Skiman
Super Freak
A Short-Term Fix for the Symptoms of My Illnesses
My initial approach was rushing to the doctors for high-powered drugs to moderate the symptoms just to return to work. So I took the drugs. And I changed doctors - GPs, gastro internal specialists, endocrinologists, urologists, shrinks, allergists, etc. I had to change often, because they were incompetent, especially the ones who said, "Don’t worry about what you eat. Just eat what feels good to you. If it makes you feel bad, then don’t eat it." I wish I could collect $100.00 an hour to dish out that advice. I learned more off the Internet medical websites than from the doctors I had seen and started saving money to boot. This was before ever knowing about Dr. Chesnut. Without surgery he beat reflux and gall bladder disorders. His contemporaries wanted to operate on each disorder. Through proper nutrition, supplements and antioxidants, he recovered. Now he is one of the few nutrition-first M.D.s.
Getting to the Root of the Problems
Being a researcher at heart, I began to study the principles of good nutrition. The Internet is a good tool, but don’t believe everything you read. I compare several different reference sources and find a consensus. A key to proper use of research is to formulate potential solutions to problems. I was led to papers and books by MD s and Ph.D. s who had researched various aspects of what is behind good and bad health. I found an amazing amount of consistency as well as some conflicting information. But soon the trends and directions were obvious. And it will be obvious to any person willing to do the work. Effort is rewarded.
So I began developing and documenting my own program based on the Science of Natural Hygiene and Holistic as well as more modern moderate approaches to healthy dietary intake.
I am perfecting a practical nutrition plan and hope to offer it to the public soon.
Here is some insight I gained from a famous MIT nutrition professor: "Everything you put into your body except distilled water is a drug." What he meant is everything else has serious effects on some major internal body system including all hormones and enzymes governing voluntary and involuntary functions. Our bodies are over 70% water.
Here are some of the MAJOR agreed upon nutritional points that a majority of researchers from a wide variety of professions have stated:
1. Americans adults consume 3 to 6 times the required amount of animal protein, dairy and fat. Effects on long-term health are toxic and often go unnoticed for years.
2. The human body has evolved little in the last 50 years, yet artificial, processed food consumption has quadrupled. The body’s GI tract, liver, kidneys, pancreas and other organs cannot handle the steady flow of unnatural chemicals and toxins. The body needs a permanent rest from unnatural foods and toxins.
3. Dairy products are for children and not adults. Many experts think they’re bad for children too. Calves drink milk, but cows are vegetarians. The dairy industry lobby and influence suppresses most of the mass-market news and reports that are unfavorable to dairy products. Most dairy products go partially undigested in adults and some children (older than babies) and collect as mucous in the body cavities and intestines, blocking proper absorption of other nutrients, not to mention some of it goes to stored body fat. The calcium and other dairy nutrients are easily supplied from other foods. Children need a lot of protein and calcium as they grow, adults require much less, but dairy sources are not necessary. Furthermore, animal protein blocks the absorption of dairy calcium.
4. The human’s GI tract is structurally and functionally analogous to that of vegetarian mammals, not to a meat-eating animal. This is a simple fact, not conjecture.
5. Over the last 80 years farmers' soils have been depleted of precious minerals and vitamins. This is documented in government reports including with the FDA. More chemicals are needed to make crops grow efficiently. Farmers are not at fault, they are squeezed financially. Cows, chickens and pigs eat what the farmers produce and thus the deficiencies are passed on.
6. Microwaving food is inferior to proper cooking. HIGH settings especially modify nutrient molecules. This information never makes the major news, but is documented in several American and international sources.
7. Most water is polluted with toxins, even "approved" tap water. Only distilled water and rarely some spring water are healthful. Most people don’t drink enough water. A minimum of eight 8-oz glasses of high-quality water is required. Our bodies are over 70% water’, a natural solvent and cleanser. Drinking water during meals dilutes digestive juices and enzymes. Water should be consumed between meals, not with meals.
8. Poor food combining causes some foods to ferment in the body and nutrients can be wasted. For some people with sensitive GI tracts it can lead to disease. There is a whole science on proper food combining with several guidelines. Major ones include eating fruit separately from all other food; don’t combine starches and proteins in the same meal; eat your food in courses, not a bite of this and a bite of that and back and forth. Start with the lightest (greens) and then more complex foods, ending with the most complex protein. There are many papers and books written on this topic and several are on Chet Day’s Health and Beyond website. More on this later, as it is crucial.
9. The Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) often includes about two parts sodium (salt) to one part potassium. University research at M.I.T and University of California have proven that ratio should not only be turned around, but should be at least 5 to 1 in favor of potassium. Before the modern way of American processed foods, people ate more naturally. The human body has not evolved fast enough to handle what the typical American consumes. Just because some people have cast iron stomachs and some decent short-term health is no proof that the S.A.D. is good. Many illnesses and disorders are incorrectly treated with drugs while the food intake is ignored. It so happens that foods with poor sodium (salt) to potassium ratios are usually Appetite Accelerators. That’s right, they actually cause your brain to want more food even though your cellular nutrient needs might be satisfied. They are in fact addictive. The foods with high potassium to sodium ratios tend to be Appetite Satisfiers, or decelerators. Simple carbohydrates, sugar and salt are appetite accelerators.
10. Most foods in their natural state have favorable potassium to sodium ratios. Bananas have a 400 to 1 ratio. Apples 90 to 1. Even chicken and fish without skin and without adding salt have reasonable ratios. Most breakfast cereals have poor ratios and then the manufacturers sprinkle on some powdered vitamins to call them healthful. Granola (good quality with minimal added salt and sugar) and oatmeal (good quality without added salt and sugar) are the some cereals that have healthy ratios.
11. Research has shown that many problems relate to salt (sodium) and sugar addictions. These addictions are very similar to alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and drug addictions. If you have to add salt to your food, you can forget about losing weight and are in for potential health deterioration. Breaking your addiction to salt and sugar will be a big step in health improvement and weight control.
My initial approach was rushing to the doctors for high-powered drugs to moderate the symptoms just to return to work. So I took the drugs. And I changed doctors - GPs, gastro internal specialists, endocrinologists, urologists, shrinks, allergists, etc. I had to change often, because they were incompetent, especially the ones who said, "Don’t worry about what you eat. Just eat what feels good to you. If it makes you feel bad, then don’t eat it." I wish I could collect $100.00 an hour to dish out that advice. I learned more off the Internet medical websites than from the doctors I had seen and started saving money to boot. This was before ever knowing about Dr. Chesnut. Without surgery he beat reflux and gall bladder disorders. His contemporaries wanted to operate on each disorder. Through proper nutrition, supplements and antioxidants, he recovered. Now he is one of the few nutrition-first M.D.s.
Getting to the Root of the Problems
Being a researcher at heart, I began to study the principles of good nutrition. The Internet is a good tool, but don’t believe everything you read. I compare several different reference sources and find a consensus. A key to proper use of research is to formulate potential solutions to problems. I was led to papers and books by MD s and Ph.D. s who had researched various aspects of what is behind good and bad health. I found an amazing amount of consistency as well as some conflicting information. But soon the trends and directions were obvious. And it will be obvious to any person willing to do the work. Effort is rewarded.
So I began developing and documenting my own program based on the Science of Natural Hygiene and Holistic as well as more modern moderate approaches to healthy dietary intake.
I am perfecting a practical nutrition plan and hope to offer it to the public soon.
Here is some insight I gained from a famous MIT nutrition professor: "Everything you put into your body except distilled water is a drug." What he meant is everything else has serious effects on some major internal body system including all hormones and enzymes governing voluntary and involuntary functions. Our bodies are over 70% water.
Here are some of the MAJOR agreed upon nutritional points that a majority of researchers from a wide variety of professions have stated:
1. Americans adults consume 3 to 6 times the required amount of animal protein, dairy and fat. Effects on long-term health are toxic and often go unnoticed for years.
2. The human body has evolved little in the last 50 years, yet artificial, processed food consumption has quadrupled. The body’s GI tract, liver, kidneys, pancreas and other organs cannot handle the steady flow of unnatural chemicals and toxins. The body needs a permanent rest from unnatural foods and toxins.
3. Dairy products are for children and not adults. Many experts think they’re bad for children too. Calves drink milk, but cows are vegetarians. The dairy industry lobby and influence suppresses most of the mass-market news and reports that are unfavorable to dairy products. Most dairy products go partially undigested in adults and some children (older than babies) and collect as mucous in the body cavities and intestines, blocking proper absorption of other nutrients, not to mention some of it goes to stored body fat. The calcium and other dairy nutrients are easily supplied from other foods. Children need a lot of protein and calcium as they grow, adults require much less, but dairy sources are not necessary. Furthermore, animal protein blocks the absorption of dairy calcium.
4. The human’s GI tract is structurally and functionally analogous to that of vegetarian mammals, not to a meat-eating animal. This is a simple fact, not conjecture.
5. Over the last 80 years farmers' soils have been depleted of precious minerals and vitamins. This is documented in government reports including with the FDA. More chemicals are needed to make crops grow efficiently. Farmers are not at fault, they are squeezed financially. Cows, chickens and pigs eat what the farmers produce and thus the deficiencies are passed on.
6. Microwaving food is inferior to proper cooking. HIGH settings especially modify nutrient molecules. This information never makes the major news, but is documented in several American and international sources.
7. Most water is polluted with toxins, even "approved" tap water. Only distilled water and rarely some spring water are healthful. Most people don’t drink enough water. A minimum of eight 8-oz glasses of high-quality water is required. Our bodies are over 70% water’, a natural solvent and cleanser. Drinking water during meals dilutes digestive juices and enzymes. Water should be consumed between meals, not with meals.
8. Poor food combining causes some foods to ferment in the body and nutrients can be wasted. For some people with sensitive GI tracts it can lead to disease. There is a whole science on proper food combining with several guidelines. Major ones include eating fruit separately from all other food; don’t combine starches and proteins in the same meal; eat your food in courses, not a bite of this and a bite of that and back and forth. Start with the lightest (greens) and then more complex foods, ending with the most complex protein. There are many papers and books written on this topic and several are on Chet Day’s Health and Beyond website. More on this later, as it is crucial.
9. The Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) often includes about two parts sodium (salt) to one part potassium. University research at M.I.T and University of California have proven that ratio should not only be turned around, but should be at least 5 to 1 in favor of potassium. Before the modern way of American processed foods, people ate more naturally. The human body has not evolved fast enough to handle what the typical American consumes. Just because some people have cast iron stomachs and some decent short-term health is no proof that the S.A.D. is good. Many illnesses and disorders are incorrectly treated with drugs while the food intake is ignored. It so happens that foods with poor sodium (salt) to potassium ratios are usually Appetite Accelerators. That’s right, they actually cause your brain to want more food even though your cellular nutrient needs might be satisfied. They are in fact addictive. The foods with high potassium to sodium ratios tend to be Appetite Satisfiers, or decelerators. Simple carbohydrates, sugar and salt are appetite accelerators.
10. Most foods in their natural state have favorable potassium to sodium ratios. Bananas have a 400 to 1 ratio. Apples 90 to 1. Even chicken and fish without skin and without adding salt have reasonable ratios. Most breakfast cereals have poor ratios and then the manufacturers sprinkle on some powdered vitamins to call them healthful. Granola (good quality with minimal added salt and sugar) and oatmeal (good quality without added salt and sugar) are the some cereals that have healthy ratios.
11. Research has shown that many problems relate to salt (sodium) and sugar addictions. These addictions are very similar to alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and drug addictions. If you have to add salt to your food, you can forget about losing weight and are in for potential health deterioration. Breaking your addiction to salt and sugar will be a big step in health improvement and weight control.
