The out-of-control immune response eventually causes the patients’ lungs to stop delivering oxygen to the rest of organs, leading to respiratory failure and in some cases death, the experts say. The malfunctioning immune system may be driving the rapid decline in lung function experienced by some patients, including younger and relatively healthy ones, after the initial onset of symptoms.
Take a look.
From Nina Teicholz
Dear Friend of the Nutrition Coalition:
We urgently need your help to ensure that the federal government does not continue to ignore large, government-funded rigorous clinical trials—the “gold standard” of evidence--that would likely reverse decades of misguided nutrition policy based on the subject of saturated fats.
During the recent meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the last such meeting before release of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), the committee revealed that it had failed to consider any of this evidence.
This omission is highly disturbing given that a growing number of prominent scientists over the past decade have concluded that the caps on saturated fats are not supported by the science.
Americans deserve a recommendation on dietary saturated fat that is based on the most current and rigorous science available. Join us in calling on the 2020 DGA Advisory Committee to critically review the most up-to-date evidence and modify its position on saturated fats accordingly.
Click HERE to send a letter to your Member of Congress.
Thank you,
Nina Teicholz
Executive Director
The Nutrition Coalition
About The Nutrition Coalition
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This study has huge implications in terms of whether or not we acquire robust health through proper food choices with regard to our vision as we age.
Consider:
This study supports the hypothesis that the ‘displacing foods of modern commerce,’ which equate to processed, nutrient-deficient, and potentially toxic foods, are the primary and proximate cause of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This study also supports the conclusion that macular degeneration is entirely preventable, through ancestral dietary strategy and avoidance of processed foods. Finally, this research has implications for patients with existing early and intermediate stages of AMD.
Can you believe THIS?? This is exactly the direction we are headed unless we change the way we eat and pay LOTS more attention to what insulin is doing when we eat high carb, sugar, and fake oil filled food!
Nearly 1 in 4 adults is projected to have severe obesity by 2030, and the prevalence will be higher than 25% in 25 states. We predict that, nationally, severe obesity is likely to become the most common BMI category among women, non-Hispanic black adults, and low-income adults.
by Zaria Gorvett
The idea that avoiding meat is bad for our brains makes some intuitive sense; anthropologists have been arguing about what our ancestors ate for decades, but many scientists think that there was a lot of bone-crunching and brain-slurping on the road to evolving these remarkable 1.4kg (3lb) organs. Some have even gone so far as to say that meat made us human.
One reason is that intelligence is expensive – the brain devours about 20% of our daily calories, though it accounts for just 2% of our body weight – and what better way to find the enormous array of fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals these fastidious organs require, than by feasting on animals which have already painstakingly collected or made them for us.
On the one hand, recent concern about the nutritional gaps in plant-based diets has led to a number of alarming headlines, including a warning that they can stunt brain development and cause irreversible damage to a person’s nervous system. Back in 2016, the German Society for Nutrition went so far as to categorically state that – for children, pregnant or nursing women, and adolescents – vegan diets are not recommended, which has been backed up by a 2018 review of the research.
Finally, after the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium decided a vegan diet was “unsuitable” for children, parents who forced a vegan diet on their offspring in Belgium could find themselves incarcerated.
Wow.
From the JumpStartMD Weight of the Nation Conference 2018, I was impressed with and wanted to share this doctor’s presentation, especially in light of the overarching theme of the low carbohydrate foods lifestyle in this blog:
JumpstartMD is a medical practice founded by Stanford trained physicians and board-certified Diplomats of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. They are dedicated to providing pre-emptive medicine through lifestyle changes and healthy, sustainable weight loss with personalized programs based on nutritional science, one-on-one counseling and real food.
This story is almost too incredulous to believe. But with special interests and doctors who have staked their credibility on the vegetarian side of the fence, including the deliberate breaking of a publication embargo to mount that backlash, which is a serious ethical breach in the research community - - one would need to ask, “Can anyone spell u-n-e-t-h-i-c-a-l?”
In this month’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), “Backlash Over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists,” by Rita Rubin, that’s exactly what happened last fall as editors from the Annals of Internal Medicine were about to publish several studies showing that the evidence linking red meat consumption with cardiovascular disease and cancer is too weak to recommend that adults eat less of it.
The JAMA article (in link above) documents the orchestrated backlash from a lobby group that tried to intimidate editors at Annals of Internal Medicine into not publishing a series of scientific papers that found research to date was too weak regarding red meat is a significant health risk.
From the the WSJ, January, 17, 2020:
Annals of Internal Medicine Editor-in-Chief Christine Laine, M.D. tells Ms. Rubin that an outfit [lobby group] called the True Health Initiative was particularly caustic in criticizing the idea that red meat might not be as dangerous as many Americans have been led to believe.
The True Health Initiative (THI) is a nonprofit founded and headed by David Katz, MD., Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, and Frank Hu, MD, PhD, Harvard nutrition researchers who are among the top names in their field, serve on the THI council of directors. Katz, Willett, and Hu took the rare step of contacting Laine about retracting the studies prior to their publication, she recalled in an interview with JAMA.
In particular, in the JAMA article Rubin also noted:
But what has for the most part been overlooked is that Katz and THI and many of its council members have numerous industry ties themselves. The difference is that their ties are primarily with companies and organizations that stand to profit if people eat less red meat and a more plant-based diet. Unlike the beef industry, these entities are surrounded by an aura of health and wellness, although that isn’t necessarily evidence-based.
[But in the end, Dr. Christine Laine laments to Ms. Rubin,]
The cacophony that has erupted over the meat papers is drowning out the valid points they made. The sad thing is that the important messages have been lost. Trustworthy guidelines used to depend on who were the organizations or the people they came from. Today, though, the public should know we don’t have great information on diet. We shouldn’t make people scared they’re going to have a heart attack or colon cancer if they eat red meat.
Whoa… this has huge implications, and as such should at minimum be considered, especially regarding behavioral changes when beginning new medications.
…tales of broken marriages, destroyed careers, and a surprising number of men who have come unnervingly close to murdering their wives. In almost every case, the symptoms began when they started taking statins, then promptly returned to normal when they stopped; one man repeated this cycle five times before he realized what was going on.
Wow.
The Health Evolution is a new book that’s just come out by Dr. Stephen Hussey. It sort of reminds me in part, of Dr. Lipton’s framework in his book, “The Biology of Belief” where Dr. Lipton posits that our entire biology is shaped by the intelligence of each of our fifty trillion cells, and that the way to influence them is through the energy of our beliefs.
The Health Evolution on the other hand goes a huge step further and rather suggests that beyond what we believe about our familial health history, the messages we send to our genes via the food we eat, whether we exercise or not, toxins, and stress, offers the greatest influence.
“Our genes do not determine our health destiny, they express themselves based on the instructions they get from our environment. What we eat, how much we move, the stress we experience, and the amount of toxins we expose ourselves to are all going to give our genes instructions…. In most cases, if you have a chronic disease it is because your personal environment has been telling your genes to react in a way that modern medicine would classify a disease. Therefore, if you can change your personal environment to instruct your genes differently, you’ll get a better outcome. [In other words] Make sure you are giving your genes instructions to express health not disease.”
I completely concur!
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest forms of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
