Have a salad instead of a steak. Eat 3-5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Eat 6-11 servings of grains per day. Make sure to get plenty of fiber in your diet. Wear your sunscreen and try to stay out of the sun. Replace butter with vegetable oils. Do lots of cardiovascular exercise. Sterilize everything. Don’t eat undercooked meats. Eat as little as possible. Eat only lean meats, if you eat any meat at all. Take your vitamins. Eat the whites but not the yolk. Drink your skim milk. Get your daily soy protein.
As I reviewed many of these common recommendations that the mainstream health authorities suggest, it became clear what the vision of this site would become – a 180 to our standard health advice. Under close scrutiny from either a historical, a scientific, or a logical perspective – few of these recommendations are useful. Many are completely wrong, foolish, and dangerous if followed by a person seeking to improve his or her health. They are based, not upon understanding or fact, but on weak correlations, misinterpretations of science, and outdated assumptions.
The number 180 also implies going in the other direction, and what could be more appropriate than doing exactly that – seeing that virtually every known illness is increasing at a rapid rate?
Diabetes up 50% from 1990 to 1998 in the U.S.
Chances of Autism have gone from 1 in 10,000 to less than 1 in 100 in some parts of Great Britain – a trend that’s being witnessed worldwide.
Asthma, allergies, autoimmune disease, cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, depression, mental retardation, tooth decay and crooked teeth, infectious disease – all are seeing dramatic and unanticipated increases across the globe.
And of course obesity. No one could have predicted how big of an epidemic it has become – and its prevalence is accelerating greater than ever.
But there is hope. There are answers that produce results in ways that the standard advice and normal courses of treatment simply can’t.
The time has come for drastic revisions in the way we define a healthy diet, a healthy lifestyle, and human health in general. It is time to open up to new strategies, new ideas, and new understanding. It is time to step in and replace the mistaken assumptions that have a foothold in the minds of everyone who has been educated about such things. It is time that the ‘alarming trends’ in mental, physical, and emotional health be halted and reversed.
It is time for a 180. Now. Will you join us?
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Why 180?
Okay, okay, I’m not one of those conspiracy theory guys. In fact, nothing is more tiring than a juicy rant about sticking it to the man. We’ve heard enough “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore” crusades. The last thing we need is yet another, but there are some important things to take into consideration when choosing my health information over others.
Why should you NOT listen to the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the FDA, and the like?
Because listening to health authorities with financial and political agendas is risky, and seeing how much worse human health has gotten since the dawn of the low-fat, low-calorie, eat more plants advice – it becomes absolutely foolish to do so.
It is simply too much of a coincidence that our government recommends eating 6-11 servings of grain per day, limiting meat consumption, eating only low fat dairy products, avoiding saturated fats, and eating more plant-based protein. All of these recommendations steer us away from the steer, and towards consuming the cheapest commodities grown in the world – wheat, soy, and corn.
The biggest dietary changes we’ve seen in the last few decades, which patterned some of the most dramatic epidemics in history (namely obesity, asthma/allergies, type II diabetes, mental/behavioral disorders, and Autism), are the increased consumption of soy and corn oil, and the increased consumption of sweeteners such as crystalline fructose and high-fructose corn syrup.
Of course, these food substances are the cheapest calories that can be produced, providing maximal profit margins for the food industry, agricultural behemoths like Monsanto, and the politicians they support.
Hey, don’t get me wrong. It’s a system that has made America the most powerful nation in the world, and I count my lucky stars that I was born there. However, there are some drawbacks, and one is that the information given on healthy nutrition and lifestyle is in complete odds with what we knew about health at the start of the agricultural and food-processing revolution.
Of course the medical industry is not immune to these same profit motives, and the financially-elite in that sector control funding for research, university grants, advertising and more – insuring that their agendas are perpetuated. It’s a triangle that pollutes and eclipses the accurate information and real science on human health and physical function.
Then there’s the diet industry. I could go off on that for a few days. They’ve created a national eating disorder, and their profits are staggering. Dieters enter the eat less/exercise more vicious cycle and don’t know how to break free from the battle – even though the solution is not that difficult or complicated at all.
Basically, it’s time for health information that makes sense and comes from a trustworthy source. I have no reason to be untrustworthy. I’m never going to peddle supplements or addictive, sweet, junk foods disguised as health elixirs. Just information – provided as clearly, accurately, and entertainingly as possible.
That’s “why 180.” Because you won’t find information coming from someone trying to find answers and solve problems elsewhere. Most are too busy defending the gaping holes in their conclusions and inadequacies in their programs to spend time putting pieces of the great puzzle together. Either that or they are defending advertising sponsors, outdated assumptions, or something else that hinders their ability to deliver the wisdom and advice you need.
The bottom line is that those who follow my work, reinvent how they look at health, and incorporate subtle changes into their lives will notice dramatic improvements in how they look, feel, and function. The only questions are:
Can you let go? Can you take that leap of faith? Are you ready to witness first hand how silly mainstream health dogma really is? Do you want to understand health better than 99% of the people in the world? Do you want to have a sustainable, healthy lifestyle?
A Few 180 Degree Opposites
Eat more, exercise less
To heal the underlying disorder that leads to excess fat accumulation and related complications, which are essentially created by a mismatch between metabolic rate and appetite/hunger, it requires ample food intake and the avoidance of excessive physical exercise. Hunger and excessive exercise both raise systemic and cellular levels of the hormone cortisol while lowering active circulating thyroid hormones, the predominant root causes of the fat accumulation phenomenon – as well as the full spectrum of illness.
T.L. “Peter” Cleave said it best, in his 1974 breakthrough book, The Saccharine Disease, when he stated that:
“…the countering of excess consumption, arising from the eating of refined carbohydrates by the taking of unwanted exercise is considered a perfect example of two wrongs not making a right, even though the extra exercise is well known to reduce the consequences of such overconsumption.”
Saturated fat is the healthiest type of fat
Saturated fat, because of its chemical structure, is least likely to do free radical damage inside the body, and it simultaneously provides a higher level of satiety and metabolic stimulation – especially when the type of saturated fats are short chain saturated fats. The belief that saturated fat is harmful is based on a painfully outdated and erroneous risk profile for heart disease – total serum cholesterol levels. Saturated fat consumption has never been shown to cause heart disease or any other degenerative condition. By raising two types of beneficial cholesterol, saturated fat is actually favorable to overall cholesterol profiles. Not that your cholesterol levels mean all that much. As an indicator of heart disease risk, it is pitiful in comparison to diagnostic tests as simple as waist circumference, blood pressure, and basal body temperature.
For treating obesity, the best diet is a high calorie diet
Obesity is not the cause of poor health, but the result. Reviewing all the literature, it seems that the problem is not eating too much and exercising too little, but having a constellation of health problems typical of starvation – such as reduced body temperature, increased fat storage, reduced fat burning, increased appetite, and decreased energy. This is most likely due to resistance to the hormone leptin, which is in command of all these actions in the body. Eating plenty of food, while removing the primary triggers of leptin resistance - stress, dieting, inflammation, and polyunsaturated fat is the best strategy to begin combatting the root problem.
Saturated fat is the best fat for reducing heart disease risk
Heart disease is caused, at the core, by inflammation. Replacing polyunsaturated fat in the diet with as much monounsaturated and saturated fat as possible lowers inflammation on many fronts – reduced omega 6 levels in body tissue and reduced oxidation from heat-sensitive polyunsaturated fats being the primary two reasons. In fact, going low enough in polyunsaturated fat, both omega 6 and omega 3, causes a replacement fatty acid called Mead Acid to be produced, which causes the body to respond to threats such as pathogens, allergens, or oxidative stress (the triggers of artery-damaging inflammation) with far less inflammatory collateral damage.
Carbohydrates are Good for Type 2 Diabetics
For a type 2 diabetic, the first approach should be eating to appetite or beyond appetite with plenty of high-glycemic, unrefined carbohydrates in the diet.
Many cases of Type 2 diabetes are caused by insulin resistance. Most think that insulin resistance is a result of spiking insulin levels again and again with high-glycemic carbohdyrates to the point where cells become resistant to insulin. This theory is completely wrong. In fact, high-carbohydrate diets are the most effective diets for dropping insulin and blood sugar levels in a short amount of time. Eating beyond appetite of a whole foods diet in particular can cause a huge drop in insulin resistance and drop blood sugar and fasting insulin levels in type 2′s that still produce sufficient insulin.
Spend more time in the sun, without sunscreen
Sunlight doesn’t cause skin cancer – an unhealthy state within the body that causes skin to be unable to protect itself causes skin cancer, and spending time in the sun without sunscreen, allowing natural vitamin D synthesis, decreases the chances of virtually every other health condition. Vitamin D is the most important and deficient vitamin in modern man. Sunscreen also has never been able to effectively prevent skin cancer, and its widespread use, along with increased awareness of skin cancer and ultraviolet rays, has paralleled a massive increase in the disease.
Heredity has much to do with our health problems, but has absolutely nothing to do with genes
Genes are thought of as set in stone, something we are stuck with, that have been passed down for generations and will continue down the line – our lot in life. What we inherit has much more to do with the cumulative effects of the lifestyle and environment of prior generations than actual genetic material and can be drastically modified. In other words, everyone in your family may be fat, have crooked teeth, and be diabetic – proof of inherited tendencies, but can be completely overturned because it is not a result of genetic programming.
Germs do not cause disease, poor health does
The best way to prevent acute and systemic infection is not to avoid pathogens, but to eat a very nutritious diet free of processed foods, and eat and live in a way that maximizes the stability of body chemistry. This includes going to sleep at regular times, getting plenty of sleep, not overexerting yourself, keeping stress to reasonable levels, staying well-hydrated, and largely avoiding caffeine, alcohol, sugars, and other immune-suppressors. In fact, good sanitation is more closely linked with the propensity to develop illness than is poor sanitation. It is more likely that the greater the number of germs you are exposed to while in a healthy, balanced state, the healthier and stronger your immune system will be.
To discover how these seemingly-shocking proclamations are absolutely true, thus using that understanding to improve your own health, be sure to take some time to thoroughly explore www.180degreehealth.com
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