Ancel Keys and Fat

 Ancel Keys is a large part of the reason why we have this dangerous low fat, American diet. Who knew, eat fat, be healthy. That's the new mantra of the ketogenic diet. And it's been proven a thousand ways now. 

Keys did a biased study of 7 countries and because they ate saturated fat and had high heart attack ratios, he surmised it was the cause of heart disease. The American government agreed and put out a misguided food pyramid. The actual cause was the fact that they ate a high level of carbohydrates, which is the reason of most of our diseases.

He skipped countries like France, even though they ate large quantities of fat and had some of the lowest heart diseases of any country.

What happened is this: We didn't eat a lot of carbohydrates until the agricultural industry bred large fruits and huge quantities of sugar.

Drink a soft drink with 13 teaspoons of sugar. Such a large quantity of sugar (glucose) is dumped into your bloodstream and since your bloodstream can only hold a teaspoon of sugar, it has to go into a kind of panic. 

Mitochondria are the energy of the cell. Insulin opens the valves that allow glucose into the cell and into the Mitochondria. Your Mitochondria can only fill up at 5% per hour, so then the rest of this huge quantity goes to your fat stores.

 Since your fat cells can only fill at a certain rate, that abundance of glucose gets dumped along the road. That is, as Ameloid plaques, which eventually clogs your arteries and covers your neuronal receptors in your brain, leading to most brain diseases.

Fat converts to keytones and is used properly. Eaten a lot of fat makes you lose weight while the addiction to carbohydrates keeps you hungry all the time. 

We're addicted. I am and I know it. I came off of my fast and succumbed to that feeling of wanting my carbohydrate rush. I was pretty good until their was these oatmeal raisin cookies staring at me in our fruit bowl. So,......

I will win this battle though. My eventual blindness forces me into being as good as I can. I have accomplished 19 fasts since May this year. Most them low enough on the GKI or Boz scale to remove some of my retina cysts. Fasts work. 

Pierre



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