Top 10 worst nutrition mistakes
From Nora Gedgaudas's site Primal Body Primal Mind. My pet peeve is number 8, using negotiation-speak such as "moderation" and "once in a while."
The one that I love the most for how it blows my mind is regarding gene expression, number 3 on Nora's list. "Even by the most conservative geneticists’ standards, we have anywhere from 80% to 97% control over our own genetic expressions.... A gene will not express itself unless the internal environment is conducive to its expression… and we have ultimate control over that by the foods we choose to eat, the emotions we habitually choose to experience, the toxicity of the environment in which we live and the lifestyle we consistently choose to live." Intense exercise is supposed to be good for gene expression, too! (The mistake referred to in number 3 is believing genetics is destiny.)
Top 10 worst nutrition mistakes
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Interesting. I wish she quoted sources for the more encompassing claims. I have to disagree with the assertion that MSG in any quantity is a neurotoxin. Glutamate is an endogenous neurotransmitter. Should we be eating piles of it? Of course not, it's a naturally occurring chemical in the brain. But as such I don't see how it could "always [do] some degree of neurological damage." It was already there before takeout Chinese existed. I'm on board with each point in principle though. Except that my quality of life would definitely suffer in the absence of dessert. I think Nora hasn't had dessert in a reeeeeeeallly long time. If I could eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind "dessert" out of my memory, I might, so I wouldn't have to know what I'm missing.
I am in complete agreement with Nora's #6 "thinking that being slim = being healthy". I have a great personal example of this in the SO's family. On the outside, he looks thin, you think everything's OK. Not so fast. Last summer he took a treadmill stress test, collapsed on the treadmill, and the next day they stuffed five (!) stents into his coronary vessels to counteract cholesterol plaque build-up. I won't even get into all his other health problems, diabetes being the most prevalent among them.