[native-nutrition] Re: carbs, insulin, and alzheimers
- Subject: Re: carbs, insulin, and alzheimers
- From: "Wanita Sears" <wanitawa@...>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:56:42 -0400
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Laura,
Who do they say are "agriculturally adapted"?
People that don't have the E4 allele to Alzheimer's, from study.
"Meta-analysis of
allele frequencies has found that E4 is rare in populations with long
historical exposure to agriculture, suggesting that consumption of a
high carbohydrate (HC) diet may have selected against E4 carriers."
I've heard of Kaufmann's book "Infectious Diabetes". Is that the
same thing?
Yes
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.
Man who wrote this article http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/DiabetesDeception.html
cured his diabetes getting rid of IPVO and balancing omega 3's and 6's.
From reading those abtracts, it makes me wonder if a person who uses
IPVO shouldn't eat refined starch/sugar.
IPVO and refined sugar/starch isn't good for anyone. More likely to cause the most health issues in the populations and individuals with the least agriculture in their ancestry. New Zealand is likely facing the same health degeneration with the Maori Australia is with Aborigines, U.S. Native Americans and Northern European immigrant ancestries. It's worse than jam and bread WAP found.
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.
Unfortunately, those most at risk, not fitting SAD diet around the world, can be those with the least resources to do differently.
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.
Don't think they will if they know how to take care of themself correctly. Bland in Genetic Nutritioneering says 70% of our genes can change expression. They're looking at diet to genes. Think he's off base considering soy at all, newer to this country's population than grains and dairy. It's known that 30-50% of people will be adversely affected by any pharmaceutical so the research will likely go where the money is to make more individual friendly pharmaceuticals rather than to finding foods appropriate to genes to prevent disease.
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.
High carb diet is seen as selecting against the E4 allele and is expressed as Alzheimer's.
See I do agree like you that life choices and exposures are more important than genetics.
Hey, they're getting beyond blame it on the genes and actually seeing something other
than SAD or low fat. That high carb isn't good for everyone.
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.
Not everyone in a family can be healthy on the same diet. Some thrive,some limp along, others wither.
OK. Coming down off my soapbox. Thank you for your kind attentionand indulgence
Hope this helped some.
Wanita
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