Fwd: [thechat] Silk?

[.jeff]

erika,

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> From: Judah McAuley
>
> > Soy-eating Asian women have far less breast cancer
> > than us milk-sucking meat-chomping westerners.  I
> > believe their heart disease rate is a lot lower, also.
>
> Soy is only a small part of the risk profile for cancer
> and heart disease.  You could pin the decrease on
> Omega-3 fatty acids from higher fish consumption just
> as easily.  Then there is exercise, fiber, mental
> attitude, etc.
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or, as research and trend-watching at johns hopkins university has shown --
the excessive consumption of carbohydrates, especially those obtained from
refined sugars (and refined wheat).  go take a gander at the label of most
any low-fat/fat-free product on the shelf at the grocery.  compare the
number of grams of carbohydrates between the low-fat/fat-free product and
the same non-low-fat/non-fat-free version of the same product.  in almost
every case you'll see that the grams of carbohydrates is higher on the
low-fat/fat-free version and that those grams come from sugar.  johns
hopkins university found that the number of reported cases of diabetes,
congestive heart failure, and high cholesterol increased noticeably around
the time that refined sugars (and refined flours) were introduced in to the
main-stream diet.  they also found a dramatic increase in the number of
cases with the advent of the low-fat/fat-free trend.  is it any wonder that
people looking to lose weight that consume the low-fat/fat-free food either
maintain their unpleasant weight or continue to gain?

.jeff

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