Diets that Prevent Diseases

By Susan Zeppieri

Whether or if your ancestors relied mostly on meat, grains, or both for their nutrition determines which of the three metabolic categories you belong to. People who depart from the healthy eating practises of their ancestors endure a weakening of their bodies' innate resistance to disease. Because of this, a person whose metabolism is dependent on the intake of grains is at risk of developing digestive issues if they make a dietary change that results in a larger consumption of meat or if they go from being a meat eater to being a vegetarian or vegan. This leads to more serious health problems, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, problems with inflammation, autoimmune diseases, respiratory disorders, cancer, and obesity. It also increases the risk of developing these conditions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Zeppieri
• Release date: Sep 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215094501

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Introduction

Carol, who was fifty-two years old, only had two hours during the course of the day in which she did not experience feelings of hunger. During that time, she experienced feelings of joy and relaxation, in addition to an abundance of vitality and strength. She was unable to exert much control over her hunger for the remainder of the day, and as a result, she was irritable, restless, and filled with worry as a result. A primary contributor to her propensity toward engaging in binge eating was, in addition to her insatiable hunger, the feeling that she was out of whack with her body. However, going on a binge eating binge will never be without its own set of unfavourable repercussions. The feelings of anxiety and compulsive hunger that Carol was experiencing were temporarily relieved; however, in their place came feelings of fullness and drowsiness. Carol didn't come to see me for a consultation about her weight because she was having problems with her weight, but rather because she was experiencing shifts in her emotions and levels of energy and wanted some advice about how to deal with them.

Given the amount of food that Carol consumed on a daily basis, the sluggishness of her thyroid function, and the infrequency with which she engaged in physical activity, it is difficult to comprehend how she was able to avoid developing morbid obesity. When she binged on unhealthy foods, her go-to comfort dish was pasta made with white wheat, and she prepared it herself. She would go on eating binges, during which she would gorge herself on an entire enormous dish of spaghetti, then return for seconds, and finally consume the entire sixteen-ounce package of pasta. Carol was never able to solve the riddle of where she got her insatiable hunger because the rest of her family were either light eaters or moderate eaters.

When Ann arrived at her appointment, she weighed nearly one hundred pounds more than she ought to have for her height and frame. She claimed that her weight gain was due to the fact that she had a craving for meat that was heavily marbled with fat and that she ate a lot of meat that fit that description. She had also battled a condition that threatened her life, which contributed to the enormous amount of weight she carried around with her. It is a mystery how these two issues disappeared after she moved from the United States, where she had consumed meat from steers that had been administered hormones, to Mexico, where all of the beef comes from animals that have been grass-fed and have not been given any hormones. In the United States, she had consumed meat from steers that had been administered hormones. Because of this, she no longer had the compelling want to consume large amounts of meat and instead switched to a vegetarian diet. She said that the shift was not the product of a conscious decision, but rather one that was compelled by instinct rather than a conscious decision.

My job as a natural health consultant in a private practice has given me the opportunity to deal with clients such as Carol and Ann who were at a loss to explain their struggles with hunger. In addition, I've worked with patients such as Kathy, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who developed rheumatoid arthritis after moving to the United States; Narain, who sought my assistance for his alcoholism; and Albert, who after suffering a heart attack became diabetic despite not having a family history of the disease. All of these individuals are examples of the types of people I've had the opportunity to treat. Each of these individuals sought my assistance for their individual ailments when they came to see me.

What am I hoping to accomplish by providing you with this information? They were not eating appropriately for their metabolic type, which meant that their digestive systems were not adequately breaking down the food that they were consuming since their digestive systems were not functioning correctly. Everyone who was brought up had their own unique set of signs and problems, but the underlying reason was always the same: they weren't eating well. Both their hunger and their health problems may be traced back to the poor quality of their digestion as the underlying reason.

The clearest illustration of this is Ann, who naturally has a metabolism that is at its peak performance whenever she eats grains. This can be deduced from the fact that her appetites changed, as well as from the fact that the only time she was able to satisfy her hunger was after she switched from eating meat that was supplied to animals that had been treated with hormones to eating meat that was supplied to animals that had been fed grass, and then after she switched to an entirely vegetarian diet. Her purported need for meat was no longer there at all. She had spent her entire life eating as if she had a metabolism that required her to consume meat, and it wasn't until she started meeting her actual biological metabolic demands that she was able to regain control of both her weight and her health. She had been eating as if she had a metabolism that required her to consume meat.

As a result of this, I've settled on the idea of writing a book. This will teach you about the three different types of metabolisms—the metabolism of a grain eater, the metabolism of a meat eater, and the metabolism of an omnivore (someone who eats both grains and meat)—and help you determine which one you have so that you can maintain a healthy body weight, avoid disease, and lose weight. The procedure is really easy to understand. Your true metabolic type will be identified once you have finished the niacin test, which comes first. After that, in Part II, you will learn about dietary regimens that are tailored to your particular needs, regardless of whether your objectives are to treat your health problem(s), prevent sickness, or lose weight. People who would want to consume grains rather than meat may take advantage of the delectable dishes that are uncomplicated and simple to prepare that are offered by the well-known chef Julie Tripp.

Whether or if your ancestors relied mostly on meat, grains, or both for their nutrition determines which of the three metabolic categories you belong to. People who depart from the healthy eating practises of their ancestors endure a weakening of their bodies' innate resistance to disease. Because of this, a person whose metabolism is dependent on the intake of grains is at risk of developing digestive issues if they make a dietary change that results in a larger consumption of meat or if they go from being a meat eater to being a vegetarian or vegan. This leads to more serious health problems, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, problems with inflammation, autoimmune diseases, respiratory disorders, cancer, and obesity. It also increases the risk of developing these conditions.

However, a significant number of people who have digestive problems seldom consider their long-term health and the need of making alterations to their diets. Those who are having the greatest difficulty maintaining a healthy weight are the ones who are most likely to try altering the meals that they currently consume. People who have such a powerful craving for food that they require a menu plan or diet that they can believe in, similar to a religious creed, in order to maintain the self-discipline necessary to stay on course are likely to be attracted to a menu plan or diet that offers a single solution, implying that there is only one way to lose weight. Because of this, the method of losing weight that requires the least amount of effort to stick to is one that involves following a diet plan that is regimented.

The problem with standardised diet plans, which you will learn more about in Chapter 1, is not only that they do not fit the digestive metabolism of all people, but also that they violate some dietary guidelines that can be applied to everyone. You will learn more about this problem later in this chapter. You may get more information on this subject in Chapter 1. Even though we are aware that the genetic make-up of each person varies, the vast majority of popular diet plans continue to operate under the false assumption that people are same. It is impossible for digestion to be carried out correctly if the kinds of food and the quantities of food that a person eats do not match the kinds of digestive acids and enzymes that the individual has and the amounts that they have. In the absence of digestion, food breaks down into a highly toxic acid waste that, as a consequence, causes inflammation. Inflammation, in turn, leads to health problems and concerns related to weight gain.

You will also learn in this book that those who consume meat and those who consume grains do not have to restrict the foods they eat to those that are only classified as belonging to the categories to which they subscribe. This implies that you do not need to worry about being required to give up the meals that you like eating the most since you may continue to eat them. You are allowed to consume certain grain products if you are a meat eater, and if you are a grain eater, you are allowed to consume meat on occasion. It all boils down to a question of scale. The meal plans that are provided will give you with ideas for how to balance the quantities that you consume. If you are a person who consumes a lot of meat, you should try to increase the amount of meals that are easy to digest for people who consume a lot of meat and decrease the amount of foods you consume from the grain-eating group, and vice versa.

The beauty of adjusting your diet to correspond with your metabolic type is not only that you consume foods that your digestive system is able to break down, but you also provide your body with the nutrients that it lacks while ingesting less of the nutrients that it already has a surplus of. Because a person who eats meat and a person who eats grains may consume the same foods, but in different quantities, their need for nutritional supplements may also vary. In my book The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet, I discuss dietary supplements that are beneficial for those who consume a diet high in meat as well as grains.

Since foods that aren't broken down correctly eventually cause an increase in weight, the primary objective of Eat Right for Your Metabolism is to teach you how to recognise the meals that are easiest for you to digest, as opposed to focusing solely on the meals that cause the greatest amount of weight loss. Long-term weight control and the maintenance of a healthy state of health in the body are only possible with the consumption of meals that are properly digested, that is, broken down into components that can be used by the cells.

It's Not Always Safe To Eat Nutritious Foods

Diet experts, such as nutritionists who dictate government policy on nutrition; diet gurus who write books that become best sellers; and nutritionists who plan menus for schools, hospitals, prisons, and other institutions, make the assumption that the same dietary rules apply to everyone. This is the most significant flaw with the diet experts. It is a mistake to prescribe a conventional diet since doing so ignores the fact that the population of the United States is comprised of people of many different ethnicities. Each distinct cultural group that settles in this nation carries with it its unique culinary tradition, as well as a digestive system that is adapted to that culture's foods. Therefore, when immigrants begin eating things that are more typical in this nation, such as red meat, dishes that are deep-fried, and soft beverages, they are likely to have stomach issues, which is a precursor to more significant health problems in the future. This hypothesis has been supported by a multitude of studies (for an example, see the section titled Abandoning the Ancestral Diet Causes Health Problems later on in this chapter), which have demonstrated that immigrant populations in the United States suffer from a higher prevalence of degenerative diseases than they did in their countries of origin. The problem can be summed up as follows: when food isn't digested, it doesn't get broken down into units that are small enough to be absorbed into the cells and reconstituted into substances that the cells can use. As a result, the body goes into a state of starvation, despite the fact that it has enough calories for energy. Because they are unable to be repaired or regenerated in the absence of sufficient nutrition, the cells either fail to function properly or perish.

The Fallacy of Adhering to a Standardized Diet

Even though your family has a long history in the United States and your ancestors have been there for hundreds of years, the standard American diet may not be healthy for you. If you start to feel ill or suffer from indigestion a half hour to two hours after a snack or a meal, you probably aren't consuming things that your digestive system can break down. However, symptoms of indigestion might sometimes not appear until twenty-four hours after eating. People often only link gastrointestinal problems like nausea, acid reflux, ulcers, diarrhoea, and colitis to a poor diet. These symptoms may be caused by a variety of dietary deficiencies. But in point of fact, eating the wrong foods is the root cause of all kinds of pain, discomfort, and unnatural changes in appearance, including red cheeks, chipping and peeling fingernails, hair fall-out, coughing after swallowing food, headaches, restlessness, dizziness, irritability, bursitis and joint pain, insomnia, depression, dry eyes or mouth, cracked lips, chronic colds and/or infections, and even floaters in the eyes.

If you wake up with a stuffy nose and watery eyes in the morning, this might be an indication that the food you had the night before was not good for you. If a woman tells me that her fingernails crack, split, peel, break easily, or 'layer back,'... or that her hair is thinning or falling out, I know that her stomach is not functioning properly, writes Dr. Jonathan V. Wright, director of the Tahoma Clinic and editor of the newsletter Nutrition and Healing. "If a woman tells me that her fingernails crack, split, peel, break easily, or 'layer back,' In point of fact, there isn't a single symptom or full-blown sickness, gastric or otherwise, that can't be induced by the poisonous by-products of an unsuitable diet. This is true even for conditions that aren't related to the digestive system. This encompasses illnesses caused by bacteria as well as viruses. Try going without food for one day