Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Love Fast Five and Plants

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Re: [fast5] Love Fast Five and Plants

You might want to look at some of the archeological data about
what happened to humans when they started farming grains.
They got shorter and sicker! Fast. Also their teeth started
getting crooked and their skulls smaller and thinner. The
grain-based diet started causing cavities way before sugar was
invented.

There are a lot of variables in diet, and we don't eat an "all
meat" diet here at all. But I am concerned about the "anti meat"
thing that is becoming popular, esp. when it comes to young kids.
It's very difficult to get enough Omega 3 into a child's brain on
a mostly-grain diet. If you are nursing, you need to get Omega 3's
so they get into your milk for your kid.

My own take on the China Study is that 1) the hype about it doesn't
fit the actual facts in the study and 2) diets based on coastal
foods tend to make for healthier people. The healthiest people
on Earth tend to eat fish, seaweed, rice, and live on the coast.
The unhealthiest tend to eat beef and wheat, and live inland.
There are several variables here:

1. Beef is high in iron. Iron causes insulin problems and is implicated
in Metabolic Syndrome. However, beef isn't the ONLY thing high
in iron: most grain products in the US have iron added!

2. Fish are high in Omega 3 fatty acids. Humans need a lot
of these, esp. young kids.

3. Humans need iodine. That just isn't found inland.

4. Wheat is an extremely iffy food for humans. For 1% of the
population, it is a slow killer: for 10% it probably leads to
autoimmune disease.

But anyway, to simplify the issue into "high" vs "low" protein
is too simplistic. Human beings rarely eat a huge amount of
protein per day anyway: it fills us up too fast and I think we top out
at like 20% of calories. The question is: what are the other 80%
of calories? Vegies, starches, sugars, fats? Mostly I think the
starches and sugars are the most "iffy" for most foods on
the market, but the Japanese do fine on their white rice. And
other cultures do fine on coconut or fish oil for the bulk of
their calories.

What Fast-5 does though is to allow you to figure out what
works for YOU ... your appestat will start kicking in and you'll
find out what your body wants. For each person though, that
will likely be different. Depends on your age, activity level,
and what you were eating before?

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM, cecipettijohn <cecipettijohn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all. I am nursing a 13 month old, and have no weight to lose, but after a friend told me she does this, I read the ebook and find this way of eating to be a great way to have more time to concentrate on my son (not thinking about food 3 times a day and what I'm going to make).
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> My comment was after having read all the previous posts-I am suprised how many people eat a high animal protein/fat diet.
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> I used to think my body could only handle animal protein/fat due everything you read in fitness magazines and also loving sugar and eating too much of it (a mouthful of cavities to prove it).
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> After reading just about every book out there (china study and all of John Mcdougall's work convinced me of the long term health benefits), it seems that our systems are ideally designed to eat plants.
> Animals are meant to be eaten when we have to other alternative for fuel.
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> I don't want to upset anyone-I just want to encourage people to read the data about animal protein-I would eat it if I had to, but in America-none of us are going hungry and plants=health.
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> In the book "green for life" the author poses a great question about why would we eat reconstituted protein instead of getting it straight from the source (plants) we were designed to get it from.
> Paleo man did not have a choice, but in america, we do.
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> I used to think I gained weight from wheat, corn, potaotes, etc, but it was the fat that I was eating that I was wearing on my body (could never get below 140/5'6").
> Now I am a size 2 (3 sizes smaller, but no longer weigh myself) and I eat about 3 big potatoes a day in addition to other plants.
> I used to think the food pyramid was insane, until I really read the research (mcdougall was the most convincing).
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> Anyway-I think eating this way (fasting 19 hours) is great and puts food back in the proper perspective of fuel.
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> I am for spreading information about plants to all and feel I have an obligation to atleast recommend books like the China Study, Green for Life, and all of John Mcdougalls work.writings (he has a web site that is worth reviewing-I never would have believed this stuff 15 years ago).
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> Blessings,
> Ceci
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