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| Fruits and vegetables, rich in vitamins, potassium and fiber, represent an important feature of hunter-gatherer diets. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Recently while driving through the wilds of South Dakota, I stopped
at a rest stop and found a newsletter called “Add 15 Years.com,” with
topics such as “Obesity-Diabetes Fix Known Since 1890,” “Factory Raised
Meat = Health Disaster” and “Too Late, Fructose Overwhelmed Diabetics”
(actually, it read “Frutose Overwhelmced Diabetics,” so I knew it was a
homemade product without the benefit of an editor).
I bought the journal for a dollar and read it aloud to my friend. As
far as I can tell, the author, Harlan Jacobsen, is not a doctor, a
dietician or any other of the titled “knowledgeable” people in medicine.
He is a patient who developed diabetes and took it upon himself to read
everything he could find on the subject. And he found what some of us
in medicine have lately discovered – classic medicine and the dieticians
have got it wrong.
After reading the works of Weston A. Price and many others outside
the purview of “groupthink” medicine, Jacobsen changed his diet to one
of high-fat natural foods, and his diabetes has disappeared. He eats
essentially a Paleolithic diet: Grass-fed meat with its fat, nuts and
berries, a few vegetables and little of the new, high-sugar hybridized
fruits, and he supplements with fish oil and Vitamin D. He is 81, and
not on prescription meds.
A few of his quotes are great: “Check your acquaintances. Bet every fat friend eats nothing but low fat, (high sugar) …”
“Your body was made to run on fat.”
“You have bought into the ‘big lie.’”
“Most of my high school buddies are at least 50 pounds overweight.
Many have had either a hip or knee replacement [or] bypass surgery.”
“Personally, I feel lonely as the only one not on any prescription drugs.”
“Eliminate sugar, flour, eat all the animal fat, olive oil, coconut oil and protein you want:
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