Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Malnutrition JoAnn Guest Oct 02, 2005 11:55 PDT How many of these top nine foods do you consume? Whole cow's milk 2% milk Processed American cheese White bread White flour White rolls Refined sugars Colas Ground beef A recent USDA (US Department of Agriculture) assessment of the top nine foods consumed by Americans clearly illustrates our pattern of over consumptive under nutrition. They consisted basically of dairy, white flour, white sugar and ground beef! We might think that dairy foods are a good thing; however they are full of saturated fat and, for many people, the cause of allergies, sinus problems, ear infections, bone loss, Type 1 diabetes, and chronic constipation. And after dairy foods, the most common foods are all sugar or quickly turn to sugar when they hit your stomach - white bread, white flour, white rolls, refined sugars and colas fueling the epidemic of insulin resistance. Lastly, there is ground beef, very high in saturated fat, hormones, antibiotics and xenobiotics as well as the occasional toxigenic E. coli! No wonder over 85% of Americans have one or more degenerative diseases by the time they turn 65. These foods have a very low NCR, or nutrient to calorie ratio. In other words, they are nutritionally empty calories. Believe it ornot, the more sugar you eat, the more vitamins you need to process that sugar. Beside simply low-NCR foods, we are gorging on excess calories. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 1999,282(16): 1579 - Caloric Imbalance Public Health) revealed that 50% of US adults are overweight, and 22% are obese (>30lb overweight). A recent update of that study found that in just a few years, the obesity rates increased from 22% to 30% and the overweight population increased from 50% to 65%. This exponential growth is frightening. Our caloric intake from 1976 to 1996 skyrocketed. Men increased their caloric intake by 2,239 calories a day and women increased by 1,646 calories a day. This is over and above what they were already eating, nearly doubling their daily caloric intake. In 2000, Americans spent $110 billion on fast food. This exceeds the amount spent on higher education, computers or new cars. On any given day, about 25% of Americans visit a fast food outlet and the typical American eats three burgers a week from one of 30,000 fast food outlets. [Guinness Book of World Records] While our philosophy of Ultraprevention, or personalized medicine,helps us recognize the differences among people, and the need for different diets for different body types and genetic predispositions, we have created some general guidelines for everyone that will work for a lifetime of sound and intelligent eating. The fundamental omission of modern medicine is the complete lack of awareness of how nutrition can create health or disease. We give lip service to eating a low-fat diet if you have heart disease, or drinking more milk if you have osteoporosis (which in fact may contribute to it), or avoiding spicy foods if you have reflux, but the central idea that the most important thing in creating a vital and well functioning body is eating vital food - food with life - is absent from medical practice. We divide foods into categories and lump all foods together into those categories - carbohydrates, fats and protein, and fiber. But not all carbohydrates are equal, nor are all proteins or all fats as the USDA food pyramid would have us believe. To illustrate, the carbohydrates in popcorn could not be more different in their effect on your body than the carbohydrates in beans. Those in popcorn raise your blood sugar dramatically, thereby increasing your risk of cancer; those in beans slow sugar absorption and therefore reduce your risk of cancer. With proteins, there is a difference between animal and vegetable proteins. Excess animal protein can increase your homocysteine, cause bone loss and acidify your blood, while vegetable proteins from nuts, legumes, and seeds can lower homocysteine (in part because of the folic acid they contain) and help increase bone density. Fats are also different. Saturated fat from animal sources can increase your risk of heart disease, while polyunsaturated omega-3 fats from fish or flax seeds can cut the risk of sudden death in half. Basically, we can separate foods into two basic categories, 1) High quality or high-nutrient density or high NCR and 2) Poor quality or low-nutrient density or low NCR. The Ultraprevention dietary recommendations focus primarily on high-quality foods in each category. Through this simple concept, a healthy eating program can be developed that is not a diet, but a program that supports and enriches your metabolism, immune system, detoxification, and reduces inflammation and oxidative stress while vanquishing malnutrition. A rich diversity of choices is available in our philosophy of the " varieties of eating experience. " Some may need more fat, or less fat, or may have higher protein needs, or not tolerate starchy carbohydrates. The best barometer of what you need is how you feel. When you eat properly for your genetic constitution and metabolism you should feel great, and when you are not you will feel lousy. Pay attention to how the food you eat makes you feel and experiment with different amounts of different categories of nutrients to see how they make you feel. You are the best judge of what works for you. If you eat properly for you, your weight will become normal, your energy will improve and often many seemingly unrelated physical complaints would disappear. Think about it: your body can only operate with the quality of food you provide it. In other words: junk in, junk out. Or eat vital food and revel in your vitality. JoAnn Guest mrsjo- www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets Gurubandhu If you cannot see God in all, You cannot see God at all. Yogi Bhajan How low will we go? Check out Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 What's funny is how companies claim that people can lose weight on a " dairy " diet, milk (and most dairy companies, even some yogurt) companies advertise that (of course in the fine print it says " as part of a low calorie diet " ) but ANY low calorie diet and you will lose weight! I have very over weight people coming up to me (no offense to any one of course) with a milk mustache (which by the way I find disgusting) holding cheese in their hand telling me how they're losing weight.... yeah, the weight lost is that their IQ just went down! Guru Khalsa <greatyoga wrote: Malnutrition JoAnn Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Interestingly, there was an article in Bazaar, Feb 2006, titled " drink milk, get slim? " in which a Dr. Michael B. Zemel, PH. D. was interviewed. He claims that " there is evidense that calcium from dairy foods works twice as well as other sources of calcium because dairy contains branched-chain amiono acids, which aid in muscle building. " He says that normally one third of every pound lost is muscle.. so " since these amino acids help buid buscle, by consuming dairy, your losing more fat and less muscle. " he said " ther are other componants in dairy besides calcium that are critical to making this process effective, such as the branched-amino acids " Leucine was mentioned as one of these which is " shown to assist in stabilizing blood sugar, which can in turn decresase food cravings " well, I looked and Luecine is one of the amino acids in braggs , so his " soy milk won't work because it isn't dairy ' comment doesn't fly. but then, neither does the fact that this Dr. Michael B Zemel has received $2,472,271.00 in grants from the National Dairy Council since 1998. jenni , Elizabeth S <landofthelizards wrote: > > What's funny is how companies claim that people can lose weight on a " dairy " diet, milk (and most dairy companies, even some yogurt) companies advertise that (of course in the fine print it says " as part of a low calorie diet " ) but ANY low calorie diet and you will lose weight! I have very over weight people coming up to me (no offense to any one of course) with a milk mustache (which by the way I find disgusting) holding cheese in their hand telling me how they're losing weight.... yeah, the weight lost is that their IQ just went down! > > Guru Khalsa <greatyoga wrote: > Malnutrition > JoAnn Guest > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Very interesting article, Guru - thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 This is also addressed flawed science in The China Study... man I need to buy a copy so I can reference it - I turned in my library copy!!! > Interestingly, there was an article in Bazaar, Feb 2006, titled > " drink milk, get slim? " in which a Dr. Michael B. Zemel, PH. D. was > interviewed. He claims that " there is evidense that calcium from > dairy foods works twice as well as other sources of calcium because > dairy contains branched-chain amiono acids, which aid in muscle > building. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Jenni, I think I tend to agree with you. The first 2 choices of milk and 2% milk( I think those were the first 2 ) are definitely arguable. The last 7 choices I think are definitely detrimental to health. Infact, taking milk in some forms is definitely healthy. My teacher said to never drink Yogi Tea without milk because you need the milk to protect you mucous membranes and for it's catalytic effects. I probably should have said that in the earlier post. GB Re: Malnutrition Interestingly, there was an article in Bazaar, Feb 2006, titled " drink milk, get slim? " in which a Dr. Michael B. Zemel, PH. D. was interviewed. He claims that " there is evidense that calcium from dairy foods works twice as well as other sources of calcium because dairy contains branched-chain amiono acids, which aid in muscle building. " He says that normally one third of every pound lost is muscle.. so " since these amino acids help buid buscle, by consuming dairy, your losing more fat and less muscle. " he said " ther are other componants in dairy besides calcium that are critical to making this process effective, such as the branched-amino acids " Leucine was mentioned as one of these which is " shown to assist in stabilizing blood sugar, which can in turn decresase food cravings " Gurubandhu If you cannot see God in all, You cannot see God at all. Yogi Bhajan Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Messenger with Voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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