Re: Sanitarium "One Square Meal"
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GPSGuided wrote:Son of a Beach wrote:This is undeniably true. However, it is also grossly simplistic, and not of much value in isolation.
Some high calorie sources (in particular sucrose, which is half fructose) seriously messes with human metabolism in a number of dangerous ways...
The best medical treatment always adheres to the KISS principle. In this, why make it so complicated when simpler will do? Why are people taking "high calorie" sources when a simple balanced diet is the recommendation? Why bother with the various fancy explanation, excuses and diets when the removal of said calorie source should be removed? It's just illogical to go to all those fancy and often commercially expensive solutions when a far simpler solution is at hand? Think about it and get rid of all the media and commercial spins! There are no "fatties" during an African famine. If the will is there, getting the weight down is but natural.
That's exactly right. Simple is best. However, a simple diet in our culture is simply not simple to achieve.
Take away the food source that destroys the will (i.e., fructose/sucrose), and it will certainly become much easier after that!
Unfortunately, taking out this one (unnatural*) food source is very difficult to do. It is added to almost all non-raw foods in the supermarket (e.g., 33% sugar in one brand of crushed garlic, I found). So the way around it would be using only raw foods. Well, that's all well and good, but doesn't fit our culture well, and many people find this very difficult to achieve. It's also a LOT more expensive than simply buying packaged foods (with all the added sugar).
Yes, a simple balanced diet would solve the problem. But most people don't understand what a good diet is due to misinformation (from supposedly scientific backgrounds and 'authoritative' sources), and even when they do, they do not understand what is actually added to the foods they are eating.
Therefore it is not at all simple for people to keep it simple.
*Yes, sucrose is a natural thing in fruits and vegetables, and causes very little problems when consumed in raw fruits and vegetables which also include the right fibre, etc, for the body to work with it properly. The body can handle it OK in its natural state. The body does not handle it properly even in fruit juice, without the whole fruit, let alone when refined and purified and added to other foods. Of course it affects some people a lot worse than others.