Time to get out of the cave and head into the garden! Posted by Staff (04/08/2011 @ 3:23 pm) 
The evolution of the male’s diet has led us to a small selection of testosterone approved vegetarian recipes. We found a list of easy vegetarian food for even the most manly of appetites! Follow the link for easy healthy recipes. The Conquistador John Deere Sandwich Smoking Barrel Burritos 4×4 Pizza Posted in: Diets, Food preparation, Obesity, Testosterone, Uncategorized, Weight Loss Tags: easy meal recipes, easy recipes, health, healthy diet, healthy food, male's diet, man's diet, vegetarian, vegetarian diet, weight loss
Thumbs up review of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price, DDS Posted by Mike Furci (03/08/2010 @ 2:27 am) Nutritional and Physical Degeneration is one of the most ground-breaking books ever written on the link between nutrition and health. Dr. Weston A. Price, a dentist from Cleveland, became very disturbed by what he saw in his patients. He started to see a link between the decay he found in the mouths of his patients and pathologies found elsewhere in the body like diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, gastrointestinal complaints, and more. Dr. Price also found that crowded, crooked teeth were becoming more and more common, along with facial deformities like overbites, narrow faces, lack of well defined cheek bones, and underdevelopment of the nose. Dr. Price did not believe these problems to be in any way normal; He believed they were the result of poor nutrition. The worse a person?s diet was the more decay he found in their mouth. The more decay a person had in their mouth, the higher the rate of pathologies in other areas of the body. More than 70 years ago Dr. Price decided to search the world for primitive people who lived entirely on indigenous foods. His travels took him from islands in the South Seas to Alaska to Africa and many places in between. He visited Australian Aborigines, Swiss villages, Eskimos, traditional American Indians, Amoazonian Indians, African tribes, and more. Dr. Price and his wife Florence traveled for ten years during the 1920’s and 30’s when groups of people completely isolated from civilization could be found. Throughout his travels, Dr. Price kept a record of his findings with pictures and detailed assessments. What he found, to be called astounding, is an understatement. Dr, Price discovered that primitive people untouched by civilization, who subsided on a diet of indigenous food, had outstanding physical development with little to no dental problems, heart disease, diabetes, or any other diseases we know believe to be a normal consequence of life. Dr. Price?s findings were not surprising to other investigators and explorers. However, the excepted explanation at the time was that primitive people were ?racially pure? and that the maladies we see in civilization were due to ?race mixing?. This theory was untenable to Dr. Price who found that the individuals in groups he studied who abandoned their traditional diets for foods provided by traders or missionaries, or who moved to a more civilized area were found to develop tooth decay and degenerative conditions. The diets of these primitive groups of people were vastly different. Some were mostly cooked food while in others most of the food was consumed raw including animal sources. Some diets were based on sea food, others on domestic animals and others on wild game. Some diets were based on dairy while others consumed a variety of fruits and vegetables and grains. The common thread between all the groups Dr. Price investigated was none of them contained any refined devitalized foods like white sugar, flour, pasteurized or skim milk, and refined or hydrogenated vegetable oils. All the diets contained animal foods of some type and some salt. Dr. Price analyzed the primitive diets and found they all contained four times the amount of water soluble vitamins and minerals, and ten times the amount of fat soluble vitamins compared to the modern American diet. Unfortunately, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the permanent record of his travels, is nonexistent to today?s modern medical community. This book is more important to our health and welfare today than it was 60 years ago. Our food supply, if it could be classified as food, is devoid of almost all nutritive value. We need to incorporate the fundamentals of primitive nutrition and return to nutrient dense whole food. We need to get back to local farming and turn away from manmade supermarket garbage that is destroying our health. Anyone interested in becoming truly healthy needs to read Nutrition and physical degeneration Posted in: Anti-Aging, Book Reviews, Cancer, Cholesterol, Cholesterol levels, Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease, Diabetes, Diets, Food preparation, Foods products, Heart disease, Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition, Obesity, Vitamin D, Vitamins/Minerals, Xternal Fitness, Xternal Furci Tags: Adkin's diet, animal fat and cholesterol, Best food for men, book review, Book Reviews, boys food, Calories in food, Cholesterol, Cholesterol Levels, diet, Diet advice, Diet and building muscle, Diet and exercise advice, Diet tips, Diets, Dr. Weston A. 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Reduce your risk of cancer Posted by Mike Furci (10/19/2009 @ 11:41 pm) Did you know if you want to reduce your risk of cancer, you should join a study. Promoters of vegetarianism have been singing the praises of a report on two studies in the British Journal of Cancer. The report notes two prospective studies, the Epic-Oxford cohort and the Oxford Vegetarian study, examining cancer incidence among vegetarians. The report studied 61566 British men and women, comprising 32403 meat eaters, 8562 non-meat eaters who ate fish and 20601 vegetarians. The average follow-up was 12.2 years. Vegetarians had less bladder, stomach and blood cancer than meat and fish eaters. However vegetarians had higher rates of colon, rectal and cervical cancers. These numbers as with many studies are deceiving.
According to this report the chance of a meat eater developing bladder cancer is 1 in 518; for vegetarians it was 1 in 1677; for fish eaters it was 1 in 1400. Even though the report shows meat eaters are over three times more likely to develop bladder cancer, it?s still only a .19% chance. Your chance of developing cervical cancer if you?re a meat eater was 1 in 1982; for fish eaters it?s 1 in 890; for vegetarians it?s 1 in 948. Judging by this report, a vegetarian female is twice as likely to develop cervical cancer compared to her meat eating amigo, but still only a .10% chance. The play on numbers in this report is inexcusable but all too common. The differences in the various cancer rates between the 3 groups overall were insignificant; however the fish eaters were found to have the largest reduced cancer risk. Curiously, which you don?t see reported in mainstream sources, there was no difference found in all cause mortality between the diet groups. However, all the diet groups had a 50% less reduced risk of all cause mortality compared to the general population. Hmmmm. In another analysis of two studies, the Oxford Vegetarian Study and the Health Food Shoppers Study, researchers compared the mortality of vegetarians and non-vegetarians. Mortality rates were 52% and 59% of the general population respectively. However, strangely unreported by vegetarians, there was no difference in mortality rates between vegetarians and non-vegetarians in either study. Researchers concluded that the benefits found in the subjects of both studies compared to the general population may be attributed to non-dietary factors. Posted in: Anti-Aging, Cancer, Diets, Foods products, Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition Tags: American Cancer Society, American Vegetarian Society, become vegetarian, bladder cancer, breast cancer, Cancer, cancer causes and symptoms, cancer research, cancer risk by state, cancer statistics, colon cancer, colon cancer warning signs, diet, disadvantages of being vegetarian, Headlines, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, the Epic-Oxford cohort, the Health Food Shoppers Study, the Oxford Vegetarian study, vegetarian diet, vegetarian food
One more nail in the vegan diet coffin, but they’re not the only group at risk Posted by Mike Furci (10/02/2009 @ 2:10 pm) Vitamin B12 is known as the ?energy vitamin,? and it is essential for many critical functions in your body, including energy production, supporting your immune system, and helping to regulate the formation of red blood cells. Recent studies from the US Framingham trial show that one in four adults in the US are deficient in this vitally important nutrient and nearly half of the population has suboptimal blood levels. Bioavailable (absorbable) Vitamin B12 is present only in animal sources of food, which is one of the many reasons to stay away from a strict vegetarian or a vegan diet. In India, which is primarily a vegetarian based culture, current studies show about 80% of the adults are deficient in vitamin B12. But vegetarians are not the only ones at risk. The older you get the more likely you are to have a vitamin B12 deficiency. The two ways that you become deficient in vitamin B12 are from not getting enough in your diet and from losing the ability to absorb it. The older you get the more your digestive system breaks down, especially if you have been following the standard American diet. Specifically the lining of your stomach gradually loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid which releases vitamin B 12 from your food. The use of antacids or anti ulcer drugs will also lower your stomach acid secretion and decrease your ability to absorb vitamin B 12. Infection with Helicobactor pylori, a common contributor to stomach ulcers, can also result in vitamin B12 deficiency. However the main cause of vitamin B 12 deficiency is a term researchers call food-cobalamin malabsorption syndrome. Cobalamin is the scientific term for vitamin B12. This typically results when your stomach lining loses its ability to produce intrinsic factor which is a protein that binds to vitamin B12 and allows your body to absorb it at the end of your small intestine. Mercola.com Posted in: Anti-Aging, Diets, Foods products, Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition, Supplements, Vitamins/Minerals Tags: B12, B12 deficiency, B12 injections, benefits of a vegan diet, causes of B12 deficiency, disadvantages of being vefetarian, Headlines, signs of vitamin B12 deficiency, sublingual B12, Vegan diet, vegan food, vegetarian, vegetarian diet, vitamin B12, vitamin B12 deficiency, vitamin B12 injections, vitmanin B12 deficiency symptoms, what causes vitamin B12 deficiency
Vegan diet not an option Posted by Mike Furci (09/01/2009 @ 10:57 am) In a December Q & A, there was a questioin about a comparison between a vegan diet and the American Diabetes Associations diet for controlling diabetes. The question was raised after a reader read about a particular study advocating a vegan diet for controlling blood sugar levels. The study claims a vegan diet works as well, if not better than the standard diet for diabetics.
I think you will find the response very interesting. A case is made against eating a vegan diet for any reason. The reader is informed about the anatomy of herbivores as compared to omnivores which is what humans are. The following is a sample from the Q & A column: Myth: You can obtain vitamin B12 from plant sources. Fact: One can only obtain B12 analogues (similar structure) from plant sources. The problem with these analogues is they are not bioavailable, which means our bodies cannot use them. Myth: Vegetarians/Vegans live longer. Fact: There is no scientific proof of this whatsoever. The few studies that have reported a longer life span among vegetarians have been shown to be “misinterpreted” to support a politically correct view.
It is important to note that not too long ago a vegan diet was not even an option. Without modern day supplements and food enrichment it was not possible for a human to survive on such a diet. Too many essential nutrients are lacking To see the entire column go here. Posted in: Diets, Men's Health and Wellness, Nutrition Tags: American Diabetes Association, American Vegetarian Society, benefits of a vegan diet, do vegans live longer?, Herbivores, Omnivores, Vegan, Vegan diet, vegan diet caompared to Amercian Diabetes Association Diet, vegan diet for controlling blood sugar, vegetarian diet, Vegetarians, vitamin B12
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