One comment on dietary gurus who die of causes their diet is supposed to prevent: my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer eleven years after he quit smoking. Eventual abstinence could not undo the damage already done, and I suspect the same may be true of diet.
Andrea
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:25:05 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Stone Age Humans Liked Their Burgers On A Bun--New Scientist article link
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> It always amazes me when dietary figureheads die, sometimes eating their last
> words. Remember when Nathan Pritikin died? And then there was the passing
> of Atkins. Well, okay, the headline said he slipped on NYC sidewalk........
> I'll never forget when my macrobiotic dietary guru at the time had to explain to
> his followers why his wife, and daughter died within a year of each other of
> cancer. How could this be, we wondered? Didn't they eat this great diet to a
> tee? ANd wait a minute... we were eating this diet too!!! We were even told
> by our teachers that if we ate macrobiotically, it would be a " Like a State
> Farm Umbrella" - a life insurance policy so to speak, over our heads as far as
> cancer was concerned. And that macrobiotics was the best kept million dollar
> secret. The 'school/institute' he founded, and which I attend, tried to keep
> the family deaths a secret for as long as possible so as not to dissuade us
> from re-registering for another semester. And this guy actually made it into
> the Smithsonian Institute for his contribution to promoting a grain based diet
> that led to the revised food pyramid. I'll be polite and not mention names.
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> Yes, mortality is 100%. Common sense, well, that waivers. That's why I hope
> that one day, Audette makes as much royalty from Neanderthin as Ornish has
> reaped. Never give away the power to reason, or any power for that
> matter....just continue to develop good instinct and hope for the best.
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> Best,
> Batsheva
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> From: Jim Swayze
> Forgive me for seeming flippant. It is not my intention at all. But seeing how
> the mortality rate remains at 100 percent, it seems to me the diet is always and
> forever a tradeoff.
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> I believe the ultimate human diet is one that is high fat, moderate protein, and
> very low carbohydrate for most of the year. It of course avoids all Neolithic
> foods and might healthfully involve limited low glycemic, high fiber
> carbohydrates in season.
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> Vary from that at your own risk.
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