What’s the Healthiest Diet?
Apr 23, 2010 in
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We know it’s a plant-based diet, but how much emphasis on starches versus veggies? Two medical giants, John McDougall MD and Joel Fuhrman MD, discuss and debate the question. More video and full talks at www.vegsource.com and click on STORE
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25 comments
daskitso on February 14, 2010 at 2:45 am
One major reason that Americans can’t eat the same diet as other countries is because the USDA pumps our food full of unnecessary vitamins & steroids. US Rice is coated w/ flour (Fortified)laced w/ vitamins. Read the packages. Asian rice does not put any additives on their rice! Asians that come to the US have larger children that those born in Asia because of the vitamins we engineer into foods. If we take all the crap out of the food, we’ll begin to get healthier. & they wonder why we get fat!
acfacf4321 on February 15, 2010 at 10:16 pm
@Stonewalljackson7 – The French don’t snack. That’s the secret.
Stonewalljackson7 on February 15, 2010 at 10:28 pm
aluminum is in cheese for sure. I know all about walford, i’m doing doing a limited form of CR. the only proven way to extend life, not cheese. any benefits cheese has is negated by its negatives.
almxx on February 17, 2010 at 12:48 am
I think you have fulfilled your function after you have had your life experiences, and then leave this planet. All else is supposition.
almxx on February 17, 2010 at 12:53 am
WE are more physically active than cavemen? They had no public transportation. They even had to walk to the gym for their workouts.
daytonadudenheimer on February 18, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Nobody knows what the perfect human diet is…this video is a good example.
I can’t base my life around a diet that someone claims is the best, when everyone is claiming something different.
The only thing I can be sure of are the cultures that Weston A Price studied who ate primitive, unproccessed whole foods, and did not suffer from the health problems that plague our society today. The cultures he studied had wide cheekbones and jaws, wide palates, and perfect teeth into old age.
daytonadudenheimer on February 18, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Search google for “guts and grease” click on the first result…and see what the diet that has been sustaining the Native American cultures in perfect health is.
In terms of diet, I’d rather hang my hat on the diet of a culture that has been thriving for thousands of years.
From extensively researching and expirementing with diet for years now, the best diet I’ve found is a 100% organic grain free, dairy free diet devoid of proccessed food.
2012stargirl on February 22, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Only live plant based foods give life to the body. Dead foods bring death upon the body . Can you ride a dead horse?…What makes you think dead animal flesh will nourish your body and give if life ? . Meat contains 0 fibre, its full of saturated fat, and it clogs the arteries. Foods which come from the seed (fruits vegetables , sprouted seeds are the foods which give life to the body..meat does NOT.
Mentat1231 on February 23, 2010 at 11:40 am
@2012stargirl
What about nutritious starches, like sweet potato? The Okinawans ate an almost all-sweet-potato diet, and now have the highest concentration of centenarians who are active and vital.
Sweet potatoes are not eaten uncooked, and yet they imparted long, healthy lives to the Okinawans.
Why?
fatturdburger on March 8, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I eat what ever I want & stay the same weight, I can over eat for a year & not put on weight or under eat for a year & not loose weight!
Variety is the key.
Mentat1231 on March 8, 2010 at 5:04 pm
@fatturdburger
Gaining or losing weight aren’t the biggest issues. Some very trim, fit people get diabetes or even have heart attacks. Everybody gasps and wonders why, but the reason is obvious: bad diet. Overweight (or underweight, for that matter) are just risk factors that indicate illness. They are not the illness themselves.
fatturdburger on March 8, 2010 at 5:15 pm
@Mentat1231
This is why I said Variety is the key.
It’s not just about the vegetables either it all depends were they are grown, like in sum countrys different towns or cities have similar diets but in certain areas people live longer mainly 2 do with the soil make up.
Mentat1231 on March 8, 2010 at 5:18 pm
@fatturdburger
Perhaps that is so, but there are lots of foods that are bad for you no matter where you get them. Variety is nice, so long as one doesn’t include significant quantities of harmful foods (like meat, dairy, and refined/junk foods).
Amelie578 on March 10, 2010 at 10:00 am
I need to know why the one guy said that he was nervous about nuts and avos. I love both and eat loads of them! (And they have never made me put on weight)
rawvibing on March 10, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Just remember weight isn’t always an indicator of health, thin men still have heart attacks. Thin people experience bone degeneration. if u want to know your health get a blood test
Mentat1231 on March 12, 2010 at 7:54 am
@Amelie578
That was Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. He is nervous about nuts and avocados because they are very high fat foods.
ohnoyoudidntx on March 25, 2010 at 12:23 am
ummm that guy is not pollitically correct..he refered to asians as “orientals”
that word is offensive, especially when applied to humans. Things are “oriental” but not people.
ComradeRama on March 25, 2010 at 9:33 am
McDougall is right, people need carbs.
Celticson50 on March 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm
You need to get a life and stop being picayune and politically correct. You comments are more offensive.
ababsurdo1567 on April 1, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Both Dr.s are right. I definately agree more with Dr. McDougall when one is starting out changing thier diet. When you limit yourself to only vegetables and fruit, you are setting yourself up for failure.
Coleski2011 on April 1, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Dude’s face at 12:23 is ridiculous.
acidpopproductions on April 9, 2010 at 11:35 am
CARBS ARE TASTY. Plant-based diets for the win (and the carbs!) :)
TheSuperAstro on April 12, 2010 at 11:34 am
9:23 That was very good and relevant. The question is… “What is the really best?” and that’s a very complicated and interesting subject. :)
TheSuperAstro on April 12, 2010 at 11:36 am
Joel Fuhrman, he was good.
poosta7 on April 19, 2010 at 12:18 pm
This is “how many angles can dance on the head of a pin argument” ….. if you follow the advice of McDouglall or Fuhrman you will be healthy. I am a vegan myself and understand that potato chips, candy, french fries, etc. are “vegan” but…..they are also crap foods.
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