I'll just stick with the liver, kidney, and brains.  Delicious and
nutritious.

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: low-carb fever


> --- Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > >The evidence is pretty substantial that insulin
> > levels have more to do
> > >with health and longevity than any other factors
> > (other than, of
> > >course, avoiding short-term poisons like arsenic).
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I really agree with this.  When we look at plant
> > foods we soon realize
> > that just about all of them have something or other
> > that could be
> > regarded as an antinutrient or a toxin, and
> > virtually all have lectins
> > (these things referred to collectively as "secondary
> > compounds").  The
> > difference between what is edible and what isn't
> > lies in the
> > concentrations of these things.  And the whole point
> > of the various food
> > preparation methods that humans have developed over
> > untold milennia is
> > to make the inedible edible by reducing the
> > concentrations of secondary
> > compounds in "inedible" foods to levels comparable
> > to those of "edible"
> > foods.  These are the levels at which we are
> > apparently equipped to deal
> > with these secondary compounds.
> >
> > What we are not equipped to deal with, many of us
> > anyway, is the
> > relentless hammering of our metabolisms with large
> > quantities of
> > carbohydrate, and the resultant insulin resistance
> > and chronically
> > elevated insulin levels.
>
> Avoiding elevated insulin is a good first step, but us
> moderns are not consuming quantities of brains,
> kinneys, livers, etc, that supply extraordinary high
> levels of vitamins and minerals, and other compounds
> which are not found in muscle meats.  It appears that
> our options are to either eat the organs of plant
> eating herbivores, or consume plant foods and deal
> with the secondary compounds, lectins, etc..
>
> It's too easy to say, I eat low carb and control my
> insulin, therefore I'm healthy.  Unfortunately, we
> live in a very toxic world and need nutrients from
> plants, via organ meats or the plants themselves, in
> order to avoid the big C, cancer. I do agree that
> insulin will control heart disease and diabetes, and
> probably more, but, that doesn't you do you much good
> if you get a brain tumor.
>
> I guess the best option is to eat low carb, consume
> plenty of low starch greens, and hope that the
> antinutrients don't get you.  Either that or switch
> from steak to liver, kidneys, and brains.  I
> personally would rather stick with the greens.
>
> Mark
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