Keto Means
Keto Means
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All animal cheese is laden with fat and hormones, which add up."
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Read More »Who moved my cheese? Or who moved my cheese from the healthy list of foods I should eat, to the unhealthy list of foods that I should avoid? Dr. Neal Barnard, a doctor, activist and author of 13 books, who has a lot to say about cheese, dairy, and how the hormones in cows affect your body, that's who. I interviewed Dr. Barnard last week to try to better understand why he believes cheese should come with a warning label, and why he wants the USDA to take dairy off the list of recommended daily foods when it relaunches its nutrition guidelines next year.
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Read More »So if the healthy population moved to quit smoking when the tobacco labels informed the public of the dangers of cigarettes, it makes sense that we need to try to kick the cheese addiction. And it is addictive since the casomorphin in cheese acts on the brain’s dopamine receptors as effectively as morphine or other opiates. But if quitting cigarettes is hard, banishing cheese may be less difficult by comparison since there are decent nut cheese substitutes on the market. But let’s get back to Dr. Barnard and his dairy campaign. Barnard trained as a psychiatrist, and now a nutrition expert. He gets knocked by critics for training as a shrink rather than an internist, but when I asked him what he says to the critics, he explained: “There is no nutrition specialty in medical school, so whether you train to be a psychiatrist or cardiologist, it becomes clear very early on that nutrition is a large part of what makes people healthy or not. He also tells the story of how he became plant-based. “Before I went to medical school, I was working in the morgue of the hospital as an assistant to the pathologist, and our job was to do the autopsy when someone died in the hospital. We had the grim job of figuring out why someone had died. When the pathologist cut the ribs out to examine a patient’s heart, it was obvious that there was atherosclerosis. Fat deposits were all around the heart. I sewed the ribs back on, went to lunch that day and saw they were serving ribs. It had the same white fatty marble in the meat like the body had and it looked the same. It occurred to me this was another dead body on my plate, and I couldn’t eat it.” It was the start of a journey of not eating meat, and of connecting plant-based eating with health and wellness. His new book, Your Body in Balance makes the point that avoiding fat, especially animal fat, is one way to lower your risk of cancer and disease. Until he petitioned the FDA to add warning labels to cheese this past fall, stating that it increases the risk of breast cancer, Barnard had been known only to a part of the medical community that focuses on how plant-based eating can affect heart health, diabetes, certain cancers and improve overall wellbeing. The benefits of avoiding dairy that are covered in the book include fertility and mood, and avoiding "the little blue pill" for erectile dysfunction. He explains that the mechanics of male sexuality are the same as heart disease since when arteries get blocked from plaque and blood flow is restricted to the heart, legs, or lower body, the same is happening with the male erection. In fact, a lack of ability to have a healthy sex life is often an early warning sign that the man has clogged arteries and should see a cardiologist. They usually seek treatment with testosterone, but more often they can benefit from a change in diet, by going plant-based, according to Barnard in his upcoming book. Then they followed that up with the cheese warning label stunt. Except for him and the 12,000 doctors who are part of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, it’s not any more of a stunt than when the government agreed to put warning labels on cigarettes in 1965 and then strengthed it from "Smoking may be hazardous to your health" to a more declarative "Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer" and other diseases. Dr. Barnard believes there are parallels to smoking then and eating cheese now: If consumed daily, even one serving of cheese a day increases the risk of hormone-related cancers such as breast and prostate. He also wants us to cut out fatty foods, oils and eat a whole-food, plant-based diet.
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Read More »But hormones mess up your body every day, not just when disease strikes. Barnard did research with women facing debilitating menstrual cramps and found that if they go off dairy completely they can see a benefit in just one month. “Some women have bad cramps one day a month but for other women, it’s off the charts, and I started to think about hormones in food and how it could affect this. I suggested something that no doctor had ever suggested before," meaning he changed their diets. "I said to her: How about we get all animal products off your plate and no oils either,” Barnard recalls. He saw such dramatic results that he launched a study on menstrual cramps and diet to back it up. He asked the participants to get off dairy, fatty foods, and oils. For one of his patients, the improvement was immediate. Barnard also recalls one woman who couldn't get pregnant actually did when her diet changed. It was a hit with most of the participants, who saw the severity and length of days they experienced crams diminish in just one month. I asked Barnard what do you have for breakfast? “There are a million choices. It depends if I am traveling. Oatmeal and blueberries or cinnamon. But when I’m traveling — I was over in England and there, people often have baked beans and mushrooms and stewed tomatoes. For the rest of the world it’s totally normal to have vegetables or rice and beans for breakfast. Beans are a perfect protein, and this is a great food to start the day with. They do it in Australia and Mexico. They have black beans for breakfast. In the Middle East, it would be hummus. They are not having eggs for breakfast. It’s beans.”
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