On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Gawen Harrison wrote:
> Can you eat broccoli, kale or lettuce? I will try and find a copy of the book.
No, strangely enough.
Here's a quotation:
Recent discoveries, repeatedly substantiated by clinical
observation, show clearly that pyruvic acid in the blood
is responsible for obesity. It prevents the utilization
of fatty acids and blood sugar, and causes them to be
stored as excess tissue.
Pyruvic acid is formed from the oxidation of carbohydrate
foods,i.e., sugar foods -- foods that are grown from the
soil. Pyruvic acid derived from these carbohydrates
forms in the blood, inhibits the oxidation of fatty
acids, and causes fat to be deposited. Additionally,
pyruvic acid in the blood enhances the formation of fat
from blood sugar.
Overweight people have high pyruvic acid blood levels
derived from carbohydrate metabolism and are very
sensitive to the acid's effects on blood gat and sugar.
...
Said simply, all that is needed to reduce overweight
people and bring them to a normal weight with 12 percent
body fat is to remove pyruvic acid-forming carbohydrate
foods from the diet. [p. 29]
Here is a quotation from the Questions and Answers section:
Q: Why can't I substitute cottage cheese for meat, or
strawberries for blueberries, or beans for potatoes?
A: The answer is simple -- because it won't work. Try it
and see. The carbohydrate foods selected in this diet
are low fat formers. Other carbohydrates, such as those
used in the "Air Force" or "Drinking Man's" diets, may
produce large quantities of pyruvic acid, which causes
fat to be stored and deposited.
Of course, this doesn't really explain anything. It certainly
doesn't explain why eggs are forbidden, for example, except on
the maintenance diet.
Incidentally, I've done a bit of Medline browsing on pyruvate and
obesity, and there is indeed some interesting material, although
I don't find anything that looks like pyruvate *causes* obesity.
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