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[native-nutrition] Re: carbs, insulin, and alzheimers

--- In native-nutrition@yahoogroups.com, "Wanita Sears"
<wanitawa@b...> wrote:

I've seen this E4 link to Alzheimer's in Genetic Nutritioneering
by Jeffrey
Bland from the Human Genome Project. Interesting, they're now
seeing this
rare in the agriculturally adapted,who can eat a higher carb diet
and
metabolically handle it better.
Who do they say are "agriculturally adapted"?
Bland does look at toxins produced by molds
and fungis, found on sugar and grains mostly that poison
mitochodria and
brain aptopsis like infective diabetes theory.
I've heard of Kaufmann's book "Infectious Diabetes". Is that the
same thing?
Looks like another SAD
induced disease that shows who the hunter gatherers are in the
population.
Worked for a lady with Alzheimer's who was getting carb filled
Meals on
Wheels because of her AD progression. The cans of fatty fish in her
cupboards told me what she liked to eat.

Wanita
I have seen 2 articles from New Zealand that said that vegetable oil
(I'm sure they mean industrially processed vegetable oil--IPVO) was
the
root cause of AD.

From reading those abtracts, it makes me wonder if a person who uses
IPVO shouldn't eat refined starch/sugar.

And if they are going to eat refined starch, they shouldn't use
IPVO. They should use real butter and other natural fats and oils.

I'm wondering if the folks on the Middle East (where wheat
cultivation originated) aren't able to get away with eating it
because they traditionally don't eat IPVO, and they do traditionally
eat plenty of kefir and yogurt. And they get lots of sun...sort
of...within limits, I guess. And vitamin D is antifungal and
anticancer.

I'm not convinced that genetics are the be-all and end-all of these
situations. I think it's more that the genes get expressed in
different ways based on the diet and environment. And whether you
have compensating factors in the mix.

Saying we are destined to express some certain disease simply because
someone says we have (or don't have) some certain gene bothers me. I
doubt that we can say with 100% certainty that a person with "the
gene for breast cancer" will always get it.

From what I can tell, lots of the women who are now being diagnosed
with breast cancer do *not* have it in their family line. Same thing
with heart disease. The increased incidence of it cannot be solely
based on genetics...there hasn't been enough time passed to say that
all the descendants of heart attack victims have also experienced
heart attacks.

I (and most of us on this list?) believe that our diet and reliance
on factory food has done more to damage our health--along with
vaccinations and other environmental poisons--than you could ever
attribute to genetics.

I think that a lot of things that are attributed to genetics are
simply coming into play because families tend to eat the same food.

OK. Coming down off my soapbox. Thank you for your kind attention
and indulgence.

:-)

Laura




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