Proper Nutrition Is Necessary for Vibrant Health and Mental Function

The American Standard Diet (SAD) (and the diet of many industrialized nations) is sugar-rich and nutrient-poor. Our government suggests our diet should be dominated by grains. We should replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat from seed oils. The processed food industry if very fond of refined grains and partially hydrogenated seed oils because of their long shelf life.

But grains and seed oils are two items that were unknown to our species 15,000 years ago. We’re seeing the results of these suggestions in increased obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic, degenerative diseases.

In this section we look at various diets and macronutrient ratios, which diets are good or not good for the human species as well as individual nutritional components of food.

Book Review: Life Without Bread — Christian Allan & Wolfgang Lutz

Nutrition and Diets
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Life Without Bread demonstrates how the human body runs better on fat as an energy source than it does on sugar. Much of the information presented is based on Dr. Lutz’s clinical practice over 40 years treating thousands of people with a low-carbohydrate diet.

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Man Ate Raw Meat to Die — Now He Eats It to Live

Nutrition and Diets
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In this interview Aajonus Vonderplanitz discusses how ill he was and how miserable his life had become after the many treatments given by the medical profession, treatments that added further insults to his already horribly sick body. He talks about various dietary modification that provided some success and much failure and about a strange incident that put him on the path toward healing from ALL his diseases.

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Why the Food Pyramid Can’t Be Trusted But Evolution Can

Nutrition and Diets
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Mainstream dietary recommendations have more to do with food lobbies than physiology. In today’s interview, Nora Gedgaudas talks about what constitutes a healthy diet based on our evolutionary history–a diet that promotes health for both body and mind.

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Book Review: The Great Cholesterol Con — Anthony Colpo

Heart Disease
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The Great Cholesterol Con can help you understand how the lipid theory was formulated and gained acceptance, the flaws in interpretation of scientific studies as well as the manipulation of data, the studies we don’t hear about showing high cholesterol does not damage the heart, the dangers of low cholesterol, how the low-fat mantra has impacted the health of industrialized nations, the dangers of vegetable oils, and habits that will promote heart health.

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Book Review: Beating the Food Giants — Paul Stitt

Food Politics
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In this informative and well-written book you’ll get an insider’s view of the unethical practices, greed, and disregard for human life and health by the food industry. You’ll also learn some of the ways that inferior nutrition leads to disease.

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Book Review: Know Your Fats — Mary Enig

Nutrition and Diets
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Know Your Fats provides a comprehensive and easy-to-understand explanation of the type of fats in the diet, how they affect our health, which fats to cook with and which to avoid, and the role of saturated fat and cholesterol in human health. Every cell of the body is made from the fats we ingest, and the type of those fats determines the cell’s integrity.

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Book Review: NeanderThin — Ray Audette

Nutrition and Diets

For millions of years our ancestors have been subsisting on the land by hunting for meat animals and foraging for greens, berries, fruits and some tubers. These are the foods to which we have biologically adapted over millenia. The premise of NeanderThin is that what got us here can sustain us.

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Book Review: Primal Body-Primal Mind — Nora Gedgaudas

Nutrition and Diets
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Primal Body-Primal Mind brings together many issues affecting our health both positively and negatively from a paleolithic diet perspective. Incorporating these changes into our lives can reverse disease and improve mental and physical health.

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Book Review: In Defense of Food — Michael Pollan

Nutrition and Diets
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Pollan’s In Defense of Food is a florid account of the history of nutritional science and food marketing, but the book’s dietary recommendations seem to promote the high-carb, plant-based philosophy that’s been making us sick and fat for over 30 years.

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Book Review: The Primal Blueprint — Mark Sisson

Nutrition and Diets
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The Primal Blueprint provides ten laws for improving health and happiness. It is not a short-term, weight-loss diet book but a book for those wanting to make life-long, healthy dietary changes, lose weight, reverse chronic disease, and develop a fun but productive exercise regimen.

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