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Issue: #2
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December 31, 2012
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Volume 3, Letter 2
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December 31, 2012
History Lesson
Mid Victorian England, 1850 -1880, was believed to be a time of poor quality nutrition and poor health. Historians have based their belief that we are healthier today on data like this. It was flawed it turns out.
A three article series by Clayton et. al. in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2008 sheds light on a reality that is vastly different.
1850-1880 was a golden age for health in England. Life expectancy paralleled ours today, however, without death based on degenerative diseases and with no modern pharmaceuticals, surgeries or other health initiatives.
How could this be? We have modern medicine right? The authors looked at mortality rates in England and realized that when you remove the high death rate for children between the ages of 0-5 years from infectious disease, then the average adult lived until 75 years old. They further went on to evaluate the causes of death.
Death at the mid 19th century was almost universally from infectious disease and not cancer, diabetes or heart disease. This is surprising considering the belief that these people had a poorly nourished diet and should have developed many diseases like cancer and diabetes as they lived into the 70's.
After further analysis, it turns out that the Victorians ate a diet very much like a cross between a paleolithic and mediterranean diet. They ate mostly fresh, local vegetables and fruits (10 servings a day), legumes and nuts, local seafood, free range meats weekly, eggs and dairy products, and a fair amount of whole grains that were never processed beyond stone ground flour. Food never had added salt or sugar!!!!
Current statistics show that males will spend on average 7.7 years of their lives with a medical dependency with increasing morbidity. They had no such issues back then. They had compressed mortality; live and die quickly from a rapidly consuming illness like pneumonia.
The conclusion of this data is akin to the Blue Zones work by Dan Buettner. Eat a predominantly plant based, fresh diet, exercise daily and live long and disease free.
Looking forward to 2013,
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| Brussel Sprouts and Cabbage | 
The brussel sprout and the cabbage leaf, what is the deal? They are under eaten by Americans and amazing for you. This is a great time of year to get brussel sprouts and cabbage fresh.
Brassica is the family of plants that contain cabbage, brussels, cauliflower and broccoli. They were originally cultivated in Europe and changed over time to be our modern varieties. They were notoriously a peasant food because of the ease of growth in the backyard and cheap cost. There are many recipes that are delicious when using these plants.
All cabbages contain indole 3 carbinole, vitamin C, beta carotene, sulphurophane and lots of colon healthy fiber. The medical and nutritional benefits of these chemicals are in preventing DNA damage, detoxifying chemicals, cell repair mechanisms and colon microflora enhancement.
Look to add these foods to your weekly diet. Try eating them raw, steamed and saut�ed in a stir fry.
Get your veges,
Dr. M
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Recipe of the Week
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Cabbage - stir fry modified from Ellie Krieger
Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp minced ginger
- 1/2 bunch of green onion, chopped
- 3 carrots, cleaned and chopped
- 1 head napa cabbage, cleaned and sliced
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce or tamari sauce for gluten free
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil
Directions:
In a large saute pan over medium-high heat, add the canola oil and heat. Add the onion, green onion, garlic and ginger and saute, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the cabbage and carrots and cook until just starting to wilt, about 2 minutes. Add the soy sauce and rice vinegar and stir well and cook just until cabbage is wilted, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and drizzle with the sesame oil.
Anticancer bolus, Dr. M
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