The Original 7 Wonders Of The World: The Food Pyramid

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"Perceptions that are clear and useful are the real revolutions in science, and the rest of it has to do with social and financial commitments.

Even in the short time since Kuhn wrote his book, the status of medicine has changed significantly, putting it right up with militarism and the energy industry as a source of political and economic power. The authoritarian monolith that has been known as the community of science has become increasingly (even in areas such as astronomy, where commercial interests aren't so crudely involved) a structure of cultural propaganda maintained by bullying and fraud. Since the "normal science" in these authoritarian settings is dedicated to evading the truth, it becomes almost a guide to where to look for the truth. It's sort of analogous to the "mystery" of why breast cancer mortality is lowest in the poorest part of the U.S., Appalachia, and highest in the richest regions: the medical industry goes where the money is, taking death with it. Science, like health, thrives on the neglect of the corrupt industry." -Ray Peat

 

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"I have always felt that the cybernetic definition of communication as the transfer of something that makes a difference should be applied to speech and writing. As a student and teacher, I saw that information which made a difference was the essence of intellectual excitement and growth. But making a difference is exactly what university administrators and journal editors don't want." -Ray Peat

 

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"Doctrines are admitted into the "scientific canon" by those who have the power of censorship. In astronomy, Halton Arp's discovery of "anomalous" galactic red-shifts is practically unknown, because the journal editors say the observations are "just anomalies," or that the theories which could explain them are unconventional; but the actual problem is that they are strong evidence against The Big Bang, Hubble's Law, and the Expanding Universe. American science, since the 1940s, has probably been the most censored and doctrinaire in the world." -Ray Peat

 

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"I have spoken to many people who believe they should drink "8 glasses of water every day," in addition to their normal foods, even if they don't feel thirsty. Many doctors still recite this dangerous slogan, but the addition of the qualifying phrase, "or other liquids," has become common.

The amount of water a person needs is extremely variable, depending on things such as metabolic rate, activity, and the temperature and humidity of the air. Working hard in hot, dry weather, it's possible to drink more than two quarts per hour for more than eight hours, without forming any urine, because all of the water is lost by evaporation. But in very hot, humid weather, a person with a low metabolic rate can be endangered by the smallest amount of water (e.g., "Meteorological relations of eclampsia in Lagos, Nigeria," Agobe, et al., 1981). a-day Peat

 

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"Simply injecting cholesterol into animals can improve their learning ability. In the Framingham heart study of 1894 people extending over a period of about 20 years, people with cholesterol naturally in the "desirable" range, below 200 mg.%, scored lower on "verbal fluency, attention/concentration, abstract reasoning, and a composite score measuring multiple cognitive domains" than those with higher cholesterol (Elias, et al., 2005)." -Ray Peat

 

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"Chinese medicine was familiar with many of the functions of the autonomic nervous system at a time when western medicine was organized around “the humors.” It’s easy for contemporary “western” people to see that the “winds” and the hot and cold principles of Chinese tradition are metaphors, but they are reluctant to see that their own system has grown up within very similar traditional metaphoric polarities.

The successes of even a good metaphor can cause people to neglect details that could support a more complete and accurate image of reality.

Contemporary science carries a load of bad metaphors, because the educational system doesn’t tolerate a critical attitude. Potentially, a good metaphor (e.g., Vernadsky’s suggestion that an organism is “a whirlwind of atoms”) could blow away many bad metaphors, but the present organization of science is tending in the other direction: Commercial interests are creating a culture in which their metaphors are replacing the traditional science in which there was a certain amount of honest intellectual exploration." -Ray Peat

 

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"When a group of people in government and industry decide on a policy, they can use carrots (good jobs, grants, and prestige) and sticks (loss of jobs and grants, organized slander, and worse) to make their guidelines clear, and most people will choose to follow those cues, even if they know that the policy is wrong. Historically, policy makers have told the public that "radiation is good for you," "estrogen will make you fertile (or safely infertile) and feminine and strong and intelligent," "starchy foods will prevent diabetes and obesity," "using diuretics and avoiding salt will make pregnancy safer," and that the polyunsaturated fatty acids are "nutritionally essential, and will prevent heart disease." -Ray Peat

 

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"Overcooked vegetables are actually more nutritious than raw, or partially cooked, vegetables." -Ray Peat

Ray Peat Live, April 29, 2019

Ray Peat Live, April 29, 2019 by Patrick Timpone

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In 1944, Charles Burwell, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, told the new students "Half of what we are going to teach you is wrong, and half of it is right. Our problem is that we don't know which half is which.”​

 

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Leisure And Desire Required For Intelligence, Knowledge And Progress

As many of you know, back in the 1970s Peat established something called Blake College in Mexico. Its goal was to provide an environment for true learning, free form the the constraints and dogmatism of modern academia driven by commercial and political interests. In one of his articles, Peat...

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“Financial considerations have driven fat research in very obvious ways. In 1883, Mark Twain described how commercial fraud was making use of new technology to substitute cheap fats and oils for butter and olive oil.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Science is a method that helps us to avoid believing things that are wrong, but there is a distinct herd instinct among people who “work in science,” which makes it easy to believe whatever sounds plausible, if a lot of other people are saying it is true. This is just as evident in physics as it is in medicine. Sometimes powerful economic interests help people to change their beliefs, for example as the insurance industry helped to convince the public of the dangers of smoking. Two of the biggest industries in the world, the estrogen industry and the soy bean industry, spend vast amounts of money helping people to believe certain plausible-sounding things that help them sell their products. Sometimes they can achieve great things just by naming the substance.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Most people are surprised to hear about the systematically harmful effects of the common dietary polyunsaturated fats and the protective effects of saturated fats. That's because there is a pervasive mythology of fats in our culture. Officials are proposing to tax saturated fats. Laws are being passed prescribing the fats that can be served in restaurants, and people write letters to editors about them, and great amounts of money are spent publicizing the importance of eating the right fats. Their focus is on obesity, atherosclerosis, and heart disease. The details of the myth change a little, as new fat products and industries appear.” -Ray Peat

 

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“Decreasing tryptophan or decreasing serotonin improves learning and alertness, while increased serotonin impairs learning.” -Ray Peat

 

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“In my newsletter on puberty, I described some of the effects of foods and hormones on intelligence. Here, I want to consider the effects of culture on the way people learn and think. Culture, it seems, starts to make us stupid long before the metabolic problems appear.“ -Ray Peat

 

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“About thirty years ago, someone found that the speed with which the iris contracts in response to a flash of light corresponds very closely to the I.Q. measured by a psychologist using a standard intelligence test. The devices used to measure reaction time in drivers' education courses also give a good indication of a person's intelligence, but so does measuring their heart rate, or taking their temperature. Colleges would probably be embarrassed to admit students on the basis of their temperature (though they commonly award scholarships on the basis of the ability to throw a ball). Colleges, to the extent that they are serious about the business of education, are interested in the student's ability to master the culture.“ -Ray Peat

 

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“There is still a strong division between what people can say in their professional publications, and what they believe. A man who was influential in designating vitamin E as an antioxidant, M.K. Horwitt, complained when the government raised its recommended vitamin E intake by 50%, because it wasn’t supported by new data, and because millions of people get only ten milligrams per day and “are healthy.” But he has been taking 200 mg daily (plus aspirin) for many years. He apparently doesn't have very much confidence in the ideas he advocates publicly. “ -Ray Peat

 

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“You are what you eat” is not just a proverbial advice in Japan. Japanese municipalities are obliged to make an effort to equip their citizens with the proper knowledge of food, and selecting food, in order to maintain a healthy diet. This movement is called “Shoku-iku” which literally means “food education.”

Shoku-iku starts from pre-school and kindergarten and continues up to the end of Grade 6, where school kids as young as 2 to 12 learn about the basic concepts and practical techniques of Washoku, generally in the order below:

2 year-olds – Try and learn the joy of having various foods and dishes
– Learn the proper attitude and posture for eating meals

3-4 year-olds – Get accustomed to various ingredients
– Learn how to use utensils and the right mannerisms

5 year-olds – Learn the relationship between what you eat and your body

Grades 1-2 – Learn the importance of eating 3 meals + snack a day

– Learn when certain foods are in season and when they are not

Grades 3-4 – Learn how produce gets to the meal table

– Learn how produce is processed into various foods
– Learn about the roles of protein, calcium and vitamins

Grades 5-6 – Learn how to select foods in order to give yourself a nutritiously balanced meal
– Learn how a poor diet links to stroke and heart attack
– Training on putting together nutritiously balanced meals
– Learn about Japanese food culture and that of other countries

So by the time elementary school is over, all kids in Japanese schools will have gone through formal training on nutrition and food culture (given that they were paying attention in class).“

Is Japanese food (Washoku) really healthy?

Japanese food is associated with health but food itself is not what supports a healthy life-style. It's the philosophy of Japanese cuisine that ensures a healthy diet.

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