The myth of calculating calories.

[Tony]

This a video by Barry Groves about how calories are wrongly calculated. He has lot of scientific data on his site SECOND OPINION. He has much to say about Pharmaceutical and Food corporations and how they mislead the public about cholesterol. He says the Food companies make you ill, and the Pharmaceutical companies kill you with drugs!

You can always email him with questions.

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Tony

[lightseeker]

Thanks Pie'n'eal for this information, it is much appreciated.

[Flash]

I am not trying to contradict the video, because at first glance it seems to make sense, but I am playing here devil's advocate. Here, with one click, what I found about Barry Groves and what some deem and unhealthy diet promotion. So that readers here can have both differents views. Here the article

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-the-misinformation-of-barry-groves-and-weston-price.html

And some parts of the article, which is worth reading in it entirely.


Poor Health of Indigenous Meat-Eaters
The dangerous habits of Americans or Europeans who eat only about 5 percent of their caloric intake from fresh produce and the majority of calories from processed foods, does not in anyway make a diet centered on meat health supporting. The whole purpose of this website is to offer information that can offer people control over their health destiny, without dependency on medications and without a premature death due to nutritional ignorance. With the knowledge we have available today and the access to high quality foods all year round we have a unique opportunity to live well and longer than ever before in human history.

When Barry Groves and the Weston Price Foundation people listed above rest their laurels on the health of high meat eating tribes, we have to counter that with real research, not phony claims. The research on the life expectancy of these people is clear. The Inuit Greenlanders have the worst longevity statistics in North America. A careful literature search reveals multiple studies documenting an earlier death in these people as a result of their low consumption of fresh produce and their high consumption of meat.


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But remind this when you want to know where Barry Groves is coming from: he believes we're carnivorous animals that thrive on a meat only diet, to him we're more like tigers and lions than primates
This belief thought is not shared by low carb authors, paleo diet authors or traditional diet authors
Masai and Inuits are two extremes examples

My problem here is that Barry Groves is selling a diet, and as all diet salesman, his talks shoud be analysed and compared and studied and ... before taking any conclusive decision.

[conk]

The calorie count method is wrong indeed. It's what you eat, not how much.

Early man must surely have subsisted on a diet high in easily obtainable foods like plants, seeds, and berries. It was likely a rare treat when someone brought home a little meat. It has been shown clearly that the longest life expectancy, with the lowest incidence of health problems, belong to people who live in lush valleys, by water. They eat locally, using predominately plant material and healthful oils. Blue Zones I think they are called.

[Tarka the Duck]

My problem here is that Barry Groves is selling a diet, and as all diet salesman, his talks shoud be analysed and compared and studied and ... before taking any conclusive decision.

Hello Flash

I'm not sure what you mean by "selling a diet". Admittedly, he's selling a book, but that's not, in my mind, the same thing.

I've read the book, and in this one and also in his other book, "Trick and Treat", he investigates the premise that healthy eating is making us ill. The books are about how we are being manipulated by the health industry, food industry, pharmaceutical industry and any other organisation who can make money out of us, to ruin our health.

We were introduced to him by Mike Lambert, who runs the Shen Clinic on the Isle of Wight, where David Icke has treatment.