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01-24-2004, 11:49 AM
Disclaimer: Many people defend their dietary choices as if they were Religion, and I do NOT intend to offend anyone by proposing the results of my dietary research on this forum. I do, however, intend to entertain the idea that mainstream dietary advice is far from truth and to perhaps even make someone out there think about what they are feeding their body/mind complex by way of foods and reconsider their actions. I don't claim to know all of the answers, but I do have a firm foundation to work with having researched said subject extensively for many years. Feel free to post any feedback/questions/disagreements or email me at mjdesaro@scatcat.fhsu.edu if you choose not to post.
End Disclaimer
There has been a lot of talk about finding the "ideal" diet here for various reasons such as weight loss, increased limit strength, increased endurance, etc. What you see is a hodge-podge of answers supporting various dietary systems that all claim to be the "best" diet for humans. I intend to share with you all the results of my research in this field.
Supplements
Lets just get this one out of the way right off the starting line. 99.9% of supplements are not beneficial and are actually harmful to the human body. I will provide one example to illustrate this point, although this same framework can be used to show the ineffectiveness of any commercially available vitamin. Vitamin C will be out test subject due to it being one of the most publicized vitamins available. Generally, the term vitamin C refers to ascorbic acid, which is the fully reduced form of the vitamin. Ascorbic acid is a chemically manufactured, isolated fraction of the true vitamin C. In actuality, Ascorbic Acid is essentially an antioxidant "wrapper" for the rest of the vitamin C complex. The vitamin C complex consists of Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbigen, Bioflavonoid Complexes, Tyrosinase, P, K, and J factors and more than likely various other components not yet identified. So, when you ingest vitamin C tablets, your body has to leach from its own tissue all of the rest of the C complex in order to make a usable product.
Essentially, this framework can be used to show that any commercially available vitamins or antioxidants are in fact useless in the long run. Taking these denatured vitamins can at times produce a beneficial result at the expense of long term leeching of co-factors from tissues and organs. (see The Real Truth About Vitamins & Antioxidants by Judith DeCava)
Vegetables
The media and just about any source of dietary information will all unanimously say that veggies are a healthy and required aspect of any diet. It is said that vegetables are high in such-and-such vitamin and this-or-that antioxidant. While this is without a shadow of a doubt true, the problem lies in the digestion and assimalation of such foods. We, as humans, lack the proper digestive system to break down and utilize the nutrients contained in vegetables. Animals that eat veggies generally have an efficient way of digesting them, such as ruminants and their four stomachs. Man has but one stomach and has a very difficult time digesting such foodstuffs. If one so desires to reap the benefits of vegetables, the only way to do so with any sort of efficiency is to rid the vegetable of its cell wall. We lack the ability to break down these cell walls, which is why vegetables are only about 15-35% utilized by our bodies. The only known way to extract the nutrients is to drink fresh-pressed vegetable juices without the pulp.
So, What in the World do I eat?
(If anyone has read this far, I will be both shocked and surprised. I will cut this short after this section for fear of making this post WAY too long.) The Citric Acid Cycle accounts for the majority of our bodies usable energy. The breakdown for the starting products of the Citric Acid Cycle is 80% fat, 15% protein and 5% carbs. This is the optimal breakdown of what one should eat in order to produce energy with minimal by-products. This brings us to one other way to get the nutrients in vegetables in a useable form: eat the flesh of an animal that can readily digest the vegetalbes. Meat. We digest and assimilate meat readily and easily. A man can not only survive, but thrive on meat alone. (see Vilhjalmur Stefansson's writings and research) Meat contains everything that the body requires for optimal function. We evolved as meat eaters and only started to rely on agriculture when we settled down, overpopulated and consumed most of the animal life around our dwellings. (see Canibals and Kings) Their is ample evidence to illustrate these points from both a historical/anthropological and scientific viewpoint. To take this one step further, it appears that the current diet of man lacks one unspoken aspect. We are told to avoid this one at all costs by mainstream media: Bacteria. There was a time when man ate all of his foodstuffs in its natural, raw fashion. Yes, this included meat and eggs. Our bodies utilize this bacteria for countless "house-cleaning" applications. Bacteria are natures janitors both inside and out of the body. We have developed a working relationship with these "pathogens". I am not suggesting that you eat only meat and eat it only raw. While this would be an optimal diet, the fact is that we live in a social world, so 100% raw meat diets generally are difficult to stick to. I am suggesting that everyone try raw meat and eggs and to eat it as often as possible in order to take advantage of our symbiotic relationship with bacteria and to allow your body the chance to have undenatured, unharmed-by-heat food.
This quick synopsis of diet is a small fraction of what my research has turned up over the years. If anyone has any questions or comments feel free to drop me a line.
End Disclaimer
There has been a lot of talk about finding the "ideal" diet here for various reasons such as weight loss, increased limit strength, increased endurance, etc. What you see is a hodge-podge of answers supporting various dietary systems that all claim to be the "best" diet for humans. I intend to share with you all the results of my research in this field.
Supplements
Lets just get this one out of the way right off the starting line. 99.9% of supplements are not beneficial and are actually harmful to the human body. I will provide one example to illustrate this point, although this same framework can be used to show the ineffectiveness of any commercially available vitamin. Vitamin C will be out test subject due to it being one of the most publicized vitamins available. Generally, the term vitamin C refers to ascorbic acid, which is the fully reduced form of the vitamin. Ascorbic acid is a chemically manufactured, isolated fraction of the true vitamin C. In actuality, Ascorbic Acid is essentially an antioxidant "wrapper" for the rest of the vitamin C complex. The vitamin C complex consists of Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbigen, Bioflavonoid Complexes, Tyrosinase, P, K, and J factors and more than likely various other components not yet identified. So, when you ingest vitamin C tablets, your body has to leach from its own tissue all of the rest of the C complex in order to make a usable product.
Essentially, this framework can be used to show that any commercially available vitamins or antioxidants are in fact useless in the long run. Taking these denatured vitamins can at times produce a beneficial result at the expense of long term leeching of co-factors from tissues and organs. (see The Real Truth About Vitamins & Antioxidants by Judith DeCava)
Vegetables
The media and just about any source of dietary information will all unanimously say that veggies are a healthy and required aspect of any diet. It is said that vegetables are high in such-and-such vitamin and this-or-that antioxidant. While this is without a shadow of a doubt true, the problem lies in the digestion and assimalation of such foods. We, as humans, lack the proper digestive system to break down and utilize the nutrients contained in vegetables. Animals that eat veggies generally have an efficient way of digesting them, such as ruminants and their four stomachs. Man has but one stomach and has a very difficult time digesting such foodstuffs. If one so desires to reap the benefits of vegetables, the only way to do so with any sort of efficiency is to rid the vegetable of its cell wall. We lack the ability to break down these cell walls, which is why vegetables are only about 15-35% utilized by our bodies. The only known way to extract the nutrients is to drink fresh-pressed vegetable juices without the pulp.
So, What in the World do I eat?
(If anyone has read this far, I will be both shocked and surprised. I will cut this short after this section for fear of making this post WAY too long.) The Citric Acid Cycle accounts for the majority of our bodies usable energy. The breakdown for the starting products of the Citric Acid Cycle is 80% fat, 15% protein and 5% carbs. This is the optimal breakdown of what one should eat in order to produce energy with minimal by-products. This brings us to one other way to get the nutrients in vegetables in a useable form: eat the flesh of an animal that can readily digest the vegetalbes. Meat. We digest and assimilate meat readily and easily. A man can not only survive, but thrive on meat alone. (see Vilhjalmur Stefansson's writings and research) Meat contains everything that the body requires for optimal function. We evolved as meat eaters and only started to rely on agriculture when we settled down, overpopulated and consumed most of the animal life around our dwellings. (see Canibals and Kings) Their is ample evidence to illustrate these points from both a historical/anthropological and scientific viewpoint. To take this one step further, it appears that the current diet of man lacks one unspoken aspect. We are told to avoid this one at all costs by mainstream media: Bacteria. There was a time when man ate all of his foodstuffs in its natural, raw fashion. Yes, this included meat and eggs. Our bodies utilize this bacteria for countless "house-cleaning" applications. Bacteria are natures janitors both inside and out of the body. We have developed a working relationship with these "pathogens". I am not suggesting that you eat only meat and eat it only raw. While this would be an optimal diet, the fact is that we live in a social world, so 100% raw meat diets generally are difficult to stick to. I am suggesting that everyone try raw meat and eggs and to eat it as often as possible in order to take advantage of our symbiotic relationship with bacteria and to allow your body the chance to have undenatured, unharmed-by-heat food.
This quick synopsis of diet is a small fraction of what my research has turned up over the years. If anyone has any questions or comments feel free to drop me a line.