[OzarkTom]

Has Google censored shopping for vitamins or is it just a glitch? Even Anazon does not come up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNDyS0tF4dY

[ctviggen]

There are many problems with the food pyramid.  The first of which is the complete lack of evidence supporting the pyramid when the pyramid was put into place.  For instance, the recommendation to limit total fat and particularly saturated fat was made based on epidemiology, which proves correlation but not causation, with no actual studies where people actually reduced their fat/saturated fat content.  And, they keep the food pyramid alive even though many, many studies indicate total fat/saturated fat is not bad for you:

MRFIT:  (Multiple risk factor intervention, where one of the risk factors was saturated fat)  The participants reduced their saturated fat content to a large degree as compared to a control group, yet NO difference was experienced between groups.

Women's health initiative trial:  Supposed to be the trial to prove that reducing fat/saturated fat content helped.  About 48000 women were recruited and divided into a control group and a test group.  The test group was aggressively counseled to reduce their fat/saturated fat intake and eat healthier.  The test group reduced their overall fat consumption, their saturated fat consumption, increased the number of fruits and vegetables they ate, and ate fewer calories than did the control group.  This is the gold standard of tests.  After 8 YEARS and 420 MILLION dollars, there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in anything -- heart disease, cancer, you name it. 

And this just scratches the surface of all the negative studies.

Yet the food pyramid still exists.  Why?  My theory is that it's because the Gov't can't admit they made a mistake.  They can't get out of it. 

[Tyson]

Yep, can you imagine the liability in terms of $$ if it turns out that the advice was not only ineffective, but actually harmful?  If grains are part of what's driving obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc... then we are WORSE OFF because of the food pyramid and the relentless pushing of it on the American public.  The class action lawsuit would be staggering.

[OzarkTom]

Now if you ever get diabetes or just want to avoid it, this is the best food pyramid to follow.

[DaveC113]

Underground veggies are strange... potatoes are pretty much like refined wheat. Onions and garlic.. The Buddha said to avoid them, they are an aphrodisiac and stimulate the mind when cooked and are an irritant when raw. Anyway, I'm perfecting my roasted garlic recipe... 

[2bigears]

   SAY WHAT,,,, Garlic is the wonder weed !!!!    
           Cures EVERYTHING .....

[DaveC113]

Garlic is the wonder weed !!!!    
       

The wonder weed is the wonder weed... 

I disagree with the no fruit thing though, all (natural) things in moderation seem to be ok,. Wheat too, but maybe not the modern polyploid wheat. Earlier versions of wheat don't have the same issues,,,

[gprro]

Where does rice fit in? And what about genetic make up handling certain foods differently, like rice? Just curious because Japanese and many Asian cultures seem to do well on diets high in rice. Maybe the fatty fish that's often eaten with it helps.

[geezer]

Where does rice fit in? And what about genetic make up handling certain foods differently, like rice? Just curious because Japanese and many Asian cultures seem to do well on diets high in rice. Maybe the fatty fish that's often eaten with it helps.

In one of the books on the paleo diet that I've read (don't recall which), it said that if you want to have some grain occasionally, make it steamed brown rice.

[OzarkTom]

Here is a recent video from Gary Taubes on why we get fat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l59YyXpCT1M&feature=player_embedded


And on the root veggies, they are fairly high glycemic to begin with, but when cooked, are very high glycemic. Raw or steamed veggies are much more healthy to begin with than cooking the nutrients out of them.

[OzarkTom]

Vegetarians won't like this news. Man was originally strickly a meat eater.

http://www.livescience.com/23671-eating-meat-made-us-human.html

[django11]

Vegetarians won't like this news. Man was originally strickly a meat eater.

http://www.livescience.com/23671-eating-meat-made-us-human.html

Interesting although the article on why men like breasts is better.

http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html

[OzarkTom]

Here is a recent article from the Wall Street Journal on how hospitals and doctors are killing us. As many as four jumbo jet full of passengers die per week, the article states.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444620104578008263334441352.html