Guest guest Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 n, fortunately for , if he makes 100% of his diet " real " Mexican food (a pretty far cry from what passes for Mexican in Minnesota! Yuck!) he will be getting plenty of good LARD in his food. They aren't as able to use the crappy hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils in restaurants like we are drowning in because 1) lard, while costlier, is much more available and 2) Mexicans love the good flavor of lard (WHO DOESN'T?). As you probably know LARD is quite good for you and one of the very best oils to cook with, the others being tropical oils such as organic coconut and palm kernal, also olive oil, tallow and butter (as long as the heat is not too high). One should never use Crisco or the clear jug liquid vegetable oils. Deep fried foods are to be avoided in general, of course. Mexicans who haven't copped to the SAD (standard American Diet) are super healthy except for locales where there is general malnutrition from lack of food, parasites and infectious diseases. Indigenous people now and in the past often live over 100 without heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis or GALLSTONES. Unfortunately, the American and multi-national corporate evildoers are peddling " Coca-Cola mentality " ALL OVER THE WORLD and natural good health is becoming a thing of the past. Trans fats and simple carbs are rapidly replacing vegetables, meat and greens. GBs are beginning to tank all over the world. We still lead with over 1/2 million a year jerked out. (we are still #1 in a few medical categories!) On the good news for issue, many parts of Mexico serve up el muy grande portions of CAYENNE, other hot peppers garlic, onion, cilantro, and many other GB and cardiovascular cleansing spices are added to the food DAILY. Cayenne alone can cure almost anything that ails you (contains 5 soaps that scrub arteries, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals). Ask for your food " mas caliente, por favor " ! The evildoers in the vegetable oil industry have done a dandy job of demonizing the truly good fats and somehow hypnotized the medical establishment to believe it. The first documented heart attack in the US occurred in 1912 and the doctor who brought the newfangled machine the EKG over from Germany waited from 1921-1928 to get a heart patient to test it on. Now someone DIES of a heart attack every 30 seconds in the US. In 1910 cancer and diabetes (totally related illnesses) were very rare too. Crisco was introduced in 1911. In 1910 the average butter intake was 18# a year and 83% of all fat intake was animal with virtually no liquid vegetable fats. In 1970 butter had been seriously " criminalized " and consumption fell to 4#/yr with total animal fats only 62% but the hydrogenated vegetable fats went up to 16#/yr. Sugar and carbohydrate intake skyrocketed and people became " couch potatoes. There were 700,000 heart attack deaths that year! Diet is worse now and the count is over one million cardiac deaths a year! Hummmmm..... Also, don't forget TOTAL CHOLESTEROL in the blood is related to vascular inflammation, cholesterol is very beneficial-essential for life and called to heal the inflammed arteries.Cholesterol should never be artificially lowered, and, worse yet, has virtually NO PREDICTIVE VALUE AT ALL for cardiac death. Sadly, trillions of bucks are made annually from measuring and artificially manipulating the levels of this health lipid. No wonder they won't let go of it! If you want to access your true risk factors measure C-reactive protein, Homocystine, Lipoprotein(a), Triglycerides, HDL cholesterol (and especially TG/HDL ratio!). Surprisingly your Fasting Glucose will tell you more than anything else. 75 million Americans have Syndrome X (prediabetes) which is from both excess trans fats and excess simple carbohydrates and is considered to be the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and much else. Gallstones are also part of Syndrome X as are kidney stones (not all GB patients have Syndrome X but the vast majority have some degree of it) I've come to believe that it is LACK OF good, pure, non-oxidized CHOLESTEROL in the diet that CAUSES the liver and gall bladder to " conserve " it in the bile ducts and GB, hence the stones. This theory was put forth by Enig, Sally Fallon and Tom Cowan at the Weston A. Price Foundation and they have excellent validation of this process. I am donating my body to the science of proving them right. I now eat about 4 or more tablespoons of butter a day plus as much grass-fed and wild fish meat fat that I can get a day. I also take CLO (cod liver oil) daily as well as coconut oil in my smoothie along with 2-4 eggs a day. I wasn't able to do this AT ALL for the first 3 months out of the hospital and had to be super careful with fat. Covered by the Chinese herbs, enzymes (up to 30-40 caps/day at first, now just a couple) and other supplements I gradually ratcheted my levels up to the point where I feel I will never be plagued with problems again as long as I keep it up. The only problems I have is when I travel or eat out. It's getting to the point where I tend to BYOB (bring yer own butter!). My weight is going down to where it should be and my lean muscle ratio is going up or at least holding steady I'm 6'3' at 200# and 58 yrs. I was 230# when I got sick last year). Walking, stress management, anger management, and good red wine (<2 glasses a day) make up the rest of the program. Salud! Will, eating fat and happy in Minneapolis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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