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ALTDOC'S LETTERS,LINKS,
CREDITS and THANK YOUS
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WHITE STUFF-----from G Solberg ,Oz
Q: Here's what's got me stumped: If all
white foods are to be avoided as everyone
is starting to say, how can white rice be
on that list? I know it's lost it's
value hull, but how to explain that large
percentage of the world's population
who are white ricers exculsively? In
Asia people aren't obese; they are full
of energy and appear to be extremely
healthy, and certainly are good looking, and they eat white rice every day of their
lives. In China, Indonesia, etc., when you see a big fatty or someone
huffing and puffing for air or just decidedly unheathly looking, it's always
an Australian, an American, or a European. Can you help me
understand this? My wife is all for brown
rice, but I love the white stuff. All the best, Gunard
A:Well, #1- our bodies can absorb lots of
abuse and run on inferior fuels for a long
time before problems start,and some folks
are more resilient than others. I have
friends in their 30s and 40s who are still
healthy (at least on the surface) who eat
only fast food. But it WILL catch up with
them,sooner or later---hey,I still eat that
crap sometimes(it's quick and fun and tasty!)--and like to drink
beer,too (aaagh! busted!)---but there's a
thing called balance.....We gotta have some fun in life,but if our health is starting to give out,then it's time to get more
serious re: what we put in our bodies.
#2--Asians et al. who now eat white rice (a
lot actually do get brown rice) get nutrients
from other foods, don't eat a lot sugars and
trans fats, and don't take in an
overabundance of calories and sit on their
butts all day,like we do . I wonder how
'couch potato' would translate ?
#3--I think if we could personally go into
those cultures,and get to know the people
1st hand,instead of having our info filtered
and selected by the media (who have their
own agenda),we'd find that most people in
the developing countries aren't as healthy
and perky as we're led to believe--and that
they'd pick brown rice if they had the option.
Q:HEY ALTDOC-what causes high cholesterol?
A:I think we need to stop referring to this
problem as 'high cholesterol' and stop
using the generic term 'cholesterol'---and
start using 'HDL' and 'LDL'(easier to
spell,too). Hopefully, that would help get rid
of the misconception that eating cholesterol
containing foods is unhealthy----when
eating products containing trans fats
(including most commercal vegetable oils)
is MUCH worse
I've never heard of anyone's illness being
blamed on an excessively elevated
HDL,(although I could be wrong)
--The elevated LDL chol. isn't a 'toxin' as has
commonly come to be believed,but should
be thought of as 'used' (or oxidized) chol.--as an
indicator that something else is wrong.
So you can think of an increased LDL as a
warning/indicator that some pathological
process is causing chol. to be oxidized
faster than the body can clear it---- in part due to
inadequate vitamin/antioxidant availability
and toxic adulterants,like trans fats and free
radical producers,etc
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