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What do the Zone, Low GI and South Beach diets all have in common?

August 26th 2006 04:55

There's the Zone. There's the low G.I. There's the 'walk around the clothesline unti you can't walk no more' diet. Any-one else get a light bulb going off when they put these diets together? Gee umm what could they possibly have in common? How about FRUIT, VEGETABLES, WHOLE MEATS and GETTING OFF THE COUCH? How about the same things that humans did instinctively for hundreds of thousands of years before they decided planting a crop of wheat and watching it grow might be easier?
Yes, it's looking like those original couch potatoes stuffed it up for all of us. Prior to the agricultural revolution humans had perfectly dense bones, were 5 inches taller than there neolithic successors, had better teeth than the average westerner with dental plus today, and didn't suffer from Arthritis or any other bone disease we suffer from. No, I didn't just make it up, their health was buried with them in their bones so that scientists today can discover where we went wrong.

Next time you hear someone ask 'does that diet actually work?', try explaining to them what happens when you feed a chimpanzee processed grass seed fried in an oil composed of fat-chains unknown to the natural world and to top it off some chemical agents designed to make it immortal. Add to the that the prospect of tieing that chimpanzee to a chair 8 hours a day and maybe, just maybe the light bulb will go off.

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Comment by jon

August 26th 2006 05:13

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There is actually such a thing as the Cave Man diet which proposes pretty much what you say above!

Comment by Anonymous

August 26th 2006 08:02

Thanks, yes I know. There are a few I think. I haven't read it but unfortunately most people don't know about this approach. Almost anyone can quote from the Zone, Low GI etc without realizing there's a much better way.

Comment by MichaelB

September 20th 2006 22:18

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I've actually been using the Zone diet as a guideline for my eating habits for about the past 7 years. You're right, it's common sense a lot of it, but the fact is, we still needed to be told! (sad but true). The misconception in society is that as soon as you suggest to people to try cutting back on breads and starchy carbs (not cutting out, but down), they think you're a 'low carb' freak. As you'd agree I'm sure, fruits and veges are carbs too, but they provide much more goodness than white bread for instance. I think that science has helped by being able to quantify, or validate the reasons why people such as the Hunza people live so long. If you look at their diet, it is pretty much the zone or a low GI diet (or the zone is pretty much the Hunza diet if that sounds better). i.e. fresh fruit and veges, good quality protein and good fats as well. Nothing sinister there. MB

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