1. Use butter. Stop eating margarine. Butter, especially from pastured cows, is a much-needed daily source of infection-fighting Vitamin A. Margarine has none. Stop using vegetable shortening. Lard, from outdoor-living pigs, is a much-needed daily source of infection-fighting Vitamin D. Crisco has none. Together fat soluble Vitamins A & D fight infection as they help [...]
In 1950, medical physicist John Gofman, University of California, published an article in Science pointing out that, as a guide, total cholesterol was “false and highly dangerous” – a poor predictor of heart disease risk. Using a one-of-a-kind ultra-centrifuge, Gofman identified the various lipoproteins and concluded that fat (triglycerides) carried in the blood by VLDL [...]
Question: We have more heart disease today because we’re living longer? ———————————— Answer: No - Adult life expectancy was the same in 1910 as it is today. Average life expectancy was 45 years in 1910. But factor out (1) infant mortality and (2) young women who died giving birth and the remaining surviving adults were just [...]
SUMMARY: Excess carbs and carb-induced nutritional deficiencies promote insulin resistance. Insulin resistance leads to an overshooting of insulin. This hyperinsulinism is Stage Two in the development of diabetes. Early stages of diabetes initiate a wide range of metabolic and hormonal disorders that lead to clot-prone blood, inflammation, elevated triglycerides (blood fats), plaque development, and [...]
In the U.S. in 1950, obesity and diabetes were not public health problems. In 1980, USDA issued the first-ever low fat Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 2010 – the same year that even more stringent anti-fat Dietary Guidelines were reaffirmed – the CDC in Atlanta referred to diabetes as a dangerous “run-away-train.” What happened between [...]
1825 French lawyer and gourmand Brillant-Savarin publishes The Physiology of Taste, in which he says he has identified the cure for obesity: “More or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury.” 1830 Sugar consumption in the US is 15 pounds per capita (much of it molasses). Today: 150 pounds per capita (much [...]
October 19, 2009 — DETROIT – Autopsies are expected after three half-marathoners died during the Detroit marathon. According to the officials: 36-year-old Daniel Langdon collapsed about 9:02 am Sunday between the 11- and 12-mile markers. 65-year-old Rick Brown collapsed at 9:17 am near where Langdon went down. 26-year-old Jon Fenlon collapsed at about 9:18 am [...]
In the U.S. dietary kingdom, saturated fat is most feared – fingered as the cause of heart disease and stroke. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), they have been warning us away from saturated fat since 1957. In 1961, at the urging of AHA board members Ancel Keys and Jeremiah Stamler, the AHA officially [...]
