First of all, you need to
increase dietary fat consumption, having beef as the main source of protein, plus egg yolks, fish oil and small amounts of nuts.
Not exact matches
The pendulum finally swung in favor of lowering
dietary fat, which necessitated an
increase in carbohydrate
consumption.
Researchers at Yale University and the University of British Columbia found that women with high levels of «cognitive
dietary restraint» (putting a lot of mental energy into restricting certain foods) had significantly higher cortisol levels, bigger appetites,
increased consumption of sweets, more negative moods, and higher body -
fat levels — even despite getting more exercise.
And, you can do similar charts for all the other so - called Western diseases, which Burkitt thought related to the major
dietary changes that followed the Industrial Revolution — a reduction in healthy plant foods (the sources of starch and fiber), and «a great
increase in
consumption of animal
fats, salt, and sugar.»
Price noted that all healthy African groups had good sources of animal
fat, and that the healthiest groups consumed less, not more, of plant foods; Burkitt and Trowel, however, postulate that the
increase in Western diseases among Africans is due to a reduced
consumption of plant foods containing
dietary fiber.
Over the past 40 years, the
consumption of junk food, mostly in the form of refined carbohydrates, has
increased dramatically, while
fat and protein intake has remained almost the same.3 This
dietary change alone has significantly reduced aerobic function in millions of people, and
increased their risk for chronic illness.
Obarzanek and coworkers (2001) showed that
increasing Dietary Fiber intake from 11 to 30 g / d as a result of
increased consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains prevented a rise in plasma triacylglycerol concentrations in those fed a low
fat diet, especially in those individuals with initially high concentrations.
Say, for example, banning the use of the safe and effective chemical DDT to control malaria in Africa, resulting in millions of deaths, or demonizing
dietary fat and promoting the
consumption of chronically toxic carbohydrates leading to
increases in obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.