re: Anyone Done Mediterranean Diet?

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nothing really special about the Mediterranean diet, its just a basic whole food diet with lots of veggies and things are cooked in healthier ways

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It’s really just an anti inflammatory diet.. really calling it a diet is generous. Men’s health had a pretty good article on it a months or two back. While kind of woke it did make some good points. The precepts of the “Mediterranean diet” can be found around the world. Like you say it’s really just a matter of eating quality whole Foods.. an emphasis on seafood, grass feds meats, produce, and healthy fats. That really should be everyone’s diet and there’s not much structure to it.

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Sugar isn’t poison

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C'mon man, of all people that should know this, it would be you. You're very knowledgeable on the subject of nutrition.

Notice I used the modifier 'almost' in my initial statement. Nothing wrong with a little sugar every now and then.

Those in the nutrition/medical field knows, or should know, that sugar is what feeds cancer cells.

A German doctor, Otto Warburg, back in the 1920s postulated this.

We can even go back to the 1860s to find out that doctors where saying the same thing.

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The history of obesity and nutrition research suggests that this is indeed what has happened. In the decades leading up to the Second World War, German and Austrian clinical investigators had concluded that common obesity was clearly caused by a hormonal disturbance; starting in the 1960s, other research would link that disturbance to the sugar in our diets. But the German and Austrian thinking evaporated with the war, and the possibility that sugar was to blame never took hold, dismissed by a nutrition community who, by the 1970s, became fixated on dietary fat as the trigger of our chronic diseases. Now, with an explosion of the epidemic and compelling new research, it’s time to reconsider both our causal thinking on obesity and diabetes, and the possibility that sugar is playing the critical role.

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Understanding how this happened requires we attend to history. The modern era of nutrition science dates to the late 1860s, when German researchers pioneered the use of room-sized devices called calorimeters. These allowed them to measure the energy expended by human or animal subjects under different conditions of diet and activity. For the next half a century, effectively all nutrition research was directed toward studying energy balance (the energy content of foods and the energy expended or excreted by those who ate it) and the protein, vitamins, minerals and fibre necessary for health and wellbeing. This was a function of the research tools available at the time, and it has remained the foundation of nutrition wisdom ever since.

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The basis of a PET scan is injecting a patient with a special formula of radioactive glucose and observe with a scanner where this formula gravitates to find where the cancer cells are.

Gary Taubes gives some very scathing reports and has authored several books and the subject of diabetes, nutrition and the dangers of too much sugar and gives us some history of the research.

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Lots more articles listed in his blog:
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This man, John Yudkin, came out with his research in his book entitled Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It.

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In 1972, Yudkin was mostly ignored by the health industry and media, but the events of the last forty years have proven him spectacularly right. Yudkin’s insights are even more important and relevant now, with today’s record levels of obesity, than when they were first published. Brought up-to-date by childhood obesity expert Dr. Robert H. Lustig, this emphatic treatise on the hidden dangers of sugar is essential reading for anyone concerned about their health, the health of their children, and the wellbeing of modern society.

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Yesterday while doing some shopping, I witnessed a sad site that is way too common in our society. I witnessed a young man who could have not been no more than 20-21 years of age who was stocking shelf's. This guy was at least 400lbs if not more. Appeared to be around 5'9".
If this guy doesn't have radical change in his life, I doubt he will live to see 40 years of age.

I know, I am preaching to the choir here. But damn, we have a full blown medical epidemic in our country that should not be happening.