Eat to live, not live to eat.

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Hi All,

This summary of the recommendations for healthy eating by the American Heath

Association should cast serious doubt about

food conspiracy theories as I don't think the very powerful US meat and dairy

producers would like the " cut down meat

and dairy, eat more veggies " message given here.

Note the bad rap frying gets. Well deserved!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=1\

1032452 & dopt=Abstract

Nutrition 2000 Sep;16(9):767-73 Related Articles, Books, LinkOut

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Weisburger JH.

American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA.

_Weisburger@...

Most of the prevailing chronic diseases in the world have an important

nutritional component by directly causing a

specific disease, enhancing the risk through phenomena of promotion, exerting a

beneficial effect in decreasing risk, or

preventing the disease.

International studies in geographic pathology have shown that a given disease

may have vastly different incidence and

mortality as a function of residence.

Laboratory research in animal models can reproduce fairly accurately what is

learned through international research and

provide the basis for examining relevant hypotheses and, more importantly,

proposed mechanisms of action.

Validation of these approaches can be the basis for public-health

recommendations and health-promotion activities.

Through such techniques, it has been found that regular intake of foods with

saturated fats such as meat and certain

dairy products raise the risk of coronary heart disease.

The total mixed-fat intake is associated with a higher incidence of the

nutritionally linked cancers, specifically

cancer of the postmenopausal breast, distal colon, prostate, pancreas. ovary,

and endometrium.

The associated genotoxic carcinogens for several of these cancers are

heterocyclic amines, which also play a role in

heart-disease causation, and these are produced during the broiling and frying

of creatinine-containing foods such as

meats.

Monounsaturated oils such as olive or canola oil are low-risk fats as shown in

animal models and through the observation

that the incidence of specific diseases is lower in the Mediterranean region,

where such oils are customarily used.

High salt intake is associated with high blood pressure and with stomach cancer,

especially with inadequate intake of

potassium from fruits and vegetables and of calcium from certain vegetables and

low-fat dairy products.

Vegetables, fruits, and soy products are rich in antioxidants that are essential

to lower disease risk stemming from

reactive oxygen systems in the body.

Green and black teas are excellent sources of antioxidants of a polyphenol

nature. as is cocoa and some chocolates.

Nutritional lifestyles that offer the possibility of a healthy long life can be

adopted by most populations in the

world.

PMID: 11032452 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Good Health & Long Life,

Greg , gowatson@...

USDA database (food breakdown) http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/

PubMed (research papers) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

DWIDP (nutrient analysis) http://www.walford.com/dwdemo/dw2b63demo.exe

KIM (omega analysis) http://ods.od.nih.gov/eicosanoids/KIM_Install.exe