Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Saving on health care

Monday, March 22, 2010

Re: [fast5] Saving on health care

If you look at it historically, the "official" stance toward any disease always
lags behind the "leading edge" by about 10 years. Or more. The time
period has actually been decreasing in recent times: it used to take
hundreds of years for a new idea (like the earth not being flat) to get
accepted, and often the people with the new idea were tossed in jail
or burned at the stake. Nowadays the worst that happens is a commentator
makes fun of you.

I don't think it's political at all: in fact there have been books written
about the phenomenon, and it applies to many areas in life.
For instance, in technical schools, the stuff they teach is often 10 years
behind where the technology is. It's all about how "paradigm shifts"
work in society.

Fast-5 is decidedly on the cutting edge. We are the experimenters. There
is no body of peer-reviewed experiments, no Mayo clinic studies. We
are about where Personal Computers were in, say, the '70s-'80s,
where everyone was using Mainframes and people thought Steve Jobs
and Bill Gates were nuts.

As more and more people experiment with Fast-5, it will become more
and more mainstream, and eventually there will be enough hard evidence
that it makes it into the new "accepted paradigm". But don't expect it
to happen quickly. Paradigm shifts don't happen easily or without
a bit of chaos.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:56 PM, susieq_az1 <susannauw2010@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't want to start a political conversation (believe me, I've seen enough of that lately). But with the recent focus on health care, I can't help but wonder why the government and it's various offshoots (the AMA, American Dietetic Association, American Diabetes Association, etc.) keep making the same dietary recommendations that have been proven ineffective. One only has to look at the growing obesity epidemic to know that. What I am wondering is how much we could save on health care if more people were exposed to the health and weight benefits of IF. For me, I know that my blood pressure and blood sugar are both lower after just five weeks on FF, and I also strongly believe that my insulin issues are correcting. My blood sugar and pressure were not too far out of range, but were higher than they had been earlier in my life when I was naturally skipping meals. Based on other family members, I anticipated (though resisted) that I would end up on meds for those issues in the future. But now they are solidly normal, and my blood pressure is back to being a little on the low side.
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> With all the talk about health care reform, it seems to me the dietary guidelines should be part of the overhaul. I know that seems like an uphill battle, particularly new guidelines that would include intermittent fasting (can you imagine a government guideline that recommends skipping breakfast?!), but I'm wondering if there is any hope that the current guidelines will be challenged. Bert -- perhaps you have some idea of the possibility of this?
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> Thoughts?
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> Susie
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