Mon, Apr-24-17, 14:03
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Senior Member
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Plan: Very LC, Higher Protein
Stats: 227/186/185
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Progress: 98%
Location: Herndon, VA
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Originally Posted by cotonpal
Another medical myth that we've been sold over the years, along with the low fat myth, is that genes are destiny. There is so much we can do to prevent many of the so called "diseases of civilization". For starters we can eat a low carb diet, everyone, fat and thin. Makes sense to me.
Jean
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Jean - Excellent point, and this is something that everyone needs to understand. We are not sentenced to how our genes are constructed. In fact, recent research in Epigenetics demonstrates that the environment (nurture) has more to do with how people manifest or suppress certain characteristics that are part of their genotype (nature). The most clear description of this is a book by Bruce Lipton called Biology of Belief, 10th Anniversary Edition. It is discusses exactly what you've stated, that at a cellular level, we are able to control and enhance (or harm) our health by how we live, and this includes nutrition, environment, and mental approach. I highly recommend it, and it may be time for me to do a book review, as it has a lot of relevance to the topics on this forum. If we were truly governed by our genetic makeup, then changes in diet would not manifest themselves for thousands of years. However, because we can turn on or off genetic markers at the cellular level, developing a diabetes, obesity, heart disease, take your choice epidemic within 30 plus years is not hard to fathom.
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Originally Posted by WereBear
Nutrasweet (aspartame) is the most prevalent sweetener in soda. And it is a known neurotoxin; people with PKU cannot break it down and must eat a special diet until they are mature; when the issues moderate, but do not go away. There's a PKU warning on sodas with aspartame.
In the large quantities used to sweeten soda, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that it could trigger similar symptoms in vulnerable people without PKU. For years, stories of severe headache and epilepsy triggering in people without known issues have been making the rounds and shouted down.
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Not sure about PKU, but I get ocular migraines any time I consume aspartame. I stay away for good reason. Diet pepsi is the only diet soda I can consume without having issues, as it's sweetened with sucralose. Most every other diet soda contains aspartame, so I have to choose Pepsi if I'm so inclined . . . for those who think young . . . . (couldn't resist )
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