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Healthy Eating Tips for Men

I don't know where I found this article, but I am going to comment on it because the truth about eating needs to be exposed for men, women, and children.

"You are what you eat," goes the saying. And it appears that the Centers for Disease Control and the American Cancer Society think there are a lot of men that are basically just big pizzas, greasy French fries, and supersized milkshakes walking around on two fat legs. From dire warnings they give about eating "man food," they also seem to believe these men are Dead Men Walking.

Some of this statement is true but the last group you want to take advice from is the CDC - Center for Disease Control, and the American Cancer Society. The CDC is controlled by corporations from industrial food manufacturing and drug manufactures. The ACS is a front for drug companies. They collect hard earned money from grieving people after a family or friends death and funnel it to drug companies that use it for their "programs". The end result is that they get "free" money to squander in any way they see fit. It isn't enough that they rip us off with the highest drug prices in the known solar system (Earth isn't big enough for their scams. They are going after life on other planets to make more money) but they collect it in devious ways.

It is true that people are eating unhealthy foods that the media makes a big deal about, but it is the hidden things that we need to become aware of in our day to day consumption to survive.

MSG - mono sodium glutamate - an excitotoxin - is in 95 % of all prepared foods. Equal - aspartame - an excitotoxin - is in 6,000 "food" products, and hydrolyzed soy/vegetable proteins - another excitotoxin - is in most prepared foods. These products enter the blood stream, go through the blood/brain barrier, and damage the appetite control center in the hypothalamus allowing us to over eat. They are also the biggest culprits in causing Alzheimer's disease.

These chemicals are put in poor non-nutritious chemically grown food products to make it taste good.

The Centers for Disease Control says expanding waistlines increase the risk of heart disease (the number one killer of both men and women in the U.S.), as well as diabetes, stroke, cancer, and plenty of other diseases. The CDC discourages high-fat foods and encourages healthful foods like fresh vegetables.

This statement is true except for the part about high fat foods and fresh vegetables.

High fat foods are not the guilty party to disease. It is unhealthy fats that are the problem. One hundred years ago people ate saturated fats from beef, pork and chicken and there were virtually no heart attacks or strokes. We changed to vegetable oil that became trans-fats and our health tumbled to 100,000 thousand heart attacks yearly.

Factory farming and industrial food processing in the time after WWII has also caused poor health to skyrocket.

Fresh vegetables are also a misnomer. There are no fresh vegetables in most grocery stores. The average vegetable is shipped over 1500 miles and many more are shipped thousands of miles (some box stores have organic vegetables from China - this is impossible). You cannot have healthy veggies shipped 1500 miles and raised with chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

The American Cancer Society also bangs the fruit and vegetable drum, pointing out that studies have linked overindulgence in red meat or dairy products to prostate cancer. A cup of milk has about 315 mg. of calcium, and they consider "overindulgence" to be 2,000 mg. a day or more, whether it comes from food or supplements. They also have put a fine point on omega-3 fatty acids: they say alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is a vegetable-based omega-3 oil found in canola and flaxseed oil, has been found to help the heart, but may increase prostate cancer risk. Men who are at risk, they say, should get their omega-3 fatty acids from olive oil and fish.

Again, overindulgence in red meat is not the big problem. It is the consumption of red meat from unhealthy sources like your grocery stores. Grass fed non chemical beef is a health food www.eatwild.com and should be consumed but you have to go out of your way to find healthy sources.

Canola oil should never be consumed as like soy and corn it is genetically modified into a Franken Food that is totally unhealthy. Omega III's and olive oil is very beneficial if the Omega III's come from properly caught and prepared fish (most on store shelves are worthless). I don't recommend frying a lot but if you do then use coconut oil. It is saturated but it is healthy as the industrial food manufactures can't screw up palm trees and olive trees yet.

As to overindulgence in meat, doctors say the recommended allowance of protein for the average man is 52 grams a day, which is about eight ounces of meat - any kind of meat. They also say a low-carbohydrate/high protein diet may cause kidney problems because of ketosis, which can also lead to insulin resistance, one of the risk factors of coronary artery disease.

The "overindulgence" in meat and low-carbohydrate/high protein is another example of doctor's poor knowledge of foods. They have virtually no training in nutrition and they repeat the party line from the drug companies that are owned or partners is chemical companies that produce unhealthy food through "modern agriculture".

The response should be to avoid grain carbohydrates, not healthy vegetable carbohydrates and eat healthy saturated non chemical meats (also avoid processed meats).

Insulin resistance is mostly caused by high fructose corn syrup and sugar. One hundred years ago the average person in the US ate 6 pounds of sugar a year and now the current number is 175 pounds of sweets per year. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know this is a problem.

So what's a fellow to do?

This is a misnomer. The question should be what should men, women, and children to do?

If you choose to ignore "You are what you eat," at least consider following another maxim -- "All things in moderation." That way, your family may not soon be hearing another oft-repeated phrase: "But he was so young!"

The moderation thing is not bad advice but has little relevance to the topic of healthy eating.

What we all need to do is eat local foods in season that are grown in a Wholistic TM way. This would include vegetables, some fruits (lots of sugars), and protein that is raised in a non stress environment with their natural diets, and harvested in a non stressed manner.

We also need basic supplements. It is a simple list:

       Trace minerals - there are non in the food you eat from a grocery store.

       Beneficial fatty acids - there are non in the food you buy in a grocery store - except some fish that contain mercury, PCB's and dioxins.

       Humates - they rebuild the immune system and detoxify the body of many of the chemicals we are exposed to every day in food, water, and air.

When you add these three things to our diet along with local foods we can probably prevent 60 % or more of the disease that we infect our society today.

To Your Good Health

Dr Bob the Health Builder

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