Leah R.
Topic: Zumba
EQ: What is the best way to maintain a healthy body fat percentage?

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Research Check 14

Article: Mostly Plants
Author: Dean Ornish
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology

Literal(L): "Eat food. Mostly plants. Not to much." -Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma
Interpretive(I): Ominivore's are people (not necessarially people but for this case yes) who eat both meat and plants. So my understanding from this guy is eating to my plant based produce is not always good, huumm.....

L: " there is a growing coverage of scientific evidence that an optimal diet is mostly plant based, consisting predominately of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and soy products. A healthful diet is also low in refined carbs, saturated fat, and trans fats and high in complex carbs with adequate omega-3 fatty acids."
I: Based on what Pollan said and based on what Ornish said, they are both walking a fine line between having the same/different philosophy when it comes to food..who to believe? When you have so much against and for meat.

L: "When most patients are diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia, they are usually advised to follow the dietary lines of the American Heart Assoication or the National Cholesterol Education Program. However, these moderate changes in diet usually result in only modest reductions in LDL cholesterol levels, at which point lipid-lowering drugs are usually prescribed. Most patients are not go en the option of making more intensive changes in diet and life-style such as a plant based diet, because of the belief that they will not follow them."
I: This is long, but it is becoming clear to me that the government or whoever is in charge of this, doctors, big meat and drug companies are all in a battle to make sure the people of every nation are subjectifiying themselves to the ways that they [those in charge] want us to,because if the government really wanted to end the obesity expansion that we have then they would have doctors take people off they're mods because that makes it to easy for everyone who is doing that to not solve the problem, but prolong the diseases, such as cholesterol same goes for meat that is supposedly great for humans, but I think it could be said that our teeth are an indication that we are not carnivores."

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