Low-Fat Diets, High in Vegetables and Fruits Don't Help Your Healthy Bottom Line

Vegetable Vicissitude

I love it when the medical establishment's gotta eat some
crow.

And lately, with the rise of the low-carb diet, it's been
happening a lot. But the mainstream press has been sluggish
to report a lot of these myth-busting stories, it seems to
me. Nevertheless, if you know where to look, you can find
proof to validate what I've already told you is true when it
comes to nutrition - namely, that a low-fat diet high in
vegetables and fruits doesn't help your healthy bottom line.

In a recent article from Reuters online, I read some of the
most decisive evidence yet that proves what I've been saying
all along: Eating too many vegetables and fruits actually
INCREASES LDL (bad) cholesterol while lowering HDL (good)
cholesterol - especially among women.

According to the findings of a recent Finnish study, subject
women who consumed a low-vegetable, low-fat diet endured a
19% increase in serum LDL. The study also gauged the effects
of a low-fat, HIGH-vegetable diet - and found that LDL among
this group still went up 27%. Both groups suffered a similar
drop in healthy HDL.

That's right: In the presence of lowered fat intake, more
vegetables equals dramatically greater LDL - but even a
small amount of vegetables translated into increased LDL. If
this isn't solid evidence that we're designed to eat fats
and meats instead of veggies (for the most part), I don't
know what would be!

Now, you're probably thinking the same thing I am: Why
didn't they also measure the effects of a HIGH-fat, low-
vegetable diet? Probably because they embarked on the
research with an anti-fat political agenda in mind - which
is why they didn't even measure how an infusion of healthy
fat would fit into the mix. How do I know there's an agenda
at work here?

Because according to the Reuters piece, the study's authors
characterized these findings as "unexpected." If they were
truly impartial (or at all knowledgeable) about the role of
fats and vegetable matter in proper nutrition, they wouldn't
have been the least bit surprised at the research's
results…

Or even bothered to study it in the first place.

But the "healthy vegetables" medical myth isn't the only one
that fell prey to the truth (albeit grudgingly) in recent
weeks. Keep reading…
          
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Drowning in deception no longer

Remember all those times when I told you that the
mainstream's mentality on H20 consumption was nothing but a
bunch of bunk? Well, it turns out that there's now some bona-
fide research to this effect that could force the mainstream
to back off of their "water torture" philosophy.

Believe it or not, until this point, there's been relatively
little study into water turnover in the body, yet the
prevailing conventional wisdom is that you need at least 8
glasses of pure water a day to remain among the living.
Never mind that there's really no research concluding this…

Anyway, according to a recent ABC news online article, a
study of 458 healthy people between the ages of 40 and 79
published in the American Journal of Physiology revealed NO
LINK between hyper-hydration and better health. Also, a
recent Institute of Medicine report concluded that most
people adequately meet their hydration needs simply by
DRINKING WHEN THEY'RE THIRSTY.

Of course, I've been repeating this "drink-only-when-you're-
thirsty" mantra for decades. And if you happen to be thirsty
enough to consume 8 glasses of water in a day (few people
are), so be it. But don't force it on the mainstream's say-
so. 

Oh, and here's a little icing on the cake from the Institute
of Medicine report: Your daily intake of water can be
obtained from just about any liquid in which water is a
component (which is basically anything that's drinkable).
That includes coffee and alcoholic beverages…

Take that, mainstream water-whiners!