Empty calories

Originally Posted by Beastt

I'm not familiar with the higher incidence of diabetes but I find that rather interesting. Do you have any more information on the topic? Without having more information on the subject the best I can offer is a pure shot in the dark but I know that in the case of the Hopi Indians, the extreme increase in the rates of diabetes coincided with the adoption of non-native diets which include rather extreme quantities of fat as compared to their more traditional desert diets. This offers a fairly strong suggestion that after centuries of subsisting on a very low fat diet, the sudden switch to the more familiar Western diet which is loaded with fat simply impacted them far more dramatically than it has cultures which transitioned more slowly and less drastically.

Compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes:

• 3.2 million or 13.3% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
• African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites.
• Twenty-five percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.
• One in four African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.

http://www.diabetes.org/communitypr...anamericans.jsp

As far as testosterone production goes, I've never heard the assertion that saturated fat plays a significant role. I've also never heard that it doesn't. In short, I've never found any material which suggested a correlation one way or the other but obviously you have. What I can offer is that there is a significant portion of the population in many areas where the consumption of saturated fats are quite low and I know of nothing which suggests that testosterone levels are reduced in those areas. Athletic history also shows a rather significant number of Olympic and professional athletes who adhere to a diet significantly lower in saturated fats than the traditional Western diet and they seem to suffer no ill effects or reduced athletic performance. In fact, what few studies I've seen on the subject all suggest that abstaining from the consumption of a diet rich in animal fats and proteins offers one a slight advantage when it comes to tests of endurance and recovery.

im not saying you need a lot but saturated fat is a precursor to testosterone. From personal experience a very low fat and virtually no sat fat diet combined eith lots of miles killed my test production to less than a little girl.

As for the higher lactose intolerance, it's not just among African blacks and Asians. If you look at lactose intolerance on a global perspective, you find that western Caucasians are actually the anomaly because we're not so lactose intolerant while most of the world is. Figures vary slightly from source to source but the numbers here are pretty typical;

African Blacks - 95%
Indians - 90%
Asians - 90%
North American Blacks - 75%
Mexican Americans - 75%
Mediterraneans - 60%
North American Whites - 15%

http://lactoseintolerant.org/02_about.html

That said, even more NA Whites are lactose intolerant than the figures show because the level of intolerance ranges from those who can't drink milk at all without severe gastric discomfort to those who can consume a little once in a while without serious discomfort to those who don't even realize that some of their occasional discomfort and gassiness are due to mild lactose intolerance.

Lactose intolerance is actually quite natural. Before we're weaned, our bodies produce a significant quantity of lactase, (the enzyme necessary to digest lactose). About the time we go through weaning, the amount of lactase produced in our digestive system drops. In many, production effectively stops. Others continue to produce a small amount and some produce enough to continue digesting milk sugars throughout their lives. The interesting thing here arises when you take a look at other mammals and other primates. Almost none of them continue to digest milk well after they're weaned. When we look to how milk affects human health, we find that contrary to ads presented by the Dairy Council, most of the effects on health are decidedly detrimental.

So while it seems you're viewing lactose intolerance as a disorder, the evidence suggests fairly strongly, that it is actually adult lactose tolerance which constitutes the disorder. It should be noted that a percentage of people go their entire adult lives with no real idea that they're suffering a digestive problem and yet the inside of the small intestine bleeds constantly, though in minute quantities, for the duration of their adult life due to the irritation which persists from passing undigested lactase through the digestive system.
I have heard that before, i had a mate have a huge operation on his gut and they said to avoid lactose afterwards because it is very hard to digest and those lactase enzymes may never regenerate.

Originally Posted by jamesstout

Compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes:

* 3.2 million or 13.3% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
* African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites.
* Twenty-five percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.
* One in four African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.

Originally Posted by jamesstout

im not saying you need a lot but saturated fat is a precursor to testosterone. From personal experience a very low fat and virtually no sat fat diet combined eith lots of miles killed my test production to less than a little girl.

Originally Posted by jamesstout

I have heard that before, i had a mate have a huge operation on his gut and they said to avoid lactose afterwards because it is very hard to digest and those lactase enzymes may never regenerate.

Originally Posted by Jono L

Hmmmm animals have been eating animals for years. We're carnivores.

Originally Posted by Bro Deal

Wow. Looney tunes. Cranks on the Internet are always good for a laugh.

Originally Posted by caoim1

Certainly there is a point and we need to discuss

http://www.healthopts.com

Originally Posted by Ratiocinator

Forget calories, think MSG, aspartame, pus, hormones, toxins, etc.



Compared with the filth served by Mc Donalds, the above can be considered health foods!



Seriously, NEVER buy or eat ANYTHING from Mc Donalds. That company is seriously unethical. They care about making money, and I dare say ruining the health of as many people, and other creatures, as possible, above anything else.



That company WILL serve you rat poison to boost their profits, and THEY DO.



http://www.mcspotlight.org/



Stay well away from milk. That stuff is seriously toxic to humans. Forget the generations of milk marketing board propaganda. It is all lies. Milk is a poor source of calcium, not because of the cholesterol, carcinogenic compounds, saturated fats, dangerous microbes, urine, pus, fecal matter, antibiotics, growth hormones that the calcium comes mixed in but due to other factors that actively BLOCK calcium absorption. Ever wonder why older people often develop osteoporosis and other bone disorders, after a lifetime spent consuming milk?



If you like milkshakes then buy, or make, plant milks. Oat milk, almond milk, hemp milk, etc., these are all superior in terms of nutrition. If you do not like their natural taste, they can be flavoured to have an identical taste to shakes made from the diseased body fluids of animals, which many people wrongly consider healthy.

www.notmilk.com