Article: Real Food, Naturally

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Real Food, Naturally: Low Fat Diet Does Not Lower Health Risks

 

by Glen Boudreaux, <http://www.jolievuefarms.com/> Jolie Vue Farms

 

" The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk

of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no

effect " , reports the New York Times.

 

The study followed 49,000 women ages 50 to 79 for 8 years, 1/2 of whom

followed a low-fat plan, the other half ate fat as they pleased.

Followers of the low-fat diet had as many incidents of breast cancer,

colon cancer, heart attacks and stroke as those who did not.

 

Dr. Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University,

called the study " revolutionary " . Dr. Michael Thun, who directs studies

for the American Cancer Society, called it the " Rolls Royce of studies "

and that it is likely to be the final word on low-fat diets.

 

Your author's comment is this: it looks like Thomas Jefferson, a man of

unusually long life for any generation, was right. Put one meat, 3

vegetables, and a fruit on your dinner plate, all in roughly equal

proportions. Of course, President Jefferson was also eating from the

farmer's market - his own. So he was eating fresh and local, and his

meats must have been grass-based.

 

Celebrate life with food that is " thousands of miles fresher " .

 

You'll find the Jefferson diet at your Houston Farmer's Market every

Tuesday evening and Saturday morning.

 

Real Food, Naturally: A Follow-up to the Fat Study

 

by Glen Boudreaux, Jolie Vue Farms <http://www.jolievuefarms.com/>

 

Last week I reported on the findings that low-fat diets did not reduce

heart and cancer rates. An important footnote to that study was the

importance of good fats vs. bad fats, especially when considered

alongside the Harvard weight loss study which found that it was not the

quantity but the quality of fats that we consume which determine weight

gain and good dietary health.

 

This week I will try to put the larger picture together, but first, I

will make my disclosures. I am not a professional nutritionist by any

measure. I base my personal views on experience, observation, and a lot

of reading. Take this for whatever you think it is worth.

 

3 simple rules

 

I think 3 facts are too often missing from the diet story:

1) We are complex machines. When we try to isolate one food group

and think that we can study it in isolation from the others, we can miss

the big picture. Each food group acts in unison with the others to

deposit its nutrients where they belong, and when you start eliminating

one, you may be short circuiting the digestibility of another. That is

why I talk so much about the Jefferson diet plan: eat a wide variety of

fresh, locally produced foods in about equal portions.

2) We have placed great emphasis on fats, largely denigrating

them as the cause of many of our ailments. In the process, we have

overlooked a much more substantial opponent of good health, sugar. The

digestion of historically large quantities of sugar more readily explain

our overweightedness and insulin-related disease. Sugars abound in our

diet, but are usually hidden from view. Learn about where the sugars are

found and avoid them as much as possible. They abound in potatoes,

pasta, white rice, and bread (all of these are simple carbs), not to

mention desserts and soda pop.

3) We are consumers of processed foods, and that is a big

mistake. Many of these packaged foods have rearranged or eliminated

certain food molecules, making them unrecognizable to your digestive

system. So they end up being stored on your waistline and in your

vascular system. Add to that destructive process the chemical

preservatives they add to extend the shelf life, and you have a real

smorgasbord of confusion that your body resists. Bad news. Eat fresh

food, unprocessed.

 

Our new motto at the Farmers Market is " Thousands of Miles Fresher " .

Start the first day of the rest of your life with a new approach to

eating. It's for sale at the Houston Farmers Market, every Tuesday

evening and Saturday morning.

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Go, Ien!!!! I am with you 100%. Thank you. Big Smiles! Kaye

 

 

In a message dated 2/17/2006 1:15:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,

ienvan writes:

>

> You are playing my song girl!

>

> The faddism around food drives me bonkers.

> I am pleased to say I have ignored all fat-free

> warnings and admonitions against eating butter

> and eggs for years.

>

> Yes, support your local farmer's market!

> I love being part of the one we have in our

> village.

>

> If the eat locally movement really takes off

> we can bring sanity back to agriculture and

> have more people living a decent life on the

> land too. This is about more than your own

> health.

>

> Don't get me started...

>

> Ien in the Kootenays

[Guest guest]

You are playing my song girl!

 

The faddism around food drives me bonkers.

I am pleased to say I have ignored all fat-free

warnings and admonitions against eating butter

and eggs for years.

 

Yes, support your local farmer's market!

I love being part of the one we have in our

village.

 

If the eat locally movement really takes off

we can bring sanity back to agriculture and

have more people living a decent life on the

land too. This is about more than your own

health.

 

Don't get me started...

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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