Matt Stone believes that dieting has made us ill.

So most problems come threw dieting - paleo, low carb...

http://180degreehealth.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-low-carb-diet-counterproductive.html

Some of the answers come from people who believe that Matt Stone has changed their life - thoughts?

I mean if I get to read Yuri's journal and others I kind of wonder if Matt Stone has "got it" and we are missing some thing?

Nicola

Has anybody or does anybody take MMS?

I am going to take some just to see!

This is in German but perhaps you can translate via your computer

http://josef-stocker.de/gesund11.htm

Nicola Harrison

The chemical Bisphenol A used in plastic containers and drinks cans has been shown for the first time to affect the functioning of the intestines...

National Institute of Agronomic Research researchers in Toulouse found the digestive tract of rats react negatively to even low doses of the chemical also called BPA, the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences journal reported.

Their research, also conducted on human intestine cells, found that the chemical lowered the permeability of the intestines and the immune system's response to digestive inflammation, it said.

BPA is used in the production of polycarbonated plastics and epoxy resins found in baby bottles, plastic containers, the lining of cans used for food and beverages, and in dental sealants.

Over 130 studies over the past decade have linked even low levels of BPA, which can leach from plastics, to serious health problems, breast cancer, obesity and the early onset of puberty, among other disorders.

The French study focuses on the first organ to come in contact with the substance, the intestine.

The researchers orally administered doses of BPA to the rats that were equivalent to about 10 times less than the daily amount considered safe for humans, a statement from the Toulouse institute said.

They saw that BPA reduced the permeability of the instentinal lining through which water and essential minerals enter the body, it said.

They also found that newborn rats exposed to BPA in the uterus and during feeding have a higher risk of developing severe intestinal inflammation in adulthood.

The study "shows the very high sensitivity on the intestine of Bisphenol A and opens news avenues for research" including to define new acceptable thresholds of the substance for humans, the institute said.

In May this year, the six major baby bottle makers in the United States agreed to stop using the chemical.


http://www.physorg.com/news180040630.html


Nicola

I just have the feeling, that we are all full of shit and I don't know if eating raw, cooked, pemmican or, or, or... will ever give a normal human picture. I notice that both sides raw or cooked end up having cramps, loose bowel movements...now is it that people get clogged up and the raw meat makes them go (extra volume, acids?) or is the cooked meat better sitting in the colon but then again those eating raw meat have that sitting and those eating pemmican will have pemmican sitting in the bowels?


http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=37&page=217


It's just a theory of mine, but it just seems to make sense. For instance, I didn't have any cramping at all last week and have been sailing along. Yesterday, there was a chuck roast cooking in the oven. I took it out too early and cut a slice off the edge of it. Unfortunately, I didn't stop with that slice. I got another piece that wasn't quite done yet. I had diarrhea last night, complete with stomach pain. It was swift and severe. And then last night, when I got into bed, I had some toe cramps. This morning, no cramps (even with flexing and standing on tip toes) and no more stomach distress.


Many are eating well cooked meat and believe to digest this better (no bloat, I don't know about the rest at the other end).

Nicola

http://tinyurl.com/2xnkkx

Nicola

This blog will tell you that we have made our body not able to cope with food and the only way to get healthy, loose weight is to eat a lot of food's, just with exception of a few unhealthy ones!

http://tinyurl.com/c9q3fp

Please have a look at the comments belowe; Bruce K. is the guy who runs the AV-Skeptics Yahoo group. He has been going on about PUFA's and eating low fiber, not mixing this and that...all the time. Well now he is binging on fast food and claims that this is making him healthy (weight loss, no bloating and satisfying elimination)!

So now we know; we are detoxing and ill threw "dieting".

Quote:
Low-carb's a disaster in general, esp zero-carb and raw paleo. Those diets are the perfect way to screw up your metabolism. My experience &
Matt's and a lot of other people's is that you can lose weight while bingeing on carbs if you do it right. Like once or twice a week eat huge amounts of hamburgers (with the bun and ketchup and everything (pref no mayo). I lost 3-5 pounds in the last 2 weeks. I don't keep track closely, I just go by the overall trends (every week or two weeks). The only thing I did differently was going out on weekends and eating like
3-5 burgers (no veggies, just meat, cheese, ketchup, and maybe some pickles). I eat at a different restaurant every week, so I don't get used to the taste.

Just yesterday I ate sausage, egg, and cheese croissant sandwich for breakfast, 5 cheese burgers for lunch, and 4 bacon cheeseburgers for dinner (just water to drink), then a cup of ice cream (Haagen-Dazs) , and an orange before bed. My weight is 3-5 pounds below what it was 2 weeks ago, my digestion is better, my skin is better, my health is
better. I must have eaten at least 2500-3000 Calories just yesterday as my weekly binge-fest. Now I'll go back to my normal diet - meat, dairy, fruit, honey, and the occasional roots, potatoes, and white rice. Cheating and switching it up is the most effective diet, ever. Matt Stone's ideas are making people like Michael Eades, Robert Atkins, Barry
Groves, Jan Kwasniewski, and Richard Bernstein seem more and more ridiculous and wrong. Their dogma that you have to cut carbs is dead wrong. You can eat carbs all day every day if you eat the right ones, and then eat whatever you want one or two days a week, and still be
losing weight, gaining muscle, restoring metabolism to that of a healthy young child, etc.

Thoughts?

This guy, wife and children eat pemmican - that's it!

http://tinyurl.com/d3qbhu

It's worth following up his messages and any more that he will be posting (I hope)!

Nicola

Craig started this forum; why is he a guest? 

http://www.brianpeskin.com/reports/Ketosis.pdf

Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is an autoimmune disease, in which immune cells (T-
lymphocytes) mount an attack on cells of the thyroid gland, which frequently leads to
hypothyroidism1. HT is not only the most prevalent autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD),
but it is also the most common autoimmune disease in the world, with a prevalence of
9,460 per 100,000 people1, affecting more women than men1.

As with other autoimmune diseases, part of the risk of contracting HT is genetic1. It is the
interaction between one's genotype and several environmental factors that results in
autoimmune disease. Although to our knowledge there are no trials investigating the role
of specific diets on HT, several lines of evidence suggest that the Paleo Diet could prove
beneficial:

1. The Paleo Diet doesn't include gluten containing grains, such as wheat, barley, rye and
oats2. This is very important, since these are the main triggers of another autoimmune
disease, called celiac disease (CD)2, 3. CD carries an increased risk for other auto-immune
diseases including ATD3-11, which may be explained by the fact that these conditions
share similar HLA haplotypes (genetic markers)12. The association is so strong that
researchers from Italy concluded that anyone showing evidence of ATD should also be
screened for CD8.

2. By being a grain and legume free diet, the Paleo Diet minimizes the intake of certain
dietary lectins that have been shown to damage intestinal cell walls13. This damage allows
passage of bacterial and dietary proteins (such as yeast and milk proteins, which are also
not part of the Paleo Diet) into the blood stream that should not be allowed there.

These proteins' amino acid sequences resemble amino acid sequences in our body's
organs and tissues13. Immune cells "read" the amino acid sequences on the bacteria and
dietary protein, and may begin to associate similar self-proteins with these foreign
substances, thus attacking both the bacteria or dietary protein and our own tissues13.
Although to our knowledge there are no studies investigating this chain of events in ATD,
studies from other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis13 suggests that this
may also be the case with ATD.

3. The Paleo Diet decreases the Omega 6/Omega 3 ratio, which tends to calm down
inflammation14, 15. The characteristic inflammation of auto-immune diseases typically
aggravates these conditions, including HT1.

4. The Paleo Diet provides a generous amount of various antioxidants16 (such as vitamins
C and E, carotenoids and various phytochemicals present in fruits and vegetables) and
nutrients needed for optimal functioning of endogenous antioxidant enzymes (such as
manganese, zinc and copper, needed for the superoxide dismutases to perform their
antioxidant functions, and selenium - Se, which maximizes glutathione peroxidase
activities ). This is important, since oxidative stress is suspected of being involved in
ATD17.

Moreover, selenium deficiency plays an important role in autoimmune thyroid diseases18-
21, such as HT22. In fact, some trials have shown that selenium supplementation in doses
higher than 100 mcg/day decreases serum concentrations of thyroid peroxidase antibody
(a marker of ATD)20. It should be mentioned that selenium deficiency is likely to occur in
CD18, due to malabsorption, which is one of the characteristics of these diseases. Hence
there is one more reason for ATD patients to avoid gluten-containing foods.

Importance of Vitamin D

Another important aspect for ATD patients is optimization of vitamin D status. Vitamin D
insufficiency is a common condition, but was very rare among our hunter-gatherer
ancestors living in Africa, who received sufficient ultraviolet radiation from the sun to
synthesize all the vitamin D3 they needed.

Numerous studies show that vitamin D insufficiency can be involved in the pathogenesis
of autoimmune diseases 23, such as RA, multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes. As
expected, preliminary research suggests that it may also be involved in HT24,25.

Therefore, it may be worthwhile for anyone with HT or any other autoimmune disease to
measure 25OHD3 in the blood, and to try to get the levels between 30-60 ng/ml (75-150
nmol/L)23.

If you assume that for each 40 IU of vitamin D3, you can increase blood levels of 25OHD3
by 0.28 ng/ml (0.7 nmol/L)26 then you can calculate how much supplemental vitamin D to
take. For instance, if your 25OHD3 level is 19 ng/ml, and you want to reach 33 ng/ml, you
could easily estimate how much Vitamin D3 you'll have to take:

(33-19)x40/0. 28 = 2000 IU

Dietary Recommendations for Hashimoto's

In summary, if you have HT or another autoimmune disease (or if you want to avoid
autoimmune disease in the future), you may benefit from adopting a Paleolithic type diet,
with no grains, dairy, legumes, or yeast containing foods. You may also want to
supplement to get adequate omega 3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) and vitamin D3, and those
living in a region of the world where soils are depleted in selenium27-31 may want to
supplement with selenium also. Recent research by Dr. Cordain also suggests that
autoimmune patients may wish to avoid tomatoes and egg whites, which could also be
involved in autoimmunity. Fully referenced reports on these two foods are available in the
How to Treat and Prevent M.S. with Diet program, listed below.

References are available at http://www.ThePaleo Diet.com/ v4n22.shtml.

http://www.yoursacredself.blogspot.com/

 

Nicola

Found this on the AV-Skeptics Yahoo group (message from Bruce, the moderator):

"Your comments reinforce the general misconception
that diverticulosis is caused by a low fiber diet. This
theory arose because the underdeveloped world does
not get diverticulosis (or hemorrhoids or appendicitis
or colon cancer) and gastro-enterologist s couldn't think
of any other explanation.

"I believe I know the correct explanation: they use the
SQUATTING position for elimination. The SITTING
position is completely unnatural for this purpose and
puts a great strain on the sigmoid colon where the
diverticula most often develop.

"In the case of appendicitis, incomplete evacuation of
the cecum is responsible. It is physically impossible to
squeeze the cecum (or the sigmoid) empty in the sitting
position. Colon cancer is also a frequent result of this
incomplete elimination. The residue accumulates and
hardens, exposing the colon to toxic carcinogens.

"You can help people avoid a great many gastrointestinal
problems by recommending squatting. They can learn an
easy way to use this natural method for evacuation at my
website."
http://NaturesPlatf orm.com

I agree with this. You should never sit on a toilet. It's not
only un-sanitary, but it prevents proper elimination. You
should squat over the toilet. Primitive people didn't sit
on modern toilets. The observation that they didn't get
gastro-intestinal diseases does not prove that fiber is
the reason. We can find cultures eating a low-fiber or
zero-fiber diet without modern diseases. They lacked
modern toilets, and other technologies.

http://www.naturesplatform.com/health_be...#antiquity

Nicola