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Udo
is off on his 21-city
European tour,
to be followed in April by a lecture tour in Japan. As
you all may know, Udo's Choice™ Products are available
and popular throughout most of the world!
Latest additions to the Products lineup include
new Probiotics Blends - targeted towards specific
needs. Udo's Choice™ Probiotic
Blends consist of SIX distinct varieties, each engineered for
a specific age group or condition: Infant's
Blend, Children's
Blend, Adult's
Blend, Advanced
Adult's Blend (for seniors), Super
8 Hi-Potency, and Super
5 Lozenge. Click on any of these links for further information
on Udo's Choice Probiotics Blends! |
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- Glass,
Plastic & Other Oil Production Issues - An Interview with Umahro
Cadogan. Oscar Umahro Cadogan, coordinator
of the Danish Athlete Study, recently interviewed Udo Erasmus
about his thoughts regarding glass versus plastic for bottling
cold-pressed omega-rich oils.
- PRESS
RELEASES -
from McDonald's Lawsuits to Breast-Cancer Diet Strategies, Udo
Erasmus and FloraHealth have been frontrunners
in the field of cutting-edge alternatives for diet and health
awareness. Here's a glimpse into a few press releases offered
on a variety of subjects over the last 5 years.
- Conjugated
Linoleic Acid - Addendum. "CLA" is a supplement of the
n-6 (linoleic) fatty acid that has been hydrogenated into twisted
trans- fats that can damage the body and interfere with the
important functions of essential fatty acids (EFAs). Udo extends
this comprehensive article on CLA with an addendum based upon
a scientific study completed at a Texas University in 2002.
For the scientifically-minded!
- Evening
Primrose Oil vs Borage Oil - Addendum ... Udo quotes
a recent German study (June, 2002) which seems to state that Borage
Oil is "safe", but is any oil that is subjected to destructive
refining techniques "safe" for human consumption? Read on and find
out...
- Humans
Turn ALA (Udo Oil) to EPA/DHA (Fish Oil) ... Proponents
of fish oils have claimed for decades that the body cannot convert
the basic n-3 essential fatty acid, ALA, into the n-3 derivatives,
EPA and DHA, found in fish oils. Is this true?
- From
FAT to FIT ... Overweight cases have increased from 25%
to 65% (34% overweight, plus 31% obese) of the population over
the
past
20 years. So, what are we doing wrong? (CHECK BELOW FOR OUR EXCERPTS!)
- ABSTRACTS -
research summaries on Low Carb Diets. For the scientifically-inclined!
A collection of original scientific abstracts submitted by Umahro
Cadogan that focus on focus on a number of different disease and
health-maintenance issues including Reflux Disease, Insulin Resistance,
Epilepsy and Obstetrics.
Recently, we introduced a new way to present Udo's written
articles. Many of them are lengthly and contain
extensive reference to research
and human metabolism- not everyone has the time or inclination
to read through pages of information- some of us are simply looking
for for straight answers about the shortest
road to the healthiest body! In light of these differing needs,
we've
created a "3-Tiered System" for some of our longer
articles: the first tier is the SUMMARY version - usually a one-page
condensed
write-up featuring the main points and conclusion of the article.
Second Tier is the EXPANDED SUMMARY - two to three pages of material,
outlining
the important features and recommendations of the main article.
Third Tier of course is the FULL ARTICLE - complete intro, body,
references,
conclusions and supporting data. These are often 10 to 20 pages
length and can sometimes include graphs or tables of data in
support of
the article. References (and links to scientific publications)
are notated at the end of the FULL ARTICLE.
Here are some links to our 1st installments of the 3-TIER ARTICLE
SYSTEM:
Introduction
It's not a mystery anymore.
The steps are clear. The science is in. The way it works
has been nailed down, all the way to the biochemical and
genetic levels. And most important, the way it works is borne
out consistently
in practice.
What we have been told to do (and are doing)
for weight management and for health is wrong. That's why overweight has increased
from 25% to 65% (34% overweight, plus 31% obese) of the population
over the past 20 years. That's why obesity has more than doubled
over the same two decades. That's why Type II Diabetes is up
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It's What We Eat Instead:
Carbs!
Given the results of this 20-year experiment on the entire population,
we must conclude that fat has never been the problem in weight
management. We ate less fat and got fatter. What, then, has
been the problem? What happened?
When we reduced fat intake, we began to eat carbohydrates instead.
Low fat and no fat foods. Convenience foods. Junk foods in crinkly
bags. It's not that we didn't eat them before. It's just that
we ate a whole lot more of them. They replaced the fats we were
not
eating.
We also ate more bread, pastries, pasta, potatoes, fries, potato
and corn chips, corn, bananas and other sweet fruit, breakfast
cereals, popcorn, flour, muffins, crackers, pretzels and refined
carbohydrate
products of all kinds of different shapes and sizes, biscuits,
pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, sugar, honey, syrups, rice, grains,
oatmeal. You
get the idea? This list includes most of the favorite foods of
overweight people. It is the foods loved by the fat-phobic carbohydrate
addicts-the 'obese' people.
The Carbohydrate Scam
The carbohydrate craze is driven, not by health considerations,
but by the fact that carbohydrates are cheap and easy to preserve. Sweets
and starches have a long shelf life, which makes manufacturers
happy. It gives them a large market, and little spoilage. In addition,
if health claims can be made for consuming carbohydrates because
they are low in fat, there is the probability that prices will
increase as a result; and that increase will be passed along to
the consumer even if the health claims are overstated. It does,
however, raise profit margins.
More insidious than the profit motive
is the fact that carbohydrates lead to a kind of addiction. Eating
carbohydrates leads to high blood
sugar. Then, in turn, the body's desperate self-defense mechanism
(involving insulin) against the toxicity of high blood sugar (that
can lead to a 'diabetic' coma) leads to low blood sugar accompanied
by tiredness, craving, and depression, which starts the next vicious
high blood sugar-low blood sugar cycle.
Carbohydrates and Activity
Few people are equipped by nature to be able to eat as many carbohydrates
and do so little physical activity as we do without getting fat. Most
people were equipped by nature to turn excess glucose into fat.
Our ability to turn excess glucose into fat served an important
survival function that evolved during a time when rare times of
feasting were followed by long famines. This survival mechanism,
however, is disastrous in affluent cultures where people live in
uninterrupted times of plenty.
Athletes can eat much more carbohydrate food than sedentary people
can because they burn it up during intense activity. The more active
a person, the bigger their muscles, and the more they exercise, the
more carbohydrates they can burn. The less active, the smaller the
muscles, and the more sedentary the lifestyle, the more important
it becomes to limit carbohydrate intake to prevent overweight and
its negative health consequences.
How do you know how much carbohydrate is too much? That's easy.
It requires no counting of calories or measuring of portions. If
you are overweight, you are eating more carbohydrates than you're
burning. This means that you need to lower your carbohydrate intake.
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Food History
The agricultural revolution began only 20,000 years ago. Before
that, far fewer grains and far more greens were eaten. Seeds
and nuts provided fats and protein. The hunt provided more
protein and fat.
White flour and white sugar (refined, processed carbohydrates)
are inventions less than 200 years old. Before that, white
flour could not be mass-produced, which meant that it had to
be made by hand and only the very rich could afford to eat
products made with 'refined' white flour. Therefore, during
that period, only the very rich got the degenerative diseases
that now plague everyone-dropsy, obesity, sugar disease, and
others. These were the "kings' ailments" brought
on by the 'refined' "kings' foods".
With the industrial revolution came mass production, and thereafter
we could all enjoy the 'foods of kings', and within one generation,
we could all enjoy the kings' ailments. |
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