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| "The low-fat idea is emphasized in the food pyramid that is so well known. Even with the recent changes to the food pyramid, little emphasis is on fat in the diet; and the most emphasis is on grains. And, there is no information promoted about why it is important to ingest adequate amounts of healthy fats.
Is the food pyramid a reliable guide to a healthy diet?
The food pyramid reflects the standard American diet. In the last 20 years, fat consumption has decreased 11% in this country. What has been the result of 20 years of following a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates?" - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.) |
| "Lack of sunshine on the skin
A feeling of control over one's life
- Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.) |
 "Anyone remember the first edition of the food pyramid?)
One year after the ADA statement, a study published in the journal Diabetes divided 180 people with type 2 diabetes into three groups— one group received 200 meg of chromium picol-inate a day, one group received 1,000 meg, and the third group got a placebo. Supplemental chromium was shown to have dramatic effects on glucose and insulin variables and "significant, sustained reductions in diabetic symptoms were especially noted in those who received 1,000 meg per day."
Insulin's Little Helper
So what's the deal with chromium?"- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
 "Even the food pyramid requires three to five servings of vegetables and two to three servings of fruit daily.
Unfortunately, too many people disregard these daily guidelines. The enzymatic level of fresh foods, such as fruits and vegetables, is reduced by long-term storage, pesticides, and toxins in the water and soil. As we age, the number of enzymes and their activity levels decrease. This is why supplementation with enzymes is helpful."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "I've revised this corporately corrupt food pyramid (Fig. 3.2) to portray the correct hierarchy of the world's healthiest foods—the ones that can prevent and defeat cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
If you want to live to see your grandchildren's children, use the Permanent Remissions Phytofood pyramid to help you create a new way of eating for optimal health and longevity.
HOW TO USE THE PERMANENT REMISSIONS PHYTOFOOD PYRAMID GUIDE
The Phytofood Pyramid Guide recommends phytonutrient-rich food groups based on the number of suggested daily servings (Table 3.1)."- Robert Hass, M.S., Permanent Remissions (Get the book.) |
 "After a 12-week nutritional intervention promoting the Mediterranean food pyramid with 71 healthy women, researchers from Laval University in Quebec reported that the women showed an 11 percent decrease in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Now, that's what I call instant gratification! Plus, the results revealed that the more closely participants followed the diet, the greater the decrease. Increases in the servings of two food groups in particular were individually associated with decreases in oxidized LDL concentrations?fruits and vegetables!
Improve blood pressure-and more."- Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) |
 "That has always been the problem with USDA recommendations, particularly regarding the food pyramid. The USDA's interest in promoting agribusiness is at odds with its attempts to recommend a healthful diet. Historically, lobbyists for the dairy and cattle industries have pressured the USDA to include recommendations for dietary intakes of meat and dairy products that are not always in the best interests of our health."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "This is not to be confused with the food pyramid, developed by the USDA in the 1950s, which tells us how much of the different food groups, like fruits, vegetables, cereals, meat, and dairy products, we need.) Most of us are familiar with the RDA from our childhood days of reading the back of our cereal boxes during breakfast time. What most people don't understand is that the authors of the RDA only knew what degree of deprivation caused illness. The USDA didn't really know the minimum of what you could take and still be healthy." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
 "Willett, chief of nutrition and preventive medicine at Harvard Medical School, proposed in his book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy that we must rethink the food pyramid the USDA recommends. The bottom rung should be low-glycemic carbohydrates, while high-glycemic foods (white bread, white flour, pasta, rice, and potatoes) belong at the top of the food pyramid with all the sweets."
Everyone realizes how bad sweets are for diabetics. But few realize that high-glycemic foods raise blood sugar much faster than eating candy does."- Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) |
 "This kind of research has influenced public health policy, so we get a recommendation of three servings of low-fat dairy a day-—and it's now part of our food pyramid. The issues that haven't been addressed are: Why are three-fourths of the world's populations lactose intolerant, and how are North Americans supposed to comply with this recommendation? Would this dairy benefit evaporate if people normalized their vitamin D levels?
We're the only animals on the planet who consume other animals' milk as adults."- James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
 "It isn't as if we don't know what a balanced diet looks like - governments around the world produce guidelines like our food pyramid, often with flashy illustrations. Canada has its food rainbow; Germany its dietary circle (with a healthy glass of water in the middle) and China a food pagoda. In 2005, the US Department of Agriculture upgraded its food pyramid into a multicoloured, individualised animation - MyPyramid. This revamp was hailed by nutritionist Michael Jacobson as 'the strongest dietary guidelines yet produced'."- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
| "The primary source of government information on eating healthy is its widely distributed food pyramid, which is constructed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). More recently, the USDA has created a new food plan called MyPyramid, which is an improvement over earlier versions that were heavy on meat and dairy, and complicated to use. Because the pyramid plans are so widely known in this country, many consumers see the agency's primary function as developing a food plan for the nation." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food pyramid and against the officially sanctioned high-carbohydrate, high-sugar diet have experienced this kind of resistance before. It's pretty hard to get a fair hearing for a low-carbohydrate diet when a good portion of the U.S. economy is based upon the very foods we were telling people to eat less of—corn, wheat, soy, and sugar, for example.
But I digress.
WANTED: A NEW MODEL FOR HEALING
The conventional medical model of disease is what scientists call a paradigm— a way of looking at illness." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
 "As long ago as 1991, for example, proposed changes in the food pyramid would have relegated meat and dairy foods to lesser importance. But by the time the lobbying was finished, the USDA agreed on a misleading compromise for the new proposals that still emphasized consumption of animal protein.
Not much has changed since then. Here are some examples, drawn from a written critique I delivered to the 2005 Food Guidelines Committee:
1."- Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) |
 "But if you feel the need to follow a pyramid when it comes to choosing food, the University of California's food pyramid is probably the best; this is the one with fresh fruits and vegetables at the base. The one with grains at the base appears to be put together by the breakfast cereal industry. In the last year we have seen the introduction of twelve food pyramids with rainbow-colored, vertical stripes, just to confuse us further. You'd be better off ignoring all the pyramids, following the guidelines in this book, and listening to your body!"- Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) "As research started to show how our health had deteriorated and that we needed to be eating simpler with less protein and less processed fats, the food industry attempted to change things by introducing the food pyramid. Here there is anything from five to eleven food groups just to make sure everyone receives a share of the market. Has it helped? Absolutely not! But if you feel the need to follow a pyramid when it comes to choosing food, the University of California's food pyramid is probably the best; this is the one with fresh fruits and vegetables at the base." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) |
 "Fair questions, though it does seem to me a symptom of our present confusion about food that people would feel the need to consult a journalist, or for that matter a nutritionist or doctor or government food pyramid, on so basic a question about the conduct of our everyday lives as humans. I mean, what other animal needs professional help in deciding what it should eat?"- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "EAT RIGHT, GET FATTER In fact, we did change our eating habits in the wake of the new guidelines, endeavoring to replace the evil fats at the top of the food pyramid with the good carbs spread out at the bottom. The whole of the industrial food supply was reformulated to reflect the new nutritional wisdom, giving us low-fat pork, low-fat Snackwell's, and all the low-fat pasta and high-fructose (yet low-fat!) corn syrup we could consume. Which turned out to be quite a lot." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "McGovern "Goals" but also in the National Academy of Sciences report, the dietary guidelines of the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society and the U.S. food pyramid bears direct responsibility for creating the public health crisis that now confronts us. Even if we accept the epidemic of obesity and diabetes as the unintended consequence of the war against dietary fat— collateral damage, you might say—what about the intended consequence of that campaign: the reduction of heart disease?" - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "It embodies the latest nutritional wisdom from science and government (which in its most recent food pyramid recommends that at least half our consumption of grain come from whole grains) but leavens that wisdom with the commercial recognition that American eaters (and American children in particular) have come to prefer their wheat highly refined—which is to say, cottony soft, snowy white, and exceptionally sweet on the tongue." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "The dietary icon that came from those guidelines is the latest food pyramid, otherwise known as "MyPyramid." The new pyramid shows that all food groups are important in a healthy diet.
What You Will See in This Book
101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! will reveal that many of the delicious foods that we often reserve for those special occasions, like cranberries and sweet potatoes, need to be invited back on a more regular basis."- David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
 "Before the food pyramid, schools taught that we needed to get a certain number of daily servings of (1) dairy, (2) bread and cereals, (3) meat and (4) fruits and vegetables.
Decades later there was an attempt to update the recommendations with the development of the food "pyramid." But the food industry didn't approve release of its initial version ?it was too healthful, which would have lost business for them! ?so we ended up with a much watered-down, revised version, which has recently been revised again.
Mental and emotional health is very negatively impacted by eating these "foods."- Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
| "Is the food pyramid a reliable guide to a healthy diet?
The food pyramid reflects the standard American diet. In the last 20 years, fat consumption has decreased 11% in this country. What has been the result of 20 years of following a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates? It has made Americans the most obese people on this planet. In fact, during the last 20 years, while fat intake has decreased, obesity has increased 32%!" - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.) |
 "The more forward-looking members of the scientific community have advocated changes in the "classic" food pyramid for at least a decade, but inertia is hard to overcome. This food pyramid, with heavy emphasis on pastas and other refined grain products, and low emphasis on beans, nuts, seeds, and other foods high in plant fats, is possibly the cause of many of the rising statistics for chronic illnesses over the past few decades. It is time for serious reevaluation."- James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.) |
| "In fact, without starchy carbohydrates and other processed junk foods, the industry would hardly exist.
My food pyramid is based upon the Garden of Eden Diet?that will not only help your recovery from diseases, but also help your Good Health for Life Plan?
The Garden of Eden Food Pyramid
Vegetables (not root): 8-12 portions per day At least V2 should be raw, as in salad, etc.
Junk-the-Junk Foods
Before we start on the basic "10 Step?Plan". I want to make one last plea for getting the junk food out of your life." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.) |
| "Is the food pyramid a reliable guide to a healthy diet?
The food pyramid reflects the standard American diet. In the last 20 years, fat consumption has decreased 11% in this country. What has been the result of 20 years of following a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates? It has made Americans the most obese people on this planet. In fact, during the last 20 years, while fat intake has decreased, obesity has increased 32%!" - M.D. David Brownstein, The Guide to Healthy Eating (Get the book.) |
| "The revised food pyramid (dubbed "My Pyramid") is more of the same. It actually includes salt, sugar, condiments, candies, syrups and other man-made atrocities as a food group!
The biggest change from the old pyramid is that the food groups are no longer presented horizontally. Rainbow-colored, vertical stripes now represent much the same disastrous diet, all with official government approval.
Through studies, such as those done by the Food and Nutrition Board, the government tells us that a diet high in refined sugar, fat, animal protein and dairy is good for us." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) |
| "This in turn filters down to our schools where we are taught the food pyramid and how eating all things in moderation will stand us in good stead. Does anyone even know what "all things" or "moderation" means? And when will these food companies and dieticians finally accept that they are part of the problem? Probably never... unless forced to, like the cigarette industry. So until then, it is up to you to find the truth and do what you know is best for your body and your health." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) |
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