Simple is always best !

In a former working life, Dr. Jay Wortman was an engineer. Dr Richard Bernstein was an engineer. Bob Krause was an engineer too. Is this just a coincidence? Perhaps not. This is purely anecdotal, but I have found that many of the most creative-thinkers in the area of health and nutrition have a background in engineering. One of the sharpest minds in the blogosphere is Dr. Michael R. Eades. I’m sure you’re aware of his site, and would agree with him on most things regarding diet and health. He too began his career as an engineer. I was an engineer for over twenty years. Engineers are problem solvers and are usually very logical people. So often when something looks right, it is right. Simple is always best and engineers have a sixth sense when something is wrong.


What’s all this got to do with type two diabetes you may be asking yourself. Well, for me controlling type two diabetes is all down to logical thinking. What causes diabetic complications ? High BG. What causes high BG ? carbs, reduce carbs, reduce BG, diabetes sorted. What about the loss of carbs re nutrients ? Carbs such as spuds, rice, pasta and bread etc. low in nutrients, replace with high nutrient foods, problem solved. How logical could that be ? Far too logical for most Doctors and Dietitions etc. it appears. 


These posts were posted on the diabetes.co.uk forum and make a lot of sense to me. Indeed  are highly logical.



“What about IF lots of people are actually malnourished here? all the processing of food and artificial fats, sugars etc MAY be making us deprived of nutrients.


Now, we know that some animals will continually graze in their search for nutrients. Regardless of the amount they eat, until that nutritional requirement is fill, they remain hungry


PERHAPS this is another reason why people continue to eat - because they may have consumed the right amount of calories, but their nutritional requirements are not being fulfilled?


And that isnt greed, its starvation caused by "food" which does not nourish. And we wouldnt consider a starving person who then eats and eats to be a bad person, would we? we would understand the mechanism of malnourishment they are trying to combat.


The problem is, we are taught that these low-fat, over sugared foods are healthy and nourishing, so we add the stress of our bodies knowing we are starving of nourishment coming into conflict with what we are being told, to the problem.”


Another post on the same thread linked below.


 "Wow. What a brilliant insight. That's exactly what Paul Jaminet proposes in his Perfect Health Diet book. 


Five reasons why modern people are malnourished (compared to our Paleolithic ancestors)


Modern life is sedentary, we don't expend as much energy so we don't eat as much food, therefore our nutrient intake is decreased.


Modern foods are nutrient poor compared with Paleolithic foods (sugar, wheat, rice and corn have very few nutrients per calorie)


Agricultural food production and water treatment diminish the mineral content of our food and drink.


Modern cooking methods leave too many nutrients behind (you need to eat all the fat and all the broth from your cooking)


Modern foods contain anti-nutirents that lock up nutrients and toxins and impair intenstinal absorbtion of nutrients (Mmmmm Healthy Wholegrains)


He has some data that suggests that the effects of malnutrition not only damages one owns health, but is magnified in your offspring (so that after 3 or 4 generations some pretty horrible things happen). Google "Pottenger's cats". Malnourished mother's produce children who are prone to obesity and a range of other metabolic weaknesses." 


Last word goes to Sir Heneage Ogilvie, former vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. 


"There are three kinds of foods--fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. All of these provide calories. But the carbohydrates provide calories and nothing else. They have none of the essential elements to build up or to repair the tissues of the body. A man, given carbohydrates alone, however liberally, would starve to death on calories. The body must have proteins and animal fats. It has no need for carbohydrates, and, given the two essential foodstuffs, it can get all the calories it needs from them."


http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30518&p=291653#p291653




Eddie