Sentences with phrase «modern diets high»

Modern diets high in refined sugar cause more magnesium to be used in both metabolizing glucose into cellular energy, as well as activating the release of insulin.

Modern diets high in processed grains and low in nutrient dense fats and minerals may increase the likelihood of nutrient absorption problems and make it even more important to reduce phytic acid levels in food.

Our bodies are designed to have a slightly alkaline pH, but with our modern diet high in sugar and exposure to everyday toxins — from the air we breathe to the water we drink to the phones we're addicted to — most of us have become acidic.

One of the consequences of a modern diet high in sugar is reduced absorption of vitamin C. Even if you eat vitamin C - rich foods and take a daily vitamin C supplement, you will have trouble absorbing the nutrient with a high sugar diet.

Not exact matches

Even though I don't believe the myths about the high amount of protein required in the modern day diet, I do definitely feel less sore after a hard work out if I incorporate more protein into my diet.

Modern Western diets, with higher contents of animal compared to fruits and vegetable products, have a greater content of acid precursors vs. base precursors, which results in a net acid load to the body.

They found evidence of decay in more than half of the surviving teeth, a prevalence of dental disease comparable to that of modern, industrial societies with diets high in refined sugars.

The AESAN survey concludes: «The modern Spanish diet is a western - type diet, further and further removed from typical Mediterranean cuisine, although this gap is lower than might be expected due to the population's high consumption of fish.»

Modern mimic: On Mark's Daily Apple blog — a Paleo lifestyle forum — a commenter optimistically proclaims that the «high animal fat, low carb Paleo / traditional whole food diet... protects against all cancers» because it strengthens the immune system and makes the body strong.

There are several supplements that I personally take daily, even when eating a very high - quality real food diet because it is difficult to get enough of these nutrients from our modern food supply.

Now it can be shared with everyone for better health, revealing the real culprits of the modern western diet - too much fat and too much high - GI carbohydrate.

With vitamin C so critical and yet so elusive in the modern diet with higher than normal levels required by many due to metabolic issues or drug interactions, it is no wonder that vitamin C supplements are absolutely everywhere — commonly sold even at gas stations!

The practitioners at NIHA can test you to see what nutrients you may be lacking and provide high quality pharmaceutical - grade nutritional supplements to compensate for what is missing in our modern diets.

Our modern diet is often very high in calcium from synthetic sources and low in sources of magnesium.

Seeds, nuts, bran, oatmeal, and soybeans are especially high in phytic acid, and these foods are present in abundance in modern diet.

As Dr. Weston A. Price (a dentist) found and detailed in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, there were cultures throughout the world who had perfect teeth despite no access to dentists or modern toothpaste, while similar cultures with different diets had very high rates of tooth decay.

The high - carb low - fat diet actually sets in motion a pattern of physiological decline that leads to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, which have come to dominate modern life over the past 40 years since the low fat dietary guidelines were promoted.

From the work of Weston Price, we can assume that the amount in primitive diets was about 50,000 IU per day, which could be achieved in a modern diet by consuming generous amounts of whole milk, cream, butter and eggs from pastured animals; beef or duck liver several times per week; and 1 tablespoon regular cod liver oil or 1/2 tablespoon high - vitamin cod liver oil per day.

When Dr. Price analyzed the nutrient density of the traditional diets versus the modern diets, he found that the traditional diets were higher in key nutrients, especially the fat - soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K2.

These beneficial fatty acids have been shown to reduce inflammation and swelling, especially because so much of the modern western diet is too high in omega - 6 fats and this imbalance causes inflammation.

Not all native diets were equal, however: those in which animal foods were virtually absent, for example, produced much lower rates of tooth decay than found on modern, refined diets, but much higher rates of tooth decay than found on diets containing a significant amount of animal foods.

Studies done on native diets high in coconut oil consumption show that these populations are generally in good health, and don't suffer as much from many of the modern diseases of western nations where coconut oil is seldom consumed anymore.

High Cholesterol on a Ketogenic Diet The ketogenic diet, or even just a higher - fat, low - carb diet, has now gained massive support as a modern - day healing strategy.

This idea that saturated fat caused heart disease was the cornerstone of modern nutrition policy and the reason health authorities turned away from a higher fat diet rich in animal foods, towards a low - fat, high - carb diet with plenty of grains.

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

This does not mean that the Paleolithic diet was high in carbohydrates in the same way that modern diets are high in carbohydrates (mostly refined carbohydrates), but it does indicate that the diets of primitive man contained some high - carbohydrate foods.

• PROCESSED FOODS: These present a quadruple nutritional assault upon a brain suffering the ravages of the modern diet: they are usually high in refined carbohydrate; high in rancid, easily oxidized vegetable oils; low in antioxidants; and low in vitamins and minerals.

Vegetarian protein is higher quality than animal protein, that is wrong, but we surely don't need a lot 15 - 20 % of our calories from protein, getting fats in your diet is ok too, we need fats for some of our vitamins, and it is quite natural for us to eat natural fats, oils are a modern invention.

«From the chemical standpoint,» the critical difference between «efficient» native diets and diets characterized by the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» according to Dr. Price, was that «all the efficient dietaries were found to contain two to six times as high a factor of safety in the matter of bodybuilding material, as the displacing foods» (emphasis added).11 The foods that served a «bodybuilding» purpose varied substantially according to the group and location studied, but in all instances, traditional societies emphasized the most nutrient - dense land and sea animal and plant foods that could be obtained in their context, ranging from the exceptionally high - vitamin dairy products, whole rye sourdough bread and occasional meat of the isolated Swiss to the fish, cereals and sweet potatoes of Kenya's Maragoli tribe.

Keep in mind that these massively high levels of corn, soy, and wheat in our modern human diet is a relatively new phenomenon that originated from the economics of the multi-billion dollar corn, soy, and wheat industries.

Although the work is widely cited in recommendations to step back on the amount of high fructose corn syrup in modern diets, it suggests the dangers of fruit juice as well.

The average person eating a modern western diet of processed food consumes a LARGE quantity of fructose without even thinking about it from all of the soft drinks (high fructose corn syrup typically), sweetened juice drinks, orange juice, processed junk foods such as cakes and candies, as well as the HFCS that's added to store - bought salad dressings, breads and cereals, and even condiments like ketchup.

Modern life bombards us with stressors, the most common being ongoing insulin surges from sugary, high - carb diets, immune aggravation from food intolerances, chronic gut infections (too much bad bacteria or parasites), hormonal imbalances, lack of sleep, and of course our hectic, information - overloaded lifestyles.

Recall from part 1 that people with the ApoE4 gene are believed to be the least suited for the modern high - carb diet.

As I explained in part 1, carriers of the E4 gene are likely the least suited to the modern high - carb diet.

The core of paleo is the diet: it eschews grains, sugars, and modern vegetable oils in favor of high - quality meat, fish, eggs, and vegetables.

Modern diets can contain as much as 30 % of calories as polyunsaturated oils, but scientific research indicates that this amount is far too high.

Most modern diets contain oils such as processed sunflower oil, soybean oil and corn oil, these oils more often than not are processed polyunsaturated fats and have far too high a ratio of Omega - 6 fatty acids to Omega - 3s.

The modern diet contains large amounts of omega - 6 fatty acids compared to that of a generation ago, because high omega - 6 oils from soy, corn, cottonseed and safflower have been introduced into the food supply.

Modern - day diets high in hydrogenated vegetable oils instead of traditional animal fats are implicated in causing a significant increase in heart disease and cancer.

This is because the modern Western diet tends to be high in omega - 6 fatty acids which disrupts our optimal omega 3:6 ratio.

Many lipid scientists began their career with the understanding that cholesterol molecules are inherently dangerous and that the modern diet is unusually high in cholesterol, hence modern cardiovascular diseases are unusually prevalent among industrialized nations.

In modern times this means that one must consume a diet that is high in animal protein and plants — meats, eggs, dairy, seeds, fruits and vegetables.

What it means is, people who carry the E4 gene are not well - suited for a high - carb diet, and thus, they suffer the greatest metabolic damage when faced with the modern diet, which is awash in refined sugars and grains.

For nutritional insurance - to help plug the gaps in your diet due to poor food quality, soil depletion and imperfect dietary choices; and because of the demands our bodies make for extra nutrients due to environmental toxins and our high - stress modern lifestyles.

In traditional diets, levels of these key nutrients were about ten times higher than levels in diets based on the foods of modern commerce, containing sugar, white flour and vegetable oil.

If there's anything positive to take away from the book's four hundred seventeen pages, it's the promotion of a whole - food diet — and the resulting elimination of vegetable oils, high fructose corn syrup, refined grains, and other industrial products that tend to displace real food on our modern menus.

Adrenal insufficiency affects a high number of women and men living in a modern society and many times it can not be addressed with a healthy diet and exercise alone.

Oestrogen dominance and the corresponding fall in progesterone is yet another of our modern world's emerging patterns - and once again, it's most commonly caused by a high carbohydrate diet, excess body weight, nutrient deficiencies, ageing, and stress.

On top of that, since most modern diets consist of processed foods high in bad fat, sugar, and caffeine, we are consuming less and less magnesium - rich foods (see a list below).