Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD, professor of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, was the head of the Carbohydrate Committee and on the Protein sub-committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee. She was invited to be one of the guest speakers at The 9th Conference on Preventative Nutrition in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 18, 2011. Perhaps Ms. Slavin felt more at liberty to express her true feelings about the final version of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines being overseas and didn’t realize that I’d have eyes and ears listening in to what she had to say. But according to my source who was in attendance to hear her speech, you could tell she had an obvious discontent with the nutritional recommendations that are now being thrust upon Americans.

There is no scientific basis for the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.

Yes, you read that right! Although Slavin was a major part of the scientific panel that went into creating the nutritional recommendations that will become the standard for what constitutes a “healthy” diet for the next five years, she feels the final version was not based on that science. My source noted that she described the review process where members of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee were asked to base all of their recommendations on the scientific evidence specifically related to humans, especially intervention studies. However, there was only one problem with that according to Slavin.

There are no human intervention studies.

She explained that in the end the Committee had to rely primarily on prospective cohort studies or “expert opinion” which my source said she dismissed as inferior from a scientific point of view. My source said members of the audience were “flabbergasted” to hear such a prominent member of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee basically dismissing the recommendations that were revealed on January 31, 2011.

Near the end of her lecture, my source said Slavin showed a revealing slide about obesity rates since the very first Dietary Guidelines were published in 1980:

Here’s the story she shared about how she came upon this information:

A friend sent me this slide. Who can tell me when obesity starts to pick up?

My source yelled out, “1980!” Slavin continued with a wink and a nod.

Yes, exactly after the publication of the Dietary Guidelines. But we all know that nobody listens to them anyway don’t we?

At the end of her lecture, Slavin complained that after all the hard work they invested in keeping the scientific integrity of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines as sound and intact as possible, they were basically written by people at the USDA whether there was any connection between the science and the published recommendations or not. When her lecture was finished, my source said they didn’t take any questions nor did they allow any remarks from the audience.

However, he noticed during her speech that she completely ignored the human intervention studies on high-fat, low-carb diets that have shown a spontaneous decrease in food intake as was shown in the Shai study published in The New England Journal Of Medicine in 2008 (ironically, conducted in Israel) as well as many others in recent years. Plus, despite her assertions that people aren’t following the Dietary Guidelines, he noted the consumption of grains, low fat milk, and vegetable oils in the United States have all been on the rise while whole milk, butter and red meat has decreased–all of which have resulted in triple healthcare costs in America since 1980 while food costs have remained constant.

Interestingly, Slavin’s lecture and attendance at this meeting in Israel was sponsored and paid for by Uniliver which has an interesting take on the role of carbohydrates in the diet as the manufacturer of high-carb breakfast cereals. Slavin herself has said “There are many healthy eating patterns, and potatoes, pasta, white bread and rice surely fit into many of these.” Leave it to my buddy Richard Nikoley from “Free The Animal” to call a spade a spade about Slavin. You gotta wonder why she would speak ill of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines when they seem to fit with her personal worldview on nutrition.

What do you think about Professor Joanne Slavin stating quite emphatically that the 2010 Dietary Guidelines are basically a scientific sham? I have been attempting to contact her via e-mail for the past month to get her to comment further on this in an interview, but I have received no response to multiple inquiries. Feel free to share your thoughts about this interesting development with her directly at jslavin@umn.edu. And, of course, you can leave your feedback about this developing story in the comments section below. What’s going on here?

Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their four crazy cats!

I was inspired last week by Jimmy Moore’s article describing his fast. Like him, I had only managed 24 hour fasts in the past, and had always intended to do more. Also like Jimmy, I am a lover of food; real food, good food in particular! And so I never seemed to quite get around to denying myself the pleasure of my daily eggs & butter,  raw cream or cheese, or grass-fed burger, for more than a day. But after reading Jimmy’s post I figured, “Hey! If he can do it, I can do it!” Thus after mulling over the particulars the weekend, I decided to start this week, today in fact! But I am doing things slightly different.

First, I am starting out with 3 days but am hoping to stretch it to a full week. Does this leave me a convenient out? Well, perhaps, but I am really intending to continue past the 3 day mark and get into days 5, 6, & 7 for the accelerated benefits that a fast of this length can provide. But I’ve a lot to accomplish this week and next, so if I just feel too weak and yucky after 3 days I at least want to have the “out” if needed.

My approach to what will be “allowed” into my body is also somewhat different from Jimmy’s. For instance, no diet sodas (or other) for me! No neurotoxins, no phosphorous acid to rob my body (bones in particular) of minerals. And also no bouillon cubes. Jimmy, shame on you; you should know better than this!!! Isn’t the point of the fast to clear your body of toxic sludge? Why put more of it in there?! (And no, those little artificially-flavored MSG-laden cubes do not provide electrolytes!)

I will not continue with my supplemental coconut oil simply because I want my body to access for energy solely what is already there, stored around my middle. And in the process those storage cells will be releasing needed minerals and electrolytes, as well as toxins. I’m not even sure that I will take my much respected fermented cod liver oil. Perhaps later in the week. What do you think?

The plan is to do 3 days of only water with fresh lemon juice, and my teas (black & herbal) with stevia & raw milk/cream. The tea is my crutch, like Jimmy’s soda only wayhealthier! Additionally I will have a glass of fermented beet kvass each day, as this is a powerful internal cleanser and rebuilder. It has already been nearly 24 hours since I have eaten anything and this is all I have had

I make my own, but in a pinch Zukay is great!

After 3 days if I feel the need I will allow myself bone broth (again, not commercial bouillon/broth). This is healing, therapeutic, and provides enough easily assimilated nutrition to keep me going for a long time. I will also have cultured raw cream available so that I can have a spoonful 3 times a day if desired. This will also help inoculate my cleansing gut with beneficial microbes which will in turn aid the “housecleaning”!

One more facet to my plan is rather distasteful to most, but very important: coffee enemas. While in little use these days, coffee enemas were in times past a standard of care. This will help push my liver to throw off and purge stored toxins, which is what I am really going for! Weight loss will be embraced as well, but I realize that the reality of a fast is that you are shedding more water initially, than fat.

Exercise is something which has been lacking over the winter, but I plan to continue increasing or at least maintain what I am currently doing: jogging/walking (intermittent intensity) 1+ mile 3-4 times a week, and dancercize 2-3 times a week. Additionally I remain physically active with mucking a barn and running up 2 flights of steps everyday as the need arises (in other words, I don’t send my children on my errands!)

After completing the fast I know that it is important to ease back into eating solid foods, so I will do so with raw, non-starchy vegetables, bone broth, and lightly cooked meat.

I hope you guys can all cheer me on in this endeavor, and that some will join in with me. Let me know if you are fasting and how it is going, and I’ll keep everyone posted on my own progress!

And Jimmy: hey, thanks for the inspiration!

Maureen Diaz is a homeschooling mother of 9, a WAPF chapter leader, and a certified LW Nutritionist. She also has produced 3 cooking DVD’s including her latest, Liberation Wellness Home Cooking. Check out & order her DVD’s on her website, www.nourishingtraditionalcook.com 

Last week when I blogged about the new vegan propaganda movie called Forks Over Knives coming in May, I received well over 100 comments mostly from vegans who wanted to defend their chosen nutritional plan although I didn’t really criticize it or the film in my post. But “Jill in Chicago” wanted to defend Whole Foods and their “Healthy Eating Specialist” position against being characterized as vegan-promoting. Here’s what she wrote:

The focus of Whole Foods’ Health Starts Here program is not to eat a vegan diet, but to eat whole, unprocessed foods. I am currently in the midst of a Health Starts Here 28-Day Health Challenge, and the Healthy Eating Specialist who is assisting the group does not discourage meat and dairy consumption. The idea is to eat less of them.

That’s all well and good and I certainly wish Jill the best as she pursues her own weight and health goals with whatever diet she is choosing to follow. To me it’s all about finding the plan that will work for you, following it exactly, and then continuing to do that for the rest of your life. But what about those people who don’t know which plan is right for them? Is there a way to get a customized nutrition plan that will help them determine what their diet should look like? Whole Foods seems to think so through their partnership with Eat Right America doing direct marketing with the customers of their stores encouraging them to take a survey to see how to eat optimally for your health. What Whole Foods customer wouldn’t be interested in something like that? One of my readers forwarded an e-mail she received from a friend of hers who wanted to pass along this “amazing offer” from Whole Foods giving away “FREE customized nutrition plans to get you started or keep you motivated on your health journey.”

Gee, how nice is that? All you gotta do is go to the “Eat Right America Challenge” web site, enter or obtain an access code, fill out a survey about your eating, exercise and lifestyle habits as well as you health and they’ll spit you out the perfect diet just for you, including a personalized 28-day nutrition and eating plan that they say “really is a great resource…to Whole Foods Market customers.” They encourage people who take this survey to come back in to visit Whole Foods after you receive your diet plan to consult with the “Health Starts Here” station to speak with the “Healthy Eating Specialist” about learning more about “your path to a healthier life.” Don’t you just love how syrupy sweet and innocent they make this all sound? It’s a lot more dastardly than these unsuspecting Whole Foods customers even know!

So what’s the real deal here? I wanted to find out and share this with you so your friends, family and co-workers don’t get suckered into thinking this is a legitimate way to know which diet is right for them (if you want to have a REAL test done to determine the correct nutritional makeup of your diet for you based on how your body metabolizes food and nutrients, then you might consider getting the FitTest done from GetYourHealthTested.com). Maybe what they conclude about the kind of diet you should be eating is right for you…maybe not. But this survey is not based on anything scientific methodology regarding your specific situation. It’s deliberately meant to mislead you into thinking what you are currently doing is causing harm to your health and that there is only one solution to preventing your health from getting worse than it is. As you can imagine, the basis for the questions asked in this survey heavily leans on conventional wisdom about the relationship of consuming animal-based fats and proteins to developing heart disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases and the supposed virtues of consuming plant-based foods as a way to obtain optimal health. Let’s take a look at what it was like for me to take this survey for myself plugging in information about my diet and lifestyle.

I began by visiting the Challenge web site where they welcomed and congratulated me for taking “the first step toward a healthier more nutritious lifestyle” through my own “Personal Nutrition Report”:

The survey started off by asking me some basic demographic information about who I am in a “detailed assessment designed to accurately predict your health future.” Eat Right America is described as “a cause, a passionate desire to enable America’s families to live a life of ‘true’ health.” They do this by promising the results of their survey will give you a “personally-designed, nutrition prescription, that can dramatically extend your life expectancy and lower your risk of life-threatening diseases.” Wow, sounds like they’ve found the Fountain Of Youth miracle cure-all for all of life’s health woes. We shall see. They then asked questions about the current state of my health and what my typical diet looks like:

Two things stood out to me about the diet portion of the survey–they put eggs in with white meat and there was no designation for “grass-fed” or “pastured” foods. So any red meat consumption listed on the survey could be grain-fed or grass-fed. It obviously didn’t matter to them whether you consumed higher-quality meats or not (an it’s only gonna get even worse in a moment, though). I made it through the 15-minute survey so I could receive my own “Nutrition Prescription customized for Jimmy Moore”–they made it just for me (yeah right!):

You get a form letter from Dr. Scott Stoll who is a member of the Whole Foods Medical Board who explains that the “solution we have created for you is easy to understand, simple and fun for you and your family to adopt, and represents a proven methodology that is guaranteed to deliver the results you desire.” WOW! What in the world could this miracle of all miracles be that will end my weight and health struggles forever? They then explain about what the “Nutrition Prescription” is all about discussing the implementation of the “Nutritarian Lifestyle” from vegan physician Dr. Joel Fuhrman juxtaposed with the typical Standard American Diet and why this new way to eat is allegedly better for you. They even show you a graph of what your current diet looks like compared with SAD:

I think it’s interesting they lump meat and dairy together in the same category and apparently list foods like bacon in the “Processed Foods” section. Do you think they put things like tofu and skim milk in with the “Processed Foods” when they are both OBVIOUSLY highly-processed? I wouldn’t bet the house on it. Continuing through my personal assessment, the news only got worse. I was chastised for consuming too much red meat, animal products, and full-fat dairy while eschewing whole grains and more vegetables. They point to my diet as the reason why my health is at great risk for disease:

For several pages, I receive a lecture on why my cholesterol is too high which puts me at risk for a heart attack (I’ve previously explained in this post that cholesterol testing is a lot more sophisticated these days than ever before and that measuring particle size is much more relevant than LDL or total cholesterol). They claim my LDL (explained as “the most accurate determinant of risk” of coronary artery disease) should be below 80 mg/dl to “maximize reversal” of heart disease, but there was nary a mention of HDL “good” cholesterol in the equation. Additionally, they use the body mass index (BMI) to determine the obesity of an individual stating that it “is a fairly reliable indicator of body fat for most people.” The say my BMI at 251 pounds on my 6’3″ body frame puts me at a “significantly increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.” Oh, now isn’t that nice? They’ve got a rude awakening coming when none of this actually happens to me as they’re trying scaremonger these poor Whole Foods customers into thinking they have to eat a vegan diet. Oh yes, that sticky little detail is coming up soon. But first they need to continue to put the fear of God in me about my current health before they swoop in to the rescue with their miracle plan to save me:

They say I’m at a “very high risk” of sudden cardiac death if I don’t “take action immediately” despite the fact that my heart scan score in 2009 showed zero calcium buildup in my arteries. My risk of stroke is also “very high” because they think blood clots will happen because of my diet. And with a fasting blood glucose score of 83, they still put me at “significant risk” for getting diabetes because I’m not eating and exercising the way they think I should be. They weren’t finished yet piling on more warnings about what my current diet is doing to my risks for developing cancer and osteoporosis (this is actually starting to get funny if they weren’t so serious about it):

So I’m at “high risk” for developing cancer because of my eating and fitness choices and they will help me “identify those choices” that will be better for me. HA! Then with my bone health, it’s the same song and dance. What I’m doing right now ain’t good enough–but there’s something better that we think (hope and pray to God) you’ll like…or something like that. What exactly are the culprits in my devastatingly, hanging-by-a-thread health right now? Let’s take a look:

My full-fat dairy loving, caffeinated tea guzzling, saturated fat-laden meat eating, and salted food consumption is what they think is killing me. Gee, if these are all of the problems with my diet right now, then why am I in the best health of my entire life? Why do I feel so good if I’m just one bunless bacon cheeseburger away from saying so long to this world? And how did eating so “unhealthy” bring my weight down by triple digits, get me off of three prescription medications for good, and have me doing things I would have never thought possible just a few years back? I, of course, know better and have all the confidence in the world about my healthy low-carb lifestyle. But what about those people who take this survey and believe it’s the gospel truth? They read this and think, “Oh my God, what can I do to stop this devastation from happening to me?” Enter the Eat Right America eating plan:

They try to convince you this is a good thing by stating at the top of the page that this is all about “Nutrition Excellence & Health” and then proceed to explain what they mean by that. To become a “Nutritarian,” all you have to do is eat lots of fruits and vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds, cut down on your animal-based food consumption opting for “healthier options in this food group” (hmmm, lemme guess–ones that are lower in saturated fat?) and eat much less of foods that are “empty of nutrients or toxic” like refined sugars, white flour, processed foods and fast food. On the final point, I think we can agree, but Dr. Fuhrman is hung up on meat being such an unhealthy part of any diet plan. He sees meat in the same vein as low-carbers look at high-fructose corn syrup. It must be avoided as much as possible except for maybe the once-in-a-while “treat.” That’s nothing more than utter nonsense and ignorance. What exactly does the Nutritarian Food Pyramid look like? Check it out for yourself:

What a bassackwards food pyramid this is! Equating eggs and meat with processed foods and sweets is being intellectually dishonest. Sure, those non-starchy vegetables are an excellent addition to any diet (including a low-carb one), but why the damnation of foods that are equal in their nutrient density to veggies such as red meat, fish, eggs, oils, and the like? There’s no explanation for this other than the insinuation that consuming these foods that contain saturated fat will lead to serious health consequences down the road. But there is no evidence supporting such a claim. Even still, here comes the kicker–”My Personalized Eating Plan” according to the great purveyors of nutritional truth and wisdom at Whole Foods:

And THERE IT IS! All of this nonsense about how horrible my health is, what the dietary “cause” of my health decline is, what a good diet should look like and all the rest was nothing more than a setup for this moment. The diet they are recommending that I begin eating immediately to overturn the issues associated with my “poor” diet is one that is 96% plants, 3% meat and dairy, and 2% processed foods/snacks. REALLY?!

While technically this isn’t a vegan diet because there are very small amounts of meat allowed on this plan, it might as well be. Meat isn’t a condiment to me–it’s the lifeblood of a healthy low-carb lifestyle change that has given me vibrant health like nothing else I’ve ever done before. I don’t need to consume 96% of my calories from plant sources which includes high-carb whole grains, beans, fruits and all the rest. I’m doing just fine livin’ la vida low-carb. Can I tell you how much this angers me that they would try to pull something so incredibly deceiving to people who will likely buy into it hook, line and sinker? This is disgusting because there is no education about the wonderful nutrients contained in meats or the health consequences for some people who consume carbohydrate-rich foods. That to me is ethically wrong to deliberately withhold information from the consumer that could help them make the most informed decision about their health.

They require a 28-day pledge to doing the following: eating at least one large salad, at least a half-cup of beans/legumes, at least three fresh fruits, at least one ounce of raw nuts/seeds, and at least one large double-sized serving of steamed green vegetables on a daily basis while avoiding the “most harmful food habits” that include eating barbequed, processed meats or commercial red meat, fried foods, full-fat dairy like cheese and butter, soft drinks of all kinds both diet and sugary, and white flour. It sure sounds a whole lot like a vegan diet to me with all of those restrictions on what can be consumed on this diet. They also say to chunk any foods that contain over 200mg sodium per serving and to use a blender to liquify your vegetables to drink. Oh, but they help you come off of your “meat habit” (as Dr. Neal Barnard described it in my podcast interview with him last year) beginning in Day 8 of this 28-Day plan:

Isn’t it interesting how they took great pains to explain that this meal plan isn’t vegan, but then pushed the need to “reduce your intake of animal foods” from your diet? If meat is part of being a “Nutritarian” as they claim, then what’s this concept of “your desire for animal foods (will) diminish over time?” Meat is most certainly NOT a condiment in a healthy diet no matter what Dr. Fuhrman and his lackeys at Whole Foods wants you to believe. Meat is where the REAL nutrition is found and you’re depriving your body of some incredible health benefits by trying to eliminate it from your diet completely. Just ask Lierre Keith or Denise Minger.

By Day 15, they encourage you to “change the focus of your meal from meat to vegetables” and they assure you will get plenty of protein by consuming greens, beans, nuts and seeds. The gradual move to eating “less meat” is in full force by week three of the plan and it reaches the climax by the time you enter the final week of the 28-Day Challenge when “you are eating much less animal foods,” oils, milk/dairy products, sugar, coffee/tea and caffeine, and a whole lot more veggies, fruit, beans, nuts and seeds. Lest you think none of this survey really has anything at all to do with Whole Foods, then you would be sorely mistaken:

Yes, you too can become a “Nutritarian” nerd by hopping in your car and driving to your nearest Whole Fools…Whole Paycheck…er, I mean Whole Foods Market to pick up these books, CDs and DVDs to provide you more vegan-based propaganda to fool you into thinking this is the best option for your health. This partnership Whole Foods has made with the vegan diet is intentional and should ostracize any customer who chooses to eat an animal-based diet. That includes virtually every Paleo and low-carb dieter on the planet. If you ask me, a company that is THIS invested in promoting a dietary agenda like this doesn’t deserve the support of people who disagree with it. They’ve drawn a line in the sand and dug in their heels on trying to make this “Nutritarian” diet the ONLY way for Whole Foods customers to get healthy. We should vote with our dollars about what we think about this and send Whole Foods executives a clear message: YOU’RE NOT PUSHING A VEGAN AGENDA DOWN OUR THROATS!

Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their four crazy cats!

The self-described purpose of the movie is that it “examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called ‘diseases of affluence’ that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.” The film zeroes in on the work of Dr. Campbell and Dr. Esselstyn who are described on the Synopsis page as “under-appreciated researchers” for their examination of the vegan diet as a “single solution” to heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and obesity. It examines how they both came to similar conclusions about the relationship of diet to health which they began investigating and researching for themselves. It’s their sincere belief that a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle change is all that is needed to prevent and reverse most chronic, degenerative diseases that plague the modern world. Even Oprah Winfrey has gotten in on the act promoting the idea of a vegan diet.

Of course, it’s very interesting that they’ve made sure to steer clear of using terms like “vegan” in the film deliberately so as not to incite any negative connotations in the minds of those who would hear it. In fact, there’s only ONE mention of “vegan” in Forks Over Knives when mixed martial artist and Ultimate Fighting star Mac Danzig says it in one of the segments featuring his vegan eating plan. Dr. Esselstyn explains why in this CNN story about the documentary and he was quite candid in the reasons why the word “vegan” is not used more prominently.

If you start to use the v-word, people get nervous. Somehow, there’s a feeling from years ago that vegans are strange. There are so many negative connotations.

I suppose it’s difficult to shake negativity about a phrase that people have made up their minds about already based on their prior experiences with it. That’s what has happened to “low-carb” unfortunately which has been tarnished ironically by people like Dr. Campbell and other vegan activists as being an unhealthy way to eat. I find this vegan movie idea intriguing because we live in a culture that is so media-driven. Although it’s only going to be released in limited markets, the potential impact of a film like Forks Over Knives is tremendous, especially with the backing of a major corporate sponsor like Whole Foods (who now has a “Healthy Eating Specialist” in each of their stores promoting the vegan diet to customers). It makes me long for someone who can articulate the healthy low-carb message through the medium of filmmaking in an entertaining, yet informative and persuasive way. My buddy Tom Naughton did just that with his DVD-only release FAT HEAD. But it was never shown in theaters. And the long-awaited release of In Search Of The Perfect Human Diet from filmmaker CJ Hunt will not likely make it to movie theaters either despite having an amazing message to share with people who are looking for a way of eating that could quite possibly change their lives forever for the better.

The quality of Forks Over Knives seems to be pretty good too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ijukNzlUg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJbYAYzP04

And here’s a video featuring the filmmakers talking about why they made this film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfY2C4WaJ3s

While I may not agree at all with the propagandist message of a film like Forks Over Knives (and lest you think I’m overstating it, be sure to watch all of those YouTube video clips above again to see what I mean), I do think this is an idea that an aspiring or veteran filmmaker whose life has been radically changed by the work of someone like Gary Taubes, Dr. Robert C. Atkins, Robb Wolf, or any of the other low-carb/Paleo superstars should take and run with it. No more sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone else to do it. That’s not my skill or I would be working on it myself. But I know there is someone reading this right now who has the talent for creating a full-length feature film that can be ready-made for movie theater audiences both to educate about how an animal-based low-carb lifestyle change could improve their weight and health as well as entertain them to remain focused on why low-carb living may be an option for them.

However, unlike Forks Over Knives which seems to put forth the mistaken notion that there is some mystical “single solution” to the problems of obesity and chronic disease, this film about healthy low-carb living would acknowledge quite clearly that there are different plans that work for different people. The fatal error we have made in nutritional education in America that has led to increased frustration and failure among the populace is we’ve put diet in a box and told people it has to look a certain way or it’s not a valid “healthy” diet. That’s precisely what the vegans have done with their heavy emphasis on the “plant-based diet” concept making people who choose to consume meat as part of their menus for the sake of improving their health seem inferior.

While I applaud anyone who can go on a vegan/vegetarian diet and be successful like my high school friend Evelyn Parham, the fact is you may not have to eat that way to attain the health improvements you are longing for. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke, obesity and more can also be improved and prevented on a low-carb nutritional approach as well as I’ve highlighted in studies shared at my blog and in my latest book 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb. The idea that there is just one path to being optimally healthy nutritionally just comes across as so incredibly arrogant and condescending in light of what we know from science revealing the benefits that come from a variety of eating plans. Maybe it’s the elimination of sugary, processed foods that makes both vegan and low-carb diets work so well. Nevertheless, I do think going vegan is certainly a step in the right direction from the Standard American Diet, that’s for sure!

The bottom line is it’s time to end the nonsensical debate of which diet is better and instead focus in on which diet is best for the individual. Plant-based, animal-based, low-fat, high-fat, low-carb, high-carb…put all the information out there for people to see, ponder, consider which is right for them, and then implement into their lives. Demonizing a diet that you don’t agree with doesn’t convince anyone why your diet is any better. I implore supporters of both a plant-based diet and an animal-based diet to simply state your respective cases to the public with the positive benefits of what your preferred way of eating is all about citing scientific evidence to support your position without denigrating the discussion with innuendo and sensationalism about the other side’s position. Deep down inside, I think we all want the same thing–to help the average person realize that there is a way to naturally through nutrition improve the state of their health in a way that will keep them off of prescription medications, prevent the development of diseases of modern man, and help them achieve a healthy weight in the process. Whether it’s low-fat vegan or low-carb Paleo, let the people decide based on the preponderance of the evidence.

What do you think about this new film Forks Over Knives? Do you think people have become too apathetic about diet that they just don’t care anymore or will this film have the kind of impact the vegan supporters are hoping it will in changing public perception about consuming a “plant-based diet?” And what about my idea that we could use a pro-low-carb film from a professional filmmaker who read Good Calories Bad Calories, for example? Do you think these kind of efforts are worth the time and energy invested in them as a means for educating and inspiring the public to give them a go for themselves? Share what YOU think in the comments section below.

Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their four crazy cats!

And Wednesday the 16th of this month is your chance to once again converge on the Hill and remind your Representatives and Senators that they do indeed work for us.
The Farm Food Voices Feast this year is from 12-2p.
The lobbying aspect of the day takes place before and after the mixer.

This year, the region’s best Chef’s have joined their voices with ours and our local farmers’ to present for Congress and us a catered affair that would make a Kennedy envious.

Poste Brasserie is returning, along with Coppi’s, Restaurant 3, Nora’s, Food Matters, Lavender Moon and Krishon Chocolates.  Making their debuts this year are Level Small Plates Lounge, Equinox, Ivy Inn, Maple Avenue.  Plus two of Top Chef’s finalists will be representing their kitchens—Volt and Alchemy by Carla Hall.  Main Event, just awarded Best Caterer in the Country, has graciously agreed to organize the load in, setup and load out.  Oh yeah, they’ll be roasting a whole pig from a local farm again this year.

We know how difficult it is to make time for these headaches, but most of the work has already been done.  For the rest of the year you can buy from local farms.  This is your opportunity to add your voice to the growing chorus; it is the day that your presence on the Hill and inside your elected representatives’ offices gives form to your statement.

By overcoming our differences and linking up, we become the connected links of a chain: strong, efficacious and flexible.

Please join us and lend you voice on Wednesday, March 16^th

See website for additional details.

Liz Reitzig is a certified Liberation Wellness Nutritionist and a regular contributor to Liberation Wellness (www.LiberationWellnessBlog.com) She serves as President of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association and Secretary of the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association.  As a champion for real foods and farm freedom, Liz is the co-founder and partner in a farm fresh buying club and raises her own family on real foods from local farms. She is also a Chapter Leader for the Weston A Price Foundation.

Frito-Lay pledged in 2010 to make over half of their product line “healthier” by removing the MSG, artificial colors and flavors, as well as most of the salt in their products which include Lay’s potato chips, Sun Chips, Tostido’s, and more. Additionally, they’re cutting the fat in these products by 40 percent with a goal of making the saturated fat content of all of their products less than 1 gram per serving. The president and CEO of Frito-Lay Al Carey made the following statement at this news conference that exemplifies why I’m so jaded about the future of health in the United States: “My objective is in three years that all of our products will be either ‘better for you’ or ‘good for you.’”

Now I’m sure Mr. Carey was well-meaning when he said this, but can anyone else see the irony of it all? We’re talking about potato chips here and the way they propose to make them “better for you” or “good for you” has everything to do with reducing the salt and fat in them. But does this make them healthier for the consumer? I think not. In fact, I remember back in the 1980s when Lay’s had a famous television commercial featuring NBA legends Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Larry Bird making a bet that “you can’t eat just one.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRzcjw9l6xo

The theme song of the marketing back then was, “No one can eat just one.” Man how times have changed! In 2011, the consumer is attempting to be more health-conscious and Frito-Lay is now transitioning their efforts in this regard to meet that growing demand with a brand new series of television commercials attempting to paint the picture that their chip products are somehow “better” by featuring the voiceover acting skills of Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, Early Edition). If you’ve been watching television at all in the past couple of months, then surely you’ve seen these:

FRITO-LAY “CHEF” COMMERCIAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2093wkKQEg

FRITO-LAY “ANTHEM” COMMERCIAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-FVukWUPQ

FRITO-LAY “QUALITY” COMMERCIAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SyKF2-yjsc

“We make them natural…you make them fun.” Cutesy tagline, right? But did anyone else catch the slick marketing slight-of-hand in these ads? I guess because my life is so dedicated to the subject of health and nutrition that this stuff is more obvious to me than most people. But the average Joe and Jane sitting at home watching the boob tube might watch any of those commercials and say, “Hey, they’re making those ‘all-natural’ chips healthier and by hand. I need to go get me some of them there chips the next time I go to the grocery store since I’m trying to lose weight and be healthy.” Sound preposterous? Maybe to you and me, but not to the people who still think salt and dietary fat are the problem with weight and health. And that’s why this new campaign from Frito-Lay is so insidious. Just because these chips are “all-natural,” that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily good or healthy for you. BAMBOOZLED!

Admittedly, back in my low-fat dieting days I happily went to my local Subway restaurant to get my low-fat turkey sub without mayonnaise and made it a combo meal with a bag of Sun Chips and a Diet Coke. The Sun Chips were and are still promoted as healthy because they have whole grains in them and are low in fat. And I even tried some of the now infamous Lay’s WOW potato chips with the fake fat olestra which resulted in some not-so-desirable gastrointestinal side effects. I fell for the low-fat marketing scheme that is now befalling a whole new wave of consumers with this effort by Frito-Lay to move towards the “natural” branding of their products. Here’s a CBS News story about the dramatic change in focus by Frito-Lay in 2011.

Did you catch that in the CBS story? They can’t make Cheetos or Doritos without artificial ingredients! Sheez, that’s quite telling…but they’re working on it. Oh joy! And I don’t mean to sound ugly or anything, but did you see what that Chief Marketing Officer for Frito-Lay Ann Mukherjee looked like?

I’m empathetic with anyone who struggles with their weight, but it does appear that the person directly responsible for marketing at Frito-Lay desperately needs to find better information about what is causing her own weight struggles. Unfortunately, if they think it’s the fat and salt causing the problems then they are sorely mistaken. But that’s EXACTLY what they’re doing as Frito-Lay Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Scientist Danielle Dalheim brags about in this promo video pushing “sensible snacking” with Frito-Lay chips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhcINatFL88

Our chips are not cooked in saturated fats–”the bad fats”–and instead we use monounsaturated vegetable oil fats. Incredible! Again, the average consumer doesn’t know any better that these “choices” aren’t even close to being ideal for anyone attempting to eat a healthy diet. And yet that’s how they’re being marketed with this new “Naturally Delicious” advertising push. You’ll get a better feel for what Frito-Lay thinks “healthy” snacking is all about in this Q&A section on their web site dedicated to explaining it all in great detail. From demonizing saturated fats, promoting the “calories in, calories out” mantra, claiming their products are real food, worrying about salt as if it’s some health hazard, pushing MORE snacking as a means for losing weight, and finding a reason for virtually everyone to buy their chips. Well, after taking a look at the nutritional info on some of their new “All Natural” branded chips that are supposed to be the healthiest, I’ll never be buying this stuff again for the rest of my life:

TOSTIDOS ALL NATURAL SCOOPS

What’s bad about it: Made with starchy corn (maybe genetically modified, too!) and cooked in omega-6 loaded vegetable fats with a whopping 19g carbohydrate for the one-ounce serving size of chips. Who do you know that just eats ONE ounce of potato chips? Me neither! Betcha can’t eat just one serving!

LAY’S ALL NATURAL GARDEN TOMATO & BASIL

What’s bad about it: Besides being made with the very starchy potato and then cooked in omega-6-rich vegetable oils, the seasoning has sugar, brown sugar and dextrose in it and the ingredients show there’s also nonfat milk in this chip. Sugar, sugar and more sugar–OH MY! So is that supposed to be part of what makes it “all-natural?”

LAY’S ALL NATURAL BARBECUE

What’s bad about it: In addition to the potatoes and vegetable oils, did you catch what they put in the BBQ seasoning that’s anything but “all-natural?” It’s this innocent-sounding ingredient called “corn sugar” that you might know better as high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). They can change the name of the ingredient, but that doesn’t change what it is!

LAY’S ALL NATURAL CLASSIC

What’s bad about it: This one passes the Michael Pollan “5 ingredients or less” test since it only has three ingredients in it. But look at what those three ingredients are: potatoes (starchy carbs), vegetable oils (inflammatory omega-6 fats), and salt (probably man-made and not the more natural sea salt). This gives you a one-ounce snack that provides a total of 15g carbohydrate and not much nutritionally for you. How can they sucker people into thinking this is “healthy” with a straight face?

I could go on with Tostidos All Natural Multigrain, Rold Gold All Natural Everything Bagel Pretzels, Sun Chips All Natural Garden Salsa, Sun Chips All Natural Original, and Sun Chips All Natural Harvest Cheddar. No matter what Frito-Lay tries to say about their revamped potato chip line-up, I’ve gotta call a spade a spade–this stuff is pure unadulterated junk garbage that doesn’t even deserve to be called “food.” Anyone who buys into this ploy by them that they’re eating “better” or “healthier” with these new products is merely fooling themselves. There’s nothing redeeming about consuming this as sustenance for your body and the sooner you stop eating them the better. That’s the cold hard truth and something people need to hear. You cannot be healthy when you make Frito-Lay chips a regular part of your diet. Period.

I don’t expect food companies like Frito-Lay to stop attempting to fool the general public into thinking they actually care about the health of their consumers. That’s not their job. Their job is to sell more products and they’ll pretend to care about your health just to get into your pocketbook for your hard-earned cash. But people who genuinely care about health should vote with that same pocketbook by NOT buying this junk food and instead opting to funnel your food budget dollars towards more genuinely nutritious real foods such as grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, and organic, locally-grown non-starchy vegetables, for example. Think about all the money that’s been wasted on Frito-Lay chips over the years at $3 per bag. For the price of two bags, you could have gotten at least a pound of grass-fed beef or a couple dozen fresh local eggs from a farmer.

We make choices every single day about how we feed ourselves and our family. Isn’t it time we chose better rather than being fooled into thinking the big food companies care about your health? For more information on locating a local farmer near you, visit EatWild.com. Let’s send food companies like Frito-Lay a message that rings loud and clear: WE DON’T WANT WHAT YOU’RE SELLING IF IT’S GONNA KEEP UP FAT AND UNHEALTHY! Now let’s put words into action.

Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their four crazy cats!

Listen to David Gumpert describe his vantage point in the raw milk debate:

How raw milk cheese is the next front in the battle over raw milk

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What did you think about what you heard from David Gumpert regarding the fight over real food rights in America centered around raw milk? Tell us how this interview impacted you in the show notes section of Episode 446. Pick up your own copy of The Raw Milk Revolution, check out the official web site of David Gumpert, and get engaged in his “The Complete Patient” blog. Coming up on Thursday, I’m so excited to share with you a special episode highlighting a double-feature with two of the most prominent rising young stars in the real food/low-carb world who are seeking to bring healthy eating to the peers and the rest of the world. Birke Baehr, who will turn 12 years old on Thursday when this podcast airs, will be here to share about how he got so interested in real food living–including his awesome TEDx NextGeneration Asheville speech in 2010. Then we’ll hear from high school senior Sarah Czipowski who you’ll find to be one of the most articulate and outspoken 17-year olds you’ll ever hear on the subject of nutrition and health! I am so thrilled to be able to bring you Birke and Sarah later this week.

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Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their four crazy cats!

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1.       When making a goal, use the words “I choose to” instead of “I will.”  We are more likely to do something that we choose to do.

2.       Make goals specific.  Instead of “I want to lose weight” say “I choose to lose 10 lbs.”  Define what it is you actually want.

3.       A goal should be measurable so you know if you are on track or not and they need to have a timeframe so you know when you arrive.  For example, “I choose to lose 10 lbs by March 5, 2010” can be measured on a weekly basis to see if you are on target and it has a timeframe so you don’t spend the whole year trying to achieve the goal.

4.       Goals need to be realistic and achievable.  An example of an unrealistic goal is “I choose to lose 10 lbs by Jan. 2, 2010 (when you start on Jan 1^st).  Give yourself enough time to complete the goal.  If you are a 6’ tall, 300 lb man, an unachievable goal would be “I choose to weigh 120 lbs by June 1, 2010.”  No 6’ tall man is going to get down to 120 lbs and it would be unhealthy to do so.  If you are going to make a weight loss goal, give yourself a week to lose 1 to 2 lbs.  To lose 10 lbs, you would need at least 5 to 10 weeks to complete that goal. If you lose more than 2 pounds a week, then rejoice. It’s better to lose more than you think you will, then less than you are trying for.

5.       Give yourself a reward for completing a goal.  Don’t reward with food, though.  Get a new bike or outfit or treat yourself to a spa or a day off.

6.       Make mini goals where you can experience success within a 1 to 3 month period.  If you need to lose 100 lbs, don’t write a goal to lose 100 lbs.  Break that 100 lbs into 10 lb increments and reward yourself after every 10 lbs lost.

7.       Make healthy habit goals instead of weight loss goals.  If you’ve tried the weight loss goals and they haven’t worked, try something different that will get the results you want.  For example, let’s say you drink 6 soda’s a day.  A great goal would be, “I choose to be drinking only 1 soda by March 1, 2010.”  The steps you take to achieve that goal would be to drink 6 sodas a day the first week, 5 sodas daily the 2^nd week, 4 soda’s a day the 3^rd week and so on until you are down to 1 soda a day.  You can also make goals to rid your kitchen of processed foods, eat 2 to 3 meals a day instead of snacking, adding exercise to your schedule or whatever habits you need to develop to be healthy.

8.       If you finish your goal before the due date, pat yourself on the back, enjoy your reward and write a new goal.

9.       If you don’t make your goal by the due date, re-evaluate.  Was your goal realistic?  Did you eat the right foods?  You may need to make a healthy habit goal instead of a weight loss goal. Did you have any success, such as any pounds lost or good habits formed?  Pat yourself on the back for any success, no matter how small, and write a new goal incorporating what you discovered in your evaluation.  Do not focus on not making the goal.  Focus on all the positive changes you are making.

10.   If you find you are not losing weight even though your goals are realistic and you are eating the right foods and doing the right amount of exercise, get your thyroid, adrenals and hormones checked.  You may need to take iodine or other supplements to get your organs healthy again. Allergies can prevent weight loss as well. You may need to avoid grains and pasteurized milk products.

If you follow the 10 steps above, you will be successful this year with your resolutions.  Happy New Year!

Annette Presley RD LD, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness

Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.  She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life.  She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.

Disclaimer: Annette Presley RD LD provides nutrition advice and counseling regarding lipid disorders that is not universally accepted as evidenced-based practice in dietetics.  This nutrition advice is neither sponsored, endorsed, approved nor recommended either by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the American Dietetic Association.  As such, prior to beginning nutrition counseling with or suggested by Annette Presley RD LD, it is strongly recommended that you consult your physician.

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Kevin:

First off:

Thank you for taking the time to call me back at the time that you did! I know you are VERY BUSY & I hope you know how that made me feel that you took the time to call me!

After only two short weeks of following your instructions, I lost a total of 7 pounds! Being a 41 year old male with M . S.. I know this is something that I NEED TO DO, Something I want to do and it is SO VERY ACHIEVABLE! It’s funny but I NEVER thought I could eat only twice a day and be satisfied AL L DAY LONG. I will keep you updated and here is a picture of me right after I started my new way of life. I started at 271 lbs and as of right now I am 264 lbs. PS: LOV E THE EGGS & BACON w/ the “REAL MILK!” It’s NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE!

Talk to you soon,

Tom Schwindy

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Everyone knows that to lose weight, you have to cut out meat, butter and eggs and trade in your whole milk for skim.  Right?  Wrong, says Kevin Brown, certified fitness trainer, nutritionist and developer of the Liberation Wellness program.

According to Brown, America is sick, fat, confused, and in the midst of a national “health catastrophe.”  There is an epidemic of chronic disease driven by the fact that 72% of Americans are obese or overweight.  Is it because we are lazy and slackers?  No, says Brown, we are simply, horribly misinformed.

After receiving his nutrition training, Brown started working with clients in late 1990’s but found that the nutrition protocols he had been taught weren’t working and his clients were not getting the promised results.  He concluded that what he had learned about nutrition was simply wrong, and he started using the opposite of what he had been taught.  Within a year or two he was getting spectacular results with his clients.

Based in Palmyra N.J., Brown became famous for his success with clients and was named a fellow on the prestigious National Board of Fitness Examiners, helping to set the standard for all personal trainers.  Through Visionary Trainers, Inc., he has established a network of 50 personal trainers who visit clients at home or in their offices from New York to Washington, D.C.

A popular speaker, he has addressed cardiologists at Holy Redeemer Hospital and is scheduled for a return engagement at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.  On Saturday, November 13, Brown will be addressing the Wise Traditions Conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation in King of Prussia.  His talk promises to be one of the most widely attended and will disclose his eye-opening description of just how we have been misinformed on nutrition for the past 100 years.

The more Brown studied nutrition and saw his clients’ results, the more convinced he became that not only was the nutrition information given to the public wrong, it was “wrong on purpose.”

Brown believes that misinformation about what to eat, how to eat and how to exercise is intentional and is being used to hold us in bondage to the big food manufacturers.  He named his program “Liberation Wellness” because he strives to free his clients from false information and the constant struggle to lose weight, and to empower them to have excellent health and normal weight for life.

He speaks of consumers as victims of chemical warfare waged by the processed food industry.  The industry has been able to achieve a kind of mind control, observes Brown, making people fearful of eating something like butter, which is actually good for them, while at the same time making them dependent on processed or engineered fake foods.

Getting clients to understand that the goal of the food manufacturers is to make bad food sound good is a first step.  Once he opens someone’s mind to the misinformation and especially how long it’s been going on, they are more willing to make changes in their lives.  Brown likes to think of his first meeting with a client as a “cult deprogramming session.”  He warns them that what they are about to hear will shock them.  But once they get it, he says, they are free for life.

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