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Very-low-carbohydrate diets and preservation of muscle masshot!
- 11.04.2007
- This commentary provides some basic information on metabolic adaptations that lead to sparing of muscle protein during a VLCARB, and reviews studies examining the effects of VLCARB interventions on body composition.
- Homepage: http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/3/1/9/abstract
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The Protein Debatehot!
- 14.02.2007
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From the Introduction:
Protein plays a litany of roles in living systems: structural elements, peptide hormones, cell recognition, antibodies… the list is staggering and continues to grow as our understanding of biology expands. What, however, is the role of dietary protein in health and disease in humans? Is the source, type and quantity intimately and directly tied to optimal physical development and continued wellbeing? Is it causative or preventative of disease? How do we know, and how can we know?One would think this question should be straightforward and easily answered; as you will soon see the question is anything but simple! In the pages that follow, two scientists at the top of their respective fields--Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, author of The China Study and Dr. Loren Cordain Professor, Department of Health & Exercise Science, Colorado State University, author of The Paleo Diet—make their competing cases for the role of dietary protein in health and disease.
Commentary:
Obviously I side with protein and fat having a core place in our diets. - Homepage: http://www.performancemenu.com/resources/proteinDebate.pdf
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The Colonisation of Europe and Our Western Diseases by W.J. Lutzhot!
- 13.01.2007
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This is a great article submitted by the user Pepsi. Thanks for sending in this fabulous additon to the Diet Downloads section. I will posting an article shortly on how any user can post documents, links, and news/info submissions.
Abstract
Correspondence of fat intake with civilisatory diseases (coronary disease and
cancer) is usually attributed to adverse effects of animal fat and cholesterol. The 'field studies' hemselves, undertaken to support this theory, failed. As the last environmental changes in human history are agriculture and rise of carbohydrate intake (and concomitant reduction of at and protein consumption), the author thinks that the carbohydrates rather than the animal ats cause our civilisatory diseases.
It can be shown that the spread of agriculture from the Near East to the West and North of
Europe with the accompanying differences in time for the adaptation to the new food (the
carbohydrates) easily explains the geographic differences in the frequency of civilisatory
diseases which is highest where (in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Finland) carbohydrates
came last. Highest, too, in those areas is the 'polymorphism' of genes which are related to
cardiovascular diseases (ACE, apolipoprotein-B etc.) This 'adaptation theory' explains also the hitherto unexplained up and down of cardiovascular disease in the USA by immigration from regions with higher adaptation to carbohydrates. - Hits: 465
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Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications 21st centuryhot!
- 14.02.2007
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ABSTRACT
There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (eg, in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry10 000 y ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary time scale for the human genome to adjust. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically determined biology and the nutritional, cultural, and activity patterns of contemporary Western populations, many of the so-called diseases of civilization have emerged. In particular, food staples and food-processing procedures introduced during the Neolithic and Industrial Periods have fundamentally altered 7 crucial nutritional characteristics of ancestral hominin diets: 1) glycemic load, 2) fatty acid composition, 3) macronutrient composition, 4) micronutrient density, 5) acid-base balance, 6) sodium-potassium ratio, and 7) fiber content. The evolutionary collision of our ancient genome with the nutritional qualities of recently introduced foods may underlie many of the chronic diseases of Western civilization. Am J Clin Nutr 2005;81:341–54. - Homepage: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/81/2/341
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Nutrition: The Soft Science of Dietary Fathot!
- 10.01.2007
- Mainstream nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer.
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