Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan

[MargueriteBee]

http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2011/04/05/every-culture-has-these-4-types-of-food/

This is a link to an interview with her.

If the food you eat could change your genes what would you have for dinner?

My friend Pam loaned me the book and I am astounded at how little I know about food.

Animal fat IS good for us!

[Marianne]

Thanks for posting this, MargueriteBee. I just got the freebie book emailed to me. I think raw food is very healthy, and juicing fresh produce is so healing. I haven't read the part about animal fat being good for us -- I will read about it with an open mind!

[MargueriteBee]

My Mom grossed me out as a kid with her munching on pickled pigs feet, but she never had joint problems. I'm thinking the food pyramid is designed to make us sick so we buy pills.

[conk]

My Mom grossed me out as a kid with her munching on pickled pigs feet, but she never had joint problems. I'm thinking the food pyramid is designed to male us sick so we buy pills.
Partly yes, but mainly the pyramid is designed to sell worthless food to the masses. The base is bread, grains, refined foods. These are worthless to the human body. Sure they have a few nutrients, but largely they are poison to the body. The giant agri-businesses trumped the realistic food pyramid developed, with their own junky one.

[Marianne]

I think the food pyramid can be a good guide for people who know little about nutrition. It's better than fried food 3 times a day and pickles are considered a vegetable!
But it's best to research and inform yourself about nutrition. For example, there are good fats that the body needs, that help prevent disease (flax seed oil, hemp oil, etc.) And four servings of produce is just a starting point. Dairy is an individual choice -- if you can tolerate it, then low fat rather than whole fat makes sense. Yogurt and natural soft cheese like feta and ricotta and cottage cheese can be easier to digest.
So many choices that can be confusing, and different body types need different diets. I do best with food combining (remember Harvey and Marilyn Diamond's Fit For Life -- it changed my life). Others may do best with the blood type diets, or raw foods. I listen to my body and go from there.

[Arrowwind]

Yes, the food you eat can change your DNA. So can heavy metals and bacterial and viral diseases...and lets not forget Monsanto foods.

Why is it that they think that DNA is a fixed reality not subject to the terrain that we provide for it to dwell in?

[Tarka the Duck]

Following a visit to a nutritionalist, my husband and I have been trying this diet for the past 3 months in an attempt to overcome tiredness/aches and pains/headaches/general "below par" physical sensations. He recommended a book called "Trick or Treat" by Barry Stokes, in which he writes about the "trick" being played on us by the 'health' food producers, and the treatment that is then metered out by the medical world. He advocates a diet high in naturally occurring, unprocessed fat. Somewhat different from our 32 years of low fat, whole grain veggie diet...but so far, so good...;) His website is www.secondopinion.com if you are interested.