About 5 years ago I looked at the 13 different meds I had to take each day - many to counteract the terrible effects of the primary medications, and realised if I continued down this path I was probably going to die quite soon. Impact of Dairy Products on Biomarkers of Inflammation Show Negative Correlation: The findings- consumption of dairy products is inversely associated with low-grade systemic inflammation – read: Not only does milk not cause inflammation, but dairy products have been shown to reduce inflammation! (This one even surprised me!). https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article... I was excited to read this book. As a healthcare provider I am all too aware of our medical system's shortcomings, and I believe in being critical, even if it means pointing the finger at myself. That's part of learning. Part of growing. And unlike the doctors that Berry describes as intellectually lazy, I am a lifelong student who loves to read and devours books the way some people devour brownies.

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Eat a piece of bread or oatmeal and test your blood glucose 2 hours later. Your glucose spike will make you second guess what you have thought was optimal nutrition. That said, my experience is despite all their failings, the original guidelines really weren't all that bad. It has also been my experience that very few people followed them. I'm not quite sure I'm going to get 100% on that bandwagon. Not everything in nature is healthy for you. What about the sun's radiation? What about the correlation of skin cancer and Australians--surely the Australians don't eat the unhealthiest diet in the world but they DO have high incidents of skin cancer. I made a change and only allow myself at max 20 grams of carbs a day. Most days I don’t get even that. I eat meat and veggies. No grains which means no breads and no sugar.

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In some respects, he's probably right. But I also don't think it was part of some conspiracy. I just don't think we realized that there was a negative side to taking antibiotics, and now that we do, most doctors are responding appropriately. I agree with the author, clinicians are often decades behind the science. I also agree that we are giving our profession away to alternative medicine. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that medicine is an art as much as a science...partly because the science is everchanging. I also wish that more doctors and clinicians were more open-minded. It's possible to remain skeptical but still willing to hear alternative ideas. The Truth: Fiber is undigestible plant matter that passes through you unchanged. When controlled studies are done on the topics of constipation, diverticulosis, and colon cancer, adding more fiber to a diet has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of the diet. The reason this is such a long-winded review is to make people understand, through my personal experience - both distant past and present - just how poor GP and so-called specialist's knowledge is about all disease. They are trained by Big Pharma-sponsored universities and medical facilities. That's all they know and they seem perfectly happy in their ignorance, despite the lives they are ruining. They don't do it on purpose; my endo said she was taking SERMs, herself. They will also take the poisoned pills for their own illnesses. It's just ignorance coupled with overconfidence in themselves and the 'system'. For example, I happened to be a Nutritional Sciences major in the 80s. The recommendation was not to avoid fat as the author insinuates...the recommendation was to limit fat to 30% of your total calories, with less than 10% of your total calories coming from saturated fat. We were also taught that for most of the population, cholesterol in the diet was not an issue as the body makes cholesterol, but that people with elevated levels might need to avoid it in their diets. The guidelines also suggested that about 60% of calories should come from carbs (and at least half should be from complex sources) including fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, lentils, legumes. The remaining 20% should come from lean meats and include 2 servings a week of fish. 2 servings of dairy was recommended and it was suggested that we should limit salt to under 2300 mg...although we were taught that for those who didn't already have high blood pressure, salt in the diet probably wasn't a huge issue.

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I tend to agree with him. Unfortunately, I think the initial concerns regarding salt intake was more directed toward those who already had high blood pressure. At some point, the recommendation got taken out of context and ultimately bastardized. I decided to take Dr. Berry’s advice and do a little research on these important topics to see if I could find accredited studies (from universities and other unbiased sources) that would corroborate these claims. Instead I found the following: But you can't have a book like this without a villain, so there you go. Ironically, he warns about mistaking an association with causation. Just because weight has been steadily increasing since the introduction of the guidelines, doesn't mean that the guidelines are to blame...especially if no one was following them. And no one did. Like so much of the science, the guidelines were bent and molded (sometimes aggressively so into something unrecognizable) to suit the needs of all the someones trying to sell us their somethings.author or publisher, nor does mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities imply that they Another point the author makes is just because whole grains may not be as bad for us as processed grains, that doesn't mean that they are good for us. And he is right, just because something isn't bad for us, doesn't mean it is good for us and certainly doesn't mean there isn't something better for us. But when discussing diet, we need to look at the overall content of the diet, the nutrient density of the foods, and the variety, balance, palatability, and sustainability of a diet. Just because we've only been eating grains for the past 10,000 years, doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't eat them. And just because some people don't tolerate gluten, doesn't mean that everyone needs to avoid it. Even though I was a little disappointed that Dr. Berry wasn't the narrator, it was still enjoyable. I will continue to listen, and learn from Dr Berry as well as read and research on my own any of the subjects I find interesting.