Obesity & Weight Loss |
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| May 15 2007 |
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The obesity epidemic of the past century has mirrored the rise in consumption of processed, devitalized foods. Dr. Weston A. Price's nonindustrialized people, however, did not have weight problems on their traditional diets. The place to start for losing weight is in switching to a nourishing traditional diet such as those of the populations Price studied. See our Characteristics of Traditional Diets, Dietary Guidelines, Dietary Dangers for a basic starting point. Nourishing Traditions provides a comprehensive nutrition guide and basic cookbook for traditional foods. Lori Lipinski's series on "Making the Transition" also has excellent step-by-step tips for ridding your pantry of processed food and using healthy alternatives. We do not recommend lowfat diets, high protein diets that restrict fat, vegetarian diets,* or vegan diets. The body needs an abundant supply of the fat-soluble vitamins and fat-soluble activators found only in animal fats. Many of the vitamins and minerals found in vegetables cannot be absorbed without fat, and protein cannot be assimilated without fat. In fact, the body will rob its own precious stores of fat-soluble vitamins in order to digest protein if adequate fat is not eaten with it, which can lead to rapid depletion of these nutrients so necessary for so many biological functions. Price's natives never ate lean meat without the fat. *Vegetarian diets that include liberal use of eggs and raw dairy products can be healthy for some people. However, childen, people who want to conceive or are pregnant or lactating, and others with compromised health or digestive systems may do poorly on a vegetarian diet. Reducing simple carbohydrates and increasing saturated fats is the basis for many of the recommendations in the books below. The fatty acids in coconut oil and butter in particular are helpful for weight loss. For an inspiring account of a formerly obese man who shed his excess weight and returned to radiant health, read A Life Unburdened: Getting Over Weight and Getting On With My Life by Richard Morris. Some people who switch to a nourishing traditional diet still have difficulty losing weight. This could be do to any number of underlying health issues such as toxic overload from poisons like amalgam (mercury) dental fillings, insulin resistance, and other issues. See our Ask the Doctor About Losing Weight column for a perspective on this from Dr. Thomas Cowan. His website The Fourfold Path to Healing (along with his book of the same name) offers help for weight loss. See in particular his Sample Menus for Weight Loss. BooksThese books may also offer advice that will help with your particular needs.
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written by shawnda, Apr 26 2011
I have heard that as long as you limit your carbs to less than 100 g per day and eat minimal sugar you will loose weight. Is this true? By "minimal" sugar how much does that mean... like 1 fruit or 1 glass a milk a day?
Fast food obesity
written by jadesmith, Dec 13 2010
Fast food lovers not only consume that food, but along with it, they consume more fats, carbohydrates, sugars, less fruits, and non-starchy vegetables. In short, those who eat fast food, consumes some 187 more calories everyday that ultimately increases the weight till six pounds or more in a year.
http://www.fightobesity.net/fast-food-obesity.html
20 facts on obesity
written by Sandra, Oct 22 2010
Due to obesity lot of heart disorders can be caused. Women with obesity have high risk of heart attack. Therefore it is very essential to get rid of obesity as soon as possible. Doctors suggest that it is very necessary to exercise for getting rid of obesity also women should pay attention to their eating habits and diet.
http://www.fightobesity.net/20...esity.html
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written by Dana, Jun 28 2010
Never judge someone's propensity for chronic disease by their body weight. Just because many French are not fat (it isn't true that none are) doesn't mean they aren't sick. Part of the problem is their smoking, but those breads and potatoes are not doing them any good either.
If I might point out one tiny detail, a lot of French bread comes from refined flour anymore. And there are other problems too. There's a continuum of health we're talking about here. People who insist that grains are healthy and that bread's OK to eat "in moderation" seem to forget that our species has almost no evolutionary experience with the stuff. Before the Agricultural Revolution there were a handful of peoples who ate grain occasionally, but the healthy ones didn't eat much of it, or any at all--the latter usually being the case. If you look at Weston Price's numbers for which of his isolated traditional peoples had the most cavities, you'll find it's the ones who ate bread as a dietary staple. Properly fermented or not, didn't matter--they still ate it. The Inuit, who barely ate any *vegetables* and certainly not grain, had the lowest incidence of caries. Teeth are the front line of health warnings in the body, I think. If you're slender but your teeth are rotting out of your mouth then you are still doing something wrong. And if you're slender but your cholesterol, triglyceride, and glucose numbers are still weird, it's not "genetic"--you're doing something wrong. I think of fat people as lucky. Because we got warned in a way we could not ignore that *we* were doing something wrong. I feel sorry for slender people who think they're off the hook because they're in the correct weight range. Better look again. I appreciate that WAPF shows people how to make grain foods *less* dangerous. But they are still dangerous and eating them regularly, as a staple or a main course, is a mistake.
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written by Angela, Jun 09 2010
Might also be all the hormones stuffed into us and that our fish end up having to .. also radiation from wars seems to cause diabetes and is now everywhere.
I don't think it's the carbs .... Many people like the French, Chinese & Italian's eat carbs and are not overweight. I think it's the refined sugar in our diets. Maybe people eating sugar for energy instead of what they should be eating ..meat and it's fat. I try to eat fruit when I have sugar cravings. Usually works but it's some difficult to eat no sugar when it's all we see in grocery stores etc. I try to avoid it or not bring it home ! lol..
How much fat is too much?
written by Diana, May 05 2010
I generally adhere to WAP principles but I often wonder if I eat too much fat eg I usually add very generous amounts of butter to vegies etc and we eat cream and sour cream liberally. Can anyone give me quantitative recommendations?
Fats and cholesterol
written by Tracy, Feb 17 2010
The dangers of CVD or CHD come into play when someone eats a lot of carbohydrates with saturated fats. Blood cholesterol levels begin to increase when the body cannot metabolize them, and cause their agglutination to the blood vessel walls. This is what causes heart attacks. Vegans will have a lack of cholesterol, as well as a reduction in metabolizing hormones and bodily biological function.
Selling Obesity in the Lobby, Fast Food in Hospitals
written by jeffrey dach md, Feb 15 2010 Peter Cram reported in JAMA that forty per cent of hospitals have fast food in the lobby. While you might consider this an outrage, the hospital probably considers it business as usual. Your hospital banned cigarette smoking long ago, yet still sends the message that fast food is healthy for you. Fast Food Causes Obesity and Chronic Disease Michael Pollen, a journalist and author of "In Defense of Food", and "Food Rules" says in a New York Times Editorial that fast food causes chronic disease, and "there’s lots of money to be made selling fast food, and then treating the diseases that fast food causes. One of the leading products of the American food industry has become patients for the American health care industry". For More: http://jeffreydach.com/2010/01/27/selling-sickness-in-the-lobby--fast-food-in-hospitals-by-jeffrey-dach-md.aspx
beef tongue soup with beef liver stew.. yummy..
written by primitive-wisdom, Jan 31 2010
I agree with the article. Thanx..We have been vegans before for 2 years, but no thanx...We both injured form vegan diet although I think we ate far superior to most people who eat meat.. Vegetables very carefully selected, properly prepared, wide variety, well combined, etc. Well, it turned out that it is not for us. Those who happy with it, let them be. And we are happy healthy and strong following these basic principles.
Here I spoke, Thasunko Sapa aka The Black Horse. LOL
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