Re: Confusion over the role of diet

Jasmine-

Thank you for your comments. Your comments reminded me of my nutritional/philosophical dogma that I have had to let go of in my search for health.

I have finally learned to let my body indicate what I should be eating. Intellectually, I don't support low meat diets. If it were not for our ancestor's killing and eating huge intakes of meat/fat we would not be here. Humans subsisted on carb intakes of around 25% for 2.5 million years. Who are we to now judge the very behaviors that guaranteed our survival?

Scientifically there is therapuetic value of elevated protein intakes on insulin levels, glucose control, and cholesterol. See the work of Loren Cordain and Bernard Wolfe. High Carb, Vegetarian diets do not provide therapuetic benefits on insulin/glucose regulation. For 25-50% of the population, high carb diets are a disaster. Basically vegetarian diets are very healthy for some, but not all people.

Having said all that, my own body Disagrees with my mind on diet. In spite of my scientific belief that low carb/high meat diets are the ideal diet for humans, my body has other notions. I feel best on low meat/high carb/low fat intakes - I require some meat but only a little. When I first discovered this I was so frustrated because I believe in low carb diets. But they made my health worse! So I had to leave my judgments out of it and eat a higher carb/low meat/low fat diet.

I had the amusing experience of dating a woman who was a vegetarian -that dispised meat. She hated the idea of eating meat and I love meat. No matter what she did as a vegetarian, she felt like hell and was overweight. After much internal struggle she decided to try to increase her meat consumption to see how she felt. She became slim and healthy by becoming a low carb meat eater and I have become healthy eating a low meat/high card diet. What a philosophical challenge for us. We ate the exact opposite of what we believed in and our bodies got healthier for it.

The body, not the brain is in charge.

Thanks again for your comments. Good luck.

Kind Regards, Scott Tweet