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A History of Healthy Diet Recommendations

We all KNOW what a healthy diet should be. What we know is family based, culturally based, influenced by advertising, and seldom has any scientific base.

In the last 200 years, while our knowledge about the human diet has developed a great deal, the diet most people are eating has regressed. They believe they are eating a "healthy diet," while often that's not the case.

Cheap Food for City People

How do you supply thousands of people in a city, with a constant supply of cheap food?

The answer is to make bread their staple food. Feed them a diet based on grains.

You can see fat people who live in poverty, in Peru (potatoes), in South Africa (mielie-meal: ground corn), Mexico (corn tortillas), that's the result of fat-malnutrition, not overeating. Eating a diet of Local Filecarbohydrate and little else.

You can see fat women with skinny malnourished children for the same reason. The Children get the best food, but there is little of it, and mother eats the cheapest food, carbohydrates, and she becomes fat-malnourished.

Many Americans live in poverty. They also tend to be fat, but fat malnourished, not healthy and fat.

The Senate Committee for Nutrition and Human Needs. 1977

Local FileSenator George McGovern's committee makes a political decision to help American agriculture.

The committee decide to recommend Local Filea low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet for the American People.

The influence of Local FileAncel Keys, Local FileNathan Pritikin and Dean Ornish, did much to convince McGovern that he was making the right decision. (His bid to be President had failed, but he would be remembered in history.)

Being FAT Becomes Normal

The increase of sugar in our diet, plus all the additional Local Filecarbohydrate makes us fat.

The switch to vegetable oils, especially for cooking, increased our vulnerability to cancer.

We ate fewer eggs because we were told that eggs increased our Local Fileblood cholesterol levels.

We stopped eating the offal from the butcher and the fishmonger. Thus eliminating a prime source of vitamins and minerals.

Our fatness is a disease of poor nutritional knowledge. It might also be a symptom of financial poverty.

The constant excess of carbohydrate in our diets, is itself creating new Local Filelifestyle "diseases."

Many people are becoming hypersensitive to gluten, or intolerant of wheat in their diets.

We may suffer from lipophobia, a fear of fat in our diets. We need to learn that when you eat fewer carbohydrates, fat is not your enemy.

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