An epidemic of western diseases is taking over the world and
this phenomena is accelerating. It took off in the late 70's with the introduction of the US dietary guidelines recommending a high carbohydrate low fat diet.
Human health has been degenerating for well over a 150 years:
- Dr. James Salisbury (1823 – 1905) was an American physician, a germ theory pioneer, and inventor of the Salisbury steak to combat illness among Civil War troops.
- Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition.” In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration he traveled the world over in order to study isolated non-industrialized people who still had fine teeth.
Even today, wherever sugar and processed foods infiltrate isolated populations, dental and physical health declines and this creates the need for healthcare practitioners.
The human genome is not flawed. No animal eating it's natural diet gets obesity, diabetes, cancer, etc. All animals (except humans and their pets) know instinctively what they can and can't eat. So how can we know what is our natural diet?
In order to allow our sensors to tell us what's good and what's not, first we need to remove the highly addictive "sugar" and "artificial sweeteners" that keep us addicted to processed foods and increases our consumption beyond normal hunger.
Normal hunger is felt in the stomach and can easily be ignored. It merely tells us it's time to hunt or gather our next meal.
What the carbohydrate consumer experiences a few hours after each meal is not hunger, it's desire, it's in the mind and can't be ignored. As soon as you have room for more, you want more. It's an addiction and calorie restriction or fasting is near impossible.
When people adopt a ketogenic/carnivore lifestyle, it enables access to their fat stores and they become a fat burner. After restoring nutrient deficiencies, fasting becomes easy and doing so activates the therapeutic potential of autophagy (clearing waste from cells).
Over time, consuming animal fat or liver will restore poor health caused by restricting red meat. How else can we meet our requirement for fat soluble vitamins? Vegetable oils only provide enough vitamin E.
Adding bone broth provides connective tissue nutrients to support bone and joint health. Adding a bite size piece of liver each day will help restore the nutrients stored in your liver. These include
vitamins A, B12, D, E, K and minerals such as iron and copper. But too much liver will raise carbohydrate intake pushing you out of ketosis (fat burning).
If you want to discover what is the proper human diet, look to toddlers. Allow discovery of what's editable and what's not (no matter how bad it looks) whilst keeping processed foods out of reach. Remember processed foods are designed to be as irresistible as possible to maximize sales. Given a wide choice of only whole natural foods, you will find children have a preference for dairy foods and red meat, especially beef and liver.
No, red meat does not cause bowel cancer. You can't blame an ancient food for a modern disease. Processed foods and healthcare have both become huge and very profitable. Meat is the enemy of the processed food industry.
Our digestive system is carnivore. Our (highly acidic) stomach turns meat into liquid that is then absorbed in our (double length) small intestines. What exits into our (half length) large intestine is mostly water which is absorbed to leaving very little waste - a stool the size of a finger.
IMHO: The real cause of bowel cancer is indigestible material that irritates the colon like nuts and whole grains that pass through our stomach and small intestines undigested.
We are carnivores:
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