Is that something like a Chia Pet?
Posted on 09/15/2017 10:39:33 PM PDT by fireman15
Study compiling data from every country finds people are living longer but millions are eating wrong foods for their health.
Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths around the world, according to the most comprehensive study ever carried out on the subject.
Millions of people are eating the wrong sorts of food for good health. Eating a diet that is low in whole grains, fruit, nuts and seeds and fish oils and high in salt raises the risk of an early death, according to the huge and ongoing study Global Burden of Disease.
The study, based at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, compiles data from every country in the world and makes informed estimates where there are gaps. Five papers on life expectancy and the causes and risk factors of death and ill health have been published by the Lancet medical journal.
Diet is the second highest risk factor for early death after smoking. Other high risks are high blood glucose which can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, high body mass index (BMI) which is a measure of obesity, and high total cholesterol. All of these can be related to eating the wrong foods, although there are also other causes.
Sugary drinks are harmful to health but eating a lot of red meat, the study finds, is not as big a risk to health as failing to eat whole grains. “We need to look really carefully at what are the healthy compounds in diets that provide protection,” he said.
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“High protein” is bad for your kidneys.
It is not so much what you eat, as it is how much and in what proportions. Our bodies only need protein, carbohydrate, and lipid, along with trace minerals. Despite years of searching and decades of the “health food” movement, there is no holy grail of nutrition that is the secret to long life and health.
Grain is completely unnecessary and will make you fat.
fasting, put down the fork, push away from the table, it’s portion control, not what you eat that matters.
research prolongs life?
Or caloric restriction?
High fructose corn syrup is biggest reason.
I always say, stop eating when you start to feel full.
Sixty grams protein, one hundred of carbs and 30 of fiber is pretty balanced. White bread will go to your tummy ring so whole wheat bread is better. But then as Mark Twain said: “My habits protect me but they’re liable to assassinate you.” and “How many people died from a misprint in a medical journal?”
So many food items are still subject to the current fads. Twenty years ago eggs were bad, now they are good.
Meat is bad, now it is good again.
Sixty years ago my sister-in-law said high gluten bread was all the rage. Now gluten free is the rage.
Highly processed grains are bad, unless it is highly processed soy beans made into artificial meat and other items.
Butter used to be good, then it was bad and margarine was good. Now it is reversed.
Okay, my health sucks. You name it, I got it with a couple of kickers like spinal stenosis and I’m a pneumonia magnet. At the beginning of summer I had a viral lung infection and slept upright in a chair beside I could not lay down without coughing. Try coughing for a month and I like coughing seizures. Came out of it and made a decision to be proactive. I began to change the diet, more fruits and vegetables, no whites, reduce coffee, more water and began water walking because of the spinal stenosis.
In 2 months I lost 8 pounds and my blood pressure went to 130 over 70, sugar level from 6.5 to 6.3, bad cholesterol to 63. Those improvements were the result of diet change and walking an hour a day. Oh because of the spinal stenosis I get swelling of the ankles. After one day of water walking the swelling went down and continues to stay down. Solved that without med’s.
I am 72 and it is not easy to teach this old dog new tricks. I decided I would gain control of me and my health was the first step to do that. I will see my doctor in 4 months for another follow up. Goal is another 8 pounds. Nothing that I can’t handle. Wonder what my markers will be then.
Quick tips, reduce coffee and increase water intake. Reduce white intake, more fruits and vegetables. Eat red meat, white meats and fish in small portions. LEt you body tell you what is right.
I just have one question. How long was the average lifespan before all this ‘bad food’ became plentiful?
I think this is correct in moderation. Skipping a few meals or even days here and there is both healthy and very natural.
I think the extreme version of this promoted by calorie restriction fans has been debunked, at least in primate studies.
But skipping breakfast (if you aren’t hungry), missing dinner once in a while, and just taking a day or two off from eating now and then is a great idea.
I wasn't sure where you were headed, but you are dead on. When my wife was a teen her doctor told her she was getting to heavy. She asked what she should do and the doctor told her to eat half as much and not try to finish everything on her plate if she felt satisfied. He was a highly respected physician in our community who was one of the founders of our children's hospital.
My wife has been slender ever since. It was a little unnerving to me when we first met because I was taught from an early age to always eat everything on my plate. She often doesn't finish everything. Since we have been married for 30 years I often eat what she doesn't finish. And if we go to a restaurant we always take home a doggy bag.
Which brings up another important point. Restaurants nearly always serve larger portions than what their customers actually need. We have some very large relatives and they all love to eat out. I don't think it is a coincidence.
Since this study encompasses the whole world, it also includes the countries which virtually live on white rice.
I have been told by people from Vietnam that diabetes is very prevalent there. Also told my a Middle Easterner how the diet is largely white rice and white pasta and diabetes is very prevalent there as well.
In this country we do have a lot of obese and type 2 diabetes members of the population who have bad diets but being lumped in with a worldwide survey skews Americans health to be worse than it really is.
Even dogs who have a digestive system that is suited for eating mostly meat for more than our own benefit from eating grains. One of our dogs developed pancreatitis when he was 12. He was very sick and looked terrible. Our vet said that he needed more carbohydrate in his diet and less fat and protein. When we followed his advice the dog got better and lived another 6 years.
Grain will make you fat if you are not active and you eat too much of it. The same can be said of nearly every other type of food. Portion control is the key. Artificially cutting out a food group is not a good idea.
Isn't that the truth... And each time we have a shift in what is considered good or bad we have people making passionate arguments about whatever fad they are advocating for. This is partially fueled by the "health food" industry. Look at all the advertisement for "gluten free", "high protein", "no GMO", "no sugar", "no corn syrup", "all natural" and such foods. It is enough to make your head spin.
The observation that I will make is that in almost every case when someone I have known has completely cut a staple food out of their diet it hasn't turned out well for them.
The first time I noticed this... we had two college professor and their kids who were neighbors when we were growing up who decided to become vegetarians and made their kids become vegetarians as well. They were smart people and were careful about the foods they chose. But the whole family became sickly and eventually had to return to a more normal diet. Lately, my wife's sister and a niece have been trying to follow a vegetarian life style. I actually did enjoy the fruit smoothies they made the last time they came to visit. But after a year they are both starting to look like they are on death's doorstep.
Another friend of ours went to some sort of naturopathic “doctor” who told her she had celiac disease and should not eat gluten. No accredited MD actually has done any real tests to confirm this. But she completely cut gluten out of her diet. We have eaten her gluten free creations for dinner at their house and they used to come to the gluten free bakery near our home. All of the food tasted fine to me. Unfortunately, our friend's health has really gone downhill since she cut gluten out of her diet.
Basically all of her hair has fallen out and her skin looks like she has aged 30 years in the last 5 years. She has also been having severe problems with her joints and had to have her knees replaced. Whenever a doctor has suggested that her diet might be a factor in her poor health she dumps them.
And don't get me started on the "Atkins" and other high protein, high fat, no carb diets. The results of these on my friends and associates have been lethal in some cases and there is not space for me to detail it right now. Unfortunately, my wife has severe food allergies to seafood and strawberries. They cause her throat to swell up and make it difficult for her to breath. So I didn't eat any seafood for years. I started taking fish oil capsules a year or so ago at the suggestion of my doctor and they really seem to make a difference for me.
The other factor that doesn't seem to make it into the nutrition conversation is the bacteria that lives in your gut. After my appendix ruptured a few years ago and they gave me some heavy duty antibiotics to save my life... I started having some severe digestive problems. It took a long time to get back to where things were working right again. Your gut flora is extremely important to your health. If you do not eat certain food groups the balance of bacteria that are necessary for good health gets all screwed up.
It is good to find out about differing peoples and cultures food choices and cuisine. But the very best policy seems to always come back to the common sense, and moderation in all things approach.
I do not know about Middle Eastern diet and health but we do have close friends who are from Vietnam. The rate of diabetes there has been going up, but it is not as much of a problem there as it is here. They are transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to an urban lifestyle and this seems to be associated.
As long as you don't eat a low fat diet. Healthy fats make you feel full and turn off the desire to eat more - low fat, you can just keep stuff in your face ad sill be hungry. I've fought with my weight all my life. A few years ago I went paleo (which isn't high-protein). Main focus on fresh veggies, good quality protein and healthy fats, some fruits and nuts. Basically cut out sugar, processed foods, and most grains.
Dropped 30 pounds in the first year and about 12 in the next, but I never felt hungry. Even if I do occasionally have a treat, I just can't eat the same the amount food as I used to. It'e like something in this way of eating reset my hunger to healthy levels. YMMV
All those people that died also drank di-hydrogen monoxide also. Bad stuff.
Anyone that would like to finance a steak diet for me for a few years to see the results please message me.
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