I am afraid I'll have to differ with this article. I went from eating an unhealthy diet high in whole grains, low fat, etc, and it was killing me. I've switched to eating a Paleo diet which includes lots of the meats you demonize. The information given in this article stems from a lot of really bad research thats been done over the years which we are finding out now is just bunk. I'd suggest everyone, including the author, read Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories". I think it is ironic that the author even says she has used a low carb, high protein diet to get healthy, then slams that same diet. Another good resource is the Weston Price foundation. Dr Price studied many indigenous hunter gatherer populations to try to figure out why they didn't suffer from the so called diseases of civilization. If the bunk studies the author sites (without a reference for the reader to confirm) would suggest that these meat eating hunter gatherers should all be keeling over with colon cancer. But the exact opposite is true. In one of these bunk studies, careful reading will show you that they would consider pizza to be a "meat" if it had any meat toppings! Folks, it's not the meat that is giving people cancer, it's all the carbs and glucose, and yes the "healthy whole grain" ones too.
The "Conventional Wisdom" advice like the author (I'm sure well intentioned) gives is quite simply killing us. Americans have drank the cool aid, are eating lower fat, less cholesterol and guess what, it's not working, we are getting fatter and sicker. For instance, the beans she insists you replace healthy proteins from meat with are full of lectins and anti nutrients, not to mention lots of carbs which will bump up your insulin levels and just make you fat. What we need to do instead of eating processed grains, sugars, legumes, etc. is to start eating more like our ancestors ate and our bodies are evolved to eat. That includes lean meats, from a pastured source not a feed lot, fresh veggies, some fruits seasonally and perhaps some starchy vegetables like tubers if you aren't trying to lean out.
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I am afraid I'll have to differ with this article. I went from eating an unhealthy diet high in whole grains, low fat, etc, and it was killing me. I've switched to eating a Paleo diet which includes lots of the meats you demonize. The information given in this article stems from a lot of really bad research thats been done over the years which we are finding out now is just bunk. I'd suggest everyone, including the author, read Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories". I think it is ironic that the author even says she has used a low carb, high protein diet to get healthy, then slams that same diet. Another good resource is the Weston Price foundation. Dr Price studied many indigenous hunter gatherer populations to try to figure out why they didn't suffer from the so called diseases of civilization. If the bunk studies the author sites (without a reference for the reader to confirm) would suggest that these meat eating hunter gatherers should all be keeling over with colon cancer. But the exact opposite is true. In one of these bunk studies, careful reading will show you that they would consider pizza to be a "meat" if it had any meat toppings! Folks, it's not the meat that is giving people cancer, it's all the carbs and glucose, and yes the "healthy whole grain" ones too.
The "Conventional Wisdom" advice like the author (I'm sure well intentioned) gives is quite simply killing us. Americans have drank the cool aid, are eating lower fat, less cholesterol and guess what, it's not working, we are getting fatter and sicker. For instance, the beans she insists you replace healthy proteins from meat with are full of lectins and anti nutrients, not to mention lots of carbs which will bump up your insulin levels and just make you fat. What we need to do instead of eating processed grains, sugars, legumes, etc. is to start eating more like our ancestors ate and our bodies are evolved to eat. That includes lean meats, from a pastured source not a feed lot, fresh veggies, some fruits seasonally and perhaps some starchy vegetables like tubers if you aren't trying to lean out.
March 30, 2011 - 9:43amThis Comment
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