tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353133830674095831.post5081005656312267913..comments2023-06-23T16:38:03.547+02:00Comments on View from the hill: Nullias in Verbablackdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15955864390301639553noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353133830674095831.post-63129414699716272612011-03-01T11:19:48.220+01:002011-03-01T11:19:48.220+01:00Too true Widower. The consequence of veering away ...Too true Widower. The consequence of veering away from 'real food', that us 'baby boomers' were given in childhood has been increases in the those diseases that we almost never heard of. Diabetes, CHD and CVD, were rare and TB was mainly that which we feared.<br /><br />Your anecdotal evidence about yourself is reflected more and more in scientific study. We need to go back, to secure the future of good health.blackdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15955864390301639553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353133830674095831.post-70369894877760096652011-03-01T03:07:28.457+01:002011-03-01T03:07:28.457+01:00Nice one Blackdog,
The one truth we all have to fa...Nice one Blackdog,<br />The one truth we all have to face is this. There is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to nutrition. This I learned the hard way. When my wife was killed 10 years ago I decided to go on a low cholesterol food regime. Not a diet as such because calories were not a concern. This I share with you. It damn near killed me in three years. Strength down 50%, weight down 30% but osteopena setting in. Much of the weight loss was lean muscle tissue. Need I go on? For another six years I ate a 'balanced diet' in accordance with the one size fits all school of advice. Little was noted by way of recovery. <br />Then I became adventurous. <br />Butter, not that vegetable rubbish passing off as easy spread yellow goo. Eggs, and pants to Edwina Currie and ‘vertical transmission of pathogens from hen to egg’. Corned beef butties. A range of the Co-op (good with food in a Scottish burr) Truly Irresistible range of prepared grub augmented with the darkest green I could get my hands on. Fruit back down to what I fancied when I fancied. None of this x portions a day nonsense, just when I fancied a bit of fruit, no more.<br />Two years in and my physical power is returning. At 64 I can carry a 25kg bag up a double sixteen ladder without a problem. Bones are returning to the jellyfish I had become. Admittedly a hundredweight bag (8 stone) is pushing it now – it was easy at the age of 25. Even my hair (oddly) is no longer getting thinner each month. <br />So there we have it. No one size fits all. As for red meat causing colon cancer pfttt! The jury is out on that one and unlikely to return.widowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05767928191221090950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353133830674095831.post-53412331513937961202011-02-28T19:03:08.572+01:002011-02-28T19:03:08.572+01:00You are clearly so correct about there being too m...You are clearly so correct about there being too many confounding parameters to build weighty conclusions upon. And as you say, we should always look for the evidence. Taking someone's word, however eminent the 'someone', is not scientific. We need evidence.<br /><br />Chris Kresser's article http://thehealthyskeptic.org/the-myth-of-evidence-based-medicine which I read today is about the very same need for evidence-based medicine/nutrition advice.Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05678669831391750854noreply@blogger.com