Category: Motivational

What Is the Best Diet for Diabetes?

  • —Legumes (beans), whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and nuts, with limited or no intake of processed foods and animal products—
  • Diets centered around plants “are especially potent in preventing [and treating] type 2 diabetes and have been associated with much lower rates of obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular mortality, and cancer,” and vegetarian diets are associated with improved blood sugar control. 

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Secret Push to Bury Paraquat’s Link to Parkinson’s Disease

July 14, 2023

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Paraquat is an herbicide and registered desiccant that has been used on American farms since 1964. A desiccant is a chemical that speeds up the ripening of the crop and dries it out, which facilitates harvesting and allows it to be harvested sooner than were the crop left to dry naturally
  • Fifty countries have banned paraquat due to its extreme toxicity and adverse effects on health. A single sip is lethal to a human. A considerable body of evidence also links paraquat to Parkinson’s disease
  • As of mid-March 2023, 2,998 lawsuits filed by farmers with Parkinson’s disease had been consolidated in Illinois federal court. The first bellwether trial is scheduled to begin in October 2023. Class actions have also been filed with state courts in California, Florida, Pennsylvania and Washington. The first state court trial is scheduled to begin in September 2023 in California
  • The discovery process has unearthed a trove of documents showing Syngenta knew as early as the 1960s that paraquat posed neurological risks and kept the evidence from regulators
  • Research shows paraquat becomes exponentially more hazardous in combination with plant lectins, as the lectins help shuttle paraquat into your brain, where it induces the neuronal degeneration seen in Parkinson’s disease. Many of the foods treated with paraquat are high-lectin foods, such as peas, beans and potatoes, so strive to buy organic whenever possible

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100 Year-Old Nutrition Professor: 7 Keys to A Long Life | Dr. John Scharffenberg

Meet Dr. Scharffenberg
3:50 What should people eat?
6:11 The 7 keys to a long life
8:51 Statins
11:32 Controversy in nutrition 18:16 Intermittent fasting
24:20 Adventist vegetarian life expectancy
34:47 Too much exercise?
45:52 Optimism
54:53 Chris interview
55:51 Junk food addiction
58:56 We knew in the 70s
1:01:00 Raising kids vegetarian 1:06:16 What the doctor eats 1:09:36 John’s extraordinary life

Nutrition Professor John Scharffenberg invited us to his home to learn the 7 keys to long life.

Born in Shanghai, China Dec. 15, 1923, spent his first 16 years of life in China. Graduated from high school in Michigan in 1940 (president of my class), took premed in Takoma Park, MD, then the U.S. Army put me through medical school at Loma Linda University, Ca.

Graduated in 1947 which in those days was called the class of 1948.

Got master’s in public health from Harvard University 1956 (was elected by the faculty to the Delta Omega Society).

Served two more years in the army to pay for their putting me through medical school, the first year in Fort Ord, CA, the 2nd years as American Military Advisor to the Chinese military in Taiwan.

Taught in Loma Linda University as a professor of nutrition for 62 years.

Worked in San Bernardino County Health Dept. where I became head of the department.

Was director of the International Nutrition Research Foundation in Riverside, CA.

Was on the secretariat of the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense located at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Was Assistant Director of the Department of Health of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Started the Public Health Education Center in Bakersfield, CA from funds due to the selling of the San Joaquin Hospital for 30 million dollars.

PAPERS CITED:

Time-restricted feeding study shows promise in helping people shed body fat https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/…

Cochrane director’s expulsion results in four board members resigning https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k…

Statins may increase diabetes, but benefit still outweighs risk https://www.ccjm.org/content/90/1/53

High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Cause-Specific Mortality in Individuals Without Previous Cardiovascular Conditions: The CANHEART Study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27810…

Dr. John Ochsner, King of Hearts film on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/dr-john-och…