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The Health & Wellness Show: The Devil's in the Details: Diet Dogma and Fine-Tuning Your Own

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Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:00 UTC

High carb, low fat, ketogenic, Whole 30 and paleo diets... research exists supporting (and refuting) them all. Some people thrive on a high amount of carbs, some decline. Some people soar on a ketogenic diet while others crash and burn. As much as researchers would like to find the perfect human diet it is becoming increasingly clear that one dietary template is not suitable for everyone everywhere and at all times. Age, genetics, activity level, location and more can all play a role in what one should or should not be eating.

Is diet as black and white as some proponents claim it to be? Do carbs, dairy, grains, fruits and legumes have any place in a 'healthy' diet? Are there any absolute no-no's? Join us on this episode of the Health and Wellness Show as we attempt to tease out the nuances and add some levity to the diet wars. And be sure to stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment where the topic will be Animals: Do they dream like us?

Running Time: 01:43:17

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Reader Comments

Anna1 · 2017-01-06T22:09:50Z

Eating

Have you ever tried a diet that takes no life? No seed, pulse, legume, grain, fish insect, animal, seed root vegetable or bacterial culture? Basically the diet involves zero consumption of life force. This 'biblical diet' consists of eating only leaves and fruit where you can preserve and sow the seed.

Nature is bountiful and provides huge diversity. The human diet, however, is selective and determines which bean or seed or meat etc we favour and will support into the future. We alter our natural habitat (vastly) to accommodate the foods that we wish to consume.

Anna1 · 2017-01-06T22:15:57Z

Is this a diet with an exceedingly gentle footprint on the earth? If everyone ate this diet would it lead to humans no longer supporting the diversity of other edibles?

Ruth · 2017-01-06T23:23:23Z

In order to try a diet that 'takes no life', you'd have to be a plant and live on sunshine and atmosphere, and then be eaten by something else, maybe even a bacteria.

Good Optics · 2017-01-07T06:18:15Z

Or . . .

. . . be STO

Servaline · 2017-01-07T16:53:23Z

It's an exceedingly healthy diet to eat all of those things you mention, and some of those items you list have brought people through years of famine. Most won't hear of it, but the bible teaches to eat to live and not to live to eat. Early church fathers expounded on unhealthy eating/gluttony and 2000 years ago, they knew what causes illness and death - sweets, rich foods, eating too much. I digress to say that there is absolutely no biblical evidence forbidding the eating of meat and that is upheld by the bible and the early church fathers; however, all in moderation. I believe Dr. D'Adamo's theory that certain blood types need certain foods. Our refusal to accept sensibilities is the reason people spend their life savings on doctors and why hospitals are overfilled with unhealthy, sick and dying people.