I'm down 20 lbs personally on this plan myself

No, really.

This seems terribly un-American.

I like. Definitely true.

This is a *Quality plan

i for one am outraged at this post. stop eating junk food and walk somewhere?!???!! what is this europe?! or worse yet, canada?!??!!
type 2 diabetes in the most american disease yet and i plan to prove how patriotic i am by developing this before 30.

also, knee replacements, back surgery, congestive heart failure, hypertension... all in my future. thats how much i love this great country.

>> ^peggedbea:
i for one am outraged at this post. stop eating junk food and walk somewhere?!???!! what is this europe?! or worse yet, canada?!??!!
type 2 diabetes in the most american disease yet and i plan to prove how patriotic i am by developing this before 30.
also, knee replacements, back surgery, congestive heart failure, hypertension... all in my future. thats how much i love this great country.


Fun fact: Up here, us crazy canadians don't have a "Butter" dipping sauce for our pizza @_@

WAIT... we have that here?? Holy hell... time to dig up the chain pizza place online menu's.

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Wow, I didn't know that was the new thing.
http://www.papajohns.com/menu/extras.shtm

Pizza in Australia is generally disappointing.

This is the best pizza I have ever eaten in my life:
http://www.pizzamanak.com/index.html
(though the pictures sure don't make it look very good)

no garlic butter in canada?!???!!?!!?!??!?!?!!?!?!?
outrageous.
it really is terribly delicious.

Do it fucking now!

Average pounds per year of Sugar Consumption
1700: 4 lbs
1800: 18 lbs
1900: 90 lbs
2000: 145 lbs
2009: 156 lbs

Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Dementia, etc. were all virtually nonexistent several hundred years ago. Life expectancy figures you've likely heard where people only lived to be 35, etc. are complete B.S. High infant mortality rates, accidents, and infectious disease dramatically skew the life expectancy downward. Those subsets of the population not affected by these outside factors lived to be in excess of 80-100 years old without any incidence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes - the so called "diseases of civilization." Here is a table of ages of deaths for a population of Inuit from the Moravian Church in Labrador
and the Russian Church in Alaska, 1822-1836:

Aleuts, Unalaska district
Died ages 1-4 -- 92
Died ages 4-7 -- 17
Died ages 7-15 -- 41
Died ages 15-25 -- 41
Died ages 25-45 -- 103
Died ages 45-55 -- 66
Died ages 55-60 -- 29
Died ages 60-65 -- 22
Died ages 65-70 -- 24
Died ages 70-75 -- 23
Died ages 75-80 -- 11
Died ages 80-90 -- 20
Died ages 90-100 -- 2

People who lived in the jesus damn Artic 200 years ago, had zero access to fruits or vegetables and subsisted on a diet of 100% meat (fish, seals, whales, etc.) for their entire lives. 25% of them lived to be over 60 years old, with some living past 90...in a freaking igloo!

In one study of terminally ill patients, patients who were so close to dying that any treatment (including no treatment) was deemed ethical, an intervention method consisting of the complete removal sugar from their diets (think about what most hospital diets consist of for a second) was introduced. Those patients living past the first week (most were so far gone, they died before the study could even start) had their tumors either regress enough to be surgically treated, or experienced full remission. Patients who were previously given less than a week to live were now cancer-free simply by removing sugar from their diets.

Cancer cells have been shown in many studies ( including this one http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=296896) to have a disproportionally higher number of insulin receptor cells. Cancerous cells are "successful" mutations from an evolutionary perspective in that they lead to massive cell propagation. However, most cancerous cells have no method of internal cell metabolism, and must subsist and grow almost exclusively on energy supplied by blood glucose (hence the elevated receptor count). Essentially, cancerous cells are "parasites." By removing all sources of glucose from the body, and entering a state of ketosis, where acetone bodys supply energy to the cells as opposed to glucose, the cancer cells starve; dying or slowing growth to the point where the body's immune system can sucessfully remove them.

Long story short, you wanna live to be 100, stop drinking so much f*ing soda.

>> ^imstellar28:
Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Dementia, etc. were all virtually nonexistent several hundred years ago.

Oh come on, several hundred years ago people died if they got cut accidentally and their wound got infected. People didn't live long enough to get late onsetting illnesses like the ones you mentioned, for example cancer risk for most varieties increases with age.

Historically they were prevalent Hippocrates described several kinds of cancers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#History

Diabetes was coined by Aretaeus of Cappadocia, and has an extensive history as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus#History

Human development has increased life expectancy and assurance of most people's survival over previously life threatening conditions like e.g. premature birth. Thus creating a situation where a larger proportion of the populace can get late life conditions.

I do agree with unhealthy living and consumption but thats another issue.

^Ignorance personified.

Doctors have recognized and classified cancer, diabetes, etc. for thousands of years - but they were extremely rare...like 1 in 100,000...as described as recently as the the last couple centuries by frontier doctors working and living in Africa. Indigenous populations with almost zero incidence of these diseases, and populations living in cities eating a western diet with mortality rates similar to western countries. Same with Australian aborigines, North America Inuit, American Indians, etc...I could go on all day. Today, if you live in America, you have a 1/3 chance of dying from heart disease, cancer, or diabetes.

1/100,000

...

1/3

Your life, your choice. I could care less whether you believe me. The world is overpopulated enough as it is

>> ^imstellar28:
^Ignorance personified.
Doctors have recognized and classified cancer, diabetes, etc. for thousands of years - but they were extremely rare...like 1 in 100,000...as described as recently as the the last couple centuries by frontier doctors working and living in Africa. Indigenous populations with almost zero incidence of these diseases, and populations living in cities eating a western diet with mortality rates similar to western countries. Same with Australian aborigines, North America Inuit, American Indians, etc...I could go on all day. Today, if you live in America, you have a 1/3 chance of dying from heart disease, cancer, or diabetes.
1/100,000
...
1/3


First of all I thought I should point out that type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease while type 2 diabtes (the most common type) is more or less a lifestyle disease.

Also, I would like to see some objective sources for your claims, imstellar.

>> ^rasch187
I would like to see some objective sources for your claims, imstellar.


How much are you paying me for the pleasure of being your personal research assistant?

If you are honestly interested in the validity of any of the claims I made, I'm sure you'll be able to pick out a few terms from what I presented and turn them into a couple Google searches.

Heres a start:

"THE METABOLISM OF TUMORS IN THE BODY. Otto Warbug. Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur Biologic, 1926"

"On respiratory impairment in cancer cells."

"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1931"

"My life with the Eskimo: Vilhjalmur Stefansson"

"Oncogenes in Tumor Metabolism, Tumorigenesis, and Apoptosis"

"Saccharine Disease"

"Good Calories Bad Calories"

"Elevated Insulin-like Growth Factor I Receptor Autophosphorylation and Kinase Activity in Human Breast Cancer"

"Potential role of sugar (fructose) in the epidemic of hypertension, obesity and the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease1"

"Increased consumption of refined carbohydrates and the epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States: an ecologic assessment"

"Dietary glycemic index, glycemic load, and the risk of breast cancer in an Italian prospective cohort study1"

"A HISTORY OF SUGAR MF.RKETING THROUGH 1974, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS. STATISTICS, AND COOPERATIVES SERVICE
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REPORT NO. 382"

"Glycemic Index and Serum High-Density Lipoprotein
Cholesterol Concentration Among US Adults"

"Relation between a diet with a high glycemic load and plasma concentrations of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in middle-aged women1"

"Studies on the Metabolism of Eskimos - Journal of Biological Chemistry"

"Dietary protein intake and renal function"

"Advanced glycation end products and the absence of premature
atherosclerosis in glycogen storage disease Ia"

"Chemical Calorimetry. XLV. Prolonged Meat Diets with a study of Kidney function and Ketosis"

"Diabetes Mellitus - Japan 1950-2004"

"Diabetic Mortality rate and the amount of sugar consumed per capital in England and Wales"

"Pounds per sugar per head per year from 1800 to 1960"

"Fasting insulin and incident dementia in an elderly population of Japanese-American men"

"Diabetes mellitus and the risk of dementia "

"Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adults"

"Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality Associated With the Metabolic Syndrome"

"C-Reactive Protein, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Events "

"Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents"

"NCEP-defined metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and prevalence of coronary heart disease"

"Coronary-heart-disease risk and impaired glucose tolerance. The Whitehall study."

If they made this health plan mandatory to be eligible for universal healthcare in the U.S., taxpayers would actually be able to afford it because it would cost trillions less than privatized (or any health plan really) that did not encourage people to take care of themselves.

No matter how much money is saved, the socialists will find new ways to squander it; that money must never be left in the hands of the people who earned it, they don't know what they're doing compared to government experts.

Political Madlibs:

No matter how much _____ is _____, the _____ will find new ways to _____ it; that ____ must never be left in the _____ of _____, they don't know what they're doing compared to _____.