--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:50 AM, free2bmekeywest <dogdoright@...> wrote:
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> > The best source is Weston Price.
> > Even though religions have decided (an opinion) that fish isn't meat-fish
> > is in fact meat the meat from a swimming animal. That is just a fact.
> >
>
> I think Price kept a nice open mind, and he was an experimenter. I think
> experimenting is a powerful force!
>
> He was very much in favor of fish, and seaweed.
ME: Price had a bias toward seafood. But, he also was a proponent of butter and dairy. He found that a very specific type of butter had health benefits that were almost miraculous.
But times have changed and the sea is not as pure as it was back then.
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> Fish and ruminant animals are VERY different when it comes to nutrition.
> Fish protein, for example, has been shown to lower blood pressure. Fish fat
> is the kind that builds good brain tissue. Vit D is found in fish liver (and
> is probably the reason people could live so far north where there wasn't
> much sun) ... which is why Price recommended cod liver oil as a supplement.
ME: You can get the same effects from eating pastured animals and eating their glands.
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> Price did study populations before they adopted Western food. The ones he
> mentioned ate a fair bit of seafood (the Scots especially). Most of the
> people he wrote about also had a staple starch ... the Scots had oatmeal,
> the Swiss had rye.
ME: The Scots were not a people that Price found to be healthy. He found the Swiss, The Masai-type tribes, the Inuit-type tribes to be the healthiest.
The staple starch was rarely wheat or corn or rice. It was the psudeograins of teff, millet or rye. And they were consumed in very, very small amounts. Re-read the book.
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I do realize "carbs" have been demonized of late, and I
> do think many Americans have a hard time processing them for some reason,
> but I can't actually see that pattern in history. It's simply not true that
> the populations who eat the most starches ... even simple high-glycemic
> starches like white rice ... are the least healthy.
ME: You are wrong. Cultures that consume high amounts of refined carbs have problems with weight, degenerative diseases and reporduction.
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> I mean, it's been shown that human beings can survive without them, sure,
> mainly because people eating very low carb (like the Inuit) learn to create
> sugars from proteins (which is also what carnivores do).
ME: The human body does not need to create sugar from fat/proteins. Our bodies can use fat/protein as it is.
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But we can also
> create fats out of starches. Personally I think the whole "fat/carb/protein"
> ratio is overhyped, because human beings are good at swapping between fats
> and carbs, and we have only limited capacity to eat protein.
ME: None of what you have written is true-it is simply your opinion.
Most unbiased research supports the high-carb vegan/vegetarian eating is not optimum for people. It is not an eating plan that generates healthy old people.
AMA in Illinois
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