Active No-Carber Forums :: Bear's Words Of Wisdom http://activenocarber.myfreeforum.org/Bear_s_Words_Of_Wisdom_abo... Active No-Carber Forums A veggie-free zone FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Join! (free) > Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Ads by Google 7 Day Diet Food High in Protein Sugar Diet Diabetes Food Bear's Words Of Wisdom Active No-Carber Forums Forum Index -> The real human diet is a totally carnivorous one: The Support Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Dean Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:15 am Post subject: Bear's Words Of Wisdom This is a reprint of Bear's posts from his thread on the War Zone. They were rescued from the fires over there... Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 1142 and will be forever preserved in their own little archive over here in our refugee camp. These 292 posts are from Saturday, February 25th, 2006 to Sunday, May 7th, 2006. Foods To Make You Ads Joining a Nutrition Site? Low Carbs Diet by Skinny Google Learn What to Eat to Help you Maximize your results Low Carbs at e-Diets Lose Lose up to 2 pounds a week! Lose 10 pounds in 5 weeks! all that Ugly Belly Fat in 11 days Fat-Loss-Reviews.net www.ediets.com www.DietingFoodPlans.com Back to top Dean Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:37 am Post subject: _____________________________________________________________________ Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 1142 Hello all, I have been eating the natural human dietary regime for over 47 years now. I do not eat anything whatsoever from vegetable sources. The only things veggie I use are spices. My diet is usually 60% fat and 40% protein by calories. I used to eat 80/20 when younger and about twice as much quantity of meat also, but that seems too much energy at my age, which is 71- even though I am very active. I think the body actually becomes more efficient with energy as you age, but I have no way of proving it true. Otherwise, my body today is very like it was at the age of 30. I figure most of what we call 'aging' is due to insulin damage to the collagen and other body structures. No carbs = no insulin. I don't heal quite as fast when injured as I did as a youngster, however. But I have few wrinkles, and my skin is still strong and elastic. At this point I would like to point out that a zero carb diet does NOT cause ketosis. The body rapidly adapts within a few weeks and begins consuming the ketones from fat metabolism. A fully keto-adapted body excretes no ketones in the urine. A metabolic by product, 'ketone bodies' are actually a special kind of carb, and they 1 of 137 9/8/2008 2:16 PM Active No-Carber Forums :: Bear's Words Of Wisdom http://activenocarber.myfreeforum.org/Bear_s_Words_Of_Wisdom_abo... substitute for glucose at the structures which use it. They have the added advantage of making you feel good- and well fed. The body cannot store dietary fat, there is no mechanism for transport across the adipose cell's wall, nor can it 'burn' carbs, which actually are toxic in more than the tiny amount required by the brain and a few other structures. The body converts dietary carbs (all convert to glucose as they are absorbed) into body fat. The conversion mechanism requires insulin which is very tissue-damaging. It is correct to say that dietary carbs are the base cause of both heart blockage and diabetes, (not a disease). I must warn all of you that it is very unlikely that very many will be able to eat as I do over the long term, or in fact, to follow any diet for long which is much different from the one you were trained to as a baby/child. This is because diet is learned much the same way language, dress and behaviour is, and is buried deep and inaccessible, a part of your acculturation/socialisation. The very thing which makes us human is that deep and almost instinctive complex of behaviour. It requires a powerful will and a determination to change, in order to succeed in adopting the 'extreme' diet which this website is based on. Even those who are morbidly obese, as powerful a motivation as any I can imagine will have 'cravings' for what I call 'non-food' (all vegetation and carbs) which will eventually prove irresistible. A few may manage to stay on the diet for years, but unless you are prepared to stick with it for maybe ten or more years, you will drift back into eating what I consider poison. For some reason my mum was not interested in forcing me to eat the veggies I hated so, and i was able to eat only what I liked- mostly meat, especially hamburger and the fat those at our table would cut from their steaks. Still I had massive struggles abandoning the 'civilised diet'. I suggest that no non-food be taken home, none allowed in your fridge or pantry (out of sight is hopefully out of mind). Make a request when seated in a restaurant that the bread bin be removed (but please leave the butter), and when ordering, request that the vegetables be removed from the plate in the kitchen (just say you don't like to see 'good food go to waste'). Even during the years I was soundman for Grateful Dead, I stuck to my guns and remained totally carnivorous. I am restricted by the forums rules (as I read them) from telling about my essay on diet and exercise which is posted on my website. Basically it states that humans were totally hunting peoples until the end of the paleolithic age. No paleolithic archeological dig has ever produced any food residues from vegetables. Chemical analysis of bones from the digs indicates they are the same composition as the African lion- thus, virtually no intake of vegetation. There were no 'hunter-gatherer' societies until the neolithic, even though some modern HG tribes still made and used typical paleolithic napped-stone tools. The so called Nearthin and Paleodiet thus are both nonsense, true paleolithic people were total carnivores and ate no veggies whatsoever. In the relatively short evolutionary period since the consumption of vegetables as food there has not been any real adaptation to such low grade low energy, difficult to digest foods. Because we have no adaptation to digesting or processing vegetables as food, they are all basically very bad for us. We evolved as an active, group-hunting animal. We have a high natural requirement for physical exercise and cannot live long or be healthy without a lot of it. I hope my post is of some help to others. Just persist. I show that it IS possible to overcome your dietary socialisation. _____________________________________________________________________ -Ok. I see that the old bugbear of 'seeing' only what fits into one's world view still holds strongly amongst some of those responding to my post. I will attempt to clear things up a bit. My website is: www.thebear.org. diabowl: A zero-carb diet is the traditional treatment for diabetes (not a disease) before the development of injectable insulin, first from pigs. Diabetes is the result of the immune system sensing the widespread tissue damage from insulin, targeting the source cells in the pancreas and destroying them. Insulin resistance type diabetes is the result of the tissues themselves rejecting insulin. Neither form is found in any other animal in nature, man's carnivorous pets fed a 2 of 137 9/8/2008 2:16 PM Active No-Carber Forums :: Bear's Words Of Wisdom http://activenocarber.myfreeforum.org/Bear_s_Words_Of_Wisdom_abo... grain based diet may also suffer this syndrome. In the absence of dietary carbs, the body does not need to produce insulin and the diabetes essentially 'disappears'. You will never be told this by a doctor because then you would be free of the need for medical intervention and your daily ration of drugs. All the assorted ills diabetics suffer are actually caused by insulin, cataracts, heart attacks, bad joints, etc. These are the kind of damages done to the tissues by insulin, and the injected kind is a far more powerful damaging agent than the endogenous hormone. Blood monitoring on a zero-carb regime will quickly confirm the stability of blood glucose. foxgluvs: Nowhere in my post do I say 'preprogrammed'. I thought I made it quite clear that a person's eating habits, including the composition of the diet is solely determined by that person's mother between birth (and about eight), the same time all the social skills which make us uniquely human ware acquired. The name of this website is lowcarber.org, is it not? A low carb diet is 'extreme' relative to the usual western civilised diet. My diet is just the end point of lowering carbs. My statement was not that it took 'far too much willpower', only that it requires strong willpower and great determination. I am sure that there are a great many things known by anthropologists that you would find 'impossible to believe', however scientific evidence does not require belief, only knowledge. The composition of the materials found in paleo digs as well as bone composition tests are well known and published, I suggest a search on Google. And check the journals of anthropology in a library. Vitamins. that is easy, there are virtually no sources of any vitamins to be in vegetation (which is why all vitamin supplements are synthetic), but all are found in abundance in meat.