-- The typical western
diet of refined foods, meat, dairy products, eggs, sugar, alcohol and coffee does not adequately supply our vitamin and mineral needs.
The iodine addition is a government construct to mitigate the detrimental effects of a low iodine diet in a
society of refined foods.
All of her recipes are vegan, white sugar -, gluten -, soy - and dairy - free, and best of all,
devoid of refined foods.
Also steadily increasing is the average dietary glycemic index (GI) 9 in the United States (5), with the global
consumption of refined foods also increasing as more regions of the world adopt westernized dietary patterns.
When Weston Price visited the Torres Strait Islands north of Austrailia, he spoke to a doctor who had suspected only one case of cancer and operated on none among more than 4,000 natives eating their traditional diet, but had operated on dozens of whites eating diets
of refined foods living in the same area.
«Price consistently noted that the diets of groups in which tooth decay was prevalent shared certain characteristics — namely, the
prominence of refined foods as staples.
This is consistent with Weston Price's emphasis on the extraordinary skeletal and dental health and the beautiful, broad, well developed faces of individuals consuming their traditional ancestral diets,
free of refined foods and rich in fat - soluble vitamins.
Research in biology, biochemistry, Ophthalmology, Dermatology and many other disciplines indicate it is our modern diet,
full of refined foods, trans fats and sugar, that is at the root of degenerative diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression and infertility.
If you're coming from a Standard American Diet, chances are your taste buds are accustomed to the
taste of refined foods, artificial flavors, and bad fats.
In addition, as far back as 2002, Dr Briffa pointed out in his book «Ultimate Health» other factors such as damaged fats, especially hydrogenated fats and trans - fatty acids, the presence of homocysteine and the importance of controlling insulin by avoiding and
excess of refined foods and too much sugar or anything which converts quickly to sugar such as processed carbohydrates.
However, any influence that refined carbohydrates has on mood is likely commensurate with the proportion they constitute in the overall diet, so a limitation of these studies is that they examined only specific
types of refined foods, as opposed to dietary GI and glycemic load in the overall diet.
Add to this the widespread
consumption of refined foods, sugars, caffeine and alcoholic beverages, some of the primary culprits of the modern woman's monthly woes.
The diets of groups in which tooth decay was absent or nearly absent varied widely but were all characterized by the
absence of refined foods.
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diet of refined foods or too much stress will lessen natural production, which leads to poorly digested food and heartburn.
Other than the absence
of refined foods, evidence suggests that there is enormous variation in Paleolithic diets, often depending on the specific environment where a particular group lived.
Insulin resistance and the resulting metabolic syndrome result almost exclusively from physical inactivity and the consumption
of refined foods, which generate profound nutritional deficiencies.
24 What is important for the prevention of tooth decay — and Price stresses this point over and over again — is adequate minerals and fat - soluble vitamins, whether from animal foods, seafood or dairy products, and the absence
of refined foods, especially white flour and sweeteners.
In what he calls «carbohydrate resistant» individuals, the consumption
of these refined foods should be significantly restricted, associating their consumption with hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other illness.