Breakthrough New Paradigms in Dieting

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In the 21^st century life style, dieting has three distinct goals:

1. Nutrition

2. Weight control

3. Inflammation control

First, nutrition deficiency problem

Between 1910 and 1960, nutritional science discovered the link between nutritional deficiency and disease: Deficiency in Vitamin C leads to scurvy, Vitamin A - night blindness, Vitamin D - rickets, thiamine - beriberi, niacin - pellagra and so forth. In the 21^st century, our food is deficient of anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory components.

During the world wart II the emphasis shifted to increase in protein and dairy intake to make stronger and taller people. This led to the concept of “where is the beef” axiom. Around 1970 the beef industry and dairy industry responded to the medical fact that high intake of saturated fats increase the heart disease risk. Thus low fat meat and low fat dairy was introduced.

Second, the weight gain problem

The other aspect of post World War II food industry was the mass production of processed food loaded with sugar, refined flour, and saturated fat and salt.

The medical system argued against saturated fat like lard and butter. Polyunsaturated vegetable oils like corn oil, safflower oil, soybean oil and sunflower oils became the common ingredient of our daily food. These oils, although palatable, promote inflammation in your body.

The medical system labeled weight gain as an epidemic. There is mass hysteria about dieting. People started starving by going on fad diets and food got paired with moral guilt. Sedentary and internet dominant agendas, lack of sleep, stressful life including the stress of dieting further promotes obesity by altering the leptin, grehlin, insulin and other hormones. Studies show that frequent calorie restricted dieting is the most important factor in future weight gain.

Finally, the inflammation problem

Added to the change in cooking oil, the meat that people eat came from grain fed animals. These two factors together increased the intake of omega-6 fatty acids to a physiologically risky level. The cell membranes in our body got overloaded with arachidonic acid, which increases the chemical mediators leading to inflammation. Excess of inflammatory mediators increase the risk of several diseases including heart disease, cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia etc.

Assume that you are not overweight, is it OK to continue your current eating habits?

The answer is by default we are all eating anti-oxidant deficient food, high glycemic carbs and pro-inflammatory omega-6 fats. There are more than 50,000 processed foods in the market. We eat fast foods, junk foods, and more than 50% of our meals are eaten outside our home.

So, if you follow your default diet you are at fault. If your goal is wellness and longevity, you need to be pro-active and make informed choices in your eating habits. Science has not succeeded in making fat people thin. Rather than suffering from chronic restraint on calorie intake, focus on eating an anti-inflammatory diet.

How do you tackle the three goals of dieting? That will be covered in our future newsletters.

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