the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Like the "stress hormone" cortisol. Cholesterol is also a precursor for the body's synthesis of Vitamin D (so lowering it not only retards absorbtion of Vitamin D through food, but also retards your skin generating Vitamin D when sunshine hits it). Vitamin D is needed for proper bone mineralisation, and is also believed to have an anti-cancer effect. As well as the liver, the brain manufactures cholesterol but Lipitor can cross the blood-brain barrier and stop production there too. As cholesterol comprises a significant portion of the brain and is necessary for proper mental function, it is no wonder that slowness, forgetfulness, and even transient global amnesia are known symptoms of statin use.
I am related to someone who is taking Lipitor right now. He is taking co-enzyme Q10 and still suffering muscular aches and pains, and cannot raise his arms above shoulder-level any more, the pain is so great if he tries. He also suffers from an overwhelming tiredness shortly after taking his fix, and becomes a little slow at following the thread of conversations. His faith in his personal doctor is absolute, and no matter how many books written by DOCTORS I place in front of him to read, his faith in Lipitor and his Medical Priest sustain him like some sort of cult, even though I see it wearing him down before my despairing eyes. Interestingly, the white-coated Priest has been presented with Dr Graveline's first book on Lipitor, and did not choose to contend with it at all. His response to his patient was that "the choice to stop or continue taking it is yours".
When you learn from members of the international medical community that high cholesterol has not been proven as the cause of heart disease and how the stated reason for using statins is flawed by politics, profit and junk science, and there is no medically useful reason to take these dangerous statin drugs at all, you tend to want to boil over in fury.
Some books for you to check out:
The Great Cholesterol Con, by Malcolm Kendrick MD (2007)
The Cholesterol Myths, by Uffe Ravnskov MD PhD (2000, 2002)
The Great Cholesterol Con, by Anthony Colpo (2006) - forward by Ravnskov & contains nearly 1500 citations to medical journals and research trial reports.
Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol, by Mary Enig PhD (2000) - a bit dry for the lay reader, plunges into lipid chemistry, but highly informative. Enig was among researchers who became concerned about trans fats way back in the 1970s.
The Heart Revolution: The Extraordinary Discovery That Finally Laid the Cholesterol Myth to Rest, by Kilmer Mccully MD & Martha Mccully (2000)
Lipitor: Thief of Memory, by Duane Graveline MD (2006)
Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol, by Duane Graveline MD (2008)
Those books have plenty of academic and scientific citations for you to seek further.
> book by a journalist who, in one part, works at an Applebee's for a while as part of an experiment
Could it be this?
No corporation wants employees to discuss their pay for the reasons you already know. You're right about the law and your feelings are valid so what do you plan to do next?
Edit: check out this book if you haven't already. Eye opening to say the least. https://www.amazon.com/American-Way-Eating-Undercover-Applebees/dp/1439171963/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
FWIW, I definitely don't disagree with you in theory. I am just a random guy. And random guys are not often right!
If you think there is a small chance I am right, then I would check out these cheap Kindle books, which are slightly more credible:
This guy is an actual MD who prescribes D3 in the range that I take:
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Vitamin-Scientific-Practical-Information/dp/1508946310
This dude is what got me initially curious, he is a bit of a lunatic (what an endorsement!), but he cites a LOT of papers. After reading this, I read some more books.
https://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Results-Extremely-Sunshine-Experiment/dp/1491243821
And then this one on K2:
https://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-K2-Calcium-Paradox-Little-Known/dp/0062320041
Also, I have gotten several friends and family members to run the same test in the last year, and all report positive results with healthy D and calcium levels. Again, I'm just a random dude, so YMMV, but I'm obviously a big believer at this point.
Thanks!
https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920
The guy who wrote this is a scientist and it is actually pretty interesting reading. I work in the cancer diagnostics field (genetic testing and personalized medicine) and I thought this was pretty well thought out but by no means conclusive. There is a lot of research into cancer metabolism, check out those keywords on pub med if you are interested in primary peer reviewed literature.
39% of americans are low in B12, because they often have absorbtion issues caused by pollution, smoking, surgeries, radioactive exposure. I take b12 supplements and get my levels checked. I also follow the McDougall diet which shreds the pounds like crazy. More info here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVf36nwraw ( and don't let the title give you the wrong impression)
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
The Feed Zone series of cookbooks are awesome.
http://www.amazon.com/Feed-Zone-Cookbook-Flavorful-Athletes/dp/1934030767?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00
We need more trials but there's definitely some promising research and case studies. Here are some resources I have bookmarked that may be useful to you:
Best of luck to you <3
First of all, calcium is pretty hard to be deficient in if you’re really eating a whole food AIP diet. Most people get too much and even doctors (who bother to pay attention to updated evidence-based guidelines) don’t recommend calcium supplements, as they don’t help osteoporosis, unless there is evidence of a legit deficiency. If you’re getting enough vit D you’re absorbing enough calcium.
Vit D lab values should be mid point on a blood test ~50-70, with “normal” levels being between ~30-100, & any Dr that says otherwise is either lazy or ill informed regarding pretty much all research over the last 10 years-always remember “normal” values aren’t even kind of the same as “optimal for best health/healing a broken body” levels. Fun fact: RDA for Vit D was established as amount needed to avoid rickets. Personally, I’d like to set the bar higher than non-rickets, especially considering how absolutely vital it is in terms of immune system function-regardless of calcium. But I digress...
“Vit K” is really two different things-K1 & K2 and they are not metabolically interchangeable. K1 is from mostly leafy greens and, as you alluded to, is the one that is best known for assisting with clotting. K2 is ONLY available after K1 has been converted via specialized bacteria and is used by the body (in simplified terms) to put calcium where it’s supposed to go-ie, bones rather than arteries.
Most humans aren’t able to convert K1 to K2 on their own in their own guts (even “healthy” adult guts, as demonstrated in research) and thus almost all K2 is gained through fermented foods like aged cheeses, sauerkraut, etc. One of the many reasons ALL traditional cultures ate fermented foods in one way or another & had great teeth!
Best food source of K2 anywhere is Natto, which is a fermented soy bean & used as a condiment in Asia. As with many Asian flavors/foods, it has a pungent “acquired” taste to it that even most “I love Asian food!” folks can’t bring themselves to gag down. Not only that, but on an AIP diet you’d have to weigh pros of a small exposure to a traditionally prepared soy product vs. just getting it through other types of fermented foods or even a K2 supplement (many D3 supplements now come as a D3/K2 combo formula).
In any case, though I understand your caution regarding Vit K-as blood clots are frequently deadly-the functional difference between K1 & K2 is the reason that your doctor hasn’t warned you off of pickles & aged cheese, like he has with too much spinach and salads, in fear of too much K2 ingestion.
I’d worry less about calcium than I would magnesium. Post is already long enough so I’ll let you research that on your own. More info about K2 can be found either through PubMed (for the deep dive science nerds of us out there who love the soporific effect of reading lengthy alphabet soup microbiology & statistical analysis scientific research) or the book Vitamin K2 & the Calcium Paradox.
Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062320041/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_PtMiDb6G0XEJD
Sounds like you're fighting a war on too many fronts. I kinda felt like that when my twins were little. They got easier to care for when they hit about 5yo and then I had time to invest in health issues that I'd let slide while I was in survival mode. That time will come for you too. In the mean time, maybe read this: The Secret Life of Fat and stop feeling guilty about your weight all the time.
Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism by Gropper is the book my university classes on nutritional biochemistry used. Difficult to comprehend for the lay person but great for those with a decent background in organic and biochemistry. I notice it is uber expensive on this link from Amazon but look up and get an old edition or even look around for a PDF or something.
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gropper/dp/1133104053
Also, pages like this may be of interest.
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminK-HealthProfessional/
Lastly, I believe you can find and read the Dietary Reference Intakes as PDF online but that doesn't focus too much on biochemistry.
Good luck and hope that helps!
If you don't have this yet, it's a good buy and a great read:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Feed-Zone-Cookbook-Flavorful/dp/1934030767/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1345651096&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=feed+zone
The Feed Zone Cookbook.
Pick up The Feed Zone Cookbook.
Nutrition is a highly personal thing and Reddit is a cesspool of bro-science.
I will say, you're on the right track being concerned about food. Whenever you drastically increase your cycling volume its not uncommon to just get tired of eating so having a plan is helpful.
This leads into an important point; even on rest days you need to stay active (do some light riding) so that you can keep your metabolic systems turning over. Especially when its warm, riding a few hard days then not riding (and sweating), then riding a few more hard days can lead to dehydration and other issues as your metabolic system is stressed and confused.
> cancer is a metabolic disease
Cancer as a metabolic disease
You might want to pick a different comparison.
One of the fundamental steps in the development of cancer cells is their deactivation of the mitochondria and upregulation of glycolysis. PET scans use radiolabeled glucose to scan for tumors because of their metabolic activity.
The Ketogenic Diet and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Prolong Survival in Mice with Systemic Metastatic Cancer
I found this one pretty good.
First, I want to point you to this story by Marsha Dunn Klein, an occupational therapist who specializes in children's feeding disorders. Everything is a Grashopper
Second, I recommend that you have him evaluated by a speech therapist or occupational therapist. Being so panicked at the thought of trying new foods that he begins gagging and vomiting is not normal and is also not something he has psychological control over. This is unlikely to be something you can help him manage without professional help, and your instinctual reactions to keep pushing him to eat stuff you know he likes have the potential to create lifelong problems. Kids and eating issues are absolutely maddening, and parents' instincts are often plain wrong, so I really, really, really recommend you seek professional help with this.
Third, I recommend Ellyn Satter's books, especially Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, and How to Get Your Kids to Eat (But Not Too Much).
My daughter has a diagnosed feeding disorder and is tube fed in part due to food sensitivities. We have been working with specialists for two years to help her get to the point where she can eat by mouth safely and comfortably. It will come, but it has surprised me how often my own instincts about what to do have been wrong, and how the therapist's recommendations have helped. Good luck to you, this is so, so hard.
I'm a little late to the party, but... milk is a deadly poison.
Read Milk-The Deadly Poison.
Just so everyone is aware, Dan Benardot literally wrote the book on nutrition for serious athletes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1450401619/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_in8jxbTW8ZK3Q
Yup there is a significant amount of scientific research that links lectin and other anti nutrients in grains to many current western diseases. There are many documented cases where people have cured many auto immune disease by not eating grains, these include lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cron's disease, thyroid diseases and more.
This is chapter 4 of Robb Wolf's book
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/09/19/paleo-diet-solution/
A post on lectin with cited references
http://www.krispin.com/lectin.html
A paper from a UCLA Prof
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~regfjxe/Arthritis.htm
A good paper from vrp.com with 30 cited references dating back to the 70s
http://www.vrp.com/digestive-health/lectins-their-damaging-role-in-intestinal-health-rheumatoid-arthritis-and-weight-loss
A paper in the British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/content/318/7190/1023.full
There are a lot more.
Generally there is nothing in grains that we need, they are low in fiber compared to vegetables which I am sure you know, and they cause us to be fat.
There is a whole text book on it and other dietary causes of western disease.
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Western-Disease-evolutionary-perspective/dp/1405197714/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
Take it one day at a time, one meal at a time. It's overwhelming to think about it like, "I'm never ever going to eat sweets again" but its easier to think "I'm not going to eat dessert tonight".
I read this book and it totally changed my perspective on food.
I think it is important to understand the basics of what food is and how the body uses it, before you go on to choose what you should, or should not eat. I will enable you to prick through bullshit. Here, start with this: http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gropper/dp/1133104053
I think they keywords for this are fat metabolism & weight loss physiology. That being said, Gropper's book Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism might be the book you're looking for if you're interested in a lengthy textbook on human metabolism & nutrition. Conversely, this blog may be of some use.
i'm just curious, how did you come upon this way of eating and living? sounds like it's working great, but it wasn't a book or website that drew you in.
anyway, it won't be hard to find evidence for the bad effects of sugar, and the good effects of vegetables. to understand fats, particularly saturated fats, i think the best resource is mary enig's 'know your fats.' a collection of her articles can be found here. somebody else may reply with some of the good blog posts out there - there are many!
It is expensive, but if you have a chance, read Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. Most comprehensive book I have found regarding diet and cancer.
Well, a few thoughts...
It does sound like Keto but with a few restrictions. In particular NO ALCOHOL and mandatory veggies (micronutrients) for every meal.
This tracks well with my personal experience.
I have been doing lazy keto with acceptable results, but decided to tweak it in what turns out to be largely the same direction as this "evolv" diet. This largely based on reading The Secret Life of Fat and Always Hungry. My takeaway was that my underlying problem seems to be an accumulation of metabolically active fat, so basically too much visceral fat and possible accumulation of fat in the liver.
Now, I like a drink, and it had turned into my "guilt free snack" on Keto. After all, low or no carbs, right? But if the goal is to rid your liver of accumulated fat, it seems like a bad ide to hit it with alcohol on a regular basis.
Results? Well, I was losing about a pound pr. week before. Now I'm losing 2 pounds pr. week, and feel way less cravings.
TL;DR: For me keto works, but keto with no alcohol and more greens works roughly twice as well. Jury out on whether my metabolism is actually "getting a reset"
EDIT: Perhaps relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/5ucwts/what_kind_of_fat_goes_first/
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This is an excellent book that answers your question perfectly.
I suffer from B12 deficiency. I was diagnosed like 5 years ago when I failed all my classes, was suffering from a lot of stress, hand shaking, a tiny bit of memory loss, having a hard time concentrating, feeling sad sometimes without a reason, sleeping problems and losing weight.
I started with a shot on a weekly basis for 2 months I think and then once a month for a couple of months or so.
It totally fixed me. I remember I felt the change around the 2nd shot.
All those symptoms I mentioned were gone for good. During the next years, when I started feeling funny I get a B12 count in a nearby lab and if I'm low on B12, just do the weekly shot for 1 month or so. It I'm not low it's probably just stress.
So, to answer your question. If you indeed suffer from B12 deficiency I totally recommend it. The coolest part is that if you pee after getting the shot, your pee will look purple-ish. But, if you don't have that problem, I don't see why you would want to get shots.
Go to a lab to get a B12 count, consider if you are feeling symptoms and decide from there. There's a cool book about B12 deficency.
I use the technique from the book Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald. He talks about learning to discern the difference between 'head hunger' and 'belly hunger'. Soon as I read that section, I immediately noticed that some of the time when I eat, it's because I think I'm hungry, but my stomach is not hungry. Now I wait for that 'empty' feeling in my stomach to eat, at which point I eat a reasonable amount. So far it's been working out well, though it still takes discipline not to give in to random food craving. On a side note, these cravings often seem to be brought on by the lack of fluids, which I generally don't drink mid-workout unless it's on a track or it's a long run. I theorize that because of this, after a workout, I'm dying for food, but after a couple of glasses of water, I feel full and can make a more rational food choice 10-20 minutes later.
I plan my meals ahead of time so I don't have to make a meal when I start to feel hungry; the meal is already ready and of a portion size that is reasonable! The Feed Zone Cookbook has also helped me with this because it has a lot of food tailored for athletes that can be made easily and quickly with some previous preparation (cooked chicken, cooked yams, cooked rice are always in my fridge now!).
tl;dr Wait till I get that 'empty' feeling, have a healthy meal or small meal already in the pipeline at the time so that I can take care of the hunger immediately and without excess calorie consumption.
I would avoid getting her a new Garmin - though it's an incredibly thoughtful idea, she may have a different one in mind! Instead, perhaps a gift card to a running store or a card with an "IOU a running watch of your choice" message. I say this only because I did an incredible amount of research before buying my watch and was pretty set on that choice.
Otherwise, I'd recommend a FlipBelt (I just bought one for myself and I LOVE it.)
Or a runner's cookbook? ONE and TWO
Natural saturated fats got a bad reputation for 2 reasons:
The old timer doctor who wrote that coconut oil bashing article is still stuck in the past. He has failed to take into account the research that shows it was trans fats--not natural saturated fats--that were the culprit in the saturated fat trials.
Mary Enig was the researcher who discovered the link between trans fats and heart disease. If you want to know about what fats are good and bad for you, I suggest her book on fats: "Know your Fats".
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967812607/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2
One thing you can do is to make sure your vitamin D levels are sufficient:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirms-vitamin-d-protects-against-cold-and-flu/
I take 2000 IU twice a day now. I like this one by Now Foods:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UZPY1O/
I was taking 5000 IU a day for a while, but then I got tested and my blood levels were on the high side of normal, so I dialed it down to 2000 IU once a day and they were on the lower side of normal, so now I'm doing 2000 IU twice a day. The key is to get yourself tested to see what your base level is, then get tested again after supplementing for a while at a particular does, and dial it in from there.
Incidentally it also seems to be a good idea to take Vitamin K2 and calcium if you're taking Vitamin D3. Apparently the D3 tells your body to absorb the calcium, and the K2 tells your body where to put the calcium - i.e. in your bones and teeth rather than deposit it in your arteries. I take this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002N1MW3W/
More info on the K2/D3/calcium link here if you're interested:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062320041/
just curious, what is your source for this number? i have this book and it gives the following values for protein intake:
Right-o, sorry bout that! I did get it from a book, but here are a couple links that talk about it:
http://www.aw-bc.com/info/blake/assets/pdf/Salge__Nutrition_Ch06.pdf
>(Top of page 15)
http://dl.clackamas.cc.or.us/ch106-08/proteins.htm
>The amino acids that are formed by the hydrolysis of protein can be used to make new protein or they can have their amino groups removed and then the remainder of the molecule can be oxidized to provide energy.
>Whatever the particular pathway that the particular amino acids follow to get into the citric acid cycle and become oxidized, the process is somewhat wasteful of these particular very specialized and important compounds.
It should be noted that this is most relevant to people trying to max out energy, not decrease body fat.
Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism, while not pocket sized, is perhaps the one of the most important texts and the one I continually refer to outside of ASPEN materials.
> Plus she'd get a book deal to tell her story.
Hmm, yeah but I already have a copy of American Grown... do I really need a second?
Food and Western Disease: Health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective
Pretty techinical, but worth it.
People also seem to be a big fan of Perfect Health Diet. I have not read it yet, although it is sitting on my shelf at the moment.
I feel like I link to this book on every thread, but if you want a good explanation of the Paleo diet and the science/nutrition behind it I highly recommend picking up [It Starts With Food] (http://www.amazon.com/Starts-Food-Discover-Whole30-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B008C20TDG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407293809&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=it+starts+with+food).
So I'm not a doctor, and I don't want to advise you to jump to injecting before talking to someone. But B12 serum tests alone aren't the best diagnostic for every situation. It will show how much B12 is in the blood stream, but it cannot show how well it is being used by the body. So if you're supplementing, it will show there's a lot. And when someone is injecting, the test becomes pretty useless as a diagnostic tool because the person being tested will always show a maxed out testing range. That's why there's a few tests that you would need to do to see the full picture. There's a good book I read this summer. Could It Be B12: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses. It's easy to follow and understand. You could read an ebook version and make notes to ask your doctor about some other tests you might like to run.
I think the author, Sally M. Pacholok, also has some videos on youtube.
Edited to add: I forgot earlier, but if you want to follow the route most western docs prefer, you would need to go off b12 supplements for 4-6 weeks to go back to a “blank slate.” That would make a blood serum test its most helpful
Part 2:
Anatomy and Physiology
Other Medical Texts (Pathology, organic chemistry, biology, nutritional science, etc)
Formularies, Pharmacy
Classical Herbals
There are no shortcuts.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gropper/dp/1133104053
I read it in Secret Life of Fat, but it looks like there's some legitimate science to back up the claim that heat applied to plastic can secrete chemicals that impact SHBG (and I figure you have to assume that gets into food if it's in the container).
I found a few links on the topic, not a ton though, and literally none are definitive and none mention meal prep (minus the book I mentioned above, which did outright say it). But I've included some below.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1450401619/
https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Die-Discover-Scientifically/dp/1250066115/
The first is for athletes. The second is general disease prevention. The first covers topics such as macronutrients, timing, and so on. The only defect of the first is that it discusses nutrients in isolation. I think it's always better to take nutrients in foods. It's better to eat sugar in fruit than sports drink.
I think all life is slowly damaging our body and eventually we get old. You damaged it a little faster. In fact over-training is even worse than under-training. We've got to be careful.
P.S: Of course the big problem of keto is not so much "carb deficiency", but it's also that you restrict fruit, veggies, whole grains, beans, nuts, etc etc. You give up everything for carb restriction.
Here is Greger's take on ketogenic diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIwTcVdHLHk
This is the source, but the research is still in its infancy. Here is his book, but it is very expensive, and I believe that he recommended this instead, at least initially.
Good luck.
Whole30 worked for me and my wife.
Now, whether you're interested in paleo and/or Whole30 or not, I'd still recommend reading the It Starts with Food. It explains the psychological and hormonal effects of food that lead to binge eating and such.
> How do you have such an in-depth knowledge on this?
Exam horror mostly.
In terms of textbooks Braunwald's Heart Disease, Gropper's Advanced Nutrition mostly. Though of course also many papers and lecture notes. Nutritionfacts.org is also useful occasionally because they tend to call out the bullshit from the animal industry. They also have an hillarious piece about the DASH diet. Though ignore their stuff on EPA and saffron that's hokum.
> How bad are plant fats and saturated fats from plants?
Saturated fat from plants is as bad as saturated fat from meat. In fact the worst food for your arteries is dried coconut. 91% of its fat is saturated and 82% of its calories come from fat. Which is worse than extra heavy whipped cream.
The difference is plants usually have much less of (saturated) fat and also have fibre and antioxidants which remove cholesterol and reduce inflammation respectively.
This is why processed (plant) food is so harmful. It usually is loaded with coconut oil (91% saturated) or palm oil (51% saturated), salt, refined sugar and usually completely lacks fibre and anti-oxidants. A more artherosclerotic blend doesn't exist.
In general a whole food, plant based, low fat diet is best for your arteries. As long as you get some B12 (as small amounts of meat, or ethically/environmentally preferrably as supplements) that will increase your life expectancy the most. Also sufficient sunlight for vitamin D, some exercise, no smoking, no alcohol, no drugs.
You might like The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Really some of those are actually excellent titles, and at least one is not actually a real book.
I suppose if you don't understand how irony works Catherine McKinnon's probably seems a little weird.
Missing is my favorite title, which you can still get on Amazon: Milk: The Deadly Poison. That is a title to savor.
What you want is this book.
A good primer article:
This is one of the first and main books in this field: https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920
But the origin came from Warburg, a noble prize physician, theory of cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect
I have a few favorites:
The Feed Zone - Simple ingredients and processes, and geared towards athletes like myself. However, very beneficial for non-athletes as well!
Skinnytaste Fast and Slow - Again, easy ingredients and processes. These recipes are designed to either be whipped together in a jiffy, or with a slow/pressure cooker. Plus they're fairly healthy!
Whole Food Energy - Might seem a little "hippy dippy", but I love the crap out of this book. It has smoothies! SMOOTHIES. Among other great recipes, of course.
You may also want to look into various blogs. My favorites there are Budget Bytes, Damn Delicious, and Thug Kitchen (if you don't mind the swears!).
Looks like a solid book. Link if someone is interested: https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920
I see this recommended a lot but I've yet to get to it myself. As far as mood and emotions, quite a few things in diet can alter those and bacteria is thought to be one.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Gut-Taking-Control-Long-term-ebook/dp/B00OZ0TOV2
> correlated by co2 emission
Yeah, ok now we're talking together. The first time around you said vo2 ;) co2 is ofc different, that's the respiratory exchange ratio. Vo2 is oxygen uptake during exercise. One letter that makes a difference.
So, the 20-30% number is pretty much the bottom of glucose utilization in a non-keto adapted person, since the brain uses ~20% and pretty much just glucose.
Then it becomes an issue of liver glycogen being depleted once the time period lengthens, and that's when muscle breakdown kicks in as a means to feed glucose to the brain.
As the stores decrease, glucogenesis ramps up using mostly amino acids.
I'll quote a few passages from a textbook that shows the timeline of what's going on. Those are relevant quotes from the post absorptive metabolism section.
>When glycogenolysis is occurring, the synthesis of glycogen and triacylglycerols in the liver is diminished, and the de novo synthesis of glucose (gluconeogenesis) begins to help maintain blood glucose levels.
This is the start of the post absorptive phase. When liver glycogen starts breaking down, gluconeogenesis starts.
>The brain and other tissues of the CNS are extravagant consumers of glucose, oxidizing it for energy and releasing no gluconeogenic precursors in return. At rest, the brain uses about 20% of the available energy even though it is only about 2% of the body by weight.
Underlining the role of the brain in depleting liver glycogen. Those numbers ~equal the storage capacity of the liver, but the cns is not the only consumer of glucose at this time.
>In the course of an overnight fast, nearly all reserves of liver glycogen and most muscle glycogen have been depleted.
This varies of course, someone used to IF and with a high carb intake and a large evening meal will obviously not be glycogen depleted by morning but it still shows the time frame. An overnight fast is actually usually around 12h and not just the 8 spent sleeping though.
Source
I started Paleo right after my son was born. Yes, I got pretty skinny, but my milk production was waaay more then enough... I also had high energy, and built up some wicked arm muscle. Keep your foods nutrient dense for optimum breast milk. The Weston A. Price foundation recommends soaked grains (which is debatable according to the Paleo lifestyle), but they also place a major emphasis on nutrient dense food for Mama. Also, fermented foods to keep the gut healthy. Their science is solid, but I always tell other moms to research it themselves and be informed. Foods I ate that were not strictly Paleo: Potatoes, raw goat milk and sometimes soaked oatmeal. Relevant good book to read: http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Babies-Nutrition-Fertility-Breast-feeding/dp/1936608650
edit: nutrient dense foods are key. Liver, butter, raw milk, eggs, caviar, mollusks, BONE BROTH... Emphasis because it's a family favorite. :)
Here is one of my favorites for a long training day, or race day. Try to eat it a couple of hours before you start if you can.
1/2 cup Rolled Oats
1/2 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond milk
1/4 cup Full Fat Greek Yogurt
1/2 cup Blueberries
1/4 cup chopped pecans
Mix together in tupperware the night before, and put into the fridge. I find it gives me good long lasting energy throughout the day. This is an adaptation of the muesli recipe found in "The Feed Zone" cookbook by Allen Lim and Biju Thomas. I highly recommend all of their cookbooks!
https://www.amazon.com/Feed-Zone-Cookbook-Flavorful-Athletes/dp/1934030767/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469417032&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+feed+zone
I liked this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
also that chris kesser has done podcasts on the subject I believe. He is a good listen...has been on Joe Rogan's podcast a few times.
I realize this is an old post, but a buddy of mine recommended this. It's a solid book on sports nutrition. I am applying it to my cycling training right now and it's helped a ton. Talks a lot about fluid and salt intake too.
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https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Sports-Nutrition-Benardot-PH-D/dp/1450401619
i'm 29, 5'9, 145 lbs and have always hovered around that weight. 2-4% body fat.
i've never really counted calories on account i've always been pretty happy with my weight, but i estimate i intake about 2500/day on average, with a weekly 'binge' day of 4000+. un-ideally, i get a lot of those calories from sugars and simple carbohydrates. i ride about 15000 km/year and i find it necessary to supplement my diet with calories through shakes and frequent snacks.
i start each day with a whey shake, creatine, cod liver oil and vitamins A+D. an hour later i have an espresso, a bowl of granola or cereal with high fat yogurt. i'll drink pu'erh tea in the morning as well. lunch is usually bread, pasta, rice, with vegetables. afternoon snack is fruit and nuts. most dinners will have meat, but i eat a veg dinner a couple times a week as well. i'll usually have another snack like crackers/chips/popcorn between 10 and 11, and then a tablespoon of unpasteurized honey before bed (helps me sleep sounder).
about once a week i'll do a super rich meal, whether it's 4-course italian dinner, or a triple cheeseburger with poutine. this might be how i maintain my feeble weight, or it might not change a thing given i've got pretty good habits otherwise.
allen lim is controversial of late, but i'd still recommend his feed zone cookbook for ideas and recipes.
If you're interested in the deep medical why, look here. http://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920/ (Warning, the book is very technical and very expensive).
I got this book and it has some great meal recipes to help cut weight while getting enough nutrients. The foods are filling but low in calorie and it has all the macros listed to help you meet your goals. I'm sure you could find similar recipes online but I really appropriate having them all in one spot and organized. it also has a shopping list so you can just buy everything on it and know you can make every recipe in the book.
If you know how to cook, and don't mind spending $19, I highly recommend it.
https://www.amazon.com/Could-Be-B12-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses-ebook/dp/B00MERDLOE
So you're saying that since we know very little about what early Paleolithic man ate (~2.5 million years ago up until 10,000), and despite the fact that we know our brains grew and stomachs shrank specifically because of meat consumption, we should eat vegan.
And that (RE: #3) because our day-to-day lives look very little like (in a literal sense) a hunter-gatherers life, we ought not eat meat? We may not run around and hunt our food, but how many of us run around all day, to this job or that, working overtime, etc. If anything, I'd think it would make more sense to streamline your foods for maximum efficiency - i.e., eat the foods that are most nutritious, which certainly includes a hefty amount of vegetables, but also includes a significant (dietarily) amount of high-quality meat product whose bioavailability or healthy fats and complete proteins (nevermind micronutrient breakdown) is virtually unmatched. That would only make sense in this over-worked and un-rested era.
(By the way, Paleo is all about quality. Only grass-fed/pastured animals, preferably that includes a hefty dose of the nutrient dense organ meat, as well as a short-but-intense exercise plan that would very much mimic that of a hunter-gatherer.)
RE: #4 - if you seriously can find me one piece of information that does not show very clearly an exponential increase in grain consumption in the last 100 years (that goes right along with the prevalence of diseases of civilization), I'd love to see it. I really don't think it exists.
Just a few examples (that aren't even talking about Paleo):
Yes, every one of these will talk about shit-quality meats, but also extensively about "high-quality, whole" grains. And before you use the word "pseudoscientific" again, I'd just like to say I'm not sure that you know what it means. These citations are from scientists. I haven't yet seen you cite one scientist. And before you quote the China Study - don't. It's bunk, been proven to be bunk, by people smarter and more thorough than Denise Minger's pretty solid piece on Campbell's skewing of the stats.
Get your learn on.
Personally, I don't give a shit if you eat meat or not. But you're conflating a moral issue (of yours) with a health issue (of ours). I'll agree with you that the vast majority of meat that gets eaten in this country is crap. Factory farms need to go. Grain-feeding animals needs to stop. So do food subsidies for corn and grain. But beyond your morals, there's absolutely nothing unhealthy about eating a grass-fed steak, or a cage-free, chicken that's been allowed to run around outside and do its chicken-y thing. So long as you tolerate those well (food allergy tests - another thing I'm not sure you're aware of that's very, very popular in the Paleo community, and many people come back allergic or intolerant of many animal products).
Anyway, I'm done here. You still haven't specifically told me what's pseudoscientific. You've linked to a group with an agenda and wikipedia, but have made all sorts of claims that imply you have some very specific knowledge relating to some damaging aspects of consumption of high-quality meats in a balanced diet with high-quality fruits, veggies, etc. I can link you studies and papers by scientists and doctors all day. You haven't cited one.
Moreover, you make the claim that because we don't know what foods we're evolved to thrive on we shouldn't eat Paleo - all the while claiming Veganism is better. On what grounds if you can't say what we've evolved to eat? You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I highly recommend the book "Beautiful Babies" by Kristen Michaelis. Really great no-nonsense guide to eating right for your pregnancy.
So if you choose a methylfolate prenatal and get an additional methylated B supplement and eat amazing foods (sidebar: I love this cookbook for prenatal nutrition), you will be ahead of the game.
If you want to be a superhero, also check your pantry and throw out anything fortified with folic acid, like certain breads and noodles. If you want to be a super superhero, get your partner tested for MTHFR, because his genes will affect baby's genes, which will affect how well baby absorbs folate.
You need to decide whether or not you're comfortable deciding to take a baby aspirin without your doctor's approval. I decided to take it right away, and when I met with my midwife later, she told me to take it — but my GP didn't want me on it, because he didn't know enough about MTHFR. The reason for baby aspirin (or the shots) is because MTHFR can lead to clotting disorders, and if the clots clog up the placenta or cord, it can cause miscarriage. My midwife said to take it until 2 weeks before the due date.
Sidebar: If heaven forbid you ever have a miscarriage, please know that it's not your fault. Okay? Picture me shaking you by the shoulders until you internalize this. Miscarriages happen for a thousand reasons, and it's not the mother's fault. You specifically are doing a good job for your baby and you are handling this really early and you need to be kind to yourself.
There's no harm in calling other OBs/midwives, right? Might as well, you may find someone who's knowledgeable and a really good fit. But it's OK if this is the path you're on. Even if they don't want you on aspirin, no doctor is going to say "don't take high-quality OTC vitamins!", and as long as you avoid folic acid, you're a step ahead of the game. You are doing good things for your baby. The baby can wait a week for you to get more information. It's gonna be okay.
If you like the Whole 30 people, It Starts With Food or Well Fed might be good resources.
http://www.amazon.com/Starts-Food-Discover-Whole30-Unexpected-ebook/dp/B008C20TDG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1404450579&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=whole+30
Plants are not sentient. They are not aware, they do not enjoy their lives, they do not experience pain, they do not experience distress. You know this.
Comparing humans and animals makes sense -- we share several characteristics, as listed above. We share one characteristic with plants: we are both alive. Life has never been mentioned as the requirement for ethical consideration. The line is drawn, logically, at sentience. We do not consider it murder to take a non-sentient human off of life support, for example.
You say that you respect vegans and vegetarians for their choice, but it seems that you don't even understand their choice. Why don't you read a book so you can respect us more convincingly? I'd recommend this one.
I've read several pro-meat books without gaining respect for the authors, but let me know if you also have a tip on a good book.
B12 er svært at få, men løses ved at spise en pille. Det er i øvrigt ikke kun veganere som har brug for B12, mange kødspisere får også for lidt, og https://www.amazon.co.uk/Could-B12-An-Epidemic-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691 er spændende læsning for alle.
Jeg supplerer min diæt med B-12, carnosine, vitamin D, vitamin A, DHA+EPA og magnesium, det er i øvrigt også anbefalet at kødspisere gør dette.
Meget forskning peger på at de fleste plantespisere får nok og korrekt protein: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-vegetarians-get-enough-protein/
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer by Thomas Seyfried An extremely dense, but still somewhat accessible book about the nutrition side of cancer. The author builds on the Warburg effect and argues that cancer is not primarily caused by mutations, but by a reversal of the cell's energy production to a more primitive state (of yeast). This state uses glucose and certain proteins to produce energy via fermentation instead of oxygen. Working from this premise the author suggests fasting and a ketogenic diet to prevent cancer. While the author's arguments were convincing, it sometimes feels he's drifting too far away from mainstream diet and I'd like to see his conclusions supported by more large studies.
Spoiler alert.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Grown-Kitchen-Gardens-America/dp/0307956024
It Starts With Food is a phenomenal book to start with just to understand how food affects us. Another one that covers autoimmunity is The Immune System Recovery Plan. Both of these books revolve around diet and not anxiety, but it is my firm belief that in order to find what is triggering the anxiety, you must work on other areas of your life first. If diet, exercise, and sleep do not subdue your symptoms, then keep searching. I’d be willing to bet if you tried the elimination diet, whether Whole30 or Dr Blum’s Recovery Plan, this will help you.
I’d love to hear about your progress. Please feel free to follow up. You’re so young!! You have so much potential!! Don’t let something like this control you. Initially, you might find yourself resistant to try new things, so it will take what I call ‘just making the decision’. This means that if you want to find peace with your health, you just have to decide to do it and push through whatever doubt (or anxiety) you might have.
It’s one thing to make the decision, so how do you stick with the decision you might be thinking? Especially when the stress really peaks. Three things.
“I will work on being less stressed”. This is not a goal. It has none of the components of a goal. “This week, I will take 10 minutes each day to meditate before starting my day.” That is a proper goal. It’s measurable, it has an end date, and at the end of the week, you can measure its effectiveness. Write these goals down to make them real and tangible. Put them with your mission statement and at the end of each week, assess your progress. This might sound time consuming, but after a couple weeks, this new habit will take very little time.
For you, being anxiety free might be the ultimate goal, but to reach that, you will need to make smaller, more focused goals to reach that bigger one. You can do this. You might need to enlist the help of someone you trust. Find an accountability partner so when you do hit rock bottom (and that’s okay if you do!), you have someone to lean on who can help you stay on track with your goals.
Again, feel free to reach out if you have more questions. Patience is going to be your friend here. However, just on elimination diets alone, people have made sweeping recoveries to all sorts of illnesses. I won’t go into the details but look at those books I suggested to see how food can truly affect us.
Life is a journey. No one lives your life but you. Make it yours. Make it awesome!
This is a book all about the necessity of fat.
The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393244830/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_9PMAybRAZ4JYW
I highly recommend Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism for these types of inquiries
Vegans are religious fanatics about their diet. Reading their books, checking their websites and joining their groups is like essentially saying that you should join a church group and read the Bible to learn if Christianity is true. The sources are all biased in favor of the belief.
Instead of reading blogs and websites, people should go to Google Scholar and actually search for real scientific papers on the topic and they should buy a real textbook on how the fuck human metabolism works. There are real life Biochemists who study human metabolism for a living, but no one wants to read their work. Instead, they'd rather read the blog of some dude who looks buff in his photos or a blonde girl with a nice ass that says her juice date made her hot, not her amazing genetics. Here's a good starting point. Notice how the WHO finds that a mixed diet increases protein absorption if you check:
TABLE 6-7 Example of Calculations Needed for Adjustment of Protein Allowances for a Diet with 33%, Animal- and 67% Vegetable-Source Protein.
TABLE 6-6 Values for the Digestibility of Protein in Humansa
33% of the diet from animal sources. By golly gosh, that sounds like a balanced diet! But I think your own experience at least proves to you that vegan doesn't work.
> She was not a vegan/vegetarian!
*Ahem* From her own "about" page:
>>Tara's Affiliations Include
>> Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
>> Greater New York Dietetic Association
>> Chinese Americans in Nutrition and Dietetics (2015 award winner)
>> Nutrition Entrepreneurs DPG (2016 award winner, current PR/Marketing Coordinator)
>>* Weight Management DPG
Gee, I wonder what those "affiliate" organizations she was a member of promote for diets...
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The largest organization of healthcare professionals in the country officially deemed the vegan diet best for health and the environment.
What's more, their official site heavily promotes vegetarianism AND veganism, even for infants and small children.
Their basic "Dietary Guidelines" are the generic government promoted "MyPlate" -- which is essentially a vegetarian/vegan (and heavily ANTI-meat, ANTI-animal food) -- a sightly updated version of the abysmal "food pyramid" that was POLITICALLY crafted back in the mid 1970's, and which are the ROOT cause of the vast majority of America's present obesity, chronic gastrointestinal, and chronic mental illnesses.
This is the shit diet she was trained in, and it was the shit diet she SOLD, and the shit diet that she ate.
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>She ate meat and delicious healthy foods that she also recommended to her patients, myself included.
Ayah, she may very well have eaten a trivial portion of "meat" (or more likely faux-meat) things in trendy-foodie meals; unfortunately that isn't sufficient to offset the manifold health problems that come from eating a high-carb crap food diet.
Add on that -- depending on what supplements she was taking and what medications -- OTC as well as prescription -- that she was on (and given the present era, the pervasive use of such medications in our society -- especially amount women of her general age range -- combined with her own statements of a DECADE of mental health problems, and her professional states... I would be GREATLY surprised if she wasn't on several different such medications: psychoactive as well as "gastrointestinal" issues) those same medications & supplements almost certainly INHIBITED or blocked the uptake of several critical things that animal food products contain, not the least of which being B12 (which is NOT a single compound, but rather a very complex array of chemically related compounds) as well as IF (aka "intrinsic factor").
Her occasional eating of small amounts of meat -- especially when prepared in various "trendy/foodie" restaurant meal form -- was almost certainly abysmally insufficient to overcome the gradual and steady depletion of critical things from her body; and nowhere NEAR sufficient to help her recover from what was apparently multiple-decades of an inadequate/problematic diet.
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Oh and in terms of the whole "delicious" -- candy-like coatings & sauces, and overspiced foods -- are NOT the same as "healthy" eating.
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As for yourself: Aye and what were & are your problems?
What supplements are you taking? How many different prescription medications -- including mental health as well as ones to deal with your digestion & other physical issues -- are you taking on a regular and/or intermittent basis?
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>She was a great nutritionist and a very pleasant, sweet, beautiful person in real life.
She put on a false front. From her "good bye" (or "see you later") pre-suicide note:
>>"I truly have a great life *on paper.***"
Implication: but not in reality.
>>"However, all these facets seem trivial to me. It’s the ultimate first world problem, I get it. I often **felt detached while in a room full of my favorite people; I also felt absolutely nothing during what should have been the happiest and darkest times in my life."
Moreover this was not some temporary or RECENT thing... she began that "good bye" note with the following:
>>"I have written this note several times in my head for over a decade, and this one finally feels right. No edits, no overthinking. I have accepted hope is nothing more than delayed disappointment, and *I am just plain old-fashioned tired of feeling tired.***"
OVER A DECADE... since she was now a mere 27, that means since she was at least 17, 16 possibly younger.
Given her statement on her about page that her father was a "foodie" -- I'm inclined to believe that she very likely NEVER ate a healthy diet a day in her life; from childhood onward -- and as she never KNEW what an actually "healthy" diet or a healthy "life" (mentally as well as physically healthy); well she had no way of knowing that what she was taught, what she learned to regurgitate and teach others in turn... was anything & everything BUT a healthy diet.
NO matter how many "official" -- or quasi-official, "professional" and so called "expert" -- stamps of approval get placed on such.
Labels are just labels.
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>How dare you people writing this about her not knowing her in person?!
Well she killed herself; and as noted above, she was apparently never REAL with anyone in her life -- whatever emotions she showed were (per her own words) hollow and fake... NOT actually "felt" inside.
Plain fact or the matter is that you actually didn't know her at all.
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That's SAD.
What would be SADDER still... would be to DENY the very problems that caused her to needlessly suffer so much, and for so long; only to end her own life in such a truly tragic manner.
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Save yourself from similar chronic suffering, and a potentially similar sad fate: Could It Be B12?: An Epidemic of Misdiagnoses**
This isn’t a personal attack, but debating this with people who haven’t read a single nutrition textbook is impossible. I’m talking about the only CICO that anyone could possibly mean in this discussion.
Obviously the human body as a system does not violate the conservation of energy. Not a single person who is sufficiently educated to cite a law of thermodynamics is going to argue that a meal plan can violate it. So I don’t know why you would crusade against a misinterpretation so outlandish that nobody is ever going to present it.
> there is a lot of variety to choose from to find what works for each person.
There’s a functionally infinite number of diets to choose from, in terms of simply which combinations of foods you’re eating, but they’re all just different ways to achieve adequate amounts of a finite number of nutrients necessary for life processes. If you’re getting same nutrient load from one combination of foods or another one, and they’re calorically similar, those diets aren’t really different in the parameters of this topic.
CICO is a reductionist attitude towards nutrition that states that guessing your caloric deficit and staying under it is a viable solution to maintaining a healthy wait over long periods. That claim has been disproven, for decades, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any reputable figure in the field defend it. Playing the CICO game tapers down your metabolic efficiency, and you end up reducing your average burn rate, and having to restrict your caloric intake more and more to avoid a backlash of weight gain, because you’re perpetually keeping your body in a highly anabolic state, and decreasing your insulin sensitivity, so it’s chomping at the bit to store every calorie as fat. The explosion of popular support behind cyclical calorie restriction, which is called intermittent fasting now (16/8 and other feeding windows, “one meal a day”, etc) is still traversing social media, but it’s been a widespread position in nutritional science for, again decades. I can think off-hand of a couple of studies that came out about 20 years ago on Ramadan fasting, which showed transient improvements across several endocrine parameters. The references in this paper are a good resource on the subject.
https://watermark.silverchair.com/znu00407000981.pdf
If you are interested in the subject, here are two texts commonly used in metabolic science courses:
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gropper/dp/1305627857
https://www.amazon.com/Biochemistry-Jeremy-M-Berg/dp/1464126100
WRONG. No everything is not a wild guess. Not even close. there's peer reviewed science . Ive read 200+ papers on the gut micrbiome, bacteria and eczema - the gut skin axis. 91% of AD patients think their doctor is clueless and doesn't know what they're doing.(NEA)
Clearly, something is very wrong. because on the on the other hand, scientists are telling us our beneficial microbes are going extinct and western lifestyle is causing immune related diseases TO DOUBLE every 15 years.
NOONE KNOWS EXACTLY WHY
HOWEVER, there's lots of smoke everywhere. here's a quick crash course for the layperson:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/24/545631521/is-the-secret-to-a-healthier-microbiome-hidden-in-the-hadza-diet
the Sonnenbergs guessing is VASTLY more important that any reddit poster. Go learn yourself.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Gut-Taking-Control-Long-term-ebook/dp/B00OZ0TOV2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miEngVBrrIc
To clarify, I dont disagree the environment can be it for some people.
Diet is not the answer alone. The beneficial microbes you need to help your condition may be extinct or not with you. Im not making this shit up. We are in real trouble.
Dr Alessio Fasano at harvard has suggested we may need a Manhattan style project to address our issues as a western civilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rTAhlJ9PMM
there is no cure coming ever. you cant cure everyone that developed the disease differently. we're only looking the symptons
no magic bullet.
Im trying to raise awareness on the gut side of things - treatment needs to be diversified. everyone different on case by case basis.
Try this one out. It's a cookbook, but there is a lot of information about why you want to eat these combinations of stuff, and not others. It is specific, for athletes, but plenty of prose in there.
https://www.amazon.com/Feed-Zone-Cookbook-Flavorful-Athletes/dp/1934030767
Thomas Seyfried, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer
(That is a textbook, but this next one is written by an investigative journalist):
Travis Christofferson, Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms
If you really wanna geek out you can also find and look into the actual cancer genome project results once you have access to it.
If you don't like Atkins and if you're gonna use a variant of the "everything in moderation" argument you're not gonna like what these people have to say about how to treat cancer (but you do have the right attitude to pass medical school: you're repeating conventional wisdom talking points so you won't piss off your professors. Just don't go all Robb Wolf on us; he was about to get a medical license but then decided to go into biochemistry instead after being disillusioned with the medical industry).
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" You say that medicine is not intellectual, and you are wrong. " What I mean is that it is not a minimum requirement to be a doctor, and most doctors are time-starved, so they're not gonna be looking too hard at the data that's being presented to them by medical researchers. Example Seriously if you think being a doctor will be like living the life of an intellectual you will be very disappointed.
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Michael Eades mentioned in another blog post about how he just had to accept that his colleagues were used to having such low standards for what was an acceptable fasting blood glucose level in diabetic patients that their patients would end up as leg/foot amputees and blind from the mildly but constantly elevated blood glucose levels, while he himself didn't have this problem with his patients (because he actually knew what he was doing). The fact that his colleagues might learn something from him never occurred to his colleagues. This is what I mean when I say being a doctor is not an intellectual job. He takes an intellectual approach to the job but his colleagues don't; yet they are still allowed to practice medicine. In fact you are literally defending the mindset that his colleagues have in these posts, you just don't know it yet (and hopefully this will change but if it does, expect some people to hate you)
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By the way you might as well check out this book by what might very well be the oldest living type 1 diabetic. The author was well on his way to dying from diabetes when he figured it out with the help of his physician wife who had access to a glycometer (back then patients weren't allowed to monitor their blood glucose so only a doctor could buy a glucometer). He tried to tell others about how he recovered from certain death but nobody listened so he switched careers and became a doctor. Unfortunately he's also considered a quack by the mainstream because he promotes low carb, which, like I said before, is politically incorrect.
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Also, Terry Wahls - a medical researcher who got MS, got put in a wheelchair and managed to heal herself enough to no longer need it. Seriosuly. She's also somebody that got labelled a quack and they tried to tell her she "didn't have MS after all" because until her nobody ever reversed MS symptoms (therefore, if she did do it, it must mean she didn't really have it). But unlike Dr. Richard K. Bernstein the label of quack isn't quite sticking to her; she's becoming popular in MS circles as more ppl w/ MS try out her protocol and it worked. And lucky for us she's a medical researcher; last time I checked she's going to be doing some research on her modified paleo / low carb diet
This is a good summary of the research.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470584920/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8SNG250K6BUQ
Staffan Lindeberg's book. He's the doctor who did the Katava Study.
There's a number of disorders that may be to blame. There are certain genetic defects that cause appetite to soar. The body may be unable to realise that it's had enough calories. Alternately she may be not able to store calories as fat correctly and this may require constant eating. There's also a virus out there(the adenovirus AD36 or other similar chicken viruses) which can cause high appetite. AD36 may be responsible for up to 30% of obesity in the uSA.
I really suggest reading The Secret Life of Fat, see http://thesecretlifeoffat.com/ or https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Fat-Science-Understood/dp/0393244830
The short story is, it's not your fault. I suggest reading that book and seeking out doctors who are experts in metabolism and can do real tests for genes or other issues that may be causing the problem. Then you may if you're lucky have a possibility of seeking a solution.
My wife (mid-40s) suffers from strange tingling and numbness in her face, hands, legs ... been happening for years. She's wondering if it could be caused by low B12 (she also has had ulcurative colitis since childhood).
Her serum B12 levels come back as "normal", but she's been reading about something where that test can be deceptive that it doesn't show the amount of B12 that's actually active in your cells ... or something like that, she can describe it better.
There's books on the subject (specifically "Could It Be B12") that suggest an aggressive "B12 shot a day for a week" (or until symptoms subside) and then B12 shot a week, then one a month for life.
Do you have any familiarity with any of this? Thanks!
This one is advanced and expensive but it's the absolute best text book I've ever had. [Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism] (http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gropper/dp/1133104053/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1419868421&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=advanced+nutrition+and+human+metabolism) There is a lot to learn from this book
An athlete's body can only utilize 1.5 - 1.7 grams of protein per kg of body weight on a daily basis. 86g of protein in a single drink is stupid and ridiculous. Read it a few days ago in a Sports Nutrition textbook:
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Sports-Nutrition-2nd-Edition-Benardot/dp/1450401619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376146687&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=benardot
I've got some semi-local rides that I can check that out on.
Will definitely check out Joe Friel's books. Thanks for the beta! :)
The books that helped me the most this year are listed below. What books, or training programs, do you recommend for someone who can get on 2-3 rides a week?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Time-Crunched-Cyclist-2nd-Ed/dp/193403083X
http://www.amazon.com/The-Feed-Zone-Cookbook-Flavorful/dp/1934030767
Here: http://www.amazon.com/Could-It-Be-B12-Misdiagnoses/dp/1884995691
This is the book I brouyght that helped me. It does in fact say in that book that even psychosis/manic depression can be a symptom that's why I ask. I displayed manic depressive symptoms but they're weren't quite right. This is why. The B12.
Interestingly, I was reading "The Secret Life of Fat" (so good,link: https://www.amazon.ca/Secret-Life-Fat-Science-Understood/dp/0393244830) and she cites a study that measures hunger cues (not just self-reporting but actual hormonal changes) for men and women when they exercise. What they found was that women experienced increased hunger at a lower calories burn (400 cals and up) whereas men in the study did not experience hunger until they got to higher calorie burn (600 calls and up).
I will say that cardio makes me want to eat everything in site but weightlifting doesn't affect my appetite in the least. And I'm sure you've heard all this but weight lifting = increased muscle mass = increased burn when sedentary. Anyway, best of luck!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969803/
>However, cancer cells have to compensate for the 18-fold lower efficacy of energy generation (glycolysis only makes 2 ATP per glucose molecule consumed while mitochondrial respiration can produce up to 36 ATP for each glucose molecule catabolized). Part of the solution is to upregulate glucose transporters, especially Glut1, Glut2, Glut3, and Glut4, to uptake more glucose5,22-24. In fact, the increase in glucose uptake is a major feature distinguishing tumor cells from normal cells.
emphasis mine
https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0065522
This is just a quick response. I'm going to get you more.
This one is a good intro into nutrition:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manual-Nutrition-12th-Department-Health/dp/0113229291
This one is more advanced and goes into mechanistic detail about physiological processes that involve nutrients.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Advanced-Nutrition-Human-Metabolism-Smith/dp/1133104053/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1481740086&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=advanced+nutrition+and+human+metabolism
Recipes from http://www.amazon.com/The-Feed-Zone-Cookbook-Flavorful/dp/1934030767 seem easy to prepare.
So the knock against red meat is usually about saturated fat. If you have another concern about red meat other than that, please post so we can find you the relevant research. The point is, that red meat is not just a big ball of saturated fat, its mostly mono-unsaturated.
Here is a link from a university in Australia with a Red Meat breakdown:
http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&amp;context=hbspapers
There was a link posted already re: saturated fat. If you want to dig down more, this is a good starting point, filled with references for you to follow:
http://www.amazon.com/Know-Your-Fats-Understanding-Cholesterol/dp/0967812607
If its cholesterol you are worried about, this is a good place to start:
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/01/does-dietary-saturated-fat-increase.html
Lastly, there is a large amount of anecdotal clinical experience where people's HDL\LDL and especially Triglycerides improve on this higher-red-meat diet.
TL:DR: Red meat has plenty of "good fat" besides saturated fat, and saturated fat is actually good for you anyway.
get this book and then do what it says
http://www.amazon.com/Track-Your-Plaque-prevention-coronary/dp/0595316646/ref=la_B002BLT426_1_7?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452556351&amp;sr=1-7
This Dr. uses advanced imaging technology to track plaque buildup, and has devised a diet and supplement regimen that is scientifically proven to cleanout blood vessels
also get some K2 supplements
http://www.amazon.com/Vitamin-K2-Calcium-Paradox-Little-Known/dp/0062320041/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452556943&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Kate+Rheaume-bleue
This book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Your-Kid-Eat/dp/0915950839 it has saved many a parent from a mentally breakdown at the dinner table.
Gropper and Stipanuk are two well-rounded general nutrition texts.
I wrote a book for people w/o any biochemistry background: The poor, misunderstood calorie.
Thanks for the feedback! Good stuff. 👍
First, let me be very clear that I'm not a professional nutritionist but just a happy amateur. So take everything from here on out with a big grain of salt.
You have a good point. Two things though:
445.4 µg B12 above what IF can handle would then mean up to 20.7 µg B12 absorbed through diffusion (3 µg daily average).
ln(Ai) = 0.7694 * ln(Di) - 0.9614
) which is to say that any microgram added is absorbed at a lower and lower percentage but the overall B12 absorption does go up.500 would mean: e ^ (0.7694 ln(500) - 0.9614) = 45.6 µg absorbed (6.5 µg daily average).
I think the key part in their quote on maximum absorption is "amounts usually consumed with a meal"*. With supplements we've seen much higher levels of absorption than the 1.5 µg they talk about. More than 54.6 µg + passive diffusion can explain.
Hey! Reddit is a great source, but it looks like you want some detailed information, Have you tried books and google?
In terms of nutrition, this book is a must have for anyone serious:
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gropper/dp/1133104053/
But this site has some pretty good articles as well, as a beginning perspective:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition
In terms of Power/ Motor development/ Performance , I am not really sure outside of powerlifting, but these 2 books are amazing
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Programming-Strength-Training-2nd/dp/0982522703
http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-3rd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp/0982522738
Recovery is actually pretty damn simple - sleep more, eat more, rest and avoid over-exertion. For a more scientific standpoint, this book is a must have
http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Supple-Leopard-Preventing-Performance/dp/1936608588/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z
Any more specific advice and you would have to list your goals :)
The book we have is How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0915950839/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8
It’s fairly old but still relevant so we got an inexpensive used copy. My husband has read a lot of it (he’s the cook); I’ve only read some parts that seemed most relevant. Like with Ferber it takes a little bit of effort to get past feeling defensive that you’re doing everything “wrong” especially if like me you have been begging/pressuring kid to eat out of worry. I feel like changing our approach gave me “permission” or something not to worry if my kid only wants one food or only wants bread for 3 meals in a row.
We adapted the basic approach and made meal/snack times closer together than I think she suggests (about 2-2.5 hours except a long stretch around nap) for now to be able to avoid giving unplanned snacks to hangry toddler. Even though he didn’t have much patience for it we started putting him in the high chair for most food. Now he’s still not as patient as basically every other kid I see but big improvement, even when he’s not that hungry he will often explore his foods and “chat” with us a bit instead of immediately freaking out to get down. Seems obvious in retrospect that the predictable structure/cues help him know what’s happening.
You want to read these books:
http://amzn.to/1VEpzok - tripping over the truth. About the metabolic theory of cancer.
http://amzn.to/1XsTaCX - cancer as a metabolic disease. This is the full color version of the above with gory pictures and the biology of it.
I've read both and they were very valuable. They'll help you understand why keto helped you during chemo. I hope everything went well for you!
You can adapt for increased usage of fat and this is a normal adaptation to endurance training. It's explained in this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450401619.
Ketosis should be avoided as much as possible.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0915950839?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=alpmom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0915950839
You're doing exactly the right thing! Please read this book, it's helped so many people I know. And maybe if you can show your mother that you have a plan, and it's researched, she'll leave you the fuck alone already.
Keep feeding her what you're eating, don't make a big fuss of it and give in. Your way will pay off in the end, AND she'll be eating better.
and the oldest person in the world smoked cigarettes till she died. There are plenty of sources for the idea, all of them varying in their reliability.
http://www.amazon.com/Milk-Deadly-Poison-Robert-Cohen/dp/0965919609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1396281211&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=milk+the+deadly+poison
http://www.amazon.com/Whitewash-Disturbing-Truth-About-Health/dp/0865716765/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1Q88RHK2JW7NJ63FQXCX
oldest woman:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
>Name me a moral concept. Or a few. And why are we assuming that nature is non-moral?
That's the thing, I'm saying that there are no distinctively "moral" properties in nature. Morality, defined as "The extent to which an action is right or wrong," is a useful fiction, based on the conventions and designs of other human beings. When someone says that "rape is morally wrong," what they are saying in effect is that its consequences are undesirable, and should be prohibited as a matter of principle. Once enough people come together and reach a consensus on this point, a new moral is born. But the moral itself does not derive its authority from an objective ground of value, which stands above and beyond the practical interests and agreements of human beings.
I'm far more comfortable with using the terms good or evil, just or unjust, equal or unequal, appropriate or inappropriate, suitable or unsuitable, proportional or disproportional, adaptive or maladaptive, functional or dysfunctional, efficient or inefficient. Note that I'm not talking about good or evil in a theistic or moral sense, I'm speaking in purely functional terms. A "good" thing of a certain kind is one which performs its function well. For instance, the function of a knife is to cut: cutting is that which a knife alone achieves, or achieves better than other objects. It is a distinctive quality of a knife that it cut well or badly. To the extent that an object lacks these traits, it will be evil or bad as a result. In that sense, the words that I use are devoid of subjective valuations, there is no expression of liking or prejudice, rather, I'm using these words to point to objective criteria, and as a result the claims are matters for empirical investigation, not what one or another ideology proclaims is right or wrong.
>Humans feel pain and process emotions in the same way that most mammals do.
I never denied that fact. However, I'd characterize the issue differently. As I said before, it is in the consitution of our species that we eat animal flesh for subsistance. Obviously, I'm not claiming that we require a wholly carniverous diet, only that a large proportion of our food comes from animals. The only implication that follows from this is that nature prescribes that lower animals are the proper prey of human beings, and thus it is fitting, appropriate, or suitable to our species. You are the one introducing a moral claim into this situation. And as I said, your claim is groundless as it appeals to an arbitrary preference of subjective taste. It has no moral authority. You also lack the general consent of others, which would be required to turn this into a principle or norm of conduct. So where does that leave us? I maintain that we have a natural right or entitlement to prey on other creatures for the good of our species. This right follows from the fact that we are proportionally superior, in nearly all respects, as it pertains to fitness, which is the only measure of comparison at issue in the final analysis. If you dispute this claim, kindly explain how it is possible for us to fish out entire oceans, or reduce whole ecosystems to cinders to suit our purposes. The suffering of other animals is indeed an evil, but only for those species so unfortunate to become victims of the human appetite.
Here's a small taste of the contradictory evidence you requested.
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
>In her groundbreaking new book, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Melanie Joy explores the invisible system that shapes our perception of the meat we eat, so that we love some animals and eat others without knowing why. She calls this system carnism. Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, that allows us to selectively choose which animals become our meat, and it is sustained by complex psychological and social mechanisms. Like other "isms" (racism, ageism, etc.), carnism is most harmful when it is unrecognized and unacknowledged. Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows names and explains this phenomenon and offers it up for examination. Unlike the many books that explain why we shouldn't eat meat, Joy's book explains why we do eat meat -- and thus how we can make more informed choices as citizens and consumers.
(I have not actually read the book, but I was introduced to the term when Gever Tulley took it and applied the same concepts to danger to form Dangerism )
This is essentially notmilk.com under another name. Famous site known for spreading lies and misinformation about the nutritional value of milk.
Like this: http://www.amazon.com/Milk-Deadly-Poison-Robert-Cohen/dp/0965919609
> The calcium in cow's milk is basically useless because it has insufficient magnesium content
lmao, completely wrong
progesterone improves magnesium retention. excessive estrogen dominance results in with magnesium deficiency. milk has about a 100/1 ratio of progesterone to estrogen.
>Milk can be thought of as "liquid meat" because of its high protein content which, in concert with other proteins, may actually LEACH calcium from the body
Oh look it's this again. Where have I heard this before?
>Cow's milk is allowed to have feces in it
Of course, we can't have propaganda piece without scaremongering can we?
Dieting is still a form of disordered eating which can be a quick spiral back into eating disorder behaviors. The fact that the brain only functions at 60% if backed by evidence. Its even in my advanced metabolism textbook. What research have you read that supports that its good for people with eating disorders? I can send my grad research if you're interested in reading it.
Cancer survivor here. I went through two years of chemo and eventually came out in remission. That was about 10 years ago. Recently I started doing more research into the cancer industry and how much of it is really bad science. I urge anyone to look up the mitochondrial and metabolic origins of cancer. Funny how ALL tumors display a dependence on glucose metabolism, due to their impaired oxphos respiration pathway. That's even how we DIAGNOSE tumors, through radiolabeled glucose in PET scans. Restricted carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets have a documented inhibition effect on tumor growth and is probably the most promising lead to a cancer cure that we have ever found. It's a shame that assholes like this girl in the article make the news & exploit people in need.
For a good start on mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer, try Tom Seyfried's book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease"