There’s two types of definitons for natural foods. One, is natural substances the human body needs to fight and think at peak efficiency, that can be found and eaten.

Second def, is anything that can be grown in the “natural world”.

They aren’t the same thing, when I say natural foods for mankind I don’t mean whatever you find growing in your backyard or a cocaine plot or a marijuana field.

But simply what allows humans to live longer, exercise and heal injuries faster, think faster, and perform better.

They exist, and they are ALL natural ingredients.

Bio-sciences have not developed to the point where truly, they can make artificial substances that increase people’s life spans. With the advent of nano-tech and stem cells, that might change in the next 20 years perhaps.

I’m a low carber also, but eat tons of vegetables and chocolate, too. I’m not trying to lose weight, I’m trying to avoid becoming diabetic. I find it tremendously helpful that my doctor ordered me to stick with it. She told me directly that if I ate a typical American diet, I would become diabetic.

The bottom line is to eat real foods, all types, in moderation. Avoid stuff concocted in labs (hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup) and you’ll be OK.

Like I said, this was during the Carter Administration. When trans-fats, 55 mph speed limits, and the metric system were going to save the world from The Population Bomb and Peak Oil. Common sense really wasn’t very common, and in the field of nutriscience, it still isn’t.

Of course, I don’t buy into the “natural foods are good” shtick, either. Fugu is natural too, but I sure as hell ain’t touching it if I have any choice.

Anyone that ever bought into the line that “scientifically produced fats” like trans-fat were “good for you” needs to get their logic, reason, and common sense circuits rechecked at circuit city.

On basic principles, the human body is designed to take in natural and wholly organic products. If you bake up some artifice sugars and eat them by the gallon load, well then, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this might not be liked by the body.

The body, as opposed to the spirit and the mind, tends to function independently like a pet. It’ll tell you what it needs, when it needs it, and will read your emotions and intentions and try to fit its systems to your purposes.

For example, if a person doesn’t eat much and doesn’t exercise or do anything much, then the body thinks it is in a winter hibernation period, and shuts off the basal metabolism. So your caloric burn rate per day goes from 2,200 to maybe 1,100. If a person suddenly gets depressed during this period and eats gallon loads of calories and sweats, then the body is going to put those calories into fat, to stave off the winter hungers.

Same applies if a person intentionally starves himself, and then goes off the diet. If the body sees you starving, it’s going to go into hibernation mode and start storing fats over burning carbs, favoring long range survival over short term burst speed. If a person goes off that diet, and starts eating, the body now has learned from You, that it needs even more fat deposits if it is to survive the next “starvation” period. It would be funny, to watch, sort of like teaching a dog to shit in the house instead out of outside, when you want to housebreak him. If it wasn’t so important to a person’s health.

It was always common knowledge that regular diets didn’t work for people, but I was never satisfied over other people’s answers, and so I sought to formulate my own given data sources.

There is a hidden tendency to just take something that works automatically, like elevators, cars, microwaves, electricity, etc, and just use it instead of understanding its fundamental principles, behavior, and purpose. This applies to a person’s own body as much as it applies to our technologically savy culture.

Except if a software goes buggy on us, we don’t tend to lose our lives as we might if the body starts failing, and we don’t know how to correct the problem.

The more we depend upon something, like electricity, the less people seem to know how it works. SO it tends to make a certain kind of sense, that the thing we depend upon the most( under brain), the human body, is one of the more particular cases of ignorance.

A year ago I had severe headaches daily… weekly and monthly… Had brain scan (They found one).. Blood tests, etc, etc..
Finally as I was eating one of my Lady Wife’s every day, delicious, homemade, double rich chocolate pie (handfuls of semi-sweet choc-chips, flaky lard based crust smothered with puffy cream on top… Uh Oh!

Yep, it was the chocolate.. No more (tears) choc pie.. no more headaches..

ExP

I remember, during the Carter Administration, when saturated fats were bad and the “miracle of science” trans-fats were good. That’s not even mentioning all the Egg Crusades.

I remember my health teacher in college first trying to convince us trans-fats were bad, because they are solid at room temperature, and, “when they reach room temperature in your blood stream, they turn solid again and clog your arteries.”

I remarked that if someone’s blood stream is at room temperature, they should be more concerned with rigor mortis than clogged arteries.

I didn’t do well in that class…

Exercise helps you lose weight not mainly through the calories you burn during the exercise but through the calories you burn at rest after the exercise. So if it’s a choice of eating carbs before or after your workout — then do whichever is more comfortable for doing the best workout.

Understanding how to lose weight is much much easier than actually losing it. I’m an expert but I’m overweight.

Didn’t you know that today’s eggs have been enginerred and cultivated to be much lower in cholesterol than they were 30 years agoe!?!

Seems the health-Nazi’s have misled you into thinking that several eggs a week – or even one every day – were bad for you. Wrong!

(Environmental science grad student)