Медитеранска Исхрана - „Чудо“ Маслиновог Уља
Медитеранска исхрана, која се рекламира као чудо од маслиновог уља, није имала никакве везе ни са једним уљем било које врсте, осим у мери у којој може да замени путер и маст.
Милош Покимица
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Updated јун 9, 2023Добра стара здрава медитеранска исхрана. Представљена као чудо од маслиновог уља које нема никакве везе са било којом врстом уља, осим у мери у којој може да замени чак и горе изборе попут обичних засићених масти попут путера и масти. Управо тако је то видео чак и отац медитеранске исхране (Кључеви, 1987). Када одете на pubmed.gov и потражите медитеранску исхрану, видећете око 5000 резултата. Медитеранска исхрана обухвата многе дијете у много различитих земаља. То може бити Мароко, Грчка, Шпанија, Италија или неко друго место.
Међутим, када говоримо о медитеранској исхрани, подразумева се исхрана на острву Крит у послератном периоду. Такође, оно што следи је велико питање: Зашто су срчане болести биле ретке на Медитерану? То значи на острву Крит после Другог светског рата.
In 1948 after the war and socioeconomic collapse, the government of Greece was concerned about malnutrition and the health status of its citizens. They decided to invite the Rockefeller Foundation with the goal of undertaking an epidemiological study on the island of Crete. In 1952 impressed by low rates of heart disease Ancel Keys, the same scientist that was in charge of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, noted the connection after researching the data between fat and especially saturated fat, and heart disease. Although at that time he did not see cholesterol as the problem because it would mean the animal products are the guilty ones. The connection between dietary fat and heart disease was observed even earlier in the 1930s and was influential on Keys’ work, but data from Crete made him write a paper about it in 1953 and made public addresses. The famous Seven Country Study was to begin five years later in 1958 to investigate Keys’ concerns (www.sevencountriesstudy.com). До 1960-их било је општеприхваћено веровање да засићене масти доприносе срчаним обољењима. Исхрана људи на острву Крит била је катализатор за ово истраживање касније. Године 1970, студија седам земаља је први пут представљена. Киз је и сам живео до 100 година и у то време није био толико радикалан колико би нас забуна око холестерола желела уверити. Препоручивао је да се једе мање масти, што значи масти у месу и масти уопште попут јаја (или барем жуманца) и млечних производа, а уместо тога да се једе више рибе и пилетине. Воће и поврће је сматрао само комплементарном храном, а имао је холестерол од око 200. Тај број није ни приближно здрав, али јесте живео до 100 година. Проблем је био у томе што је био лекар из истог система као и било који други лекар. Артериосклероза се обично не јавља у доба у које би нас забуна око холестерола желела уверити због свих стресних протока крви.
Arteriosclerosis is a disease, not the aging process. We can go and look at arteries and measure the blood pressure of poor people in places like Crete. Keys did not see the real truth about what was real diet on Crete. He thought it was just fat and didn’t see the problem in animal protein. Animal протеинска корелација била је превиђена чак и на графиконима. Замутио је воду показујући само на масноћу.
Међутим, чак ни то није било довољно. Чак је и то било претерано. Године 1966, Џорџ Кембел и Томас Л. Клив објавили су књигу „Дијабетес, коронарна тромбоза и сахаринска болест“. Тврдили су да хроничне западне болести попут срчаних болести, пептичког улкуса, дијабетеса и гојазности изазива једна ствар: „Болест рафинисаних угљених хидрата“. Била је то бескрајна прича. Никада није престала до данас. Све је лаж која се суочава са супротном лажи. Вештачки створени ратови око исхране и конфузија. Била је то добра стратегија дизајна која није ништа променила за 70 година, осим што је обичне људе увукла у заробљавање новца који изазива болести, стварајући злу петљу беде. Чак и у данашње време, то је иста стара прича о манипулацији. На пример, 2001. године, у чланку у часопису „Сајенс“ под насловом „Исхрана: Мека наука о дијететским мастима“, Гари Таубс је написао:
“It is still a debatable proposition whether the consumption of saturated fats above recommended levels by anyone who’s not already at high risk of heart disease will increase the likelihood of untimely death…or have hundreds of millions of dollars in trials managed to generate compelling evidence that healthy individuals can extend their lives by more than a few weeks, if that, by eating less fat.”
People 70 years later think that the Mediterranean diet is healthy because of olive oil. This is an excellent illustration of a half-truth. Italian restaurants market themselves as a healthy Mediterranean diet cuisine with spaghetti carbonara and alcohol. The death rate from heart disease in Crete at that time was more than 20 times, not 20 percent, 20 times less than in the US. We statistically see this data from places like rural China and Crete and Okinawa and on and on and see that these people’s diet is simple and similar to each other. How much stupidity do we have to have not to see the real story of what is happening? Scientists with a considerable level of education are not the stupid ones. They have six-figure annual income plus bonuses. They are the smart ones. We are not. Nutritional science is not secret deep underground military propulsion system laboratory research. There are no real debates in the field of nutrition, only purposely creating real confusion.
So what did they eat on the island of Crete in the World War 2 aftermath? The answer is the same. No meat, eggs, or dairy. Just poor people’s food like fruit and vegetables, grains, nuts, and legumes. Things that grow locally. In numbers, they ate more than 90% plant-based, and meat, fish, dairy, and egg products combined are about 7%. They did eat some of the olive oil because olives grow in Crete but that is not the olive oil diet. Or the wine diet. There is nothing healthy about wine except grapes. We would be better off just drinking raw grape juice. If we look at Greece today what is it that we think we would find? They have the number 1 score in Europe in child obesity. The Island of Crete included. As soon as the economy improves the meat, cheese, sugar, and alcohol come in a package. And smoking too. Greece has a rate of tobacco consumption above 40%. The Mediterranean diet was not a local-specific Mediterranean diet like Italian cuisine or Greek cuisine or such. It was a poverty diet without meat and eggs, and dairy, similar to diets in all poverty or war-stricken places, and industry does not like to mention this. Heart disease was a rarity in Greece. Was. Not anymore. And even in Crete at times of war, some rich people ate “normally” meaning eating meat every day instead of once in two weeks. Heart attacks were normal for them too, unlike the rest of the common people that were struck by poverty. No one today eats the real Mediterranean diet anymore. The pure Mediterranean diet of today that is predominantly plant-based is not a real whole food diet. It is dominated by white flour, the consumption of oil and salt, and alcohol. In Crete, they did not eat refined white pasta from the factory with a sauce full of extracted oil and bottles of wine. Alcohol is a known breast cancer risk factor even if we disregard inflammation and toxicity. That is not a health-promoting meal. Well, that is not a health-promoting meal if we do not compare it to the even worse standard American meal of today. So yes, the Mediterranean diet is healthier than the regular diet but not as healthy as a real natural human diet. Whole food plant-based diet.
Проблем је што обична, нормална храна није укусна, јер је рафинисана, пуна соли и уља и шећера so hardly anyone sticks to it. From a young age, children are given all of these chemicals we consider to be food, so we are addicted to them in childhood and have no real baseline anymore for comparison to what real human food is. That is why poor people’s diet works. If we disregard cholesterol and toxins and saturated fats that come from animal products and if we analyze the individual components of diet in Crete, we see that actually, it was not grains that were protective against heart attack. Grains, were more neutral and because they were whole food with fiber they had no effect on obesity or diabetes. Among the individual components in the Mediterranean diet consumption of greens and nuts actually, had most of the effects on lowering cardiovascular disease risk. Vegetarians that eat nuts have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease instead of those who don’t, and there are now a number of studies on this topic also. Here is one (Гуаш-Фере и др., 2013) са закључком: „Повећана учесталост конзумирања орашастих плодова повезана је са значајно смањеним ризиком од смртности код медитеранске популације са високим кардиоваскуларним ризиком.“
Орашасти плодови имају висок садржај уља, али и висок садржај влакана, тако да се уље не апсорбује одмах као маст из меса или рафинисаног уља и за разлику од меса или уља, орашасти плодови су богати антиоксидансима и другим фитохемијским супстанцама. Још једна предност орашастих плодова је то што се њихово комбиновање са зеленим уљем повећава фитохемијска апсорпција хемикалија растворљивих у мастима које се налазе у већ здравом поврћу. Не морамо да идемо на нискокалорични начин и избегавамо конзумирање орашастих плодова и семенки, већ претежно једемо скроб. Требало би да једемо скроб, орашасте плодове и сву осталу храну у што већем броју разноврснијих намирница. До сада наука није повезала високу конзумацију семенки и орашастих плодова са било којом болешћу, укључујући гојазност, осим код људи који имају алергије. Управо супротно. Они су корисни у скоро сваком стању. Бразилски ораси су пуни селена, а ораси штите од рака, лигнани у ланеном семену су једна од најзаштитнијих хемикалија против рака дојке, а такође су пуни омега-3 уља за функцију мозга. Наши преци су дуго јели сирове орашасте плодове и семенке. Они су наша природна храна колико и воће, житарице, млади листови или друго зелено лиснато поврће.
Здрава исхрана је она коју смо развили и прилагодили једењу. То је то.
Референце:
- Киз А. (1987). Маслиново уље и коронарна болест срца. Лансет (Лондон, Енглеска), 1(8539), 983–984. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(87)90337-0
- Гуасцх-Ферре, М., Булло, М., Мартинез-Гонзалез, М. А., Рос, Е., Цорелла, Д., Еструцх, Р., Фито, М., Арос, Ф., Варнберг, Ј., Фиол, М., Лапетра, Ј., Виниолес, Е., Серајем, Л. Пинто, Кс., Руиз-Гутиеррез, В., Басора, Ј., Салас-Салвадо, Ј., & ПРЕДИМЕД студијска група (2013). Учесталост конзумирања орашастих плодова и ризик од смртности у испитивању ПРЕДИМЕД интервенције у исхрани. БМЦ медицина, 11, 164. https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-164
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