Health Revolution

“The health food business... is to supply the people with food which will take the place of flesh meat, and also milk and butter...”. Ellen White, prophetess for the Seventh-day Adventist

Seventh-day Adventist’s have been largely responsible for creating and controlling our national dietary guidelines. Perhaps this is too strong of a statement but maybe not. This link goes over the history of our dietary guidelines. I posted this the other day and one person commented. But I just can’t stop thinking about it. It just blows my mind. I didn’t see this coming!! It’s really long so I get it if people aren’t interested. But I just thought I’d throw it out there, one more time in case someone missed it who would find it as fascinating as I do. https://isupportgary.com/articles/the-plant-based-diet-is-vegan?fbclid=IwAR1GpnTQCNXF9W5e1OnbWHgIKnvNyux2LReb7uOkwoD3sq4ZK6y9jeeypxU

Yesterday I posted a comparison between "The Obesity Code" and "The Calorie Myth" and one of the differences is the view on exercise. "The Obesity Code" takes the view that while there are many excellent reasons to exercise, the role of exercise in weight loss is minimal. Almost 1/3 of "The Calorie Myth" covers exercise and specifically what types of exercise. I have been told for so long that to lose weight I need to "eat less and exercise more" that it's kind of hard to  let go of that mindset. But I have learned several reasons as to why exercise is not the key to weight loss. Don't get me wrong I think exercise is fabulous for many other things, it's not that I don't think exercise is good, but as I mentioned in another post yesterday, there are lots of ways I think I have gone wrong in my thinking about exercise. One of the evidences as to why exercise is not the key to weight loss is this guy named Peter Attia. H...

So I posted a comparison of The Obesity Code and The Calorie Myth earlier and one of the differences between them is their emphasis on exercise. The Obesity Code is of the opinion that exercise is not an effective method of losing weight but The Calorie Myth highly encourages exercise and certain types of exercise quite a bit. Now, Jason Fung of the Obesity Code thinks exercise is great for lots of reasons, don't get me wrong, just not as a weight loss strategy. I think he  might also say that there may be some benefit for weight loss but that in the grand scheme of things the benefit is fairly small in comparison to what we eat and it's impact on our weight. I bring this up just to say that while I think that exercise for me in the past may have helped me with some weight loss, I think it has also been not so helpful as well. I think it has been easy for me to think wrongly about exercise. For example - some wrong ways of thinking, "No pain, no gain." or "I can ...

Comparison of The Obesity Code and The Calorie Myth -Someone asked me if I had heard of Jonathon Bailor and the Sane Solution because it seems to be inline with some of the stuff I've been posting. And the answer is Yes, I am a little familiar with him. I have Jonathan's book, The Calorie Myth (like I confessed - I have a lot of diet books) and I read it a couple of years ago and I liked it! The question caused me to review it and there is a lot of good stuff in there, similar to stuff I've been posting. So it made me wonder, why do I like the Obesity Code so much better? Why do I feel like "The Obesity Code" is making more of an impact on my life than what reading "The Calorie Myth" did? Perhaps its just a matter of timing and it has nothing to do with the material but it's a matter of me and my situation, my evolution of thought. But perhaps "The Calorie Myth" being part of that evolution of thought helped prepare me to allow The Obesity...

https://isupportgary.com/articles/the-plant-based-diet-is-vegan This is just mind boggling! I had no idea there were connections between corn flakes, veganism, nutritional institutions, discouraging masturbation, 7th day Adventist’s, temperance, Harvard, Coke and our national dietary guidelines! I see the cereal aisle in a whole new light now! # isupportgary

So while listening to Dr. Lustig, I became interested in the researcher he refers to, named John Yudkin. Yudkin was a contemporary of the famous Ancel Keys who came up with the idea that saturated fat causes heart disease. Yudkin however felt that sugar was the culprit. Ancel Keys' hypothesis dominated the time and has had a vice grip on our nation for 60 years or so but I think Yudkin's theory is proving closer to the mark and will have the last word. Listening to Yudkin's book, "Pure, White and Deadly" was fascinating. Particularly humanizing was, towards the end of the book, when he shared his own struggle with a love of sugar.