If you really want to be fat, sick, and nearly dead, just eat the typical American diet.
Start with some red meat, then deep fry some potatoes in corn oil or even lard. Wash it down with a 1000 calorie soda, if not an even larger one. Then for desert, fry some dough in more of that bad oil, and cover it with sugar.
Vegetables? ok, a scrap of pale lettuce, and a pickle on that burger.
So, no single one of those menu items is going to kill you. But combine them that way, and eat it every day, and it will. Like eat at McDonalds every day for a month. And it's got a lot to do with quantities as well. One 12 ounce coke a day is not so evil. But a 64 ounce one twice a day can ruin your liver and give you diabetes.
It's definitely all about finding out what your body works best with. For most, it will be the Mediterranean diet. But not for all. Getting on a particular diet for fad reasons and sticking with that decision is just dumb. Trying different diets and finding the one that suits you is smart.
In my case, I would never have guessed what my problem was, without the help of a Doctor in England. Dr Myhill. Her website has a ton of information about how certain diets make certain health problems worse. She is a proponent of the Paleo diet. But I never got the impression she thought it was for everybody, or for healthy people. It's for people with certain illnesses. Cancer patients dealing with chemo for one. I know a lady who's been on paleo something like 30 years. She got on it when she had cancer, and it still works well for her now. She doesn't eat a ton of red meat a day, she eats very sparingly. The paleo diet is not hog out on meat fat, if you do it right. She is not physically active, because she also had polio as a child and can only walk a very short bit per day.
Anyway, in my case, my encephalitis related fatigue set me up to have another common type of chronic fatigue. So the carbs were making me have a double dose of chronic fatigue. I felt a ton better the instant I got off the carbs. But that does not mean in any way you should get off the carbs. Just perhaps get off the American diet quantities of carbs. You don't need that bread with your potatoes, or that 64 ounce soda with your pound of French fries.
BALANCE. Find what works for your body.
Its not easy to do these more extreme diets right. Most people on paleo cheat plenty, and that bit of carbs they have keeps their psudo paleo diet in balance. I'd get incredibly sick from one piece of bread, so I had huge incentive to do it 100%. Though eating a lot of meat fat, I shed pounds at an incredible rate for the first 30 days. I had to have more fat, or starve. Of course, more of that fat should have been olive oil, and less of it lard. Into the second year of the diet, I did get the fat from lard much lower without starving. But it took time to figure it out.
BTW, in the last year my health really improved. This summer I feel better than I have in 4 years, almost back to normal the last 30 days. Last winter, I went back on a normal diet, and carbs don't poison me now that I have the strength to digest them. I put on 10 pounds by easter, but then got it back off this summer. I'd like to call my current diet Mediterranean, but there is no way Mexican food is a good diet. But most days I do cook right. Some meat, some fish, some grains, lots of veggies still, and as much olive oil as I can stand. Snacks are nuts, but now I do allow some chips and queso. but not every day.
The balance is eat healthy most days, but don't sit there pining away for a steak, a pizza, or a plate of enchiladas forever. The one thing I'd really like to eliminate forever is margarine. We use real butter for cooking. but to spread on a piece of bread the soft oleo is so convenient. And I'm not quite there to just put olive oil on the bread.
Lastly, the glyphosphate.
FWIW, glyphosphate is a funny chemical. Though it may be present in water or soil, a very tiny amount of clay can render it basically inert. It ties up into the cation exchange capacity of clays immediately. So it's present, but inert, can't chemically react. So stop worrying so much about drinking it. That does not mean the roundup that actually touches the corn, and gets into the corn is OK. Not at all! That's why I object to the roundup tolerant food plant breeding programs.
2-4D is nasty stuff, but it's being used mostly because roundup costs a bundle, and in home owner based products, the customer doesn't want weeds to take 2 weeks to die. So they mix in 2-4D or similar chemicals, essentially making the dumbshits buy cheap 2-4D for roundup prices. The 2-4D kills the weed, and the glyphosphate is wasted, BUT PROFITABLE.
The one comforting thing, 2-4D and similar chemicals are not very persistent. They break down fairly soon, but that does not mean they break down into shit that is safe to drink in high concentrations! Fortunately it's not usually in high concentrations, like it was in Nam. 2-4d doesn't kill grass, so that's why it's still used on grain crops.
We all know I'm a dummy, but my degree is in agriculture, so I did learn a bit more about what the ag chemicals do, and how. I'm not an expert, but I did have a commercial pesticide license at one point. So I had to study this some. I used to mix up 500 gallons of 2-4D daily. Never made me sick though, because I wore protective gear.
please don't post shit like that unless this is in 'other toxic discussions'..
