A review of scientific documentation and observations to find The Natural Human Diet Find out what Nutritional Excellence is and what it possibly could do for Heart Disease, Strokes, Cancer, Physical Fitness, Asthma and even auto immune diseases like MS, Crohn's disease, Arthritis, Urticaria, Relapsing Polychondritis, and more…. Are we getting the best guidance and care for our health $? Are chronic diseases really Evidence-Based treated? How come a country with nearly 50% smokers achieves the highest longevity on the planet? What longevity can we really achieve? What is written in our genes as our natural foods? 1 theidealdiet @ tpg.com.au – 29 June 2015, Want to do something for Your Health, the Animals and the Planet at the same time? http://www.users.tpg.com.au/freestro/The_Ideal_Diet.pdf Contents: Preface............................................................................................................................................................................... 3 A Scientific Approach…… ............................................................................................................................................... 7 Types of studies & definitions ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Understanding Risk Factors .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Risk Factors Revision ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Analyzing food choices ............................................................................................................................................... 20 What sort of Omnivore are we? .................................................................................................................................. 21 How to Analyze Food; Understanding Nutritional Density. ........................................................................................... 22 Protein ......................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Iron .............................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Calcium ....................................................................................................................................................................... 29 A few more food aspects…. ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Sugar, White Flour & "Healthy Oils" ......................................................................................................................... 31 B12 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 32 A note to "healthy fish". .............................................................................................................................................. 32 Disease prevalence in Western Countries. ...................................................................................................................... 36 Heart Disease Observations ........................................................................................................................................ 49 Heart Disease and Risk Factors. ................................................................................................................................. 58 Diabetes-2. .................................................................................................................................................................. 71 Cancer and (growth) Hormones. ................................................................................................................................. 72 MS, Arthritis, Crohn's, Lupus…Autoimmune Diseases and Proteins. ..................................................................... 153 Osteoporosis, Acid Load and Proteins. ..................................................................................................................... 159 Other Diseases and diet. ............................................................................................................................................ 163 Less well known aspects of animal based foods ....................................................................................................... 165 Obesity, Carbohydrates and Weight loss .................................................................................................................. 167 Brain health ............................................................................................................................................................... 171 Melanoma ................................................................................................................................................................. 172 Strokes....................................................................................................................................................................... 174 Longevity & health ....................................................................................................................................................... 174 Body Building and Sport............................................................................................................................................... 177 World Statistics Consumption of Animal Based food .................................................................................................. 178 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................... 181 What about other Carnivore – Herbivore differences? ............................................................................................. 185 How did we get here?................................................................................................................................................ 186 Why do we struggle to acknowledge our natural diet? – Corruption. ....................................................................... 188 The Medical Profession and Diets ................................................................................................................................ 191 Cholesterol & Fats ........................................................................................................................................................ 192 Smoking and Lung Cancer ............................................................................................................................................ 197 2 theidealdiet @ tpg.com.au – 29 June 2015, Want to do something for Your Health, the Animals and the Planet at the same time? http://www.users.tpg.com.au/freestro/The_Ideal_Diet.pdf Hereditary, Genetics and Epigenetics ........................................................................................................................... 198 Supplements, Atkins Diet, Paleo Diet ........................................................................................................................... 199 Notes on dairy ............................................................................................................................................................... 200 What about the Mediterranean Diet? ............................................................................................................................ 201 Diseases prevalent in Non-Western countries ............................................................................................................... 202 American Dietetic Association on Plant Based Diets ................................................................................................... 205 Epilogue ........................................................................................................................................................................ 206 Further reading/viewing ................................................................................................................................................ 208 Making the chance, the Low Fat Whole Plant based diet in practice ........................................................................... 211 Weight loss, Health & Making Changes ................................................................................................................... 213 A personal note. ............................................................................................................................................................ 214 Preface This story started when my specialist told me to lower cholesterol through drugs. Seeing the need for health after having been through open heart surgery for repairing a faulty mitral valve, I was happy to lower my cholesterol as I accepted that raised cholesterol levels go together with heart problems. However, I wanted to achieve this through diet rather than drugs. I had this strong feeling that