Health Spam on the Forum
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There’s been a lot of Quack spam on the forum. I have been very ill and have a PhD, so I’ve been following the latest helth research results on physorg and in New Scientist. Here is a digest of the scientific communities latest research results.
All the current health research (physorg.org) points to calorie restriction and exercise being the best all round health benefit.
I can see, one reason I was ill, is most common food are really bad for you. 2 slices of toasted bread can contain your daily salt dose. Processed food also contains massively too high levels of sugar and fat. In our evolutionary past these were extremely hard to come by, which is one reason we crave sweet food.
I am trying to “Fast” one day a week and 2 days occasionally as the easiest way to implement Calorie restriction.
1. Calorie restriction reduces carbohydrate bacteria in you digestive system, thought to be associated with inflammatory disease such as Irritable bowl syndrome and crones. Improved digestive bacteria populations are beneficial to your immune system.
2. Fasting or calorie restriction has been shown to switches the body from producing white fat to burning brown fat.
3. Increases the production of DNA repair enzymes instead of (cancerous) cell production.
4. Reduces the death enzyme secreted so that in times of plenty animals breed quickly and die early, which is evolutionary advantageous in that, it diversifies the population.
Two other things can also help, biorhythm synchronisation is performed by light sensors and by the liver when it digest food.
Try to eat in the day at specific times, and not at night (say after 7 o’clock). Do not sleep with any light at night, this also effects your circadian rhythms. For instance, the digestive system shuts down at night and food is not fully digested properly and it causes long digestion times.
Try to keep moving, one or 2 minutes strong exercise every day is very time effective. Humans are meant to walk, one mile walk a day is also very beneficial to health.
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I’ve gone to a palaeolithic (cave man) diet where possible and don’t eat seeds or pulses. Potatoes also contain toxins that your body finds harder to handle as you get older. I’ve stopped eating wheat and milk, for the most part.
It takes time for these things to settle down, helping and controlling your "bio sphere " and encouraging the good digestive bacteria takes time.
The Paliolithic diet change, did reduce my (bad) cholesterol levels, but not as quickly or as much as the fasting did. Last year I did three and half day fast, twice with 2 months between. I was lucky that my doctor allowed me to test the levels of cholesterol every few weeks.
I am quite ill so in the end I still need statins as well. Because of my disability I do have very limited mobility and so it is hard to exercise.
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When I’m being good (and when I do I feel like superman) I try to do one day or some intermittent fasting and avoid processed foods, which includes all Grains and processed ‘vegetable’ oils and favour saturated fats for cooking which goes against conventional wisdom. I don’t calorie count, but by forgoing non-nutritional empty calories from grains it leaves more room in my diet for nutritious ones like vegetables.
I strongly believe that grains, even whole grains, are a massively unnatural part of our diet and they are not required for a healthy diet. You can get all the good stuff from vegetables in greater quantity and with fewer carb sugars. Leafy greens are fantastic, Baby Spinach, Watercress, Rocket, Chard and Kale are all fantastic. I don’t believe red meat is bad for you, I believe the figures are distorted by processed red meats. I don’t believe dietary cholesterol gives you high cholesterol, I believe it’s a sign of chronic inflammation caused by the western diet.
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I’ve gone to a palaeolithic (cave man) diet where possible .
Have you been on Mark’s Daily Apple? :)
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I am gratefull for every meal,what I eliminate is simple sugar.
Not high tech diet but works well combined with 3 workouts in gym a week.
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I think that a moderate to high level of exercise is one way of coping with excess carb calorie (and thus glucose) intake that the western diet provides. But it requires a huge time investment. There are lots of studies that show that intensity might be more beneficial than duration for the health benefits of exercise, but I suspect it’s the duration and frequency that’s important for burning off excess glucose.
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Anything is everything. Or something. It takes character. Alot of people do things only while they’re easy. Many healthy people exercise when they are young but when they turn 30 or 40 they stop because it’s not all fun and games anymore. It hurts. But I think it’s only then when you’re really measured as an individual when it gets hard.
My problem is basically an addictive personality. Whatever I do I seem to find a way to get hooked on it. That’s why I’ve learned limit the things I do. Exercise is a thing I need to do, I sometimes neglect people around me because of it. But it keeps me healthy.
Mark Sisson makes a convincing case against what he calls ‘Chronic Cardio’ and he’s a ex endurance cardio nut.
I personally think there are less destructive ways to remain healthy. But it’s a huge part of people’s lives and I can understand why people find cardio hard to limit or see any reason why they should limit it. :)
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Give away your Fiat, you’ll soon be as skinny as me ;)
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Wrapper. Got an alert today that ‘death by food pyramid’ is on sale in digital form, it’s only £0.59 on kindle.
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Sorry, back up to full price. I was reading it last night, it’s a really great book.
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Humans are meant to walk, one mile walk a day is also very beneficial to health.
Wrong, that why your knees wear out in your 40’s/50’s. Your body cannot cope with Earths gravity /em walks off whistling innocently…
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The information about the benefits of (short gentle) walking was from personal experience. The man at the end of our terrace lived till he was 106 years old and I noticed, one thing he did, was walk 2 miles to the shops and back every day. I think you will find it is sporting injuries where addition stain is put on your joints.
Normal bodies cope with earths gravity by repairing themselves. It is also well known, due to space travel in weightlessness, that gravity actually strengthens our bones.
I have also noted from personal experience that drinking is the the worst culprit for wearing out your joints. I have now know three alcoholics that have had to have hip or knee operations before they are 60. That is due to alcohol cleaning calcium from your system.
Wrong, that why your knees wear out in your 40’s/50’s. Your body cannot cope with Earths gravity /em walks off whistling innocently…
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But our bodies don’t repair themselves…well not to what they could? We use 5% of our DNA, they now coming to accept that there are parts of it in there, they reckon could heal us “properly” i.e. repair the only nerve that won’t heal, the spinal cord, you could repair your body to maintain a specific age. There is still some evidence out there that we used to have access to how to use it, but we’ve “forgotten” but it’s being systematically buried slowly. too early to go raking for the articles atm, not had my coffee yet. can’t keep the financial system going if they can’t sell us products to stop us dying now, right?
If you compare our bones to any other “alleged” human before us (because Darwin has been disproven many times, go look into WHY they continue that agenda…) we are very poorly designed for the atmosphere we live in, so compared to other species, we wear out very quickly because of the fine details in the way our bodies transfer the physics of motion. Lots of wasted energy going in the wrong direction. So the only logical conclusion from that, we weren’t designed to walk far, why our brains utilised horses n stuffs to go distance?
I do agree though, small amounts, because we enjoy it rather than forcing ourselves
I don’t drink, well socially, but that’s not often when you got kids right? My only bad habit is smoking, mostly vaping these days (wow, how boring I got)
Sorry Wrapper, I just enjoy reading what may be opposing viewpoints, balance… :)
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Sorry Wrapper, I just enjoy reading what may be opposing viewpoints, balance… :)
Here are some of the papers I’ve read recently on restricted carbohydrate diet research. You must remember that I had cancer 10 years ago, and so am much more fragile than most people.
I have spent a lot of time researching what potentially “caused”, or helped my illness occur. Stress, lack of sleep and poor diet are amongst the most possible causes. Pollution, smokeing and lack of exercise coming in second.
I have also been able to monitor the effects of various teatments (statins, diet, etc ) through my doctor, and seeing what recovery / remission I have achieved from a “Terminal” decease.
Strict diet suspends development, doubles lifespan of worms
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-strict-diet-lifespan-worms.htmlCarbohydrate restriction may slow prostate tumor growth
http://phys.org/news162563042.htmlNontoxic cancer therapy proves effective against metastatic cancer
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-nontoxic-cancer-therapy-effective-metastatic.htmlLow-carb diet recommended for diabetics
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-low-carb-diet-diabetics.htmlHigh-carb intake in infancy has lifelong effects, study finds
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-high-carb-intake-infancy-lifelong-effects.htmlAre saturated fats good or bad?
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-saturated-fats-good-bad.htmlLiving by the clock: The science of chronobiology
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-clock-science-chronobiology.htmlLow-calorie diet may not prolong life: study
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-low-calorie-diet-prolong-life.htmlHigh-protein weight loss diets can work
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-high-protein-weight-loss-diets.htmlStrategy proposed for preventing diseases of aging
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-07-strategy-diseases-aging.htmlMonkey caloric restriction study shows big benefit, contradicts earlier study
http://phys.org/news/2014-04-monkey-caloric-restriction-big-benefit.htmlFast way to measure DNA repair
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-04-fast-dna.htmlInjured nerves regrow when fidgetin enzyme is suppressed
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-nerves-regrow-fidgetin-enzyme-suppressed.htmlLifestyle changes may lengthen telomeres, a measure of cell aging
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-lifestyle-lengthen-telomeres-cell-aging.htmlCalorie Restrictions Slow Aging by Enzyme Pathway
http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/11/19/aging-pathway-explains-benefit-of-calorie-restrictions/21082.htmlI’ll leave it at that, there are a lot more.
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This’ll keep me busy for a while ;)
Thanks for taking the time to post that Wrapper
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I’m with wrapper, bone records show pre-agricultre, that man had a life expectancy in his low to mid 30’s, and that was without science! We didn’t get back up to that sort of high number for centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_variation_over_time
Either of you watched, William Li’s talk on Ted Talks? Very interesting.
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Bumping and pinning this thread. Ill need to read after work.
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I shouldn’t have pinned this… Thought it was something else… sorry…
