tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077581113560956106.post7779780107335588388..comments2023-09-15T04:36:40.385-07:00Comments on Health News Report: Jon's Health Tips - Latest Health ResearchJonathan Kantrowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13919729222396777240noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9077581113560956106.post-55779547265421089192010-09-17T06:55:19.508-07:002010-09-17T06:55:19.508-07:00Claudio Fratarcangeli wrote:
I agree with the arg...Claudio Fratarcangeli wrote:<br /><br />I agree with the argument that says effects of a dietary modification are the key because the cause of the benefit is not known in most cases.<br /> <br />If one only acted on a recommendation for which the cause is known, then one would not act on anything.<br /> <br />Like your friend I do remain a skeptic of articles that promote vegetarian diets or the benefit of whole grains. As I have said before, we are the only animals on earth that eat cooked food. If nature intended us to eat grains, we would be able to digest it uncooked. There are plenty of reasons to believe that the cooking process could in fact make the food unhealthy. The extreme is barbecued food that produces carcinogens.<br /> <br />We evolved eating raw meat, fruits, and some easily digested vegetables and nuts. Mother nature is pretty efficient.<br /> <br />Such studies tend to be incomplete because they assume that there is no association between one particular diet behavior and others.<br />People who tend to eat a lot of whole grains also tend to eat healthier in general. For example, they avoid refined carbs and sugar. Therefore, it is not accurate to assume that the benefit<br />was due to eating whole grains. It could have been due to not eating refined carbs and sugar. These studies then sometimes conclude that<br />diets high in red meat and fat are bad for you. Again they don't differentiate between natural or grass feed red meat and processed red meatand they don't search for a correlation between high meat consumption and high refined carb consumption.<br /> <br />A recent article came out showing that a diet high in red meat and low in processed meat did not add any additional cardiovascular risk.<br /> <br />However, a diet high in processed meat did.Jonathan Kantrowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13919729222396777240noreply@blogger.com