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NOT PERFECT OK FOR SOME

Revisado: 05-01-21

Irresponsible to give a green light to saturated fat. Associated with other chronicle diseases besides heart diseases. Cautions against fruit consumption due to fructose sugar content. Falsely Associates fruit consumption to chronic disease like non alcoholic liver disease and obesity and diabetes in chapter seven. Only recommends two or three servings per day even after explaining that berries and other fruits are beneficial. Many other authorities recommended more consumption. Advocates eating large amounts of fat because it’s healthy and helps you loose weight. High fat foods are usually low in nutrients per calories and easy to overeat. Advocates eating a fatty diet to speed up metabolism. Speeding up metabolism is not beneficial for longevity. He seems to support a low glycemic and therefore high fat diet as optimal for human health. He supports his claims with various short term studies that measures participants lipid levels and other markers. Many experts have shown skepticism of the long term health benefits of low carbohydrate high fat diets. High fat animal foods often have the highest concentration of contaminants and toxins. Although fats bound to the fiber in nuts and seed appears to be beneficial. Saturated fats have many negative associations besides heart diseases and are not recommended to consume in large amounts. He claims Exogenous cholesterol consumption does increase a persons cholesterol levels and are associated negatively with cardiovascular health. These studies have found to be flawed. All “blue zones” models, where people lived the longest, diets did not include high fat - low carb diets with overconsumption of animal products such as eggs, grass fed meat, butter and eggs as the author would recommend for you. The author points to studies that claim that particular saturated fats from animal products are protective from heart diseases. Yet we have known for decades that the only diet PROVEN to REVERSE heart diseases is a low fat whole food plant based diets recommended by Pritikin, Dr Esselstyn, T Colin Campbell, Dr Macdougall, Dr Furhman, Dr Brenda Davis and many others. We know that the SAD DIET has 30% of calories from animal products and we have some of the worst mortality rates from cardiovascular related deaths. The author blames carbohydrates for much of the cardiovascular risk yet we know of many studies countries where the inhabitants relied on whole food starches and there was virtually no known heart diseases in these populations. Yet Hyman clearly states that “low fat diets cause heart disease”. Saturated fat has been linked to higher prevalence of dementia and diabetes in some studies. Some good advice written here compared to SAD, but clearly not optimal. When considering dietary and lifestyle modification we must take the weight of the scientific evidence and take heed to those populations who have superior health and longevity.

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WHY ARE WE NOT DEAD BY NOW?

Revisado: 04-03-21

A bit alarmist and some points taken to extreme. Some info scientifically inaccurate and out of date. Overall, very good information about lifestyle change.

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Gratuitous expletives some good info

Revisado: 03-20-21

I understand that this kind of book speaks to some that would appreciate the extra expletives and curse words for shock value. Maybe it’s a little entertaining for certain types of people in our complex society. I happen to think that this type of material would be better off without it. I found some of the suggestions to solve problems. Much of the book goes through some sort of theoretical mechanism of brain function which is pretty much useless and doesn’t match the title of the book. Give it a spin for colorful flavor if you like.

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