Anyone else listening to...

The great health debate going on over at renegade health?

Very enlightening...

Everyone stated, in more or less terms, that we need to eat more vegetables... and nearly everyone (so far) less fruit.

The *less fruit* has more to do with the recent hybridization of fruit that has happened in the commercial farming industries over the last few hundred years than anything else which has led to most of the commercially grown foods being very high in sugar.

To add to that... *Everyone* stated we eat way too much sugar...

And if you look at our (civilized man) dietary habits over the last 100+ years...

Sugar consumption has gone sky high - from an average of 5 pounds per person in the 1890s (remember most of that was usually unrefined sugars)... to over 150 pounds per year, per person!!!

AND - While this has happened... fat consumption has gone down - in some cases way down... AND, our fats have changed from suet, lard, tallow, *raw* cultured butter, olive oil and coconut oil to refined vegetable and other oils such as cotton seed, soy, canola, margarine, etc.

Right there, we have huge trends exposing the problems with our physical, mental, and spiritual health today.

So in essence - if you want to improve your diet - drastically reduce sugar, start using healthy real fats, and eat more vegetables, most of them green, and if possible, heirloom varieties.

The Q'ero eat about 40 different varieties of potatoes, with skin colors a various shade of reds, purples, and yellows,... so, variety within a food type is a GOOD thing.

Dr. Williams, perhaps more than any other has illustrated our *individual* genetic adaptations to diet... although others have also agreed albeit briefly (after all they all have an individual biased message)... including nearly all of the vegetarians and vegans.

More than that, Dr. Williams also explained Daniel Vitalis point of view a bit, whether intentional or not, that our food today, including store bought organics are *hybrids* that did not exists perhaps even a hundred years ago... bred for *size*, *appearance*, and *HIGH sugar* content... not for increased nutritional value.

He also mentioned that while the Inuit eat a 95 - 100% meat diet (sea vegetables make up the bulk of the rest), and the Q'ero, who are largely, about 90% vegetarian, BOTH groups of people were extraordinarily healthy.

Note that his observations were from living with the native peoples, living on their native diets back in the 1960's - which even he admits is no longer possible due to their introductions to commercial foods.

What I am understanding and apparently verifying with many of these folks, is that what I have come to know; that people are genetically unique - and some can convert plant based nutrition much more efficiently than others, who must have, at least some, animal\fish\bird based nutrients.

So once again, I will say what I have been stating for *years* - study your own dietary genetic history - back as far as the 1600's if possible, before the commercial hybridization, and commercialization of foods.

BTW - anyone else read the study that found that formula fed babies are 600x more likely to be obese?

grz-

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