Low Carb, High Fat Food Revolution: Advice and Recipes to Improve Your Health and Reduce Your Weight

111 Pages·2014·1.24 MB·English

by  Andreas Eenfeldt

Copyright © 2014 by Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
English Translation © 2014 by Skyhorse Publishin g First published in 2011 as Matrevolutionen by
Andreas Eenfeldt, MD , Bonnier Fakta, Sweden
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The revolution begins
I. In Retrospect
1. What are you designed to eat?
2. The mistake, the fear of fat, and the obesity epidemic
3. The demise of the world as we know it
II. Forward
4. A new but old solution
5. Weight loss without hunger
6. Diabetes and the end of the madness
7. The Western diseases
8. Cholesterol: killing the dragon
9. A healthier future
III. Guide
10. The Enjoyment Method / LCHF for beginners
11. Questions, answers, and myths
12. How to lose weight
13. One last thing
Acknowledgments
Do you want to know more?
References
Index
Two generations of Swedes have received incorrect dietary information … It is
time to review the dietary guidelines and base them upon modern science.
GÖRAN BERGLUND
Professor of Internal Medicine, Lund University
I.
In retrospect
CHAPTER ONE
What are you designed to eat?
The dieting debate is hot in Sweden. What should you eat to become healthy
and thin? Mediterranean food, the Paleolithic diet, or according to the
Eatwell Plate model? Fat or carbohydrates, or maybe protein? Fibers or
antioxidants? Fruit or no fruit?
There are a couple of high-profile experts that claim to know, but their
theories differ from each other. Even relevant professors have completely
different opinions. How do you know who to trust?
I say that there is a good way of finding out. Look at your body and study
yourself: what are you designed to eat? You are the result of millions of years of
evolution. Every cell in your body contains myriad genes, the refined blueprint
of a human. Your genes are special. Your ancestors managed to pass them on to
you. The same thing has taken place for millions of years, going back to your
earliest ancestors on the African savannah. The same thing has taken place for
hundreds of thousands of generations.
For every new generation, strong and beneficial genes had a better chance of
making it into your family tree. Genes that provided strength and health during
the conditions under which your ancestors lived. Genes that worked well with
the diet that your ancestors ate.
In other words: your genes are designed for the food that your forefathers ate
thousands of years ago. Today, we know some of what they ate and more
importantly, what they didn’t eat. With that knowledge in mind, you might be
able to discern the mistake made by many dietary experts in the media.
You can compare it to a car. A car is designed by engineers to run on a certain
type of fuel. It might be gasoline, diesel, or ethanol. If you fill up the car with the
right fuel, the engine will run well. If you don’t, it will run poorly, or not at all.
In fact, they say that if you pour sugar into a gasoline tank, the engine will start
to seize.
You are a lot more complex than a car. Your body is also designed to run on a
certain type of fuel, namely, exactly what your ancestors ate. If you eat
something else, your body will work poorly, or not at all.
In the Western world today, much of the dietary advice unfortunately prompts
us to fill up with the wrong kind of fuel. Despite the good intentions, this has led
to obesity and disease, which the scientific community has just started to
investigate using large studies. More about that later. Modern science simply
proves what should have been apparent a long time ago. What we knew, but
accidently forgot.
The most remarkable fact is that a multitude of explorers and missionary
doctors during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries started to tell the same
story from all corners of the world. A story that, if true, could revolutionize our
world as well as our health.
A mystery Albert Schweitzer arrived in West Africa on April
16, 1913. He was a doctor and would later go on to receive
the Nobel Peace Prize for his missionary work. On average,
he met with thirty to forty patients per day. Most of them
suffered from infections such as malaria. It took forty-one
years before he saw an African patient with appendicitis.
How is that possible? Appendicitis is a regular occurrence
in modern emergency rooms.
It gets weirder. During his initial time there, Schweitzer didn’t see one single
case of cancer. Of course, he admitted later that there might have been some
cases, but they were certainly rare. However, during the latter part of his stay in
West Africa, he treated an increasing number of cancer patients. Schweitzer
suspected that this was caused by the fact that the local people had started living
like their white visitors.
The Schweitzer story is just one among many. Cancer and appendicitis are
just the beginning. Today’s Western endemic diseases first appeared when
Western food started to spread across the globe.
It is possible that we have ignored or misinterpreted what these stories mean.
But let’s return to the food, or the fuel, for which your body is designed. Let’s
return to a time in history prior to Albert Schweitzer’s missionary work in West
Africa. Let’s rewind five million years.
Five million years worth of fuel Our closest living relatives
in the animal kingdom are chimpanzees, the smartest of