Wow, I thought we'd bludgeoned this one to death! Guess not. Having said that, I'll jump in. I've read (casually -- came across them more or less by accident) recent opinions that it is refined sugars in particular that are harmful. Here, for example (the blogger is a retired British MD who more often comments on British social decay):
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/47949/cat_id/13 I a priori discount the "caveman" argument for the "paleo diet" argument since that is obviously to argue the conjectural by the largely imaginary -- we have no idea really how our most ancient hunter gatherer ancestors lived. But enough people seem to do better eating very little carb and a lot of fat and protein for me to discount it altogether. The few Inuit I knew 30 years ago certainly weren't fat -- slight, rather. On the other hand, too many more people have thrived on diets composed largely of grains (even refined grains) and other carbs (white rice, white potatoes, manioc, corn, not to mention wheat, rye, oats, sorghum, millet, quinoa, teff, what have you) to allow one to logically discount carbs of one sort or another as a normal part of human diet. Even some hunter gatherers eat a lot of carbs sometimes. My own take from this is that diet is like saddle preference and adjustment: you can give certain general rules (don't raise your saddle so high you need to tippy toe to reach the pedal; don't make your diet principally of obvious junk) but that beyond this, it is foolish to think that one kind of food will best suit every person. I daresay different ethnic groups have developed affinities for different diets. [A tangent to Dalrymple's essay is his reference to a late 18th or very early 19th century tome on "corpulency" that might be a refreshing "alternate take" on at least the social and personal issues involved. http://books.google.com/books/about/Comments_on_corpulency_Lineaments_of_lea.html?id=7FFT9sBdsWYC The author of that one recounts a patient, a sporting man, whose weight rose from 14 to 20 stone -- it was getting hard for him to be active. He asked for a pill. The doctor, Wade found out that he drank 4 gallons of ale a day -- and decided he'd rather be fat than give up his ale.] -- __________________________________________________________________________ BUSINESS BUILDING COME-ON!! $300 off a $600 resume + letter or Linked In profile package with referral that leads to full price sale! Refer two full-pay clients and you get the package for free! I am not cheap, but I am very good. So they say. Patrick Moore, Ph.D, MBA, ACRW, Albuquerque, NM, USA http://resumespecialties.com/index.html * patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com __________________________________________________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
