CORN, not fat, is the culprit in health issues

[GuyFox]

CORN, not fat, is the culprit in health issues

That's what TIME magazine is telling us in an article entitled: "Eat Butter. Scientists labeled fat the enemy. Why they were wrong."

Highlights:
+ Due to constant press and media commentary, America consumers got the idea that fat (and especially saturated fats) were the cause of many health issues, and they cut back dramatically in the consumption of certain natural foods,
+ This left them hungry, so they replaced the fat with calories from otehr sources, and wound up consuming more calories from less healthy processed foods, loaded with corn syrup, etc.
+ It turns out that the Fat was not so unhealthy, and the replacements were worse

Cutbacks (since 1970)
+ Whole Milk : - 78%
+ Refined white sugar : - 35%
+ Beef : - 29%
+ Eggs : - 21%
+ Butter : - 8%

Increases
+ High-fructose corn syrup : +8,853%
+ Corn products : +198%
+ Skim milk : +129%
+ Chicken : +112%
+ Turkey : +102%
+ Added fats, oils : +67%

A /
The myopic focus on fat has warped the American diet and contributed to the biggest health crisis. It's time to end the war (on fat in foods.)

B /
Dr Walter Willett (Harvard) in the 1990's was sitting on contrary evidence that no journals would publish: Willett found that if his subjects replaced foods high in saturated fats with carbohydrates, they experienced no reduction in heart disease

C /
Faced with a Fatwa on fat, food manufacturers lines shelves with low fat cokkies, crackers, and cakes. The think was simple (and wrong): Fat is dangerous, and this product has no fat; therefore it must be healthy... "We just cut fat and added a whole lot of low-fat junk food.... It was a diet of unintended consequences."

D /
A low-fat, high carb diet doesn't work. Our cells become more resistant to insulin, which causes us to gain weight.

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article: http://time.com/2863227/ending-the-war-on-fat/

[sdv]

The Banting diet is the new rage here. Cut carbs and eat fat!


10 golden rules of Banting

1. Remember: this is not a high protein diet. It's a high fat, medium protein, low carb way of eating

2. Choose real foods that look like what they are, and cook them from scratch

3. Fat is not the enemy. Enjoy it!

4. Eat only when you are hungry; eat until you are satisfied - then stop

5. Don't eat when you're not hungry. You won't die if you occasionally skip a meal you don't feel like eating.

6. Stop snacking. You won't need to - it's just a habit.

7. No sugar. It's an addiction, and it's probably best to go cold turkey. But if you need to make it a transition, substitute with Stevia, Zylitol or Erythritol - NOT artificial sweeteners.

8. No grains of any kind

9. No (or very, very little) fruit. Think of it as a sweet rather than a health snack.

10. Embrace eggs. They're healthy, satisfying and very good for you.
https://www.google.co.za/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=banting+diet


The Ten Commandments of Beginner BanTing

1. e at enough fat. This is central to Banting – animal fat does not make you fat… you need to eat it.
Small amounts (your body will tell you how much) make you feel full, which stops you from overeating.
It also gives you long-lasting energy so in time you won’t have that carb craving.
2. eat enough vegetables. This is high fat, not high protein. Don’t forget to eat your greens with
every meal.
3. Don’t snack. Initially, while you’re in carb-cold-turkey you will crave everything and will most likely need
to snack to keep your sanity. Once you’ve come off carbs, the only reason you should feel the need to
snack is if you are not eating a fatty enough meal or large enough breakfast. Eventually, snacking and
Banting become like oil to water.
4. Don’t lie to yourself. Eating carbs that are perceived to be proteins like legumes, peanuts and
quinoa can be detrimental. Pay special attention to the Red List on page 51. A red-listed item is either
toxic or will make you fat and should be avoided at all costs.
5. Don’t over- or under-eat. New Banters get nervous about the idea of not snacking and end up
stuffing themselves completely. Fear not, with a high-enough volume of fat in each meal, a reasonable
portion of food should carry you to your next meal time. Even though the theory is that if you eat enough
fat you should stay fuller for longer, you should still be careful that you’re not forcing down food. Get
used to the portion size you need to keep you full and try stick to one serving. Eat slowly, drink water
and only eat until full; not starving nor stuffed, just full. Get used to eating more substantial, less frequent
meals. One serving per meal, one meal at a time!
6. Don’t eat too much protein. We can’t stress this enough. This is not high protein eating. You
shouldn’t need more than 80g of meat with any meal. The main aim is reducing carbs, then increasing
fat. Protein stays the same or could even decrease.
7. Be alert. You could be eating secret carbs in supposed healthy products or premade meals. Check the
packaging on everything you eat. Anything containing more than five percent carbs should be avoided
at all costs. Remember: that diet milkshake you always buy may be low in fat (which is pointless) but
will be loaded with sugar. When you start looking at product labels you’ll realise why it’s so hard to lose
weight. Almost everything has sugar in it! In The Real Meal Revolution, we keep it even more simple
– if it even has a label, perhaps avoid it anyway.
8. avoid too many fruits and nuts. Remember firstly that fruit is laced with fructose, which is perceived
as “good sugar”. Sugar is sugar and regardless of its perceived “goodness”, it needs to be controlled.
Of course refined sugar is a lot more poisonous so while natural sugars are less likely to kill you, they
will do nothing for weight loss. Berries are safe but should be restricted (refer to the Orange List on
page 50) and nuts, while low in carbs, should be restricted too – only a handful as a snack if you
absolutely have to. Remember that roasted nuts are not good; raw nuts are great.
9. Control your dairy. Although dairy is good for you, it does contain carbs and can be a stumbling
block for some. In your Banting beginning, perhaps avoid eating too much dairy. Butter is still good!
10. Be strong!27/introduction
If you are not getting the results you would like, considering having a blood test for thyroid
imbalance, such as TSH, T4, T3 and antibodies. Find a qualified health professional or knowledgeable
integrative GP who knows how to read these imbalances according to the most recent guidelines, and
what to do about them. In the case of women having fertility treatment, being on the Pill or going through
menopause, these all contribute and need to be tweaked for the person concerned – they can potentially
play a role in weight loss prevention.

And consider this: stress releases too much cortisol and builds a spare tyre around even a slim waist.
So not only can stress lead to you flipping out mentally, but it trips you up physically too.
This is not The Real Meal Revolution for nothing. Losing weight is one thing but keeping
healthy is something completely different. We want you to eat ReaL food. Do your best
to stay away from processed junk, regardless of the carb content. it might help you
lose weight but who knows what else it does to your body. A rule of thumb would be, if
you can tell what food it is without looking at the package, the chances are that it’s real.
For example: a chicken nugget does not look like chicken and should be avoided. Chicken
breasts look like chicken breasts and should be enjoyed!
http://realmealrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Ten-Commandments-of-Beginner-Banting.pdf

Hilarious ... if I mention Project Avalon, my sister screams at me (nonsense, wasting your time on that rubbish, ridiculous, stupid ...!). Last time I saw her, she proceeded to lecture me on why the Banting diet is so good. I MUST NEVER eat wheat. It has been changed too quickly and so my body has not adapted to those changes and cannot process it ... She never mentioned GM or any term like that, but what she was basically telling me is that wheat, all grains, beans and so on are poisonous because of GM. So kuch for her screaming criticsm of PA!

To me, essentially the problem is that all pre-made foodstuff contains corn syrup (GM and sugar) and that's the big problem. I think fruit is good and so are carrots and potatoes. It is the practices of commercial agriculture and food producers that are the problem. Even grains are ok, if they are organically grown and stone ground.

Has anyone else tried the Banting diet?

[Pam]

CORN, not fat, is the culprit in health issues

That's what TIME magazine is telling us in an article entitled: "Eat Butter. Scientists labeled fat the enemy. Why they were wrong."

Highlights:
+ Due to constant press and media commentary, America consumers got the idea that fat (and especially saturated fats) were the cause of many health issues, and they cut back dramatically in the consumption of certain natural foods,
+ This left them hungry, so they replaced the fat with calories from otehr sources, and wound up consuming more calories from less healthy processed foods, loaded with corn syrup, etc.
+ It turns out that the Fat was not so unhealthy, and the replacements were worse

Cutbacks (since 1970)
+ Whole Milk : - 78%
+ Refined white sugar : - 35%
+ Beef : - 29%
+ Eggs : - 21%
+ Butter : - 8%

Increases
+ High-fructose corn syrup : +8,853%
+ Corn products : +198%
+ Skim milk : +129%
+ Chicken : +112%
+ Turkey : +102%
+ Added fats, oils : +67%

A /
The myopic focus on fat has warped the American diet and contributed to the biggest health crisis. It's time to end the war (on fat in foods.)

B /
Dr Walter Willett (Harvard) in the 1990's was sitting on contrary evidence that no journals would publish: Willett found that if his subjects replaced foods high in saturated fats with carbohydrates, they experienced no reduction in heart disease

C /
Faced with a Fatwa on fat, food manufacturers lines shelves with low fat cokkies, crackers, and cakes. The think was simple (and wrong): Fat is dangerous, and this product has no fat; therefore it must be healthy... "We just cut fat and added a whole lot of low-fat junk food.... It was a diet of unintended consequences."

D /
A low-fat, high carb diet doesn't work. Our cells become more resistant to insulin, which causes us to gain weight.

==
article: http://time.com/2863227/ending-the-war-on-fat/

I grew up in an environment where fat was the devil itself. The logic was that fat had more calories per oz than protein or carbs and of course if would clog your veins. Our friend was margarine, man made so it must be better. To this day my sister does not touch butter. Eggs of course were very bad. In fact my family bought into the whole food in a can , box or freezer must be good. Those were the naive days of believing that no other human being or institution would intentionally harm another. Crap, just about everything we thought we knew was wrong.

[blufire]

Yep!! Fats are our friend.

Since our dairy cows freshened (had babies) this early year I have been making pounds of sweet cream butter!! Drinking whole fresh raw milk, making yogurt, ice cream (with real cream) and fantastic cheese . . . I am a very happy girl.

A note on sugar that most don’t know.

If you buy white sugar make sure it says ‘pure cane sugar’ NOT just the word ‘sugar’. Pure cane sugar is made (obviously) from sugar cane . . . the good stuff . . . even if it is refined it is still okay to use.

If the label and ingredients only say ‘sugar’ then it is made from sugar beets which is completely GMO.

Together with high fructose corn syrup and sugar made from sugar beets and artificial sweetners it is my belief this is the main reason why people are gaining so much weight.

The scare tactics with ‘fats’ I believe strongly are adding to the rate of Alzheimer’s. The gray matter in your brain is nourished by LDL, which is thought of as ‘bad cholesterol’. People who do not include fats in their diet are not giving the gray matter in their brain the nourishment it needs.

balance in everything!

[T Smith]

To me, essentially the problem is that all pre-made foodstuff contains corn syrup (GM and sugar) and that's the big problem. I think fruit is good and so are carrots and potatoes. It is the practices of commercial agriculture and food producers that are the problem. Even grains are ok, if they are organically grown and stone ground.



Let's just hope by the time we finally figure this out we're all not sterile.

[LivioRazlo]

A friend was just telling me about this LCHF (low carb high fat) way of eating a couple of weeks ago and how he has lost 90 pounds in 4 months with it. At first, I was extremely skeptical. There was no way this could be possible. Then I joined a Facebook group devoted to it and saw all the before/now pictures of people who were stepping out on a limb and I am now convinced. Will be starting this way of eating July 1st this year to see where it can take me.

[GuyFox]

Let's just hope by the time we finally figure this out we're all not sterile.

Er, ah.
It is happening "by design" - we are being made less fertile - thanks to GMO's

[T Smith]

A friend was just telling me about this LCHF (low carb high fat) way of eating a couple of weeks ago and how he has lost 90 pounds in 4 months with it. At first, I was extremely skeptical. There was no way this could be possible. Then I joined a Facebook group devoted to it and saw all the before/now pictures of people who were stepping out on a limb and I am now convinced. Will be starting this way of eating July 1st this year to see where it can take me.

Yes, this is a fad now, but this diet has been around for a long time. I've done it myself many times. You lose weight very quickly, but put it back on just as quickly the minute you begin eating carbs again.

The key here is eliminating processed carbohydrates -- and processed foods in general. If you want to kick start yourself with the diet to get the weight off, I would suggest weaning yourself back onto whole carbs, in moderation, after you've lost the weight. Nothing wrong with a potato you pull out of the ground of your garden or a teaspoon of organic pure cane sugar in your tea...

One word of caution: unless purchased with extreme diligence, bacon, whole milk, cream, cheese -- and all the yummy fats in general -- are laden with nitrates and hormones. When you diet like this you are basically substituting excessive nitrates and hormones in for carbs, which can trigger a whole host of additional heath issues over time.

[GuyFox]

MORE on diet...

I picked this post up from another site - very relevant


V---- said, when asked about the diet that assisted his weight loss:

Sure!

I've been hugely precise about what I've been eating for the last 8 months, almost to the point of obsession - I've adopted what I would term a "nutrient-dense LCHF" ketogenic diet. I've toyed with low-carb several times in the past and have always done well on it.


To be honest, most of it is just avoiding processed carbohydrates. This automatically rules out most of the supermarket, and I find myself shopping "around the edges" of the store much more. Just avoiding the common sources of carbs like bread, pasta, chips, crips, cookies, rice, pizza etc is a great starting point. If I eliminate these then its possible to keep daily carb intake below 50g which I regard as the "magic number" if you want to go ketogenic. It's difficult at first - they put carbohydrates in absolutely everything. Eating out is more restrictive - BBQ joints are fantastic, but Italian restaurants are awful, and sometimes I can only literally have 1 or 2 things that are on the menu. It's the inevitable price that is paid, because nothing comes free, right?

What do I eat, then?

Breakfast is nearly always Eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms
Plenty of meat & poultry, and I go out of my way to try to eat organ meat - liver, kidneys, skin
Fish - especially oily fish
Green non-starchy vegetables - in almost unlimited quantities
Soups
Cheeses
Dried meats
Legumes
Yoghurts

snacks- nuts and pork crackling make for a fantastic alternative to chips and cookies
I'm a fan of Hummous & Quinoa.
I make use of the blender much more to make smoothies with coconut milk and/or cream as a base

It's very rate that I don't eat meat/fish in any meal, never mind go an entire day without.

- I've eliminated my use of omega-6 "vegetable" oils, and replaced them with coconut and olive oil
- I try not to drink any milk (lactose) and instead have cream wherever possible
- I tilt towards high-fat rather than high-protein; too much protein is harmful

Drinkwise- water (plenty of), coffee & cream, green tea, and I also think diet sodas are OK in moderation, and wine in moderation too (never beer).