looks like a good idea. I do not shop at any of the stores listed but maybe it will expand in time. Thanks.
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Huzzah!
Love Dr Berryās incredible knowledge, honest inquiry, careful consideration of all that he needs to make an honest assessment.
This man has put himself out there and there are many more like him. He is one of those who have helped me to research and look more carefully at diet and the hands behind the curtains, to find real health and share what Iāve learned.
Iāve been, mostly, carnivore for about two years. The effects on every aspect of my health have been beyond imagining.
Now, my simple gardens are purely for medicinal herbs, since I donāt eat any vegetables now.
I only wish I had pastures, sheep and cattleā¦
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If you can have bread made from a heritage grain (like Einkorn) freshly ground, it is a completely different product, the closest I can get routinely is real sourdough from a bakery that sources heritage grains. I immediately notice the difference, (mouth feel, lack of satiation) in any store bought bread or bakery products. I just sense (for me) that besides the glycemic index of carbs being widely different; breads are wildly different from each other
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I spent several quarters in university studying human diet. Dr Francesca Bray at UCSB had a whole class about back then. The diet variation of humans is stunning. Misstassini Cree in the Great Lakes eat primarily a carnivore diet year round with brief intermissions of elk gut contents and blueberries. Trobriand islanders were on yams day and night. Of course each diet produced adverse conditions, but whole tribal societies were supporting themselves indefinitely on them. There is a lot of great evidence that hunter gatherers have excellent health (once they make it past five years old) when compared to early agricultural communities.
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I currently eat meat but I would probably advovate a whole food plant based diet as the healthiest based on the information Iāve read. I have followed Dr. Michael Gregorās work for a long time, he created the website nutritionfacts.org and also has a YouTube channel. He looks at different studies and who funded them, their conclusions, etc. Also, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease) and t. Colin Campbell of The China Study and Forks Over Knives are other leading plant based diet advocates who come at the discussion from a medical angle.
From my opinion, plant based diets and keto/Paleo/Weston a price are both diets that try to get away from processed foods, but definitely have different takes on nutrition. I just donāt think the science Iāve looked at justifies a carnivore dietā¦and I also agree with a comment above that paleolithic ppl did eat carbs/veggies. I know just in my area most of the forests were chestnut forests for hundreds of years and chestnuts were a staple food source, as were acorns. Ppl ate a LOT of green plants too. I find flaws in the assumption that the primitive diet is the prime example of best diet.
With that said, I personally know someone who is on the carnivore diet and it has helped their health problems. I also know ppl who have adopted a whole foods plant based diet and that has helped their health issues. I think the key is to stay away from processed foods as much as possible no matter which diet you adopt.
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Wife moved here from Honduras and has been packing on pounds and ill health. Some of it is dummy stupid stuff, like too much soda. Iām skeptical, but weāre willing to give it a try for a week or so. I realize thatās not THAT much time, but she does love tortillas, plantains, rice n beans.
Iām fairly active for my job and have probably been adding a pound, pound and a half a year just eating whatever I like. Though I do like eating homemade meals I cooked myselfā¦ and probably my secret killer, chocolate milk.
Iāve become comfortable fasting for 3 days at a time, and feel I can control my weight this way. But I keep hearing that hard fasting is much more difficult for women, just how they are built.
Some say: have garden to feed animals.
Not sure if Dr Berry would accept Guinea Pigs as food, but they can be raised in v. small areas.
(I donāt have them yet)
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Iāve been to China 7 times over the past 25 years. One thing that struck me was that most meals were mostly noodles or rice based yet it was rare to see an obese person. I think this entire video needs a bit more scientific thought.
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Guidelines will take a section of its own. There are so many things to consider. Sometimes I am inclined to think nothing is necessarily inherently good or bad, it is how you prepare it, how and when you consume it, how clean the supply chain is etc. Even the poisonous plan/ fruit can be a homeopathic medicine. With that said, a few things to keep in mind.
- Coffee. Drink it early in the morning and no later than 2 pm. For some that may be too late in the day even for coffee has a half time of 12 hours and thus may still keep some people amped up in the evening. Watch for good quality coffee and definitely mold free. The latter is oftentimes the thing that makes coffee bad or cause adverse reactions. That can even skew the results of research on coffee, especially if you wish to have a less than good or bad outcome for coffee. Some places in Latin America you literally get a shot glass of coffee at most 2x a day, not a whole cup or mug multiple times a day like we tend to drink in the west.
- Chocolate is a similar story to coffee, when it comes to sourcing, the mold issue and possible time of day to consume. There are people though that actually calm down from chocolate, for which a cup in the evening may be a good thing, to help them relax and fall asleep. You need to see for yourself in which category you fall. When it comes to chocolate bars, the higher the percentage cacao, the better. That means the bitterness increases as well. Though if you are not much of a sugar and sweet eater, youāll notice it tastes less bitter. Sugar plays tricks on the brain, so that something may taste more bitter than it might and some sweet tasting fruits may not taste sweet at all. Mind also all other ingredients they put in the bars, like sugars and milk. Cacao from Latin America is generally a better option than those from the African continent.
- Tea is a complex one. Black tea is a story similar to coffee, with its high levels of caffeine. Drink no later than 2 pm. White and green tea on the other hand, most people can drink it the whole day long. Some, like chamomile tea, is good for winding down at night before going to bed. Caveat on a green tea like matcha. That is a potent green tea, which is also best to drink in the morning and earlier in the day. Tea made from/ of herbs and spices, it depends. Some herbs and spices are stimulating and others are relaxing, yet others go either way depending on your bodies needs. Know the herb and spice and youāll know if it is better to drink earlier in the day or later.
- Alcohol. Alcohol is sugar, in general avoid it. A glass of (I would say premium) red wine can be good. Red wine is richer in certain beneficial components than white wine. Here as well, think of a shot glass that you savor instead of chugging a big glass down. Redacted had a nice image showing how the serving sizes of wine changed since the 1700. It used to be 66ml back then and by 2017 a glass of wine was about 450 ml. Thatās a big jump.
- Cloves is a power house, once used in dentistry as a painkiller and for healing. Look into the story of Dutch trade and I think it was the Maluku islands, where the people would not fall ill, until the Dutch came and raided their clove bushes. Disease followed massively and killed a lot of the locals. Cloves is also part of the lore of the plague, where a group of people would loot the bodies of people who died from the plague over and over again leaving the authorities scratching their heads how they were doing it. When they caught one, they discovered that they were people with great knowledge of herbs some of them even the very physicians taking care of the people. They wore these masks with pointy nose sections. In that they had a mixture of a few herbs, clove being one of them. That concoction both purified the air they were breathing as well as enhance their own immune system (based on what science eventually deciphered about the mystery of those herbs and spices, their components and how they work).
- Raw honey and maple sugar. Personally I would say opt for raw unprocessed honey, rather than the liquified processed form which is void of many of the nutrients and beneficial components of honey. The latter is mostly sugar. If you think frequency healing is a real thing, raw honey has high frequency reading, which aids healing in our bodies. Good quality honey is also great for wound healing etc. Though Manuka honey is one of the best if not the best honey available, any pure raw honey has great benefits, beside the sweet sugary taste. Similarly for maple syrup. The more raw and unprocessed it is, the better. It does not have the high frequencies of raw honey, still it is much better than processed maple sugar or sugar in general, for it contains other beneficial compounds of the maple tree. For that matter, even raw cane sugar is better than the highly processed sugar that comes from the cane. In all these examples, the processed from is pure sugar, and all the other original forms contain synergistic effects that as a whole have a beneficial effect on the body. Use in moderation of course. With that being said, youāll notice that you canāt have a lot of the unprocessed versions anyway. Your body very quickly sends signals that itās too much. Before you know it you find yourself gagging or pushing it away. Just for the fun of it, experiment with how many tea or tablespoons you can get down in one go. While you can eat boatloads of processed sugars, you wonāt get far with the raw sources where the processed sugars come from. Just like with meat. While you can keep eating bread, pasta, chips and so on even when you feel like your stomach is going to explode. However, with good clean meat, before you know it, you have had enough. Your body just rejects it.
- Anything bitter stimulates the digestive system. So do vinegars. Mix them with a bit of water and drink them before a meal (half an hour preferably) or add them to the meal in the form of dressing, seasoning or part of the dish itself in case it is a vegetable.
- Personally and with the knowledge I have gained from big pharma, no prescription drugs is necessary nor truly beneficial. I would say some may have a place in more extreme cases. However for daily well-being and chronic conditions, they are pretty much useless and oftentimes do more harm than good. In case you do take prescription drugs, do support your body with the natural sources available to us. Mind you, all prescription drugs are isolates from things that are found in nature, manipulated by man, completely void of the synergistic component of the original, way more potent and with lots of added junk to keep it all together. The natural way may sometimes take a bit longer to show noticeable effects. Thatās because it works with your body to heal from the core/ root instead of suppressing the symptoms at the superficial levels. I am not yet 100% against prescription/ pharmaceutical drugs, I am almost there though. Likewise I tell people to be mindful of nutraceuticals. You may fall in the same trap or get caught up in similar paradigm as with pharmaceuticals, that you become dependent on supplements for your well-being, rather than fix the things that cause the problems in the first place. When in need, the nutraceuticals are the first place to go and as a last resort pharmaceuticals combined with natural ways to support healing.
I have written a lot already, more because of the background info than the guidelines themselves. Perhaps more in another round or a specific thread for it.
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Keep in mind that things are passed on the fetus through the mother (e.g. medication, pollution, toxins, nutrient deficiencies) and once born to the child through motherās milk. Energetically a lot is passed on as well. Then we have all the radiation children are exposed to, from the womb with ultrasounds, baby phones in the bedroom and so on. The air we breathe, the water we drink, shower with, cook our food, all in contaminated. Thus people of all ages are exposed to all sort of things that affects us in the short or the long run.
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For the fun of it, I might argue that cows eat the bugs and other tiny animals crawling through and on the grass. Itās not like they remove them before chewing the grass. And some bugs might not be lucky enough to jump off the grass before it is gobbled down by the cow and other known herbivores. 
My new diet plan: Donāt eat anything advertised on TV or the internet.
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Blocked Cravings and the Failure of Food āEnrichmentā: A Conversation About Food Flavor and Human Health
After a visit to Chile, where his brother treated Mark Schatzker to the best steak heād ever tasted, Mark took himself on a globe-wide quest to find the perfect steak. Along the way he began asking deeper questions: Why did we evolve to eat meat? Why does meat taste the way it does? Where does flavor come from? Why do we like what we like? For that matter, how do cows know what to eat?
That last question arose while he was on a cattle ranch. The rancher showed him that his pregnant cows were in a particular field because it was abundant in clover, which they were selectively eating because itās rich in the protein they need to support their fetuses. Meanwhile, the steers were happily munching on rye grass in another field, which helped them put on fats. Schatzker says this and his previous experiences got him very interested in flavor ā what it is, how it works, and how it guides eating, changing over time as the needs of animals, including humans, changes.
The eventual outcome of Schatzkerās long inquiry were three books: Steak, The Dorrito Effect, and The End of Craving. About those books, Schatzker says,
āThe lesson of Steak was that the whole world is eating an awful lot of mediocre beef.ā
ā[T]he Dorrito Effect ā¦looked at our food system and whatās happened to food. ā¦ I looked at it through the lens of flavor. ā¦ In this book I just want to say what has happened to food. ā¦ [T]he food that weāre told to eat, the wholesome food, is getting bland. At the same time, thereās been a complementary reverse trend, which is that processed foods ā we call them, now, ultra-processed foods ā are getting ever more flavorful because, literally, the flavor compounds that are being lost at the farm level are being manufactured in flavor factoriesā¦and theyāre being put onto ultra-processed foods that areā¦ever more irresistible. ā¦ The definition of junk foodā¦[is] food that tastes like something that it isnāt.ā
āAnd that [definition of junk food] led to The End of Craving because I knew that in a very limited sense: When you put flavorings on a Dorrito chipā¦you can make anything you want taste like whatever you want it to taste like. ā¦ So I know thatāll make people eat more in the moment. But in The End of Craving ā¦a deeper question is, what is the effect of all this fooling around, these false sensations that weāre layering on the food? What does that do to us over time? And my belief is that this is so much of whatās responsible for the obesity epidemic because itās really confusing our brains. Our brains are getting signals about food that are misleading, and this is something we were never meant to deal with, from an evolutionary point of view. Itās not salt, or fat, or carbs, or sugar thatās changed. These are still the same fundamental nutrients theyāve always been. Itās the signals the brain gets about the food that itās eating; thatās changed, and itās had a profound effect.ā
In a truly informative and insightful hour-long conversation with Dave Chapman, the founder and current co-director of The Real Organic Project, Schatzker delves into the effects that our North American preoccupation with meddling with food production and flavoring has had on our terrain. I mean, on our individual bodily terrain, and on the land upon which we produce our food. His perspective is anchored in scientific literature, as well as anecdotal information gathered from across the globe, and is delivered with care to distinguish what he knows from peer-reviewed literature and what he suspects from his own experiences and his accumulated knowledge from growers, producers, industry persons, and eaters of both high-quality and low-quality food.
I see this conversation as an expansion of Chris and Kenās conversation.
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Thanks for the list! Help me though, does ultrasound technology use radiation?
Ultrasounds do not have radiation. It is acoustic energy. Piezoelectric crystals turn the electrical energy into mechanical vibrations. Those vibrations travel through the medium and bounce off different things and ghen return to the transducers and are turned back into electrical signals and then those signals are interpeted by the instrument and an image is displayed. It gets pretty complex with array design and firing tables and post processing of data but definitely NOT any kind of ionizing radiation.
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Like Mysterymet says above, it is not the radiation. It is the soundwaves. Our bodies respond to soundwaves even when we with our conscious minds donāt hear it. The right sound frequency and vibration can support healing and the ones out of synch or harmony with our bodies damaging. A fetus and a baby are more vulnerable to sound frequencies and vibrations and thus more susceptible to its positive and negative effects. Ultrasounds have low frequencies which can impact all of us negatively.
This clip illustrates the impact of sound nicely in my opinion. How a mere 8hz in difference can have an effect. Then relate that to ultrasounds. Itās not like big pharma and friends would create ultrasound machines that produce beneficial sounds for us, in and outside a womb.
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I just posted my message to head over to my emails an I see I got a newsletter dedicated to sound and healing. I havenāt watched this video yet. Though I doubt ultrasound is covered, it will give an idea of the importance of sound and healing (and in reverse, making someone sick).
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True beans need to be good correctly. But if your talking cheap good for you food like he mentioned. Balony is not it. Here are the listing for balony verse canned beans. But you could do the beans yourself and then you could avoid all the bad stuff in beans so here is the pic. Beans and rice will be far cheaper and better for you since it is a whole food. Now the canned beans do have alot of sodium so I wash mine off.
I will say we will have to agree to disagree
To each there own. I am sticking by whole foods.
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Youāve got a very bead bologna compared to a quite good can of beans. The other way around goes too. There are well made deli/ bologna and very bad cans of beans with lots of junk in it as well. It comes down to finding the best out there that is within your means.
Donāt get me wrong, I go for wholefoods too. I just know not to delude myself in case things get tight and I could not afford the top notch quality foods I go for.
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I think if you are poor and you want to eat meat ( like I think people are meant to in moderation) The better option would be to find a local farmer and see if you can get bones. The bones will have some meat and all the good stuff for your guts. then make a soup. I bet that would be cheap and healthy.It has to be better than balony.
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Carbohydrate addiction is a thingā¦a thing the big processors know about and exploit. The link below offers a pretty quick and painless explanation.
I have found over the distant past years (some of which included crazy amounts of hi altitude mountainbike trainingā¦to the tune of 28k feet a week of climbing for extended periods, that you can burn enough carbs to support a super hi carb diet. The down side is inflammatory issues, which, at the time were blamed solely on training. A 50-60 mile ride in the Sierras would demand a trip to Olive Garden where myself, and fellow riders would gorge ourselves on pasta. Feeling like crap the next day was written off as ātrainingā and just something you would suck up and deal with. In essence, a fundamentally unhealthy lifestyle diet was being pursued for quite a few years.
Recovery from that period, which eventually ended in a metabolic disaster shit show, involved a period of extensive diet research as I was too destroyed to do much else at the time. The question of how did this happpen as I was following the advise of top diet trainers in the endurance world was really needing answered. Looking into some Army Ranger school prep blogs and discussion pages which were basically hacks on how, to get through intense long periods of military sf training introduced me to ketogenic diets and I pretty much never looked back.
The fellow linked below was also a wealth of information over the past decade and a half. Iām still on his mailing list but feel he has gotten a bit too commercialized over the years. He has provided a treasure trove of excellent data over the years. https://blog.primalblueprint.com YMMV
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Good on ya, just remember itās in the phrase āChange my dietā and not āGo on a dietā. Change the thing that has caused the problem in the first place. Which is the āroot cause analysisā the Keans and Dr Berry have mentioned.
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