How to fight desertification and reverse climate change

0:12 -The most massive tsunami perfect storm is bearing down upon us. This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable. Now, this perfect storm that we are facing is the result of our rising population, rising towards 10 billion people, land that is turning to desert, and, of course, climate change.




1:0 -Now there's no question about it at all: we will only solve the problem of replacing fossil fuels with technology. But fossil fuels, carbon -- coal and gas -- are by no means the only thing that is causing climate change.




1:18 - Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert, and this happens only when we create too much bare ground. There's no other cause. And I intend to focus on most of the world's land that is turning to desert.




1:38 - But I have for you a very simple message that offers more hope than you can imagine. We have environments where humidity is guaranteed throughout the year. On those, it is almost impossible to create vast areas of bare ground. No matter what you do, nature covers it up so quickly. And we have environments where we have months of humidity followed by months of dryness, and that is where desertification is occurring. Fortunately, with space technology now, we can look at it from space, and when we do, you can see the proportions fairly well. Generally, what you see in green is not desertifying, and what you see in brown is, and these are by far the greatest areas of the Earth. About two thirds, I would guess, of the world is desertifying.



2:34 - I took this picture in the Tihamah Desert while 25 millimeters -- that's an inch of rain -- was falling. Think of it in terms of drums of water, each containing 200 liters. Over 1,000 drums of water fell on every hectare of that land that day. The next day, the land looked like this. Where had that water gone? Some of it ran off as flooding, but most of the water that soaked into the soil simply evaporated out again, exactly as it does in your garden if you leave the soil uncovered. Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon. Carbon goes back to the atmosphere.




3:26 - Now you're told over and over, repeatedly, that desertification is only occurring in arid and semi-arid areas of the world, and that tall grasslands like this one in high rainfall are of no consequence. But if you do not look at grasslands but look down into them, you find that most of the soil in that grassland that you've just seen is bare and covered with a crust of algae, leading to increased runoff and evaporation. That is the cancer of desertification that we do not recognize till its terminal form.



4:07 - Now we know that desertification is caused by livestock, mostly cattle, sheep and goats, overgrazing the plants, leaving the soil bare and giving off methane. Almost everybody knows this, from nobel laureates to golf caddies, or was taught it, as I was. Now, the environments like you see here, dusty environments in Africa where I grew up, and I loved wildlife, and so I grew up hating livestock because of the damage they were doing. And then my university education as an ecologist reinforced my beliefs.



4:51 - Well, I have news for you. We were once just as certain that the world was flat. We were wrong then, and we are wrong again. And I want to invite you now to come along on my journey of reeducation and discovery.



5:14 - When I was a young man, a young biologist in Africa, I was involved in setting aside marvelous areas as future national parks. Now no sooner — this was in the 1950s — and no sooner did we remove the hunting, drum-beating people to protect the animals, than the land began to deteriorate, as you see in this park that we formed. Now, no livestock were involved, but suspecting that we had too many elephants now, I did the research and I proved we had too many, and I recommended that we would have to reduce their numbers and bring them down to a level that the land could sustain. Now, that was a terrible decision for me to have to make, and it was political dynamite, frankly. So our government formed a team of experts to evaluate my research. They did. They agreed with me, and over the following years, we shot 40,000 elephants to try to stop the damage. And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave. One good thing did come out of it. It made me absolutely determined to devote my life to finding solutions.




6:47 - When I came to the United States, I got a shock, to find national parks like this one desertifying as badly as anything in Africa. And there'd been no livestock on this land for over 70 years. And I found that American scientists had no explanation for this except that it is arid and natural. So I then began looking at all the research plots I could over the whole of the Western United States where cattle had been removed to prove that it would stop desertification, but I found the opposite, as we see on this research station, where this grassland that was green in 1961, by 2002 had changed to that situation. And the authors of the position paper on climate change from which I obtained these pictures attribute this change to "unknown processes."




7:52 - Clearly, we have never understood what is causing desertification, which has destroyed many civilizations and now threatens us globally. We have never understood it. Take one square meter of soil and make it bare like this is down here, and I promise you, you will find it much colder at dawn and much hotter at midday than that same piece of ground if it's just covered with litter, plant litter. You have changed the microclimate. Now, by the time you are doing that and increasing greatly the percentage of bare ground on more than half the world's land, you are changing macroclimate. But we have just simply not understood why was it beginning to happen 10,000 years ago? Why has it accelerated lately? We had no understanding of that.




8:52 - What we had failed to understand was that these seasonal humidity environments of the world, the soil and the vegetation developed with very large numbers of grazing animals, and that these grazing animals developed with ferocious pack-hunting predators. Now, the main defense against pack-hunting predators is to get into herds, and the larger the herd, the safer the individuals. Now, large herds dung and urinate all over their own food, and they have to keep moving, and it was that movement that prevented the overgrazing of plants, while the periodic trampling ensured good cover of the soil, as we see where a herd has passed.




9:47 -This picture is a typical seasonal grassland. It has just come through four months of rain, and it's now going into eight months of dry season. And watch the change as it goes into this long dry season. Now, all of that grass you see aboveground has to decay biologically before the next growing season, and if it doesn't, the grassland and the soil begin to die. Now, if it does not decay biologically, it shifts to oxidation, which is a very slow process, and this smothers and kills grasses, leading to a shift to woody vegetation and bare soil, releasing carbon. To prevent that, we have traditionally used fire. But fire also leaves the soil bare, releasing carbon, and worse than that, burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares of grasslands, and almost nobody is talking about it. We justify the burning, as scientists, because it does remove the dead material and it allows the plants to grow.




11:20 - Now, looking at this grassland of ours that has gone dry, what could we do to keep that healthy? And bear in mind, I'm talking of most of the world's land now. Okay? We cannot reduce animal numbers to rest it more without causing desertification and climate change. We cannot burn it without causing desertification and climate change. What are we going to do? There is only one option, I'll repeat to you, only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable, and to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and mimic nature. There is no other alternative left to mankind.




12:15 - So let's do that. So on this bit of grassland, we'll do it, but just in the foreground. We'll impact it very heavily with cattle to mimic nature, and we've done so, and look at that. All of that grass is now covering the soil as dung, urine and litter or mulch, as every one of the gardeners amongst you would understand, and that soil is ready to absorb and hold the rain, to store carbon, and to break down methane. And we did that, without using fire to damage the soil, and the plants are free to grow.




12:55 - When I first realized that we had no option as scientists but to use much-vilified livestock to address climate change and desertification, I was faced with a real dilemma. How were we to do it? We'd had 10,000 years of extremely knowledgeable pastoralists bunching and moving their animals, but they had created the great manmade deserts of the world. Then we'd had 100 years of modern rain science, and that had accelerated desertification, as we first discovered in Africa and then confirmed in the United States, and as you see in this picture of land managed by the federal government. Clearly more was needed than bunching and moving the animals, and humans, over thousands of years, had never been able to deal with nature's complexity. But we biologists and ecologists had never tackled anything as complex as this. So rather than reinvent the wheel, I began studying other professions to see if anybody had. And I found there were planning techniques that I could take and adapt to our biological need, and from those I developed what we call holistic management and planned grazing, a planning process, and that does address all of nature's complexity and our social, environmental, economic complexity.




14:27 - Today, we have young women like this one teaching villages in Africa how to put their animals together into larger herds, plan their grazing to mimic nature, and where we have them hold their animals overnight -- we run them in a predator-friendly manner, because we have a lot of lands, and so on -- and where they do this and hold them overnight to prepare the crop fields, we are getting very great increases in crop yield as well.




14:54 - Let's look at some results. This is land close to land that we manage in Zimbabwe. It has just come through four months of very good rains it got that year, and it's going into the long dry season. But as you can see, all of that rain, almost of all it, has evaporated from the soil surface. Their river is dry despite the rain just having ended, and we have 150,000 people on almost permanent food aid. Now let's go to our land nearby on the same day, with the same rainfall, and look at that. Our river is flowing and healthy and clean. It's fine. The production of grass, shrubs, trees, wildlife, everything is now more productive, and we have virtually no fear of dry years. And we did that by increasing the cattle and goats 400 percent, planning the grazing to mimic nature and integrate them with all the elephants, buffalo, giraffe and other animals that we have. But before we began, our land looked like that. This site was bare and eroding for over 30 years regardless of what rain we got. Okay? Watch the marked tree and see the change as we use livestock to mimic nature. This was another site where it had been bare and eroding, and at the base of the marked small tree, we had lost over 30 centimeters of soil. Okay? And again, watch the change just using livestock to mimic nature. And there are fallen trees in there now, because the better land is now attracting elephants, etc. This land in Mexico was in terrible condition, and I've had to mark the hill because the change is so profound.




16:59 - (Applause)




17:06 - I began helping a family in the Karoo Desert in the 1970s turn the desert that you see on the right there back to grassland, and thankfully, now their grandchildren are on the land with hope for the future. And look at the amazing change in this one, where that gully has completely healed using nothing but livestock mimicking nature, and once more, we have the third generation of that family on that land with their flag still flying.




17:39 - The vast grasslands of Patagonia are turning to desert as you see here. The man in the middle is an Argentinian researcher, and he has documented the steady decline of that land over the years as they kept reducing sheep numbers. They put 25,000 sheep in one flock, really mimicking nature now with planned grazing, and they have documented a 50-percent increase in the production of the land in the first year.




18:10 - We now have in the violent Horn of Africa pastoralists planning their grazing to mimic nature and openly saying it is the only hope they have of saving their families and saving their culture. Ninety-five percent of that land can only feed people from animals.




18:29 - I remind you that I am talking about most of the world's land here that controls our fate, including the most violent region of the world, where only animals can feed people from about 95 percent of the land. What we are doing globally is causing climate change as much as, I believe, fossil fuels, and maybe more than fossil fuels. But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying. And if this continues, we are unlikely to be able to stop the climate changing, even after we have eliminated the use of fossil fuels.




19:23 - I believe I've shown you how we can work with nature at very low cost to reverse all this. We are already doing so on about 15 million hectares on five continents, and people who understand far more about carbon than I do calculate that, for illustrative purposes, if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people. I can think of almost nothing that offers more hope for our planet, for your children, and their children, and all of humanity.




20:23 - Thank you.




20:27 - (Applause) Thank you. (Applause)




20:48 - Thank you, Chris.


20:50 - Chris Anderson: Thank you. I have, and I'm sure everyone here has, A) a hundred questions, B) wants to hug you. I'm just going to ask you one quick question. When you first start this and you bring in a flock of animals, it's desert. What do they eat? How does that part work? How do you start?




21:09 - Allan Savory: Well, we have done this for a long time, and the only time we have ever had to provide any feed is during mine reclamation, where it's 100 percent bare. But many years ago, we took the worst land in Zimbabwe, where I offered a £5 note in a hundred-mile drive if somebody could find one grass in a hundred-mile drive, and on that, we trebled the stocking rate, the number of animals, in the first year with no feeding, just by the movement, mimicking nature, and using a sigmoid curve, that principle. It's a little bit technical to explain here, but just that.




21:48 - CA: Well, I would love to -- I mean, this such an interesting and important idea. The best people on our blog are going to come and talk to you and try and -- I want to get more on this that we could share along with the talk.AS: Wonderful.




21:59 - CA: That is an astonishing talk, truly an astonishing talk, and I think you heard that we all are cheering you on your way. Thank you so much.AS: Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chris.




22:09 - (Applause)

Twenty-Four Hour Total and Dietary Fat Oxidation in Lean, Obese andReduced-Obese Adults with and without a Bout of Exercise

Background

It has been hypothesized that obese and reduced-obese individuals have decreased oxidative capacity, which contributes to weight gain and regain. Recent data have challenged this concept.

Objective

To determine (1) whether total and dietary fat oxidation are decreased in obese and reduced-obese adults compared to lean but increase in response to an acute exercise bout and (2) whether regular physical activity attenuates these metabolic alterations.

Design

We measured 24-hr total (whole-room calorimetry) and dietary fat (14C-oleate) oxidation in Sedentary Lean (BMI = 21.5±1.6; n = 10), Sedentary Obese (BMI = 33.6±2.5; n = 9), Sedentary Reduced-Obese (RED-SED; BMI = 26.9±3.7; n = 7) and in Physically Active Reduced-Obese (RED-EX; BMI = 27.3±2.8; n = 12) men and women with or without an acute exercise bout where energy expended during exercise was not replaced.

Results

Although Red-SED and Red-EX had a similar level of fatness, aerobic capacity and metabolic profiles were better in Red-EX only compared to Obese subjects. No significant between-group differences were seen in 24-hr respiratory quotient (RQ, Lean: 0.831±0.044, Obese: 0.852±0.023, Red-SED: 0.864±0.037, Red-EX: 0.842±0.039), total and dietary fat oxidation. A single bout of exercise increased total (+27.8%, p<0.0001) and dietary (+6.6%, p = 0.048) fat oxidation across groups. Although exercise did not impact RQ during the day, it decreased RQ during sleep (p = 0.01) in all groups. Red-EX oxidized more fat overnight than Red-SED subjects under both resting (p = 0.036) and negative energy balance (p = 0.003) conditions, even after adjustment for fat-free mass.

Conclusion

Obese and reduced-obese individuals oxidize as much fat as lean both under eucaloric and negative energy balance conditions, which does not support the hypothesis of reduced oxidative capacity in these groups. Reduced-obese individuals who exercise regularly have markers of metabolic health similar to those seen in lean adults. Both the acute and chronic effects of exercise were primarily observed at night suggesting an important role of sleep in the regulation of lipid metabolism.

Read the whole artikel

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0094181

Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease

by Sayer Ji

Now that celiac disease has been allowed official entry into the annals of established medical conditions, and gluten intolerance is no longer entirely a fringe medical concept, the time has come to draw attention to the powerful little chemical in wheat known as 'wheat germ agglutinin' (WGA) which is largely responsible for many of wheat's pervasive, and difficult-to-diagnose, ill effects. Not only does WGA throw a monkey wrench into our assumptions about the primary causes of wheat intolerance, it also pulls the rug out from under one of the health food industry's favorite poster children since high concentrations of WGA is found in "whole wheat," including its supposedly superior sprouted form.  Below the radar of conventional serological testing for antibodies against various gluten proteins and genetic testing for disease susceptibility, the WGA "lectin problem" remains almost entirely obscured. Lectins, though found in all grains, seeds, legumes, dairy and our beloved nightshades: the tomato and potato, are rarely connected with health or illness, even when their consumption may greatly reduce both the quality and length of our lives.

Read the whole artikel here

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/opening-pandoras-bread-box-critical-role-wheat-lectin-human-disease

episode #113 of Bulletproof Radio, Dr. Shanahan talks taking the LALakers from nachos to charcuterie - one step at a time.

https://www.facebook.com/bulletproofexecutive/posts/640639956002654

Smart Nutrition for Better Immune System

MP3 - http://dishingupnutrition.podbean.com/mf/web/wwspqv/dun_smart_nutrition_better_immune_function.mp3

www - http://www.weightandwellness.com

January 23 2010

Filed under: Health & Nutrition — dishingupnutrition @ 1:21 pm

Today’s show is all about the immune system and which foods supercharge your health and which foods suppress it. Licensed Nutritionists Darlene Kvist and Anna Derhak discuss how your serotonin and zinc levels affect both your immune system and eating habits. Also, Dar and Anna talk about the importance of vitamin D to your health and happiness!

02:10 - what you eat will affect your immune system

• fungicide is decreased for 5 hours after eating Sugar. Under a microscope they move in slow motion)

• Robert Crayhon: -What cryptonite is to Superman. Sugar is to our immune cells.

(Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple: A Comprehensive Guide to the Latest Findings in Optimal Nutrition)

06:25 - what suppresses your immune system:

• Sugar

• Alcohol
• Lack of sleep
• Lack of protein (ex Zink)

07:45 - stuffy nose after consuming Beer, (feels like a cold is coming on). This is due to yeast.

10:08 - Foods that boost the immunsystem

• Blueberry
• Brussels sprouts
• Kale
• Bell pepper
• Broccoli

• Tomatoes

13:49 - Healing the intestinal track

• Pro Biotic
• Bifital Bacteria
• Acidophilus , at bedtime, to get rid of candida

• Eliminate Sugar
• Digestive Enzyme, and little Hydrochloric acid

16:28 - Extrapolating from a In Vitro study into a Invivo study is a slippery slope. Many lab studies don't translate into human clinical studies

19:00 - Zink (73% is deficient in Zink)

• Body signs that tells you that you are low in Zinc
• Frequent colds
• Acne
• Slow wound healing
• Hair loss
• White spots on fingernails
• Fatigue
• Loss of taste
• Thyroid problem
• High sugar cravings right after a meal

25:00 - Whey Protein, comes from dairy

• Anti Viral
• Anti Bacterial
• Anti oxidant

26:00 - Vitamin-D

• Cancer protection
• Heart protection
• Immune function

• Protects against Colds

• Protects against Viruses
• Optimal range 50-100
• Sardines
• Grass fed butter
• Coded liver oil

32:20 - Zink

• 30-50 milligrams (if you are deficient)

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35:20 - Trans fats

• Pizza
• Muffin
• French fries
• Anything with partially hydrogenated fats or hydrogenated fats

40:25 - superhero fats

• Grass fed butter
• Coconut oil
• Olive oil
• Nuts
• 50 % if the cell membrane is Saturated fat That's in coconut oil or butter

End

Compared With Usual Sodium Intake, Low- and Excessive- Sodium Diets AreAssociated With Increased Mortality: A Meta-Analysis

http://m.ajh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/03/26/ajh.hpu028.1.full.pdf

conclusions

Both low sodium intakes and high sodium intakes are associated with increased mortality, consistent with a U-shaped association between sodium intake and health outcomes.
doi:10.1093/ajh/hpu028 

Dr Terry Wahls: The Wahls Protocol, how to reverse Multiple Sclerosis

http://fatburningman.com/dr-terry-wahls-the-wahls-protocol/
http://traffic.libsyn.com/fatburningman/Terry_Wahls.mp3


Minding Your Mitochondria: Dr. Terry Wahls at TEDxIowaCity
http://youtu.be/KLjgBLwH3Wc

Person:
Dr Terry Wahls

Books:
The Whals Protocol

00:35 - so often the truth about health, is controlled by gatekeepers

• TED Talk with a huge red warning

02:08 - healing yourself using real food

• Dr Terry Wahls, heal yourself from multiple sclerosis through food

05:15 - 1/3 of people with MS within 10 years have some level of grave disability. 1/2 of such a severe fatigue that they have to leave the workforce.

14:05 - how did you eat before this

• Vegan for 15 years

• Grew up on a farm (not organic) plenty of conventional Pesticides, Herbicides etc

17:00 - 2007 sitting in a wheelchair, presumably for the rest of the life, what happen next

• Pubmed studies

• Mitochondria is key

• Adding Vitamin

22:55 - Discovered Loren Cordaian's work and started eating Meat after that

23:55 - Now the Magic starts to happen, (when doing:)

• Electrical therapy (november)
• Functional medicines Vitamins and supplements (november-December)
• Food plan

• Walking without a cane (March)

• Riding a bike for the first time in 6 years (May)

25:35 - MS (Multiple Sclerosis) is not something that normally happens

• Secondary progressive MS (Multiple Sclerosis)

26:45 - What does science have to say about this recovery

• 3 neurologist has confirmed MS (from one of the internationally recognised best MS hospital) but still Doctors think it was misdiagnosed. (since she recovered by food)
• Over 100 studies, but we don't know what are the factor that cause MS

30:45 - Other results with this diet (the Wahls Diet) other than MS

• Parkinson's disease

• Febrile myalgia

• ETC

35:40 - What is the Wahls diet?

• Plate full of green leaves
• Plate full of sulfur rich vegetables
• Plate full of bright color

• High quality Protein (e.g. Grass fed beef, wild fish, organ meat, seaweed)

36:53 - Why do this work?

• If we eat a lot of Sugar, High fructose corn syrup, white flower, we are going to be missing the building blocks necessary to have our Biocemestry happen properly, blocks necessary to have our Biochemistry happen properly.

• Broken chemistry is the beginning of every disease process

• The Paleo diet are very superior to the standard American diet, but...

41:00 - Why Sulfur rich foods

43:30 - Why are we all getting fat/Sick?

• Inflammation

• Missing building blocks

If You’ve Ever Eaten Pizza Before, This Will Blow Your Mind (MaybeLiterally)

http://foodbabe.com/2014/03/23/if-youve-ever-eaten-pizza-before-this-will-blow-your-mind/

By Food Babe

Study - Saturated Fats Dont Cause Heart Disease

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-13011/study-saturated-fats-dont-cause-heart-disease.html


We’ve been told for years that consuming greasy foods will lead us to an early grave. The explanation that saturated fats cause premature death by clogging our arteries and destroying our hearts is a popular story. In this vein of thinking, many physicians continue to advocate for the “heart-healthy” low saturated fat diet. However, times are changing, and the body of evidence no longer supports this hypothesis.


A landmark study, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, reviewed the body of evidence substantiating these fat-phobic claims, looking at more than 500,000 people and their risk of heart disease from fat intake. The results are extraordinary.


Read the whole story
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-13011/study-saturated-fats-dont-cause-heart-disease.html






Annals of Internal Medicine
Association of Dietary, Circulating, and Supplement Fatty Acids With Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis


Background: Guidelines advocate changes in fatty acid consumption to promote cardiovascular health.
Purpose: To summarize evidence about associations between fatty acids and coronary disease.




Read the whole report
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638&atab=7

Huvudvärk och Gluten!

Abstract:

Dietary factors are known triggers for migraine headaches. The most commonly implicated foods are wheat and dairy products. We present a case study of a patient with a 30-year history of debilitating migraine headaches who showed no benefit from various pharmaceutical interventions. Special panels for gluten and cross- reactive foods and a multiple autoimmune reactivity screen revealed significantly high levels of antibodies against wheat proteomes, transglutaminase, and dairy-related antigens. Not only did the implementation of a gluten-free and dairy-free diet result in an amelioration of the migraine headache symptomatology, the clinical improvements correlated with a significant decline in the levels of a majority of the previously elevated anti-bodies. This finding indicates that diet plays a significant role in a subgroup of patients with migraine headaches.

http://www.drperlmutter.com/study/association-headache-sensitivities-gluten-dairy/

The Sad Saga of Saturated Fat by By Jeff Volek and Steve Phinney 14 May / 2013

Here’s a fascinating paradox.  Over the last 4 decades, nutrition policy makers have increasingly exhorted us to eat less saturated fat.  As a result of this unremitting message, the general population believes this single nutrient, if not overtly toxic, will at least cause wide-spread bodily damage.  Additionally, foods that naturally contain saturated fat (e.g., beef, pork, dairy, eggs, and tropical oils) have been branded ‘unhealthy’.   The paradox here is that as the drum-beat against saturated fats has increased, the actual science supporting this message has fallen into shambles.  So here’s our question:  should we all just be good citizens and swallow this advice, even if the science behind it no longer pasts muster?

Two generations of researchers have tried to prove that eating saturated fat causes heart disease.  Rather than growing stronger, as would be the case if this hypothesis were rock-solid, increasingly the scientific data is painting a picture more akin to ‘low fat Swiss cheese’ (i.e., not much there besides the holes). Take, for example, multiple recent meta-analyses of large populations followed carefully for decades, examining what they eat and what they die of [1-4]   All show no consistent association between dietary saturated fat intake and risk for heart disease or death from all causes.  In fact some of these studies show just the opposite – an inverse association of dietary saturated fat intakes and atherosclerosis or stroke.  Interestingly, they also suggest that one’s risk for a coronary event increases when dietary saturated fat is reduced and replaced by carbohydrate.

Here’s the problem as we see it.  By continuing to provoke fear about the harmful effects of saturated fat, the likely response is that people will seek out foods low in fat and higher in carbohydrate. And in reality, that’s exactly what appears to be happening.  According to a government-funded survey [5], Americans have decreased their consumption of saturated fat and replaced those calories with an even greater amount of carbohydrate.  This dietary flip-flop of trading away saturated fat and replacing it with carbohydrate has occurred in the same time interval as rates of obesity and diabetes have rocketed skywards.  This might be coincidence, or more likely it’s an extremely unfortunate unintended consequence.

Read More
http://www.artandscienceoflowcarb.com/the-sad-saga-of-saturated-fat/



Link

PubMed - Impact of buttermilk consumption on plasma lipids and surrogate markers of cholesterol homeostasis in men and women

CONCLUSION:

Buttermilk consumption may be associated with reduced cholesterol concentrations in men and women, primarily through inhibition of intestinal absorption of cholesterol.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23786821

Jeff Volek - The Many Facets of Keto-Adaptation: Health, Performance

01:14 - Jeff Volek have been study Low Carbbohydrate Diets for about 15 years (since about 1998)

02:17 - Why don't these diets get more publicity

03:35 - Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of Low-Carb High-fat Nutrition

• 16'000 studies was reviewed  over a 2 year period

05:37 - The Problem

• 1/3 of Americans are Obese
• 200 Billion Dollars are spent annually on Obesity
   

06:00 - Exercise and Weight loss:

• Claude Bouchard and Angelo Tremblay
• J Nutr. 1997 May;127(5 Suppl):943S-947S. Review
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9164270
• http://jn.nutrition.org/content/127/5/943S.long (Full Text)

• Small but very, very controlled Study

• Twins exercise twice a day

11:55 - Personalized Nutrition... Where to start

• Carbohydrate
• Insulin control access to the fat cells, Insulin is tied to carbohydrates

15:25 - about 200 Kcal/day extra in Carbohydrate

16:00 - Total Sugar in the blood stream at any moment, Answer: 8 Grams or 2 teaspoons

17:40 - Lipogenesis (lipogenesis the formation of fat from non fat sources)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogenesis

Lipogenesis is the process by which acetyl-CoA is converted to fatty acids

18:45 - Insulin Resistance = Carbohydrate Intolerance

• Diabetes = Side Effect of Consuming too Much Carbohydrate relative to a Person's Tolerance

21:50 - The A to Z Study (Gardner et al. JAMA 2007)

• http://www.math.hope.edu/stats/articles/weight-loss.pdf

22:20 - Carbohydrate Metabolism Vs Fat-based Metabolism

• Fatty Acid / Ketone Metabolism
• Regression of cancer tumours
• Life Extension
• Reduce Oxidative Stress
• More or Less Anti Aging

24:45 - Insulin is the most Important Physiological inhibition of lipolysis

• Jenson et al. Diabetes 38:1591-1601, 1989
• http://www.nmsociety.org/docs/diabetes/irdaeba_pt1.pdf
• Eating Carbohydrate locks you into glucose-dependent metabolism

26:00 - Ketosis and the Brain

• when in Ketosis 50% of the brain's energy comes from Ketones
• when in Ketosis 40% of the brain's energy comes from Glucose
• when in Ketosis 10% of the brain's energy comes from Acetoacetate
• The brain uses about 600 kcal/day

28:25 - Ketone Terminology

• Ketones

• Ketosis

• Nutritional Ketosis

• Ketoacidosis

• Keto adaptation
   

• Unless you are Type 1 diabetic you don't have to worry about Ketoacidosis

29:48 - The Ketone Zone

30:55 - Keto-adaptation dramatically alters the hypoglycemic threshold
32:20 - Ketones don't generate as many free radicals

34:50 - Science of Low Carbohydrate Diets

35:25 - Low carbohydrate diets are more likely to affect global improvement in markers associated with metabolic syndrome (Forsythe et al. 2008)

• Body Mass

• Ab Fat
• TG (Triglycerides)
• TG AUC

• HDL

• TG/HDL

• ApoB/ApoA-1
• Small LDL
• Glu
• Insulin
• HOMA
• Leptin
• Total SFA

37:15 - Dietary Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

• No correlation

• if you replace the fat with Carbohydrate the risk Increases for Heart Disease

38:50 - Plasma Saturated fat Predicts Heart Disease

40:00 - Comparison of low fat and low carbohydrate diets on circulating fatty acid composition and markers of inflammation (Lipids. 2008 Jan;43(1):65-77. Epub 2007 Nov 29.)

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18046594

• Despite being higher in Saturated Fat, a Low Carbohydrate diet decreased circulating levels of SFA

41:30 - On a Low Carbohydrate diet the Saturated fat is digested into Co2 (Carbon dioxide) and H20 (Water)

• The effect of Dietary Saturated fats are are highly dependent on the carbohydrate that you eat with the fat

• Dietary Saturated fat has very little to do with Correlation with Plasma levels of saturated fat (fat stored on the body)

42:30 - With Ketogenic Diet you can Prevent and reverse Type 2 Diabetes. Middle east has the highest rates of Diabetes, almost twice the rate of America

43:20 - Ketogenic Diet and Cancer

44:17 - Ketogenic diet as a treatment paradigm for diverse neurological disorders

• Epilepsy

• Aging
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Parkinson's Disease

• Mitochondrial Disorders
• Brain Trauma

• Autism

• Migraine

• Depression
• Wound Healing

45:50 - Tim Olsen Wins 2012 Western State 100 with time 14 hours 46 minutes (track record)

46:25 - F.A.S.T.E.R (Fat Adapted Substrate oxidation in Trained Elite Runners)

47:41 - Peak Fat Burning (grams/minute) maximum value was believed to be 1.0

• High level Ketogenic athlete performs, 1.8 grams/minute (Off the chart, the chart only goes to 1.2 science 1.0 is Maximum)

SBU - Mat Vid Fetma - Sidan 18

„SBU. Mat vid fetma. En systematisk litteraturöversikt. Stockholm: Statens beredning för medicinsk utvärdering (SBU); 2013. SBU-rapport nr 218. ISBN 978-91-85413-59-1.


Mat Vid Fetma Sidan 18




Insjuknande i typ 2-diabetes.
Personer med fetma har kraftigt ökad risk för diabetes. Risken att insjukna i diabetes är lägre hos dem som dricker alkohol och hos dem som dricker mycket kaffe, men den är högre hos dem som dricker söta drycker. Däremot leder inte råd om lågfettkost till minskad risk att insjukna i diabetes jämfört med råd om en kost med standardinnehåll av fett, bland kvinnor med fetma som har passerat klimakteriet.

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