I'm worried that some on the list could get into a cultist type belief the
way the vegetarian and low fat groups did.  We have to watch that kind of
accepting of unsupported "facts" that seem to back up what we believe.
Has anyone ever read Robbins' "Diet for a New America".  It was a book that
proposed that eating animals was not only immoral, but was horribly
unhealthy.  Several chapters studied the literature that "proved" eating
animals was unhealthy for us all.  It would be good for some of you to read
this, just to learn and understand how easily data can be used to support
anything.  I believed this book and its analysis of diet for several years.
I remember having some reservations about the conclusions that meat was bad,
having also read the early Atkins books, but, unfortunately, I dismissed my
reservations as interference and went on to eat tremendous amounts of grain
and other carbohydrates for several years, ending, of course, with diabetes.
    I don't see anything wrong with some refuting of what, to some, are
basic beliefs of Paleo...................I wish I had been more honest when
I was in a cult mode with low or no meat fads.
Paul Getty
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From: "Todd Moody" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: unsafe in any quantity?


> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ray Audette wrote:
>
> > Asians have much higher rates of auto-immune disorders including several
> > times the cancer rates of Americans.  Lectins in rice also cause several
> > types of malnutrition that predominate in Asia.  China also has one of
the
> > highest rates of obesity in the world according to a recent Wall Street
> > Journal article.
>
> Would this be from the article you mean:"Diseases that have
> become part of everyday life in the West are now rapidly
> increasing in China. Newly-affluent city dwellers are replacing
> the traditional modest, rice-based meal with Western-style
> fast-food and lavish Chinese banquets. Expensive cigarettes and
> alcohol have become everyday status symbols. The result is an
> alarming increase in high blood pressure, heart disease and
> obesity."
>
> It's also paradoxical, isn't it, that the longest-lived people on
> earth are the rice-eating Okinawans.
>
> > If 95% of Americans die of Auto-immune disorders caused by eating grains
and
> > other technology-dependent foods, I think it's safe to assume that they
are
> > safe only for those who are about to die from auto accidents or
contagious
> > diseases.
>
> I don't think it has yet been demonstrated that cancer and heart
> disease are autoimmune diseases, although of course it's
> possible.
>
> Todd Moody
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