EAT HEALTHY?
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In Belgium where I live there's a small food hype going on. A young gerontologist (a medecin who studies aging) wrote a book where he basically compiles an overview of conclusions of scientific studies on the various causes and possible remedies against aging diseases like cancer, heart and coronary disease, dementia, parkinson etc. And with scientific studies I mean serious, large scale, double blind, test group included studies, published in scientific publications like Nature, Science, The Lancet etc. Ask any scientist who ever tries to get a study published anywhere how easy it is to get a publication in those, and what it tells about the study itself.
The book turns its attention almost exclusively to food, because it appears that what we eat is the most important cause of all these diseases. There are other things that can have positive influence like exercising etc, but the most important thing that can be done is eat healthy food and not eat unhealthy food. But what is healthy food ?
In the book he discusses the different types of foods ( carbohydrates, fat, fibres, vitamins.. ) and what happens in your body when you eat them and how these processes relate to the different kinds of aging diseases. And also what can be done against the negative effects, as proven by the scientific studies.
In the end the conclusion is that you should elimininate carbohydrates and sugar as much as possible (so no bread, pasta, rice or potatoes), eat tiny amounts of meat and replace red meat by white meat, eat fatty fish and anything else that contains lots of Omega3 like nuts, elimlinate dairy products, that there are good fats and bad fats, good proteïn and less favourable proteïn and so on, which all boils down to an update of the classical food triangle, but where he places all the good stuff in the triangle, and places an upside down triangle above it, that contains the bad shit, where everything in it should ideally be replaced as much as possible by its counterpart in the bottom triangle. So that's why the book is called "De Voedselzandloper", or translated "The Food Hourglass"
It's in Dutch but here it is :
http://www.voedselzandloper.com/…
Now, I've been living like this for a month, I've lost 4 kilograms, my energy levels are through the roof, and everybody I know who's been adopting the diet feels exactly the same. The weird thing is that you always knew that vegetables were better for you than hamburgers, but that you always say 'oh well' and stuff another hamburger in. But once you read and actually know what'll happen with all the stuff and how you'll be influenced down the line, it's much harder to say 'oh well'
The book is a bit of a bombshell, because it basically makes three quarters of our current agroculture and pharmaceutical industry obsolete. It gets constant attacks from various lobbies from both industries, but apparently that doesn't prevent every pressing from selling out in no time, because word of mouth on this book is GINORMOUS.
To give an example how this book is making waves : In the book a huge brand of margarine isn't mentioned by name literally, but by describing its marketing campaign everybody knows which margarine he's talking about. The margarine claims that it has plant stereoles in it, which reduce cholesterol, which reduces the chance of heart disease. Now it's true that lowered cholesterol reduces the risk on heart disease, but what the book also says is that by turning liquid plant fats into solid fats (so it can be smeared on a sandwich) there are also transfats being produced, which are impossible to elminate completely from the margarine, and which are incredibly unhealthy. Transfats are unnatural fats our body doesn't exactly know what to do with, so they cause a multitude of problems in our bodies.
So now this brand of margarine has just launched it's "new and improved" formula, with added Omega3 ( the book also makes a big deal of how important Omega3 fat is for you). The margarine's slogan is now that it contains extra amounts of Omega3, which is good for you , and that it's scientifically proven.
Again, it's true that science has proven Omega3 is good for you, but that doesn't take away the transfats out of the margarine, which actually causes heart disease. In Israel people don't eat butter because of their religion, so they eat margarine instead. Even though everybody there has lowered cholesterol on average, they have a much higher rate of heart disease, probably because of the transfats in all the margarin they're eating. Don't eat margarine.
Now I get a lot of "it's unhealthy to be so strict and if you don't exaggerate nothing isn unhealthy" and all that. That might be true , I don't know. I'm just passing on what I know. The book isn't translated yet I think, but if you read it and you're not a complete idiot you'll know it's the real deal. It works great for me and everybody I know. Enjoy!