Just finished reading "The Metabolic Storm" by Emily Cooper.
ML, would love to get your thoughts about this.
Thanks, S. J.
I've written so many times about this. One of the big problems with diet and health in general is that the human body (heck, any living creature) is very complex. Most of the health advice and diet stuff simply deal with isolated parts of the puzzle. Anything that offers one or two aspects of it as the total should be discarded. There are no perfect foods, or any perfect diet or diet/exercise program that will ensure health and wellness. Many can help, obviously, but they don't do the job alone.
Human life is far more than just the physical body, and even if one could discover and follow the perfect diet/exercise program, there would still be much left that was not addressed. Genetics play a good part in this, and early development sets some things in place that can't be radically changed afterwards. Fetal alcohol syndrome and malnutrition of the mother are two of these. These can be coped with, and success can lead to more or less "normal" lives, but the baby is simply never going to reach full potential, as if they had not been damaged before birth. And humans do not yet really understand it all, by any means.
The largest component of human health has been pretty much ignored by western medicine. There is much more interest now, but the Chinese knew about it, and developed ways to deal with it, probably 5,000 years ago or more.
http://www.worldtaichiday.org/WTCQDHlthBenft.html For information on Tai Chi and Qigong)
Our mental, emotional and energy state has as much or more to do with our health and wellness as diet, physical exercise and all other aspects of our environment. Unrelieved stress of any kind, anger, fear, and self hate will destroy one's body and mind, no matter what diet or exercise program one adopts.
