THE DIETS
AND THE REASON FOR XYLITOL AND PROTEIN
There is a great
deal of confusion regarding healthy diets. However, any healthy diet
must begin with an understanding of what should and what should not
be ingested and the reasons for ingesting one type of food and not ingesting
another type of food.
Without talking
about vitamins and minerals; only two types of foods are necessary to
human life. They are fats and proteins.
Proteins:
Proteins are made up of chains of amino acids. It is the amino acids
that your body uses. If you are eating foods that contain sufficient
amounts of the eight essential amino acids, plus the ten or so other
amino acids, you will not need carbohydrate because 60% of the protein
will go into the liver as amino acids and will be converted into glucose.
These amino acids ae known as glucogenic amino acids. Alanine, Histidne,
Glutamine are the main glucogenic amino acids. Glucose is the only carbohydrate
that your body can use. It is a sugar. All sugars are carbohydrates
because they are made from carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. The other amino
acids are used for tissue building. When your body does work, it produces
two waste products from glucose metabolism: lactate and pyruvate. These
two substances, lactate and pyruvate, return to the liver and are recycled
into glucose. The body is very economical.
As you can readily
see, strictly speaking, carbohydrate intake is not necessary to your
glucose needs.
Oils and
Fats: The best biological, physiological and medical research
indicates that fat does not cause a problem in the human body. Fat is
absolutely necessary for the body’s proper functioning. The body
requires, three fats: Omega 3, Omega 6, and Omega 9. Omega 9 is monounsaturated
and Omega 3 and 6 are poly unsaturated. All three must be taken in sufficient
amounts for optimal health.
The best source
on the market for all three oils is flax oil. Flax oil should be purchased
only if it is in a completely opaque bottle, has been cold-pressed,
and is kept refrigerated. Otherwise it can develop trans-fats. If you
wish to buy these oils separately, then you should buy pharmaceutical
grade Omega-3 fish oil. You should purchase Borage oil capsules which
contain Omega 6. For Omega 9, you should purchase extra-virgin olive
oil that states on the label “no trans-fats” or words to
that effect.
According to the
FDA, there are no safe levels of trans-fats. That means that no oils
that contain trans-fats should be ingested. Why shouldn’t they
be ingested? They should not be ingested because they imitate cis-fats
(unadulterated fats) and clog the pores of the cells making transport
of foods into the cells and transport of wastes out of the cells very
difficult. Where do trans-fats come from? Trans-fats are found in all
vegetable oils that are in clear bottles, which do not state “no
trans-fats” This has been confirmed by a study produced by the
New England Journal of Medicine. The information is found on the USDA
website. They are also found in all foods, of any kind, which contain
hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil of any kind.
THE CARBOHYDRATE
PROBLEM: There are three basic types of carbohydrate: indigestible,
digestible producing exogenous glucose and digestible producing endogenous
glucose.
Indigestible carbohydrate
is simply indigestible fibre. It basically causes no problems.
Digestible carbohydrate
producing exogenous glucose includes all sugars with the exception of
a few which will be mentioned later. Digestible carbohydrates producing
exogenous glucose includes all starchy foods. The more exogenous glucose
that is produced; the less healthy is the carbohydrate.
Exogenous glucose
is the problem to be avoided. It is the carbohydrate that becomes glucose
in the small intestine. It then goes into the blood stream. It is not
taken up by the liver and stored beyond 5%. Virtually all exogenous
glucose goes into the kidneys, the abdominal fat, and into the muscles.
If the individual who has ingested this exogenous producing glucose
carbohydrate is not exercising enough to use this glucose, then the
glucose must be stored in the fat and in the kidneys. Kidney disease
is very high amongst people who eat large amounts of high exogenous
glucose producing foods. The Atkins diet and the Syndrome X diet are
calculated to either completely eliminate all exogenous glucose (the
Atkins diet); or to eliminate most of the exogenous glucose (the Syndrome
X diet).
The foods that produce
this exogenous glucose are those foods that have been so refined that
the carbohydrate has been turned into polysaccharides (carbohydrates
made of several sugars) that are easily broken down in the intestine
into glucose and other sugars. These foods include all flour foods (including
whole wheat flour), sucrose and fructose containing foods, all rice
foods and potato foods.
Research suggests
that it is this type of glucose that causes glycation sometimes known
as AGEs. This denotes a process whereby the unused exogenous glucose
combines with tissue proteins and prevents the proper functioning of
the proteins. As a result, glycation has been implicated in Alzheimer’s
disease, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, arthritis, kidney disease
and a host of other degenerative diseases.
The other type of
digestible carbohydrates produces endogenous glucose. Endogenous glucose
is produced from carbohydrates which enter the liver and are there made
into glucose. In this situation, the body can carefully regulate the
amount of glucose which will be permitted into the blood stream. The
economy in the use of insulin and the other hormones which usher the
glucose into the cells of the body is preserved.
The main commercially
available sugar which is not broken down into glucose in the intestine;
but rather enters the liver and is there turned into glucose is xylitol.
If one has not eaten enough high quality protein to manufacture the
necessary glucose in the liver, xylitol will supply the glucose necessary.
True complex carbohydrates
which enter the liver can be found in peas, beans and nuts. They are
the vegetable sources for high levels of endogenous glucose. Remember,
you body cannot readily use exogenous glucose, hence it turns to fat
and causes other health problems. If you eat only those foods which
must go into the liver to manufacture glucose you will avoid the health
problems caused by exogenous glucose.
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