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Most all of us have been told - at one time or another - to eat right!
If anyone has ever given you the right information on how to "Eat Right", I would be surprised. Since the 1980's The Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been the accepted standard for a good diet. The most recent 2005 edition of the guidelines came out this spring with much fanfare. For those of us who checked them out, since the first guidelines in 1980, (they have been updated every 5 years or so) there have been minimal changes in the nutritional advice that they give.
If the alarming increase in our epidemic of adult and childhood obesity and diabetes is any indication, it is apparent that the nutritional advice that we have been getting has been wrong. These epidemics have reached alarming proportions and demand a change in our personal understanding and action.
Hopefully this web site will help you to challenge and discard these failed Dietary Guidelines. They have done us a great disservice and I believe are one of the root causes of our current health care crisis.
The responsibilities for these guidelines have no place in the Unites States Department of Agriculture. Rather than being an instrument for public health, they have become a document of economic and political compromise for the department of Agricultures' constituencies.
Walther Meyer MD., CMD.
Nutrimed@tds.net
How To Eat Right
Nutritional Choices
For a Healthy Lifestyle
Welcome to How to Eat Right. This web site is designed to enable the reader to take personal responsibility for his or her own health. The increasing epidemic of obesity and other chronic disease obviously shows that, as individuals or as a nation, we have, up to now, failed to attain this goal.
If you are given the wrong directions, you will not get to where you want to go.
This site is meant to give you the right directions! You will need to discard the old road maps that you have been given. We hope to provide the tools and the understanding that you will need to attain optimal health and wellness. In a way, you can look upon obtaining health pretty much like having a baby. No one can do it for you!
Walther Meyer MD., CMD.
Nutrimed@tds.net
We are losing the war against obesity. Why?
In a word - Misinformation!
The various USDA dietary guidelines for Americans have been a 30-year failure, but the 'experts' still use this dated nutritional information because 'there is no other data out there'. These dietary guidelines and the food pyramid concept just relate to food groups and ignore the science of cellular nutrition. Nutritionally healthy cells make healthy tissues, healthy tissues make healthy organs, and healthy organs make a healthy person.
All cells have similar nutritional needs. These cellular needs have not changed in thousands of years, but our diets have. As a society, we are not nearly as active as previous generations were, and we are eating many more calories of nutrient-deficient foods. Our food supply has also deteriorated because of excitotoxins ( harmful chemicals) that that the FDA has allowed into food processing.
We will have to accept the responsibility for our own health and learn to do what we need to do to get health and to retain it. It is foolish to wait for governmental departments - with their political and economic special interests - or corporate entities with bottom line concerns to provide us with correct dietary information. It will never happen in our lifetime!
Obesity is a common manifestation of the metabolic syndrome. Actually most chronic diseases are manifestations of the metabolic syndrome. This syndrome is caused by a chronically elevated blood insulin level. Insulin is one of the key hormones in the body, and when our blood insulin level is elevated, it causes an imbalance of our other hormones. Both high blood sugar levels and high blood insulin levels are toxic to our cells. Both conditions injure (glycate) our glycoprotein cell receptors. Without the ability for cells to communicate well we cannot have healthy tissues.
High insulin levels come from eating foods that raise our blood sugar. Our body responds by making insulin, because high blood sugar is toxic to our cells. When we routinely eat foods that raise our blood sugar our body is forced to produce more insulin. Chronically elevated insulin levels are the cause of the metabolic syndrome. This syndrome includes obesity, diabetes, heart and blood pressure problems, hardening of the arteries, and cancer. Excitotoxins in our food supply also stimulate cells in our pancreas to produce more insulin. This metabolic syndrome can be reversed by exercise, good food choices, avoiding excitotoxins, and eating healthy fats.
Obesity is one of the most common manifestations of the metabolic syndrome disorder. The Metabolic Syndrome Study will give you the right information to help you lose fat and become healthier again. It will also develop new data for the 'experts' to understand why our present war against obesity is not getting anywhere.
Walther Meyer MD., CMD.
Nutrimed@tds.net
