Cholesterol is finally officially removed from Naughty List

See article below on cholesterol being removed from the list of substances harmful to the human body. The article makes for interesting reading. While it exposes one set of things that have been happening for the last so many years as a hoax; the ground is already being laid for another set of things to be perpetrated, all in the name of health.

I don't place much credence on the 'research' that has proved that saturated fats are not bad for health; just as I did not, when there was research conclusively proving that it is bad for health. This kind of research is not anyway useful; the entire body of 'research' on food and health that goes under the name of 'modern' is suspect.

Ayurveda has categorically stated that 'ghee or butter' is good, ages back. It was even recommended to give small amounts of butter to infants to aid in their brain development. Cooking in ghee or butter was advocated.

That brings us to the next topic: sugar and refined starches. They are saying these two are bad; so how is the industry going to react now? Not in any obvious way we would think is right, like telling people to go back to basic cooking and eating unprocessed foods - no, no, that way industry would die! And all industries like to perpetuate themselves; never mind what the cost is, in this case, the health of the whole planet.

What industry will do is to come out with 'findings' that artificial sweeteners are good for health; they want people to be continued to addicted to the taste of sugar, so this is the next obvious step. A lot of chemicals will get pushed into processed food (there are many already; this is now in the name of replacing sugar) in the form of alternatives to sugar. The attendant benefit of course will be 'low calorie' substitute! The unsaid assumption that will be left after all the advertising in people's minds will be 'sweet is good, maybe sugar is not; chemical substitutes are ok; zero calorie is good'. All of which assumptions are wrong. 

Watch already how many people reach out for their 'Diet Coke', which if anything, is likely to be more harmful than actual coke, which itself is a product that puzzles me a lot - carbonated drinks have no benefit whatsoever that I can think of, they are just coloured water with harmful carbon-dioxide and even more harmful chemicals added into them.

So we will now have 'diet pizzas', 'diet pedhas', 'diet breakfast cereals', etc. etc., the list is going to be long. 

What about refined starch being bad for health? It is bad for health, of course, but it will be interesting to see how the food industry is going to react to this. They will first refine all the stuff to nothing (which they have to ,of course), then 'add' "roughage" in the form of "macro and micro nutrients" packaged with 'organic roughage', etc. etc. and advertise all of that as good, which the power of advertising will ensure becomes accepted truth as 'good for health'. The food industry specialises in destroying something totally (e.g. removing the wheatgerm from the wheat, removing the roughage from it, adding chemicals to bleach it, preserve it, etc. to make atta) and then adding useless stuff later (which anyway is difficult for the body to assimilate) like 'added iron, vitamins, minerals' and calling it "Voila! Fortified Atta! Good for you and your family!!"  This is going to happen to more and more products now.

The sad part is, the answer is actually very simple. Buy your own wheat, preferably wholewheat, go the chakki and get it powdered, do not sieve the powder too fine, and use that for making the other stuff, all made at home of course. Avoid sugar to the extent possible. The amount you put in your coffee or tea is fine; the sweets should be restricted to festive occasions. Use ghee, and oils like til oil, coconut oil, and mustard oil, in your cooking, which you preferably buy cold-pressed. 

Do not buy any ready to cook, or ready to eat, or packaged food from the stores. They are likely to contain lots of fat, and of the wrong kind; lots of sugar, and of the wrong kind; and lots of salt, and of the wrong kind.

Talking of the right kind of sugar, try substituting sugar with jaggery/gud as much as possible; and banish table salt / processed salt (with or without the rubbish iodine added) from your house and buy unprocessed sea salt or rock salt for all your needs.

And stay away from whatever conclusions these 'researches' will arrive at next; they are only going to find new ways of justifying Processed Food made in Factories, all in the name of science!

And yes, those who are on statins, that life-long medication that purportedly reduces cholesterol, stop right away. It has no benefit what-so-ever, only a lot of harmful side effects. 

Dinesh

(the article I referred to is appended below)

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and I do not claim what I say is backed by any kind of 'accepted, proven, research'.  But if you google, you will find lot of sources of 'traditional wisdom' confirming what I say. You are responsible for your own health; do not hand over the decision-making to the doctors!

Cholesterol is finally officially removed from Naughty List

The US government has finally accepted that cholesterol is not a
'nutrient of concern', doing a U-turn on their warnings

In the meantime of 40 years US Drug Industry in connivance with Health
Department made over 1.5 trillion US Dollars by selling cholestrol
lowering drugs. This fear probably caused death of a million gulliable
citizen who believe the US drug industry.

comment by Nikki Barri

Cholesterol has been on the "naughty" list of nutrients for nearly 40
years, with health officials warning us to stay away from
high-cholesterol foods since the 1970s to avoid heart disease and
clogged arteries.

"Full-fat dairy products and advocados are high in good fats."

But US officials have finally given the green light for a U-turn on
previous warnings, which means eggs, butter, full-fat dairy products,
nuts, coconut oil and meat have now been classified as "safe" and have
been officially removed from the "nutrients of concern" list.

The US Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for updating
the guidelines every five years, stated in its findings for 2015:
"Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that
cholesterol intake be limited to no more than 300 mg/day.

"The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because
available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between
consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum (blood) cholesterol,
consistent with the AHA/ACC (American Heart Association / American
College of Cardiology) report.

"Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption."

"Eggs are no longer on the 'naughty list'. "

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will, in response, no longer
warn people against eating high-cholesterol foods and will instead
focus on sugar as the main substance of dietary concern.

The 70s, 80s and 90s were the 'non fat' years, with the government
warning people to limit the amount of high-cholersterol foods in their
diets to avoid heart disease and strokes.

But nutritionists and scientists have long been campaigning for the
U-turn, which started with introducing "good cholesterols" back into
the 'safe zone'.

US cardiologist Dr Steven Nissen said: "It's the right decision. We
got the dietary guidelines wrong. They've been wrong for decades."

He esitmated that about 20 per cent of cholesterol levels in your
blood come from your diet, which means the rest is produced by your
liver and is actually needed by the body.

Dr Chris Masterjohn added:"Since we cannot possibly eat enough
cholesterol to use for our bodies' daily functions, our bodies make
their own.

"When we eat more foods rich in this compound, our bodies make less.
If we deprive ourselves of foods high in cholesterol - such as eggs,
butter, and liver - our body revs up its cholesterol synthesis."

"Nuts were previously thought to contain too much cholesterol."

Sugar has now been identified as the "worst" food culprit for health
problems, with GPs now focusing on weaning patients off the sweet
stuff.

Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, who works with group Action On Sugar,
says a clamp-down on the food industry is next.

He said: "It's very clear that added sugar has absolutely no
nutritional value whatsoever and, contrary to what the food industry
want you to believe, the body doesn't require any carbohydrate for
energy from added sugar.

"And we know the food industry have been spiking our food with added
sugars. We also know that carbohydrates and particularly refined
carbohydrates - so carbohydrates that lack fibre, sugar being one of
them - have the biggest impact on insulin in terms of surges of
insulin in our body. And insulin is a fat storing hormone." So, in
summary, ditch your skinny latte for a full-fat latte and get some
avocados down you.

The Real Truth about Cholesterol

The majority of the cholesterol in you is produced by your liver. Your
brain is primarily made up from cholesterol. It is essential for
nerve cells to function. Cholesterol is the basis for the creation of
all the steroid hormones, including estrogen, testosterone, and
corticosteroids. High cholesterol in the body is a clear indication
which shows the liver of the individual is in good health.

Dr. George V. Mann M.D. associate director of the Framingham study for
the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its
risk factors states: "Saturated fats and cholesterol in the diet are
not the cause of coronary heart disease. That myth is the greatest
deception of the century, perhaps of any century"
Cholesterol is the biggest medical scam of all time.
There is no such thing as bad Cholesterol! Men of science have
abandoned truth for money. Attempting to control cholesterol is a
very, very dangerous practice that occurs in every hospital and
medical clinic daily.

By Ron Rosedale, MD
"Statin Drugs Actually Increase Heart Disease"

So you can stop trying to change your Cholesterol level. Studies prove
beyond a doubt, cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease and it won't
stop a heart attack. The majority of people that have heart attacks
have normal cholesterol levels.
THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL SCAM
By K.L. Carlson, MBA
Cholesterol guidelines have been created to increase pharmaceutical
profits, not to improve peoples' health. I know from my experience as
a pharmaceutical sales representative for a statin drug. We were
trained to emphasize to physicians the new lower LDL guidelines that
were ostensibly created by health experts. The truth is the majority
of the experts who created the lower guidelines have multiple
financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. One expert was found to
have ties to ten drug firms

OUR BODY NEEDS 950 mg OF CHOLESTEROL FOR DAILY METABOLISM AND THE
LIVER IS THE MAIN PRODUCER.
ONLY 15% OF CHOLESTEROL IS BEING DONATED BY THE FOOD WE EAT. If the
fat content is less in our food we eat, our liver
Got to work more to maintain the level at 950 mg. If the cholesterol
level is high in our body, it shows the liver is working perfect.
Experts say that there is nothing like LDL or HDL.
…………..
….. Cholesterol is not found to create block any where in human body.
Why does it create block only in heart, where as calcium sediments
create
Block all over the body .. for example kidney, pancreas. Urinary
bladder, gall bladder etc etc

JNC VIII 2014 has also relaxed the BP target. Let live simple and
stress free... ( Forwarded as received)

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On Fasting and related matters

See below an article with 'scientific' proof of why fasting is good for the body. I usually don't forward 'scientific' proof kind of articles when it comes to food, because I don't believe in so-called science when it comes to food related matters.  The only reason I forward a 'science' backed article is to discredit other 'science' backed articles, which does not necessarily make this particular article true :-).  

The entire establishment is culpable in keeping the population unhealthy, and that includes the food industry, the pharma industry, regulators, 'nutritionists' (one of the fields where the more they learn the more you pity their state of knowledge, since they learn more and more of the wrong things!), and a lot of well intentioned people who don't know better.

So what are the information sources when it comes to things like this? Try Ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, Chinese Taoist rules, and the prescriptions of various religions on things like fasting (which has nothing to do with whether you believe in God or not).

So what are the rules when it comes to fasting and related matters? This is my list, based on my reading, from the above sources. I will any day stake my life on these sources rather than the modern food and pharma industry. BTW, I have been following most of these rules myself, and they seem to be working fine as far as I am concerned. 

The rules? A top of mind list follows:

1) Eat only when hungry. What is the definition of hungry? The previous meal should have been digested, i.e. moved out of the stomach into the small intestine. 

2) That brings us to the next question: how long does it take for food to digest? A rough guide (indicative only) is, say: fruits, which are the foods most attuned to the human body, take about half an hour to forty minutes to digest. A 'normal' well balanced traditional Indian meal (if you have not over-stuffed yourself) should take perhaps four to six hours. 'Tiffin' especially of the South Indian variety, perhaps two to four hours. Burgers loaded with cheese, etc. will take more than ten hours to digest.

3) What happens if you eat before the previous meal has exited the stomach? Let us say, you eat fruits immediately after a meal. The fruit gets digested fast, but has no way to exit the stomach, since the meal that is still getting digested is blocking it. Not having an exit route, it putrefies and ends up poisoning the entire system. So fruits should be eaten about an hour or more before meals, never after.

4) How much should you eat? Enough to fill half your stomach. Of the other half, one-fourth should be filled with water, and the other one-fourth with air, i.e. should be empty. 

5) What about calories? Counting calories is a harmful thing to do; don't even bother with that nonsense. 

6) What should be the main meal of the day? According to Ayurveda, the digestive fire is maximum at mid-day, so your main meal should be lunch. Breakfast, of course, can be had, but the most important rule is to keep your dinner light, very light. Eat very little in the evening, or not at all (if you can manage that), and eat it at least a couple of hours before you go to sleep. There should be no food in the stomach when you hit the bed.

There is an old saying that the person who eats once a day is a yogi, one who eats twice a day is a bhogi (fortunate person), and one who eats thrice a day is a rogi (a diseased person)!

This modern tendency of doctors advising people to eat every three or four hours is total rubbish. If it is justified on medical grounds, like say diabetes, I have nothing to say except that one should introspect on why one got a lifestyle disease like diabetes in the first place. It is sometimes also justified on the grounds that eating often keeps the metabolic rate high, thus preventing weight gain. That argument to me sounds worse than models justifying chain-smoking on the grounds that smoking kills the appetite thus enabling them to stay thin!

8) What about fasting? Fasting is good. It is good to fast once in a while. There are various ways to fast. You could start, for example, by undergoing a juice fast, where you have only liquids. Or you could just skip four meals in a row. Or whatever. When all you are required to do is not eat, how much theory do you need to support that? Come out of the fast gently, meaning don't visit pizza hut or McD's to break your fast - some juice or fruits or light khichdi as the first meal would make a lot of sense. 

All religions advocate fasting, and for good reason. The body gets the chance to divert its energies to throwing out accumulated waste from the cells, and generally clean itself up. If you keep stuffing yourself, when will you give the body a chance to do that?

The link to the article I mentioned is attached below:

 

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/12/11/neuroscientist-shows-what-fasting-does-to-your-brain-why-big-pharma-wont-study-it/

FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic

See article below on the FDA admitting that chickenfeed with arsenic is cancer causing. The moral of the story: don't eat arsenic laced food? Hardly.

The moral of the story, is: 

Don't believe whatever the FDA tells you. They certify chemicals as safe because it 'has not been proven' to kill, at least no proof can be obtained in the short run. They will reject stuff like fruit juices and make sale illegal because the sellers claim they are good for health! The FDA continues to oppose sale of raw milk - fact is, both pasteurisation and homogenisation are deadly harmful - it is better not to have milk than to have pasteurised or homogenised milk. 

Another fact is that they insist on feeding cows on animal waste, i.e. the waste products of other animals like viscera, etc. are mixed into animal feed for cows; all animals are raised in feedlots, not in natural meadows; the feed itself is laced with antibiotics since otherwise staying in those unnatural conditions result in all kinds of diseases. What they refuse to acknowledge is that: whatever is consumed by an animal is in some form later consumed by us, who feed on the animal. The reductionist theory of feed getting converted to protein, and then to animal flesh, hence there is no problem, misses out on one important fact: all food is transfer of energy (prana or chi) and this gets transferred further up the food chain.  And 'modern' science no doubt finds it acceptable to feed vegetarian animals, with animal waste - the reductionist theory of food science would in fact argue that it is good for their health!

In other words, eat only those animals that have been raised in natural surroundings ("free range", "grass fed", "wild ocean fish") and are fed their natural food (not 'animal feed', 'fish chow in fish farms').

The food industry and lobby will NOW pass some laws against arsenic in animal feed - but what about the hundred other things that are being fed to the animals now in the name of food. No doubt, we will have to wait for some research in future to prove that they are bad, in the meanwhile they will be substituted with something else.

The same problem exists with 'processed food' / food made in factories, by the way. All kinds of chemicals are added to them in order to ensure preservation, long shelf life, colour, texture, taste, easy microwavability, easy cold storage, easy packability, and for addiction (an excess of sugar, salt and fat). What do you do? Read the labels and try to figure out whether those foods are good for you? What will you know by looking at 'calories', 'fat percentage', and sundry other statistics? They are useless, worse, they are misleading. 

Avoid all processed food. Whatever processing you do at home is ok, eating in a local restaurant that cooks fresh food is fine, but any food from food factories should be avoided. That includes things like pasteurised milk, biscuits (that are not made home - btw, try making biscuits at home, they are delicious), breakfast cereals, cool drinks, fruit juices in tetrapacks, ready-to-eat foods, and in short, ,most things that make up your grocery basket today. 

Buy only things which grow. Preferably organically grown. Process them yourself, and this includes things like buying whole grain and getting it ground at your local 'chakki'. Pay special attention to salt (buy only non-processed 'sea salt' (kallu uppu in tamil) or rock salt, not table salt), oil (only cold pressed), and sugar (minimise consumption as much as possible).

Eat only things that spoil (and hence have no shelf life, and hence cannot be ready to eat, 'in packets') but eat them before they spoil.

Cook things at home, or get food delivered from a local 'auntieji' who cooks at her home; or eat in a restaurant which is forced to cook everyday (darshinis or udupi hotels are better than five star hotels, for obvious reasons) since they lack any cold storage facilities.

Eat things within hours of cooking, and definitely do not keep cooked food overnight, whether in the fridge or otherwise.

With that message (which I never tire of repeating) let me wish you a Happy New Year - may this year be free of processed food (to the extent possible) and all other sundry poisons!

(Article attached)

Dinesh Gopalan

mob: 9845257313; blog: http://www.dineshgopalan.com

FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic 

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After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes from: It's added to the chicken feed on purpose! Even worse, the FDA says its own research shows that the arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been swallowing arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical. (http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/...) Until this new study, both the poultry industry and the FDA denied that arsenic fed to chickensended up in their meat. The fairy-tale excuse story we've all been fed for sixty years is that "the arsenic is excreted in the chicken feces." There's no scientific basis for making such a claim… it's just what the poultry industry wanted everybody to believe. But now the evidence is so undeniable that the manufacturer of the chicken feed product known as Roxarsone has decided to pull the product off the shelves (http://www.grist.org/food-safety/20…). And what's the name of this manufacturer that has been putting arsenic in the chicken feed for all these years? Pfizer, of course — the very same company that makes vaccines containing chemical adjuvants that are injected into children. Technically, the company making the Roxarsone chicken feed is a subsidiary of Pfizer, called Alpharma LLC. Even though Alpharma now has agreed to pull this toxic feed chemical off the shelves in the United States, it says it won't necessarily remove it from feed products in other countries unless it is forced by regulators to do so. As reported by AP: "Scott Brown of Pfizer Animal Health's Veterinary Medicine Research and Development division said the company also sells the ingredient in about a dozen other countries. He said Pfizer is reaching out to regulatory authorities in those countries and will decide whether to sell it on an individual basis." (http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus…) But even as its arsenic-containing product is pulled off the shelves, the FDA continues its campaign of denial, claiming arsenic in chickens is at such a low level that it's still safe to eat. This is even as the FDA says arsenic is a carcinogen, meaning it increases the risk of cancer. The National Chicken Councilagrees with the FDA. In a statement issued in response to the news that Roxarsone would be pulled from feed store shelves, it stated, "Chicken is safe to eat" even while admitting arsenic was used in many flocks grown and sold as chicken meat in the United States. What's astonishing about all this is that the FDA tells consumers it's safe to eat cancer-causing arsenic but it's dangerous to drink elderberry juice! The FDA recently conducted an armed raid in an elderberry juice manufacturer, accusing it of the "crime" of selling "unapproved drugs." (http://www.naturalnews.com/032…) Which drugs would those be? The elderberry juice, explains the FDA. You see, the elderberry juice magically becomes a "drugs" if you tell people how it can help support good health. The FDA has also gone after dozens of other companies for selling natural herbal products or nutritional products that enhance and support health. Plus, it's waging a war on raw milk which it says is dangerous. So now in America, we have a food and drug regulatory agency that says it's okay to eat arsenic, but dangerous to drink elderberry juice or raw milk. Eat more poison, in other words, but don't consume any healing foods. That's the FDA, killing off Americans one meal at a time while protecting the profits of the very companies that are poisoning us with their deadly ingredients. Oh, by the way, here's another sweet little disturbing fact you probably didn't know about hamburgers and conventional beef: Chicken litter containing arsenic is fed to cows in factory beef operations. So the arsenic that's pooped out by the chickens gets consumed and concentrated in the tissues of cows, which is then ground into hamburger to be consumed by the clueless masses who don't even know they're eating second-hand chicken crap. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027414_c…)... Read More: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/08/fda-finally-admits-chicken-meat-contains-cancer-causing-arsenic.html

Kejriwal!

Some people are born to protest;

Rant and rail, at perceived injustice!

The holier-than-thou are thin-skinned;

At sligtest pretext, they bristle!

They set out to change the world - 

The System is always corrupt!

Starving, deprived furious martyrs,

With passionate belief in their right!

The underdog is at his best

Fuming at an unjust System.

The chips are wedged deep in his shoulder.

He will never get rid of them!

That castle does best which does not fight,

As he dashes against its thick walls;

But allows him entry inside,

And, as King, has him installed!

They then plot to undermine his rule.

One person, System does not make.

The very persons he fought against

Are needed to lend the throne its strength!

No king can be an idealist;

Politics is not a much liked word.

He will be cause of his own downfall,

Or, join the shadows he could not fight!

He who cannot show two faces,

One inside and one to the world,

Is not fit to be king, or to rule:

That's a different kind of psychopath!

Kejriwal will go down fighting

In a blaze of his own glory.

They'll needle him to burn himself out,

And he will, lighting his own pyre!

Cow in the Paddock

Free to graze, in verdant pastures;

Free to move in sunny vales;

Free to rest in shady bowers;

Alone, or with others of my kind!

Meeting, with those who might wish to,

By the side of flowing brooks.

Happy to greet the Farmer who comes,

To collect his bounty of my milk!

Those were the days, now long gone.

Now I'm confined to the paddocks,

With a million other cows, bound,

To, I'm told, Freedom, within walls!

No brooks, No fields, No sunny vales.

No meeting, a chance encounter.

I'm shown Visions of open spaces,

Doing my Mission that's my work!

The mission is to produce the most;

More than other cows in their paddocks.

There are boards, keeping count, shouting loud.

One who bleeds the most, gets the reward!

Once a year, I get to escape,

To the vast, green, open pastures,

Bringing back memories of the days,

When we were happy in verdant bowers!

All the other cows in the land,

Are now similarly confined.

In return for verdant greens, and air,

They're fed, and told: This is what is Freedom!