Cereals and Grains keep you fat?

If you are basing your eating on the food pyramid you will get fatter and find it almost impossible to lose weight. I totally disagree with the food pyramid as cereals and grains should not be eaten. It is so wrong and needs to be turned on its head. It must have been invented by cereal producers.

Man was not designed to eat cereals and grains which are after all grasses, cows chew for up to 20 hours a day, they make 100 to 150 litres of saliva a day to produce the enzymes to break down grass and they have four stomachs to digest grains. Humans don’t have any of these and cereals are now viewed rightly as one of the most indigestible food for humans to eat.

Everything we were meant to eat was put on the planet by mother nature for us and these were the foods we could find, trap or hunt. Our basic diet was then, and should still be now, lean protein, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds and the oils they contained.

When people say to me ‘you need carbs for energy’ I always reply ‘what do you think the Zulu and the Masai lived on for thousands of years’? they could not carb load as no one ate grains before mills and ovens were invented because cereals are indigestible and can be toxic in their raw state.

They could only eat food raw or speared over an open fire or cooked in the embers. 70-80% of the food we eat today was not eaten by our ancestors and our bodies are still not adapted to these foods.
When you eat protein or natural oils, the body will use these as they are a building food.

When you eat carbohydrates the body will store these as fat unless you burn them off with a lot of exercise. Your body won’t burn fat when carbs are present unless you exercise.

When you eat carbs or any starchy food they turn to sugar very fast, your blood sugar goes up and you make insulin. The job of insulin is fat storage. It’s incredibly hard to lose weight once you have eaten carbs and it’s very hard to gain weight if you have not eaten carbs.

That is why body builders cut out carbs before a competition so they burn fat and it’s why endurance athletes carb load before competing as they will have the stored carbs to use for energy, whereas the protein is used too quickly. If you eat the multiple (6-10 servings of carbs a day) recommended by the food pyramid you are making your body store fat, you simply can’t burn fat as you are constantly making insulin.

The problem with the old food pyramid is….

• It asks us to base our diet on cereals and grains or what I call cattle feed. Grains have only been used by man as food for 10.000 years, for 2 million years we functioned very well without them. Over the last 50 years as carbs have been refined and processed and become the basis of our diet we have got fatter and sicker. They have also been modified to contain way to much gluten.  Grains contain mycotoxins which are linked to the growing increase in diabetes
• It does not give men enough protein or fat to maintain muscle, also since almost all vitamins apart from vitamin C are fat soluble without fat they cannot be absorbed
• It does not distinguish between good carbs like oats and bad carbs like processed breakfast cereals and white bread.
• It does not highlight the difference between oily fish which is essential for physical and mental health or eggs which are one of nature’s wonder foods, and meats like salami and sausages which are highly processed and unhealthy.
• It puts fruit above vegetables and asks us to have equal daily servings of each. Vegetables are far more important than fruits they have more vitamins and more antioxidants and we should have up to ten daily servings of vegetables  and only 3 of fruit. Fruit is still a sugar and too much of it pushes up insulin levels. Fruit juice is not a good food at all, no tribesman started the day with the juice of 5 oranges and fruit was seasonal and had to be shared out.
• It lumps all fats and oils together rather than showing us which are good and which are not. The oils from fish, avocadoes, olives, nuts and seeds are healthy and known as essential oils. Essential because the body cannot make them and absolutely needs them for good physical and mental health. The oil from hydrogenated fats contained in margarine is what I call Frankenstein food no one should eat trans fats ever as the body can’t get rid of them. Fatty meat can be eaten sparingly. The oil in cheese cream and butter should be eaten in moderation. We need to know the difference between Monounsaturated fats, Polyunsaturated fats, Saturated fats and Trans Fats. I do it this way, for Mono think Nuts and Seeds, for Poly think Fish, for Saturated think of Cheese and Cream the whole food is saturated in fat, for Trans think Frankenstein

The food pyramid should read

• Carbs (including oats) 1-2 daily servings (less if you want to lose a lot of weight)
• Milk yoghurt 1-2 daily servings (dairy alternatives are better for weight loss)
• Essential Fats and oils (avocados, oily fish, olives and olive oil, nut and seed oil) 1-3 daily servings
• Fruits 2-4 daily servings
• Meat, poultry, fish, eggs, nuts, 3-5 daily servings
• Vegetables 5 to 10 daily servings

This is how to burn fat, eat well, lose weight and keep it off in my opinion.

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