Carbohydrates don't cause insulin resistance or diabetes

[ellenor2000]

Which pretty much describes pigs.

Kangaroos apparently fit this description too.

[FrankoBear]

That injunction is actually Muslim. The Jewish injunction is against all animals which do not have both cloven hooves and the property of rumination, and especially against animals which have only one of those properties (such as swine). Muslims only have an injunction against pork, which is waived in case of desperate need.

In any case, the real logic behind the prohibition seems to be that pigs are scavengers. (Hebrew theology of that period was very uncomfortable with things that crossed boundaries.) In the days before anyone knew how to check thoroughly for trichinosis, it was not a bad idea.

When I studied epidemiology and public health at university they fed us the idea that priests were the leadership, congregations were the public meetings and all types of information was dispensed using this ancient social media system. Part of that was population public health information. The rulers needed workers and soldiers to enrich themselves, so some degree of public health care was needed in city states to control disease outbreaks in the human herd. A main public health concern at the early civilisation time of writing old testaments and the Quran was trichinosis. The people observed human illness from eating pork (but you can also get it from eating horse or walrus).

The diseases associated with swine include ringworm, erysipelas, leptospirosis, streptococcosis, campylobacterosis, salmonellosis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, balantidiasis, influenza and infection with pathogenic E. coli .

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[CaptainKirk]

I believe this is accurate about Egypt…
But I also believe we can have MULTIPLE causes of Inflammation and Diabetes.
That destroying our Mitochondria with Seed oils, could simply speed up the damage by a High Carbage Diet.

[MarkGossage]

Agree completely and I’d never consider ingesting seed oils.

[Bird2Dog]

Great question!!

[Bellyman]

While there may be value in seeing the perspectives of many, I think we humans tend to “over-sympathize”. If one person can’t drink coffee and they’re telling the world about it, a whole lot of other people thing they can’t drink coffee either, cause look what happened to “xxx” even though they are just fine drinking coffee. We look at people like Dr Baker and think we need to eat like him even if we’ve not touch a weight in 30 years. We look at some vegan stick person who wants to tell us how healthy they are and might even wanna listen to them, at least briefly until we come to our senses.

One size does NOT fit all. It just doesn’t. Some can have a glass of wine and it is a total non-event. For another, they’d crash and burn because of that one glass of wine. Some could eat a piece of birthday cake and it would be a non-event. Someone else would crash and burn and eat everything they shouldn’t for the next few weeks, months, or years having fallen off the wagon. And some could eat that piece of cake and end up in the hospital.

Some are challenged physically in ways that others just are not. Some can eat pretty much anything they want and get away with it while others have to be very careful and can’t really get away with anything without significant immediate or near immediate effects. Some make a lot of insulin, some only a little. Some have genetics that lead them towards a higher metabolism, some do not. Some have genes that predispose them to certain illnesses no matter how good of a diet they eat and others just don’t have those same challenges.

We are NOT one size fits all in our diets, either. Some do really well eating a fairly large amount of plants. Some do NOT do well with plants. Do we pick what we’re going to do based on which guru from those groups we like best or which is more convincing? Kinda silly. You need to know how YOU react to plants. It doesn’t matter how someone else reacts, it matters how YOU react. Are you allergic to soy? Then don’t eat it. That doesn’t mean that EVERYONE is now allergic to soy. You have skin cancer? It doesn’t mean EVERYONE has skin cancer. You have arterial calcification? It doesn’t mean EVERYONE has arterial calcification. You get the point.

Can things be learned from people who really do not have it all figured out? Probably. But people follow way to blindly.

[Ysonde]

This is just my knee jerk thought on that question. The ancient Egyptians were eating an ideal version of the “healthy well balanced diet”. Actual whole grains, vegitables and some fish and birds. All organic and non GMO. (I dont know if it was low fat but maybe it was). Their health is/was the best that diet could do for you. I’m being a little sarcastic

[ctviggen]

Well, the title to this is completely wrong. But you can eat a very low fat, very high carb diet and that will improve “insulin resistance”. The problem is that if you add more fat, that no longer works.

And there are so many individual responses. Take these:

This comes from this study, but I can’t find the actual study any longer:

Personalized Nutrition by Prediction of Glycemic Responses - PubMed

Different people respond differently to different foods. When I used to eat oatmeal, I was starving 15 minutes later, yet I see people say that oatmeal fills them up.

For the ancient Egyptians, that’s similar to what happened with the Maya. One would assume they ate healthily, but smallpox helped wipe them out. This idea what we eat prevents us from getting sick is wrong. Does it help? Yes. Does it make us bullet proof? No.