I love middle eastern food. It's not that hard to make hummus if you have a vitamix - chick peas, lemon juice, garlic, enough water to make it creamy.
Never made baba ghanoush but found a vegan recipe, looks pretty easy. The olive oil is a garnish, could leave it out, you'd never notice.
How bad could oily foods be? Here's a few things to think about. Why do many vegan docs and researchers call for SOS free foods? (No sugar, oil, or salt).
In practice it's close to impossible to eliminate all refined fats and carbs (oil and sugar) unless you NEVER go to a restaurant. Who does that? Not me. But it's GOOD to know how much is in your (hopefully better) choices.
SOS free vegans and Paleo's are achieving the same goal - elimination of insulin resistance, the condition that is at the root of diet induced diseases.
A high fat diet causes insulin resistance when high calorie carbs are eaten. Paleo can eat all the kale (greens) they want, calories on a bulk basis are very low, and nutrition to calorie ratio is very high. If you only ate kale how much would it take to get enough calories to maintain health? More than your stomach will hold.
On the other hand a WFPB diet (high in WHOLE FOOD CARBS, which are good for us) causes insulin resistance when fats are eaten (all fats are high in calories on a bulk basis). On a completely empty stomach how much oil would it take to get the calories you need in a day? 20 tablespoons of oil is 2000 calories. Here's what 500 cals looks like in the stomach
So both WFPB vegan and paleo are primarily preventing insulin resistance. You have to get into the weeds a little to explain the biomechanical reasons for insulin resistance:
What is generally unappreciated is all whole foods have all three macros, fat, carbs, and proteins, in varying proportions. What is also not generally appreciated is our bodies are adapted to the conditions of 100,000 years ago, and significant evolutionary anatomical/biological changes in mammals (including humans) takes about 100,000 years. So when we eat concentrated (refined food) calories (table sugar and oil) it throws our system off. We can tolerate moderate amounts of it, but we are designed for whole foods.
What is dessert? Sugar and fat with a flavor or two added (chocolate raspberry ice cream anyone?). Fat gives density, sugar makes it addictive, flavor makes it "a thing". It's not complicated.
Humans can burn two types of fuel, carbs and fat. We are adapted to both of them. Whole food paleo and whole food vegan are both way better than SAD. Which is better? The science is kept very blurry on this question to protect big established industries that developed world economies depend on for revenue. Which is a big part of the reason so many people are sick with chronic diseases.
Pretty ironic that the health of the economy depends on the sickness of the population. We're fucked coming and going. First we are sold addictive foods that cause diseases, and then "health care" makes another few trillion a year managing (not reversing!) those conditions.
Big P will never be able to reverse those conditions! Why? OK, here, eat these toxins every day, and we'll come up with expensive chemical cocktails to take care of that. Toxins on top of toxins is NOT the cause of health!
Not that there are no benefit to drugs, if you have malaria you want quinine and antibiotics. But at least 80% of what BigP is peddling these days is bullshit. Over the hill and around the bend, so far from reality we can't even see them anymore. Modern day snake oil salesmen. Yep, BigP hates the whole food movement. And BigP is BIG.
How bad is this problem of a healthy economy depending on a sick population? Self evident really, but let's compare it to that other "evil" industry, big oil. Fossil fuels are fucking up the biosphere, but at least we need them for our advanced technological lifestyle. In 200 years we've gone from relatively primitive to highly advanced technological societies. Ever stop to think what a miracle it is that almost everyone in the developed world has a frickin car?
Here's a short digression on the very very recent and rapid development of technology from an unpublished blog on the difference between evolution and progress. These very different concepts are massively conflated in the modern world, and that leads to all kinds of stupid and destructive assumptions. I've not published it because it needs editing and trimming, and haven't gotten around to it yet. Sneak peek preview:
https://davewavehealthway.
Can we do better? Always, right to the end.
No comments:
Post a Comment