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   Michael Cook on November 5, 2012 at 7:35 am

   THE BRITISH SHOULD EAT MORE FAT. (HARDLY ANY DIABETES IN THIS PERIOD)

   Throughout our history a healthy diet was one which was based mainly on foods of animal origin and high in fats. Where the major health problems occured in Britain, it was not among people who ate a lot of fat, but in those who did not get enough.The comparatively wealthy, who ate meat and dairy produce regularly, had average lifespans which were comparable with or better than those of today. It was the poor who could not afford such foods who suffered high levels of infant mortality, poor growth and shorter, less healthy lives.

   In the 1920’s, Sir John Boyd Orr conducted a number of studies which compared growth rates of children in public schools with those in state run schools. He found that those from wealthier backgrounds were significantly taller than their poorer peers. After examining their relative diets and changing the constituents, Boyd Orr proved conclusively that children of the socially deprived, who lived on a largely carbohydrate diet of bread and potatoes, benefitted from a diet supplemented with full-cream milk.

   Boyd Orr’s studies found confirmation in observations among the people’s of India made by Sir Robert McCarrison, a colonial medical officer. He compared the southern Indians, who ate very little in the way of dairy produce and who were of stunted growth and prone to disease, with their neighbours to the north, the Sikhs, who drank a great deal of milk and were fit and healthy. Maasai, who lived almost exclusively on blood and milk, with their unhealthy vegetarian neighbours, the Kikuyu. That added to the weight of evidence.

   Boyd Orr concluded that the food intake of half the British population was seriously deficient in a number of what he called ‘protective constitiuents’ which were necessary for good health. In the late 1930’s he proposed that the British people should drink more milk, and eat more dairy produce and meat. The British government of the time recommended that milk consumption should be doubled and introduced free school milk. The British Medical Association, giving specific amounts, advised that the population should consume 80% more milk, 55% more eggs, 40% more butter and 30% more meat. Later, with the advent of television advertising, the government sponsored its own ‘go to work on an egg’ campaign.

   Except for the period of food rationing during the 1940s and early 1950s, Boyd Orr’s recommended diet was the standard British fare. We ate breakfast of eggs and fatty bacon fried in lard: dripping, the fat from the sunday roast, was saved to have on bread and toast: we drank full cream milk and ate butter. Only the poor ate margarine: and only the poor had high levels of disease. The recommendations to eat a relatively high-fat, high-animal protein diet led to a spectacular decrease in diseases: rickets, called the ‘English Disease’ because it was so widespread together with other defeciency diseases, largely disappeared from our lives: child deaths from diptheria, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough also fell dramatically well before the introduction of anti-biotics and widespread immunisation. Although other factors helped, most important was the higher resistance of children to disease that followed from better nutrition. That dietary advice, given to the people of Britain in 1938 remained the basis of our diet for nearly 50years, during which time our mean life expectancy increased from 60 years in 1930 to 70years by 1960 and by 1990 it had reached 75years. ( From the book ‘Natural health and weight loss’ by a Barry Groves.)

   Since the 1980s there has been a reversal of all that went before in the previous 50 years. No fat, low fat, meat consumption has been drastically cut from our diet, as has eggs, full cream milk, all on the advice of the modern day ‘health gurus’ ‘nutirionists’ and tv health pundits who are indoctrinating people into eating the most toxic and poisonous foods ever contrived. As one man said, the masses prefer to eat preserved, polished, purified, canned foods, that one way or another are dessicated by chemicals, by heating, by freezing and thawing, by oxidization and decomposition, by milling and polishing, man applies the principles of his”civilization,” which is the elimination of the old primitive civilizations natural way of eating and the substitution of it with the artificial. By so doing he turns a once natural and wholesome food into a “dead” mass of nutritional sewage. the consequence of which is the sickest society that the world has ever seen and getting sicker.

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   Michael Cook on November 5, 2012 at 7:39 am

   Fruits are full of sugar, fructose being the name of sugars that fruit produces, because fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion from the pancreas as does glucose-containing carbohydrate foods like bread and pasta, people who know this believe that fruit must be healthier. But there is a snag, our bodies produce a hormone called ‘leptin’ which controls weight gain: the more leptin produced the less weight is put on.The production of leptin is regulated by insulin responses to meals. Thus fructose, by reducing insulin, also reduces circulating leptin concentrations.

   Dr. Sharon Elliot and colleagues at the universities of California and Pennsylvania, say that the combined effects of insulin and lowered leptin in individuals who eat diets that are high in dietary fructose(fruits) could increase the likelihood of weight gain and associated conditions. In addition, they point out that fructose, compared with glucose, is preferentially metabolized to fat in the liver. In animal studies fructose has been shown to induce insulin resistance, impair glucose tolerance and raise blood levels of insulin and triglycerides, as well as raising blood pressure, although the figures are not so clear in humans. Nevertheless, there are human data that suggests that eating more fructose may be detrimental in terms of increased fat storage and body weight and the illnesses associated with the metabolic syndrome.

   Sugars from whatever source generates insulin in the body, insulin being a hormone that can, in significant quantities cause huge disruption in the body leading to all kinds of problems. i.e, Diabetes is now a plague in the ‘civilised ‘world, and why, because most people live on mainly a carbohydrate diet, the Doctor will tell tham to eat more fruit and vegetables, but they are carbohydrates too, in fact they could be worse for diabetics. The best solution is to take away the need for the cells to put up resistance in the first place by giving insulin less of a job to do. As ALL dietary carbohydrates, whether it is bread, pasta, breakfast cereals, sugar or fruit, and whatever its glyceamic index, ultimately reaches the blood as glucose, the best way to reduce the need for increased insulin is to reduce dietary carbohydrate. And we also need to reduce our intakes of the cheap, engineered dietary oils and margarines.These two elements of our modern diet are a recipe for disaster.

   The evidence of how bad our diet is; we have the sickest society ever known, plagued by a plethora of diseases, caused mainly by a greedy corporate mafia who sell the most poisonous foods to the masses.

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   Antonia on November 5, 2012 at 6:32 pm

   Thank you, Michael, for those posts. I fully agree with you that the recommended modern diet is toxic. Since when did people need governments to tell them what to eat? it’s madness. My grandparents (only elementary schooled) were dairy farmers who ate full cream dairy and lots of meat. They were slim and lived into their 80s and 90s with no medications.

   The fruit mania is absurd when you consider most fruit is seasonal so people wouldn’t have had access to it all year round. The stuff in supermarkets is generally tasteless produce that has been bred for looks and travel hardiness.

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   Dr.C.O.Odugbemi on November 7, 2012 at 1:27 am

   With this piece of information concerning green tea, i hope everyone should form the habit of taken it as preventive measure against this deadly disease.