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Editor’s note
July 2024
Are you snacking?
You know we’re all obsessed with food, right?
I remember when healthy eating was dead simple. Wholemeal bread instead of white. No junk foods.
Now look where we are. Carnivore, keto, paleo, Mediterranean, plant-based, gluten-free, dairy-free, raw, FODMAP, low-histamine, ancestral…and watch those macros! As if that wasn’t enough, we’ve got to “personalise” our nutrition. Sounds fine – I mean, wasn’t that what Dr Roger Williams had in mind when he published Biochemical Individuality in 1956? It’s what Dr William Kelley figured out with his cancer-beating Metabolic Typing in 1998 or so, and it was certainly at the heart of what Dr Nicholas Gonzalez was doing when he took Kelley’s work to the next level.
But now? Personalising has gone technical. To do it to the limit, we’re looking at assessing the microbiome, testing genetics, maybe getting into the latest wearables and breathe-into-ables like a CGM (continual glucose monitor) and a metabolism tracker like the Lumen – which enjoins you to “hack your metabolism” (what a horrible-sounding idea!).
Prof Tim Spector’s Zoe has you providing a stool sample, a blood sample AND using a CGM AND subscribing for support and repeated tests. All in the aid of personalised nutrition. “Using your results, we score every food (from 0-100), so you can make better choices of what to eat”, they say. “We teach you how to swap, add and combine foods so you can eat in the best way for your body”.
Yes, it’s all about…eating.
On the website you’ll see
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very attractive pictures of food and a video with Spector – preparing food, of course – and people setting out food and/or happily…eating.
OK, food choices are important. But hasn’t this all got a bit over the top?
Whatever happened to the powerful therapeutic intervention of NOT eating?
I know it’s a horrifying idea for the general public, who can barely risk getting out of sight of food and who seem to have been completely convinced by the food industry’s invention of relentless snacking and drinking “to keep your energy up”.
It’s the F word. Fasting. Everyone’s so scared of dying if they don’t keep stuffing in food, that we have things like the fasting-mimicking diet. What? We have “intermittent fasting”, which is actually intermittent eating, and in its various forms involves cramming in your food in a set, limited number of hours each day. We have juice “fasts” and a “fasting diet” that keeps you eating, but drastically cuts calories on select days of the week.
Try dry
I’d love for us all to take a step back from the table and rediscover our nature cure roots with a fresh appreciation for fasting. Proper fasting. Water only. And for the really adventurous (maybe too risky for your clients) – go dry. Read my interview (page 38) with the inspirational Michelle Slater, who cured her chronic Lyme (and much else) with a three-month trip to Siberia, where she built up to ten days without food OR water. Not even rinsing her mouth.
Doctors and dietitians will tell you that fasting is dangerous and you’ll die without water after three days. It’s ironic that not only do they know nothing about proper eating, but they also know nothing about proper not-eating.
Statin ‘surprise’
“We don’t want people to think they were treated incorrectly in the past. They were treated with the best data we had…the data have changed”, says the University of Pittsburgh’s Dr Timothy Anderson, MD.
No, of course not. We would never think that, would we?
But it is a little strange that the biggest money-making scam in pharmaceutical industry history – statins for life, for everyone (even the healthy – “just in case”) is about to be exposed by proposed new guidelines (report, page 5).
These will see the number of adults recommended by doctors to take statins reduced from 45.4 million to 28.3 million. An estimated 4.1 million patients already taking statins would be told, “Er, sorry, you don’t really need this”. “Oh great! Am I better?” “Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that…”
Do we think the drug companies are going to allow this? Maybe they’re already all working on safe and effective vaccines for heart disease.
SIMON MARTIN, EDITOR
Keep up with Simon on Twitter@simoncamedit
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