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Wall Street Journal Best Seller Dr. M's Seven-X Plan for Digestive Health
“Man is a food-dependent creature; if you don’t feed him he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.” ....Emanuel Cheraskin, MD
There may be truth in this saying: All sickness and all health begin in the stomach
Most cultures, both modern and ancient believe that maintaining a healthy digestive system is critical for positive health and well-being. We don't have to go too far to find out the truth--when our digestive system is functioning well, we feel better.
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Our digestive system and nutrition is not what it used to be:
- Many complex changes have occurred in our life style, nutrition as well an environment in recent decades.
- Modern agriculture and animal husbandry bears no semblence to the ancient jungle life or then medieval ountry life.
- Rapid urbanization with rural to urban migration to larger and larger cities with fast paced life places heavy emphasis on on not only industrialization and frequent eating out but also use of fast food and processed food.
- Our current nutritional intake bears to semblance to the past.
Wall Street Journal Best Seller Dr. M's Seven-X Plan for Digestive Health
How is it different?
- Very high glycemic load, high fats with changes in macronutrient composition, micronutrient density, acid-base balance
- High sodium to low potassium ratio and low fiber
- High intake of fructose especially 4-fold spike in kids
- One-third of our diet is not home-cooked food with increasing factory cooked food
- Calories consumed from snacks has increased by over 50%
- Exponential increase in salty snacks, pizza, bakeries, cereals, and carbonated beverages across the world even in countries that used to be suffer frequent famine only a few decades ago e.g. India
- Exponential increase in food additives and food preservatives
- Increased consumption of low calorie sweeteners especially in both uncarbonated and carbonated beverages
- Rising intake of alcohol
- Increasing use of antibiotics and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) frequently when not needed damage the gut increasing its permeability and altering gut bacteria
All such alterations in life style and nutrition over time have modified our digestive system physiology, the intestinal flora and this may be at the heart of many of the chronic diseases suffered today.
To add gasoline to the fire, dietary guidelines are frequently based not just on science but also contaminated by business and political interests.
Wall Street Journal Best Seller Dr. M's Seven-X Plan for Digestive Health
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