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Issue: #51
December 9, 2013
Thanksgiving Bowling 

Volume 3, Letter 51
 

December 9, 2013

 

Very random things to think about:

1) A toilet flush can aerosilize toilet contents up to 6 feet! I would keep your tooth brush away from this radius of bacterial spread.

2) Eating onions frequently is beneficial as it promotes good bacteria that ferment the onion fiber producing an acid that our intestinal cells use as food. 

3) Having a dog in your living environment is beneficial for mental health and microbial exposure.

4) Aerosolized air fresheners by most commercial companies are chemicals, avoid them. Note that children with asthma often react to air fresheners and perfumes. Canaries in the coal mine. 

5) Chew your food 15 - 20 times per bite. This helps increase the surface area for digestion and releases nutrients. 

6) Holiday stress can be reduced through daily exercise and an epsom salt bath once a week. The magnesium salts in the bath will help with stress. 

7) If you consume alcohol over the holidays, drink a glass of water to every alcoholic beverage to avoid dehydration and a hangover. Best bet is to stay at 1-2 drinks in a night.

8) Be watchful of your children's sugar consumption over the holidays. They often consume to excess and subsequently have issues with sleep, mood stabilization and constipation.

9) Start eating asian mushrooms like enoki, maitake and shitake. They are loaded with chemicals that fight cancer cells.  
 
10) Spend a few minutes everyday being grateful for something. Positive thought equals a healthy body and spirit. 

 

 

Random, 

 

Dr. M

 

Our Bodies Part 4

Dysevolution continued from the agricultural perspective:

 

Early farming brought the world starchy commodities foods like corn, wheat, rice and potato. They were relatively easy to produce and offered lots of storable calories. This allowed hunter-gatherers to settle down into farming communities. This was a boon for population growth as starvation became less common. See the picture below.

 

What was the downside? Previously, the hunter gatherers would eat a diverse diet loaded with vegetables, fruits, roots, meat and fish. These food types tend to be loaded with minerals and vitamins. When this farming switch occurred, humans began consuming higher volumes of the less nutrient dense but calorie rich staple crops. They also learned how to strip off the nutritious outer casing of grains to enhance its storability. Think brown rice versus white rice (6X more B vitamins in the brown form). Concomitantly, they reduced their consumption of meat, fish, fruits and vegetables as they had enough calories from starches.  

 

This change in diet brought about nutritional deficiency diseases like beri beri, pellagra, goiter, anemia and scurvy.

 

Fast forward to today and we have cured some of these major nutritional defficiencies by supplementing the bleached refined foods that we consume in an attempt to control the unhealthy state of the modern diet and avoid a mismatch disease. What we have not accounted for is the root basis of modern disease.

 

As with breastfeeding versus formula, you cannot reproduce a food in its pure form with a refined equivalent and expect the same health outcomes. Modern farmed foods whether it be fish, beef, grains, etc.. are all turning out to be a problem for humans. 

 

Of these foods, the biggest health risk to humans today is from refined flour and sugar from any source. These foods have not been handled appropriately and we are suffering. They lack many synergistic nutrients and minerals that are not supplemented. They lack FIBER (think gut micro biome). The jury is still out on the safety of novel food gene modifications (GMO) and so on...

 

History has shown us everything that we need to know about our food-gene connection. We can stop the evolution of disease, but it requires a step back in time to a less refined and reductionistic approach. 

 

Aside: Medicine today is suffering from the same reductionistic theory. I was taught in medical school that the more refined a drug is the better! Again, nature has shown us that all things work better in combination and never alone. As we progress through the next year of newsletters, keep these principles in mind when you make decisions. The whole is often better than the parts individually! The village mentality or team versus the I. 

 

Dr. M

Farming and Population Growth

http://foodevolves.blogspot.com/2010/10/agricultures-effect-on-human-population_27.html
Recipe of the Week

Almond Date Balls from VegetarianTimes.com

 

Ingredients:

 

1 cup pitted dates (18-20 dates)

1 � cups whole raw almonds (7 oz.)

2 Tbs. carob powder

1 ⅓ cups unsweetened shredded coconut (3 oz.), divided

1 Tbs. vanilla extract

 

 

Directions:

 

Place dates in small bowl, and cover with 3/4 cup boiling water. Let stand 15 minutes. Drain.

 

Process almonds, carob powder, and 1 cup coconut in food processor until finely chopped. Add drained dates and vanilla. Process until dates are chopped and mixture clumps together.

 

Roll mixture into tablespoon-size balls. Spread remaining 1/3 cup coconut on plate. Wet hands with cool water, then roll balls between damp palms before rolling in coconut. Store in airtight container.

 

 

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Copyright � 2010-2013 Christopher J. Magryta, MD. Readers, please note: The information provided in this newsletter is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for advice and treatment provided by your physician or other healthcare professional and is not to be used to diagnose or treat a health issue.


 


Chris Magryta
Salisbury Pediatric Associates
Touchstone Pediatrics