Blood Fat and Blood Sugar [PoH posts #1032, 1033] (WAS: Nuts and Seeds: High-Fat Foods, Not Proteins)

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Elchanan? Elchanan who? Wait, let me check in my book ... hmmm.

 

Yes, Nancy, you are correct, and I've written much on this in other groups, particularly PathOfHealth. Here is two partial reposts, from the PathOfHealth archive.

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Blood sugar: Paradigm shift -- We are water-based creatures

PathOfHealth post #1032

 

 

The paradigm shift involved here is quite large. You see, the diet does not "cause" the "disease," rather the diet IS the "disease." The "disease" itself does not really exist. Only a collection of symptoms exists. And these symptoms are not the problem. Rather, they constitute an array of attempts by the body to respond to the conditions we create within and without.

 

 

The same may be said of virtually all known "diseases": the diseases are nothing more than labels applied to collections of symptoms, where each symptom is the body's valiant attempt to care for itself. And every time we shut off a symptom (as shutting down a headache with an analgesic, or covering over a rash with some cream or ointment), we directly, consciously, and now that you know this, intentionally, interfere with the body's own natural healing processes and mechanisms.

 

The body is a self- monitoring, self-maintaining, self-cleansing, self-repairing biological "machine." This is why supplements, cleanses, etc. are all exercises in futility, in the long run, and such "remedies" always impair the body in some way. In response to the conditions we create, by virtue of our free will, the body applies all its vast innate intelligence -- an intelligence of Divine origin (whatever that may mean to each of us) and that utterly transcends any concoctions of the conscious mind. But even this vast intelligence cannot overcome an unending internal bombardment of foreign matter (toxins) and a ceaseless overloading of some materials (e.g., fats) at the expense of others (e.g., fuel, simple sugars).

 

In fact, this improper loading of fats over sugars is the primary physical cause of most cravings and the like that RFs experience. The body simply cannot transport fuel (glucose) properly when blood fat is too high, and the body is ALWAYS deficient in various nutrients, as I describe following.

 

In a physical sense, we are water-based beings. The vast majority of our metabolism occurs in a waterborne environment, and similarly the vast majority of our nutrients are either water-soluble (B vitamins, vitamin C, most enzymes, all carbohydrates, all mineral salts -- calcium, potassium, magnesium, etc.) or water-transportable (as when iron attaches to hemoglobin, which travels in blood, which is almost 85% water).

 

As we increase our consumption of fats, either as an absolute number above a very small amount, or as a percentage or calories, we necessarily decrease our consumption of ALL water-soluble and water-transportable nutrients -- literally tens or even hundreds of thousands of different nutrients (if we take into account those nutrients not yet discovered by science). Further, primary metabolic elimination in the body occurs via the breath (exhalation of moist air) and the urine (water carrying toxins). So here again, we are water-based creatures.

 

Our natural diet -- by which I mean, the diet our bodies most easily and efficiently and effectively ingest, digest, absorb, assimilate, and eliminate -- consists of foods that are high in water, oxygen, and fuel (simple sugars) and low in fat and protein. This description really fits only one "food group," namely fruits. And we also require greens -- soft, tender greens -- in order to maintain our mineral loading, for fiber, and for a vast array of nutrients whose production is driven by solar energy and whose existence and purpose is barely understood at all by present-day science.

 

Denise, I encourage you to keep in mind that one email from an unknown source is unlikely to engender a paradigm shift of this magnitude in most people. I encourage you to be patience, compassionate, not demanding in any way. And I share one other learning that has been most helpful to me: I can only help those who would receive my help, I can only give to those who are ready, willing, and able NOW to receive what I have to give. My acceptance of this apparent "reality" has brought me much peace and has helped me gain considerable discernment about when, where, and with whom I share my knowledge and experience.

 

I hope this information and perspective are constructive and helpful.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

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Blood sugar - Sugar and fruit - diabetes

 

PathOfHealth post #1033

 

 

 

Elchanan, PC Friday, February 25, 2005 8:13 AM

Sugar and fruit - diabetes

Oh, this is the great sugar myth at its worst. I did write about it recently, thought I sent it to you.

 

All the common "blood sugar problems" are simply not. Diabetes, hyper/hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, chronic fatigue, Candida are all cause for alarm among peddlers of drugs and potions. But the problem occurs because of elevated blood fat. When blood fat is elevated, insulin receptivity at the cellular level (in the receptors in the cell membrane) is inhibited, and glucose cannot exit the blood stream into the cells "on schedule." Blood sugar than appears as elevated, and all the cells are hungry, wanting to be fed. The body responds by increasing insulin output, which fixes the problem for the moment.

 

Now imagine living like that 24x7, so that eventually the adrenal and/or pancreas simply become exhausted. At that point, the body's ability to continue solving the problem by increasing insulin output is no longer fully available. So we diagnose symptoms.

 

But by simply reducing fat intake, and therefore blood fat the entire problem disappears rather quickly, and the adrenal and pancreas begin returning to normal. So we DO feed fruit and greens to a type 2 diabetic, with ZERO high-fat foods of any kind, for a short time. And everything normalizes quite nicely.

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Elchanan, PC Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:07 PM

WRITINGS: Fruit and sugar

There is a great fear of sugar throughout the land. The use of massive quantities of refined sugar, and the tendency to obfuscate when it serves the needs of the chemical industry and derivatives, have caused many people to fear and/or speak against all forms of sugar. The sugars in fruit are primarily glucose and fructose. Glucose is the primary fuel for our bodies. We can either eat it or make it from other things -- complex carbs, fat, even protein in a pinch. Fructose is very similar in its chemical structure to glucose, the energy and other resources required for our bodies to convert fructose into glucose is almost nil. So fruits contain the actual fuel we need, in the actual form in which we need it.

 

In addition, fruits are loaded with digestible fiber, such as guar and pectin, that Nature has put there to moderate the absorption of sugar from the digestive system.

 

Here it may be helpful to enter a sidebar. By absorption, I mean from the digestive system into the body, primarily the blood stream. The term uptake is also used, here to signify transfer of nutrients from the blood stream into the rest of the body at a cellular level.

 

Anyway...the fiber is crucial. So eating an orange would result in much smoother sugar absorption than juicing the same orange, which would eliminate most or all of the digestible fiber.

 

That almost no energy or other resources is required to digest, harvest, absorb the fruit sugars is significant. Most Americans, including vegetarians and to a lesser extent cooked-food vegans, expend massive quantities of energy, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, etc. just processing their food through their digestive systems. The net caloric gain from the food, expressed as a percentage, is FAR lower than the net gain from eating fruit.

 

Finally, we digest fruit faster than any other food group, by far. This is due to its high water content, as well as its chemical simplicity. Not only are the sugars in usable form, the same may be said for vitamins, minerals, etc. All are in their usable forms, in solution in water, ready simply to absorb and use. The duration of the digestive cycle is short, meaning there is extended physiological rest for the system, when energy is available for cleansing, building, and activity of all types.

 

 

On Behalf Of pnparletteSent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: RE: Nuts and Seeds: High-Fat Foods, Not Proteins (WAS: Baltimore Family New to Raw Foodism)

 

Too much FAT is STILL too much fat! It is hard on the liver and gall bladder and will put on weight (which may or may not be desirable for you).

According to the World Health Organization and Dr. Graham we really only need 10% of our calories to be from Fat. Too much fat puts stress on the pancreas because it is harder for the insulin to work to get the glucose out to the cells - it kind of clogs up things.

I'm sure Elchanan will have more to add :-)