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   georgia on December 31, 2012 at 8:23 am

   When I was young; I would have sinus trouble in the mornings before school. My parents would make me drink black coffee! I would throw it all up, and have the “shakes”, & go to school. They never learned that coffee did not set well with me. I drink it with skim milk, and sweetner, when I am very cold, but I never drink it with my morning toast, and black! grumbling georgia, had the flu, but, I’m still here;)

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   Micheal Cook on December 31, 2012 at 2:02 pm

   Why reduce it, when you can eliminate it? This product or that? It is one's overall diet that is to blame. Go back to what man has been eating for millenia as far as humanly possible. Processed foods, supermarket foods, are about as harmful as you get. People need to take responsibility for their own health. There is no magic pill, or magic ingredient, or one superfood that will cure your problem. It is our diet as a whole that is to blame. Follow the advice below and your health will improve greatly. Also take great care where you buy your foods from.

   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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   Micheal Cook on December 31, 2012 at 2:07 pm

   UNHEALTHY DOGMA MEANS UNHEALTHY FOOD.

   Food manufacturers have jumped on the lucrative 'healthy' bandwagon, making foods that are increasingly lacking in important nutrients, such as the many 'low-fat' dairy products. These have been shown to increase the risk of some cancers. 'Improving' foods has not only made them more hazardous for us to eat; it has also compromised the health of food animals.

   NOTHING IS MORE TERRIBLE THAN IGNORANCE IN ACTION.
   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

   Public health recommendations over the last 30-years have been to reduce fat intake to as little as 30% of calories to lower the incidence of coronary artery disease. In the face of such recommendations, the agricultural industry started shifting food composition toward lower proportions of saturated fatty acids and then all fats in general. Fat contents of foods have been replaced principally by carbohydrates. The unfounded, but still entrenched, belief in a connection between dietary fat and heart disease has spawned an enormous processed-foods industry based on those beliefs. It does'nt help consumers that such foods are cheap to produce and profits are greater for their manufacturers.

   Fifty years ago, grocery stores stocked only about 200 items, most of which were grown, produced and processed within a few miles of the store. Today, a supermarket can carry 50,000 food items or more, most of which are highly processed and refined, and are transported thousands of miles. Europeans and Asians are increasingly following trends in the US where the population spend over 90% of their food budget on such commodities. These foods contain high levels of refined sugars, high fructose corn syrup, refined polyunsaturated oils and trans fatty acids, as well as 'excitotoxins' such as monsodium glutamate and aspartame. We are warned against junk foods; these are the real junk-foods. The logical result of these nutrient-depleted foods is that we in industrialised nations now have to consume much more of them to satisfy our bodies basic nutrient needs. The Americans have an apt name for this diet; they call it 'SAD-CRAP' Standard American Diet – Cereals Refined and Processed.

   Recently, such a diet has become recognized as contributing to the rising number of cases of metabolic syndrome and obesity. Blood fat and cholesterol patterns which lead to the formation of artherosclerosis and heart attacks are also recognized as being caused by such changes. Despite these findings, the same recommendations are still promoted vigorously. As a consequence, the world is moving toward more unitary dietary recommendations; and agricultural practices have been adopted to decrease saturated fatty acids to as low as agriculturally possible. This has changed the composition of animals we eat; what used to be fresh, wholesome food, no longer is.

   There are many examples. Meat is so lean today that Mrs Beeton would regard it as being of very poor quality indeed, For example, in the UK, there are some truly depraved, overly-draconian laws forbidding pigs (even organic raised pigs) from being fed on anything but denatured pellets made from low-grade grains and soy. Of course, even the most brain-dead specialist in wildlife is aware that pigs in the wild, such as wild boar, are true omnivores, which feed on thousands of varied, different things such as earthworms, insects, dead animal carcasses, grains, plants, leaves and grasses, roots, fruits and flowers, and even the bark off trees. But it seems the agricultural authorities are deathly afraid of more natural diets for domesticated animals. The pig diet, high in omega-6- rich seed oils, changes the composition of their body fat so that it is less saturated; cattle which should eat grass, are also fed a "healthy" diet based on grains and soy. These are positively dangerous.

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   Anna Betz on December 31, 2012 at 2:35 pm

   I agree for the most part except that it is not useful to use exactly the same measures and recommendations for people living in the 20's and 30's for people nowadays living a largely sedentary lifestyle with high amount of tension held in the body, overload of information and synthetic substances. Eating a high amount of animal fat even from free range animals is still not good for a sedentary worker nowadays but may be alright for a manual worker, farmer, ….

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   Micheal Cook on December 31, 2012 at 3:00 pm

   Anna Betz- What is a high amount of fat? It is interesting that when eating a more fatty diet the body shuts down quicker as it is more satisfied. Plus; fat, like water, you can only take so much, whereas carbohydrates have no barrier, therefore more food is ingested, with the added calories and all the added sugars which brings into play the hormone insulin, which can do so much damage to ones health, and which takes one on a high and then a low, and so we eat more. A more fat based diet releases energy in a well balanced way, does not bring into play the hormone insulin, and keeps ones body from having highs and lows, and lasts longer in keeping the body satisfied with its nutritional needs. Carbohydrates stimulate all the wrong eating habits, people are forever snacking, hungry, leading to the many diseases that now plague society. The proof of unhealthy eating is all around us.

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   Tim Barrett on December 31, 2012 at 4:49 pm

   Finally something I like is actually GOOD for me!

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   Rick Bradley on December 31, 2012 at 7:25 pm

   Happy and healthy New Year y'all!

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   Wilma Herrero on December 31, 2012 at 8:51 pm

   I have diabetes have had it for 30 years and I drink strong black coffee everyday it has not helped me this article is a fantasy.

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   Brian Cyba on January 1, 2013 at 1:00 am

   THIS IS ARTICLE IS MISLEADING AND TRUE…..WELL…EVERYONE DRINKS COFFEE BUT WE ARE STILL SICK OR IN THIS CASE HAVE TYPE 2 DIA…..AND OF COARSE THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DRINK IT BLACK FOR DECADES AND STILL HAVE TYPE 2 DIA….BUT THERE IS AN ACID IN COFFEE (not enough of it in 1 or 2 or 3 cups of black coffee) CALLED CHLOROGENIC ACID….WHICH IS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS..IF NOT THE BEST WAY TO REGULATE BLOOD GLUCOSE IN THE BODY AND KEEP IT FROM SPIKING IN THE BLOOD AND IT IS ALSO IS GREAT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO LOSS WEIGHT….BUT U DON"T GET NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH OF IT(thur 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or5 cups of coffee) FOR THERAPEUTIC VALUE….THEREFORE IF U TAKE IT IN SUPPLEMENT FORM YOU"LL GET THE FULL BENEFIT OF IT…AND IS GREAT FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES..

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    bevvy on January 1, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    check out your blood group i have read blood 0 coffee is cancerous, blood A coffee kills cancer, have u done this research, DR D’ADAMO look it up on line

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    Annette Barrett on March 22, 2013 at 5:54 am

    the girl or the coffee?:)