Category: Motivational

READ: How to Help a Meathead!
by Dr. John McDougall

https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2003nl/nov/howtohelpameathead.htm

Woo-hoo! Not just my imagination! It really is important to finish eating BEFORE sunset:
Eating Dinner After 7 p.m. May Increase Risk of a Heart Attack

Excerpts from THE STARCH SOLUTION by Dr. John McDougall

With all those efficient calories, you would think that starches would promote excess weight gain, but they don’t. That’s because your body efficiently regulates the use of the carbohydrates you get from starch. Even if you consume them in excess, the body will burn them off as heat and energy rather than store much of them as fat.

Worldwide, populations with the highest consumption of starch are the most trim and fit.

Excess Starch Does Not Turn To Body Fat

A widely held myth holds that the sugars in starches are readily converted into fat, which is then stored visibly in our abdomen, hips and buttocks. If you read the public research you will see that there is no disagreement about this whatsoever among scientists, and that they say that this is incorrect! After eating, we break down the complex carbohydrates in starchy foods into simple sugars. These sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream, where they are transported to trillions of cells throughout the body for energy. If you eat more carbohydrates than your body needs, you’ll store up to 2 pounds of it invisibly in the muscles and liver in the form of glycogen. If you eat more carbohydrate than you can use (as your daily energy) and store (as glycogen), you’ll burn the remainder off as body heat and through physical movement other than sports, such as walking to work, typing, yard work and fidgeting.

Turning sugars into fats is a process called de novo lipogenesis. Pigs and cows use this process to convert carbohydrates from grains and grasses into calorie-dense fats. That’s what makes them so appealing as a food source. Bees do it too, converting honey (simple carbohydrate) into wax (fatty acids and alcohols).

We humans, on the other hand, are very inefficient at converting carbohydrate to fat; we don’t do it under normal conditions. (The cost for this conversion is 30 percent of the calories consumed.) Subjects overfed large amounts of simple sugars under experimental laboratory conditions, however, will convert a small amount of carbohydrate to fat. For example, both trim and obese women fed 50 percent more calories than they usually ate in a day, along with an extra 3 ½ ounces (135 grams) of refined sugar, produced less than 4 grams of fat daily (less than 1/8 ounce). That’s just 36 extra calories stored as fat per day. You’d have to overeat all of those extra calories and table sugar every day for nearly 4 months just to gain 1 pound of extra body fat.

In the seventies, researchers from the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at Michigan State University (my alma mater) asked 16 moderately overweight college-age men to add 12 slices of white bread (at 70 calories a slice) or high fibre bread (at 50 calories a slice) to their diet daily. On average, subjects eating the extra white bread lost 14 pounds (6.26 kg) and those adding the high fibre bread lost 19 pounds (8.77 kg) during the next 8 weeks. Appetite-appeasing breads worked by replacing the easy-to-wear fats found in meats, dairy products, and vegetable oils, causing them to spontaneously, without any additional conscious thought or effort, lose the weight. The general health of these college students also improved as reflected by a very large and rapid reduction in their blood cholesterol levels (by 60 to 80 mg/dL).

The warning about carbohydrates turning to body fat is a myth and nothing more. In humans, even substantial quantities of refined and processed carbohydrates contribute only a trivial amount to body fat. The same is not true of animal and vegetable fats, however. A passenger on a cruise ship gains an average of 8 pounds on a 7-day voyage – caused by dining on buffets of meats, cheese, oil-soaked vegetables, and high fat desserts.

So, where does all the belly fat come from? It bears repeating: The fat you eat is the fat you wear.

Fat Is The Metabolic Dollar Saved For The Next Famine

After you eat dairy, meat, nuts, oils, and other high-fat foods, you absorb their fat from your intestine into the bloodstream. From there, it is transported to billions of adipose (fat) cells for storage. This is a very efficient process: it uses up only 3 percent of the calories you consume to move the fat on your fork and spoon to your body fat. This storage takes place almost effortlessly after every fat-filled meal. If you have your body fat chemically analyzed, it will reveal the kinds of fats you commonly eat. Margarine and shortening, for example, result in high proportions of trans fats in stored body fat. A diet high in cold-water marine fish shows omega-3 fats. The saying “from my lips to my hips” expresses the real-life effect of the Western diet. Fortunately, starches contain very little fat for you to wear.

Starches Help Us To Radiate Vitality

Every year, millions of people lose weight without necessarily improving their health. In fact, these weight-loss methods often cause illness. The best example of this negative effect of dieting is the once-popular Atkins-type, low-carbohydrate, high-protein approach. These diets work by severe carbohydrate deprivation, which causes a state of illness (with the common outcome of ketosis). When people become sick they lose their appetite and lose weight. This method for losing extra pounds is analogous to the weight loss seen in people taking cancer chemotherapy drugs. To the careful observer, people following low-carbohydrate diets look and acts sick, too.

A starch-based diet, on the other hand, brings radiant health along with the loss of excess body fat. Endurance athletes know the benefits of “carb-loading.” In addition to enabling peak performance, a starch-based diet improves blood flow to all tissue in the body. The skin glows with a clear complexion from the improved circulation. A welcome by-product of eating low-fat starches is the elimination of oily skin, blackheads, whiteheads, and acne. From weight loss and the resulting relief from arthritis, people on a starch-based diet feel active, agile and more youthful.

https://durianrider.com/2013/03/18/why-carbs-keep-you-slim-and-fat-adds-fat/

Eeeeeeh-hhhaaa… it’s back! I’ve waited all year for the Vegas HHH (Health Healing Happiness) Conference.

Why??? What’s the big deal?

Is it the high energy opening meet & greet?

Could it be the wealth of informational download emphasizing health, wellbeing & personal expansion?

Some of that information is alarming, to set us straight, like this video:

https://youtu.be/Qo6QNU8kHxI

… some empowering like these promos for the new upcoming film, “EATING YOU ALIVE” :

https://youtu.be/BZJLsDEIx-M

How about the creative array of health vendors filling the hall?

Is it the two full days of wild fitness activities (like this weight room plant-based meetup)?

(In addition to the weights, I was taking quick powerwalks about the resort grounds between speakers… never miss an opportunity to move!)

Maybe it’s the evening entertainment factor on the sidewalks of Las Vegas!?! I found this guy “playin’ real good for free“, as Joni Mitchell would say. He had engaged a most appreciative crowd for over 30 minutes & we were happy to toss $$ into his bucket.

Apparently there was some clandestine filming going on because the next morning I found this brand new youtube post. This dude ain’t no street musician… but we got an outstanding professional concert under the gorgeous evening desert sky for a drop in the bucket! Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/-OcAEjzRze0

It was ALL these reasons, each one is enough to draw you back next year!

LUNCH!

All of these events are highlighted by the Low-SOS, mouth watering vegan buffet prepared by Chef Lonnie Beals & his staff at the Vegas Tuscany Resort!

Our Two Day Vegan Lunch Buffet:

* fresh fruit with coconut cream
* Thai salad with spicy peanut vinegarette
* macadamia nut rice
* curried potatoes
* vegetable mango stirfry w/ lomein noodles red bell pepper, tofu, mushrooms, broccoli, mango
* veggie kebabs w/ panzu glaze
* pita bread
* fresh veggie platter w/hummus
* sautéed green beans w/ olive oil with hint of garlic
* potato salad
* avocado/chickpea salad
* green salad w/ almond vinegarette (oil-free)
* Spanish rice
* pinto beans
* guacamole
* grilled veggie enchiladas w/ corn tortilla
* black bean burrito (w/ plantains, mango salsa & tortilla)
* fresh fruits tossed in agave syrup

THE MESSAGES

If you missed this conference I want to take you on a virtual tour of the messages from some of our 2016 presenters. I will provide links to youtube presentations similar to their HHH talks below their photos.

TrueNorth Health Center founder & author Dr. Alan Goldhamer:

Physician & author Dr. John McDougall:

Physician & author Dr. Joel Fuhrman:

Author, Comedian & Chef AJ:

Natural bodybuilder & author Robert Cheeke:

“Whole Food Medicine Cowboy” Don Tolman:

https://youtu.be/jMxwOjCnONY

Nutritional mixologists Shane Stuart:
CLICK HERE

Living Superfood Chef Keidi Awadu:

https://youtu.be/8-BL-zlCORQ

Kickbox instructor / trainer Joshua Newman-Gomez:
NewStronger.Me

And for all the others… click here HHH Presenters

See ya’ll in Vegas next summer! 🙂

Read the article… KIDS GO VEGAN!

https://youtu.be/zAq4gUBUj54

Ok, enough with the accusations of personal vanity. It is becoming increasingly clear that deemphasizing the regularity of “party-mouth” (insisting that every meal produces an oral hyper-euphoric episode), losing excess fat & participating in regular exercise is no longer a simple matter of improving one’s attractiveness… it is a matter of survival!

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) says 40% of U.S. women are now obese. I didn’t say 20… and I didn’t say overweight… that’s the big four-0 percent, a figure that is closing in on HALF of us being obese!

America’s Obesity Epidemic Hit a New High

Then I read this:

Women who are overweight or obese have a higher risk of breast cancer. But accumulating evidence suggests that becoming fitter and losing some pounds after a diagnosis could cut the chances of a recurrence and even lower the risk of death.

A number of small studies looking at the benefits of exercise and weight loss on cancer by researchers at Yale University in the US are being presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting (ASCO) in Chicago.

Prof Melinda Irwin, associate director at Yale Cancer Center and professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, said: “We found a strong connection between exercise after diagnosis and mortality afterwards.”

“Most interestingly, it showed the impact on changes in activity on mortality – even if you’ve never been active before taking regular exercise seemed to show a great impact.”

[…]

Among these small studies is one involving 144 women with ovarian cancer who did 150 minutes of aerobic exercise each week for six months. Early results show they had a drop in the levels of certain hormones linked with the growth of tumours, compared with women who did not exercise.

Another study of 221 women with breast cancer found those who lost weight on a diet had a drop in the levels of a protein that fuels tumour growth.

[…]

“We have known for many years that women who are overweight or obese and diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of their cancer recurring and ultimately dying from breast cancer as compared to leaner women with similarly sized tumours at a similar stage with similar treatment,” said Dr Jennifer Ligibel, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston,who is leading the breast cancer (study).

“We don’t really know why that is the case but it’s been seen over and over now in more than a hundred studies.

[…]

“… try to get them more up to 220 to 250 minutes (of weekly exercise) if we can because that’s really the level that’s been shown to help keep weight off after you’ve lost it,” she said.

They can choose any activity they like and she expects walking to be popular. “It’s a very accessible form of exercise. It doesn’t cost anything. You just need a pair of shoes. My patients always ask me what’s the best form of physical activity and honestly the answer is the one that you’ll do,” she said.

Weightloss Fitness & Cancer

Here is an excerpt from Dr. Michael Greger’s 2015 presentation “FOOD AS MEDICINE” discussing prevention & reversal of diabetes. Greger always supports his assertions with published research, but feel free to fact check for yourself. He is a very generous man, making his nutritional analysis available free of charge to the public.