The Story of Food...

KajunDC · 06-05-2006, 03:33 PM

... and its relationship to Disease. (This thread is a companion to the "Whole Food Vitamin vs Synthetic Vitamin" thread Whole Food vs Synthetic Vitamins and once again credit goes out to Dr. Janet Lang for all her wonderful research and insite.)

- Nature has provided all life forms on earth with pre-packaged fuel and rebuilding materials. We call this "food."

- With a simple, yet ingenious plan, food sources consist of material to be turned into fuel for energy, plus the biochemicals needed for the body to burn the fuel for energy. These are called "nutrients."

- Food sources also contain materials for basic building and rebuilding of body structures, and the biochemicals that will build the biochemical messenger system - hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters - that run the functions of the body.

- The body is in a constant "recycle mode." It is constantly breaking down old worn cells, organs and tissues, and biochemical messengers, and rebuilding fresh new replacement cells, organs and tissues, and biochemical messengers.

- Why then do we end up with malfunctioning, broken-down bodies, which is happening to increasing numbers of people and younger and younger ages?

One reason is that we are supplying increasingly depleted and inferior "recycling material" in the form of poor quality, dead and devitalized food, and synthetic (dead) imitation "nutritional" supplements.

- In the last 100 years, we have virtually re-made the food supply, and not for the better. (Read the book "Empty Harvest" by Jensen and Anderson.)

- Most of American farm soil has been hopelessly depleted of the nutrients that were present before the advent of petro-chemical farming in the 1950's.

- Hybrid plants and genetically modified plants are bred for visual appeal and pesticide resistance, not nutrient density or quality.

- The refining and packaging of food stripes the nutrients out of the food in order to achieve extended shelf life. Not even the bugs and rats will eat the majority of foods that the average American exists on.

- The nutrients stripped from foods are the very ones needed for the body to properly metabolize and use these foods for energy and rebuilding.

- These devitalized foods are now anti-nutrients, in that they require your body to provide the nutrients to metabolize them, that is, to remake yourself with, and to provide you with energy.

When you become depleted in these needed nutrients - which most people are, to varying degrees - the activity that turns food into energy, biochemical functions and new body parts grinds to a halt.

- The various versions of fatigue and breakdown or degeneration that result from this are then named various diseases, like adrenal fatigue, insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, hypothyroidism, etc.

- Devitalized foods like white bread are often "enriched," that is , about 1000 nutrients (some of which are known, many of which are unknown) are removed in the refining process. A handful of synthetic imitation "vitamins" plus a coule of indigestible minerals (like calcium carbonate) are then sprayed back onto it.

- The food "enriching" process is similar to stealing $1000 from you and enriching you back with $6. In reality, you have been nutritionally mugged, not enriched.

- In addition, you must now supply the missing nutrients from your own body's reserves - if you have any reserves - to metabolize the devitalized foods you eat. That is, you now have to take dead food and bring it back to life using your nutrient and energy reserves, if you have enough to spare.

- Nature's design is for us to eat live food with the nutrients still in their living, intact form. This live food in turn is used to re-vitalize and rebuild our bodies. Instead, what we are doing now is eating dead, devitalized foods with synthetic imitation nutrients. Now we must infuse our food with life - literally bring it from a dead state to a living one, and incorporate it into our bodies. No small task.

- And finally studies have shown that the synthetic imitations of vitamins sprayed back onto the devitalized food are disease-causing. (Once again, read "Empty Harvest" referenced above.)

DR. CLEAVE'S RULE OF TWENTY
In his studies published in "The Saccharine Disease" (1974), Dr. Cleave demonstrated that almost exactly twenty years after Western, devitalized, refined food was introduced into the traditional diets of native peoples, both diabetes and heart disease would simultaneously appear where they had not existed before. Many other researchers have validated these findings.

__________________________________________________ ____________

This is the true road to many disease processes. Why does it take so long for these problems to develop? Because, unlike a computer which will simply quit functioning altogether with the wrong, improper parts, your body will do the best that it can for as long as it can - then when it simply "can't" any longer, it slowly begins to break down. And eventually you will begin having symptoms, which will be diagnosed as a disease. (Remember, symptoms are always the LAST thing to show up. In many, many cases, by the time you have a symptom the underlying problem has been going on for years to even decades.)

This is when modern medicine comes in and trys to deal with the results of the problem, not the cause. It makes much more sense to try and prevent the cause from happening in the first place by eating well - don'tcha think?

Take care of your body and your body will take care of you. I cannot impress enough that maintaining good health is so much easier than trying to regain good health. If you run your car ragged, slam on the gas at every green light and slam on the brakes a few feet before every red light, never change the oil, keep the filters clogged, don't get regular tune-ups, etc. how well does that car run and how long does it last? Well, what makes you think your body runs any different?

The equation of health basically boils down to three categories. Eat properly, exercise regularly, and keep a positive frame of mind. Chemical, Physical, and Emotional. These are the main three areas we can control. All the rest is just trying to figure out specifics of how to do these three things.

The time is now, folks. Lose weight? Yes definitely do that. But the true commitment you need to make to yourself is to get health. (Or keep health or regain as much health as you are able given any current limitations.)

Definition of Health - The state of optimal physical, chemical and emotional wellbeing, and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity.

Here's to your good health

Charski · 06-05-2006, 03:58 PM

A-MEN! Couldn't agree more. Which is WHY I grit my teeth at the "losing weight faster is better" and "any way you can" idea because it really should be about regaining health, not ALL about losing weight!

ixtapacheryl · 06-05-2006, 04:03 PM

Great information and I agree with you 100% when you stated: The equation of health basically boils down to three categories. Eat properly, exercise regularly, and keep a positive frame of mind. Chemical, Physical, and Emotional.

I take a multiple variety of supplements - have a outgoing personality and never dwell on the past - only look forward. Maybe that is why the surgeon told me today that I am in the top 2% of fast healers. I refuse to be sick .... and don't dwell on it.

Again, thank you.

teri f · 06-05-2006, 04:14 PM

You are absolutely right. Weight loss IS very important and essential to overall good health. How we get there is vitally important as well. It's been proven time and time again that starvation and other fad diets do not work. Our bodies need good fats, fresh veggies and fruits, protein, adequate hydration, and some regular exercise.

I've worked in healthcare for many years now. It is absolutely horrifying to see so many people in their 30's and 40's dying from complications from diabetes and heart disease. Several months ago I took care of a young man who was 23 years old and weighed a little over 1000 pounds. (nope, that's not a typo) You can probably imagine the horrible mess he was. It was so sad. It used to be rare to see someone over 300 pounds. Now it's normal to have 6 or 8 of the patients in a 60 bed unit who weigh over 300 pounds.

Thanks for posting the food info and your thoughts on health. I don't think this message can be stressed enough.

salongirl · 06-05-2006, 06:12 PM

KajunDC

A while back, I read a thread where you stated that You might post the plan that You followed to lose weight... and how You did it... I from time to time looked for it, but never came across it. Did You do it?

I would love to read it... Your posts are very interesting, and educational.
Thanks a bunch for taking the time.

Also what is BFFM? Thanks Osuz...

Puppy · 06-05-2006, 07:36 PM

BFFM (Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle by Tom Venuto) - click on it and you will see. There is also a sticky on the Muscle Matters board that tells a bit about it.

pooticus · 06-06-2006, 06:06 AM

nice. thanks!

Rosetta · 06-06-2006, 09:47 AM

Good post!

I can see the difference in my mom's parents (they lived with us), who did not touch manufactured (Franken) foods. My grandparents lived active, healthy lives into their 80's. They were always upbeat, in really good shape. They ate food - real, natural food, they always used virgin olive oil ate a lot of different foods, and they did not smoke or drink alcohol except for a little wine now & then. They never ate junk or convenience foods of any kind. My grandmother cooked from scratch with natural foods. You couldn't pay my grandfather to eat a cheese doodle or some cake or drink soda. He flat out said it was garbage. I wish I had listened and not eaten it, either.

My parents thoughts they were just old-fashioned, but they had it right. Pretty soon we were eating a lot of junk, and my parents had poor health from their early 40's on, and both died in their early 70's. My brother, mother and I all struggled with weight problems and food addictions.

The food industry is designed to bring about convenience for the consumer and profit for the manufacturer, not health. Now that all sorts of diseases have sky-rocketed and some research has shown the necessity for returning to real food, maybe a few changes will be made. I'm encouraged by some of the new food stores that are getting popular by carrying more organic and natural foods. By following the Atkins plan, I've mostly returned to eating the way my grandparents ate. When I first cleaned out my fridge & pantry and restocked, I realized my grandma & grandpa would have approved! It was all the same things they ate.

dlslds · 06-06-2006, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salongirl

KajunDC

A while back, I read a thread where you stated that You might post the plan that You followed to lose weight... and how You did it... I from time to time looked for it, but never came across it. Did You do it?

I would love to read it... Your posts are very interesting, and educational.
Thanks a bunch for taking the time.

Thanks Osuz...

me too me too!!! i have looked and also posted i was lookin,
Kajun, dont mean to bug you about it i know you are busy and all your posts are written with much time and thought put into it..

BUT we wanna read it!!!!

tyia

dlslds · 06-08-2006, 05:09 PM

bodacious BUMP

KajunDC · 06-08-2006, 05:57 PM

Yeah, I am trying to get to it. I hope to post something about it here it the next few days.

Been busy dealing with house issues - we have a frame and roof and now the plumber is supposed to be coming the first of next week to do the rough-in, followed by the A/C and electrical guys. I'm hoping we'll be in by my birthday, Sept. 12, but it could be earlier or a little later, depending on the subs from here on out.

But I haven't forgotten about it (posting my steps to losing weight) - My one true vice that I have left after all my life changes is procrastination. One day I'll get around to working on that, too.

dlslds · 06-08-2006, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KajunDC

Yeah, I am trying to get to it. I hope to post something about it here it the next few days.

Been busy dealing with house issues - we have a frame and roof and now the plumber is supposed to be coming the first of next week to do the rough-in, followed by the A/C and electrical guys. I'm hoping we'll be in by my birthday, Sept. 12, but it could be earlier or a little later, depending on the subs from here on out.

But I haven't forgotten about it (posting my steps to losing weight) - My one true vice that I have left after all my life changes is procrastination. One day I'll get around to working on that, too.

Totally understand Kajun!!!!! i know your real busy,

i will wait, just didnt want to miss it!

Carmen Sandiego · 06-09-2006, 01:26 PM

Thanks for posting this...sometimes I get really overwhelmed with weight loss when I should be focusing on health gain as well!

brenda62 · 09-25-2006, 01:15 PM

You da man, Kajun! Did ya get into the house yet?
Brenda

06-05-2006, 03:33 PM	#1
KajunDC Natural Healthcare Chiropractor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mandeville, LA (Just North of New Orleans) Posts: 2,317 Gallery: KajunDC Stats: Lost 115lbs in 7 months Body Fat-40+%/11%/9% WOE: Organic, Fresh and Non-Processed Start Date: Low Carb-Mar04, BFFM-Jul05	The Story of Food... ... and its relationship to Disease. (This thread is a companion to the "Whole Food Vitamin vs Synthetic Vitamin" thread Whole Food vs Synthetic Vitamins and once again credit goes out to Dr. Janet Lang for all her wonderful research and insite.) - Nature has provided all life forms on earth with pre-packaged fuel and rebuilding materials. We call this "food." - With a simple, yet ingenious plan, food sources consist of material to be turned into fuel for energy, plus the biochemicals needed for the body to burn the fuel for energy. These are called "nutrients." - Food sources also contain materials for basic building and rebuilding of body structures, and the biochemicals that will build the biochemical messenger system - hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters - that run the functions of the body. - The body is in a constant "recycle mode." It is constantly breaking down old worn cells, organs and tissues, and biochemical messengers, and rebuilding fresh new replacement cells, organs and tissues, and biochemical messengers. - Why then do we end up with malfunctioning, broken-down bodies, which is happening to increasing numbers of people and younger and younger ages? One reason is that we are supplying increasingly depleted and inferior "recycling material" in the form of poor quality, dead and devitalized food, and synthetic (dead) imitation "nutritional" supplements. - In the last 100 years, we have virtually re-made the food supply, and not for the better. (Read the book "Empty Harvest" by Jensen and Anderson.) - Most of American farm soil has been hopelessly depleted of the nutrients that were present before the advent of petro-chemical farming in the 1950's. - Hybrid plants and genetically modified plants are bred for visual appeal and pesticide resistance, not nutrient density or quality. - The refining and packaging of food stripes the nutrients out of the food in order to achieve extended shelf life. Not even the bugs and rats will eat the majority of foods that the average American exists on. - The nutrients stripped from foods are the very ones needed for the body to properly metabolize and use these foods for energy and rebuilding. - These devitalized foods are now anti-nutrients, in that they require your body to provide the nutrients to metabolize them, that is, to remake yourself with, and to provide you with energy. When you become depleted in these needed nutrients - which most people are, to varying degrees - the activity that turns food into energy, biochemical functions and new body parts grinds to a halt. - The various versions of fatigue and breakdown or degeneration that result from this are then named various diseases, like adrenal fatigue, insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, hypothyroidism, etc. - Devitalized foods like white bread are often "enriched," that is , about 1000 nutrients (some of which are known, many of which are unknown) are removed in the refining process. A handful of synthetic imitation "vitamins" plus a coule of indigestible minerals (like calcium carbonate) are then sprayed back onto it. - The food "enriching" process is similar to stealing $1000 from you and enriching you back with $6. In reality, you have been nutritionally mugged, not enriched. - In addition, you must now supply the missing nutrients from your own body's reserves - if you have any reserves - to metabolize the devitalized foods you eat. That is, you now have to take dead food and bring it back to life using your nutrient and energy reserves, if you have enough to spare. - Nature's design is for us to eat live food with the nutrients still in their living, intact form. This live food in turn is used to re-vitalize and rebuild our bodies. Instead, what we are doing now is eating dead, devitalized foods with synthetic imitation nutrients. Now we must infuse our food with life - literally bring it from a dead state to a living one, and incorporate it into our bodies. No small task. - And finally studies have shown that the synthetic imitations of vitamins sprayed back onto the devitalized food are disease-causing. (Once again, read "Empty Harvest" referenced above.) DR. CLEAVE'S RULE OF TWENTY In his studies published in "The Saccharine Disease" (1974), Dr. Cleave demonstrated that almost exactly twenty years after Western, devitalized, refined food was introduced into the traditional diets of native peoples, both diabetes and heart disease would simultaneously appear where they had not existed before. Many other researchers have validated these findings. __________________________________________________ ____________ This is the true road to many disease processes. Why does it take so long for these problems to develop? Because, unlike a computer which will simply quit functioning altogether with the wrong, improper parts, your body will do the best that it can for as long as it can - then when it simply "can't" any longer, it slowly begins to break down. And eventually you will begin having symptoms, which will be diagnosed as a disease. (Remember, symptoms are always the LAST thing to show up. In many, many cases, by the time you have a symptom the underlying problem has been going on for years to even decades.) This is when modern medicine comes in and trys to deal with the results of the problem, not the cause. It makes much more sense to try and prevent the cause from happening in the first place by eating well - don'tcha think? Take care of your body and your body will take care of you. I cannot impress enough that maintaining good health is so much easier than trying to regain good health. If you run your car ragged, slam on the gas at every green light and slam on the brakes a few feet before every red light, never change the oil, keep the filters clogged, don't get regular tune-ups, etc. how well does that car run and how long does it last? Well, what makes you think your body runs any different? The equation of health basically boils down to three categories. Eat properly, exercise regularly, and keep a positive frame of mind. Chemical, Physical, and Emotional. These are the main three areas we can control. All the rest is just trying to figure out specifics of how to do these three things. The time is now, folks. Lose weight? Yes definitely do that. But the true commitment you need to make to yourself is to get health. (Or keep health or regain as much health as you are able given any current limitations.) Definition of Health - The state of optimal physical, chemical and emotional wellbeing, and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity. Here's to your good health __________________ Click here to join me on a visual history to becoming 1/2 the man I used to be. The Story of Food and its relation to Disease. Whole Food Vitamins vs. Synthetic Vitamins. Cholesterol - The Truths and the Myths. Ask yourself two important questions: 1. Are you more healthy or less healthy today than you were 5 years ago? 2. Will you be more healthy or less healthy 5 years from now than you are today?

06-05-2006, 07:36 PM	#6
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06-06-2006, 09:47 AM	#8
Rosetta MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,412 Gallery: Rosetta Stats: 198/130/125 WOE: Atkins For Life Start Date: July, 2002	Good post! I can see the difference in my mom's parents (they lived with us), who did not touch manufactured (Franken) foods. My grandparents lived active, healthy lives into their 80's. They were always upbeat, in really good shape. They ate food - real, natural food, they always used virgin olive oil ate a lot of different foods, and they did not smoke or drink alcohol except for a little wine now & then. They never ate junk or convenience foods of any kind. My grandmother cooked from scratch with natural foods. You couldn't pay my grandfather to eat a cheese doodle or some cake or drink soda. He flat out said it was garbage. I wish I had listened and not eaten it, either. My parents thoughts they were just old-fashioned, but they had it right. Pretty soon we were eating a lot of junk, and my parents had poor health from their early 40's on, and both died in their early 70's. My brother, mother and I all struggled with weight problems and food addictions. The food industry is designed to bring about convenience for the consumer and profit for the manufacturer, not health. Now that all sorts of diseases have sky-rocketed and some research has shown the necessity for returning to real food, maybe a few changes will be made. I'm encouraged by some of the new food stores that are getting popular by carrying more organic and natural foods. By following the Atkins plan, I've mostly returned to eating the way my grandparents ate. When I first cleaned out my fridge & pantry and restocked, I realized my grandma & grandpa would have approved! It was all the same things they ate. __________________ ~Rosetta~ 5'5" and in my 50's/Size 6 Reached Goal - 135 lbs. (11-14-03)

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06-05-2006, 03:58 PM	#2
Charski Big Yapper!!!! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Central Coastal CA Posts: 8,729 Gallery: Charski Stats: 174 (WW)/130/150 goal 5'5" 54 years young WOE: ATKINS! now and always.... Start Date: 5/03	A-MEN! Couldn't agree more. Which is WHY I grit my teeth at the "losing weight faster is better" and "any way you can" idea because it really should be about regaining health, not ALL about losing weight!

06-05-2006, 04:03 PM	#3
ixtapacheryl Blabbermouth!!! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 5,896 Gallery: ixtapacheryl Stats: 183/150/130-135 - 5'7.5" WOE: '72 Atkins	Great information and I agree with you 100% when you stated: The equation of health basically boils down to three categories. Eat properly, exercise regularly, and keep a positive frame of mind. Chemical, Physical, and Emotional. I take a multiple variety of supplements - have a outgoing personality and never dwell on the past - only look forward. Maybe that is why the surgeon told me today that I am in the top 2% of fast healers. I refuse to be sick .... and don't dwell on it. Again, thank you.

06-05-2006, 04:14 PM	#4
teri f Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Fredericktown, Ohio Posts: 3,427 Gallery: teri f Stats: 203/165/145 WOE: Atkins Start Date: Restart 6/18/2007	You are absolutely right. Weight loss IS very important and essential to overall good health. How we get there is vitally important as well. It's been proven time and time again that starvation and other fad diets do not work. Our bodies need good fats, fresh veggies and fruits, protein, adequate hydration, and some regular exercise. I've worked in healthcare for many years now. It is absolutely horrifying to see so many people in their 30's and 40's dying from complications from diabetes and heart disease. Several months ago I took care of a young man who was 23 years old and weighed a little over 1000 pounds. (nope, that's not a typo) You can probably imagine the horrible mess he was. It was so sad. It used to be rare to see someone over 300 pounds. Now it's normal to have 6 or 8 of the patients in a 60 bed unit who weigh over 300 pounds. Thanks for posting the food info and your thoughts on health. I don't think this message can be stressed enough.

06-05-2006, 06:12 PM	#5
salongirl Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Friends Lake, NY Posts: 228 Gallery: salongirl Stats: 181/176/145 WOE: Atkins ala Kimmer Start Date: 5/30/06 - re-start	KajunDC A while back, I read a thread where you stated that You might post the plan that You followed to lose weight... and how You did it... I from time to time looked for it, but never came across it. Did You do it? I would love to read it... Your posts are very interesting, and educational. Thanks a bunch for taking the time. Also what is BFFM? Thanks Osuz...

06-06-2006, 06:06 AM	#7
pooticus Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: May 2004 Location: somewhere over the rainbow Posts: 15,812 Gallery: pooticus Stats: 314/268.4/150 WOE: PersonalPlan Start Date: Nov.20, 2007	nice. thanks!

06-08-2006, 05:09 PM	#10
dlslds Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 4,030 Gallery: dlslds WOE: QUACK POWER	bodacious BUMP

06-08-2006, 05:57 PM	#11
KajunDC Natural Healthcare Chiropractor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mandeville, LA (Just North of New Orleans) Posts: 2,317 Gallery: KajunDC Stats: Lost 115lbs in 7 months Body Fat-40+%/11%/9% WOE: Organic, Fresh and Non-Processed Start Date: Low Carb-Mar04, BFFM-Jul05	Yeah, I am trying to get to it. I hope to post something about it here it the next few days. Been busy dealing with house issues - we have a frame and roof and now the plumber is supposed to be coming the first of next week to do the rough-in, followed by the A/C and electrical guys. I'm hoping we'll be in by my birthday, Sept. 12, but it could be earlier or a little later, depending on the subs from here on out. But I haven't forgotten about it (posting my steps to losing weight) - My one true vice that I have left after all my life changes is procrastination. One day I'll get around to working on that, too.

06-09-2006, 01:26 PM	#13
Carmen Sandiego Senior LCF Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 272 Gallery: Carmen Sandiego	Thanks for posting this...sometimes I get really overwhelmed with weight loss when I should be focusing on health gain as well!

09-25-2006, 01:15 PM	#14
brenda62 Senior LCF Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 173 Gallery: brenda62 Stats: 239/189/155 WOE: Carb Addicts HH Program Start Date: Dec. 12 2005	You da man, Kajun! Did ya get into the house yet? Brenda