The Starch Solution and Why Salt is a Scapegoat

[jammatoonarmy]

love Dr McDougall. he is a true trail blazer..i also love living 80/10/10! :) ~ more energy than you could ever emagine! GO LOW FAT HIGH CARB, VEGAN! :D

[xJustynLx]

I'd much rather enjoy the salt found in whole plant foods than worry about table salt

[pxlfoo]

I really wish the vsh wouldn't edit these videos, seems like a lot of effort to remove 1, 2 or 3 seconds here and there and it makes the videos look and sound really odd and unnatural

[ConcreteRiver]

Dr. McDougall, like I and millions of others on a starch based plant diet, are fed up with all the bullshit spread by low carb paleo primal trolls who malign potatoes and grains as being dangerous to your health. You cannot eat a high fat and high cholesterol diet and expect to be healthy. It's lunacy to suggest eating a diet high in potatoes increases your risk of CVD and diabetes. I'm fed up with those fuckers myself.

[troecurov]

I am very sorry...really ,but does this doctor look very healthy and slim ?

[vshvideo]

@troecurov I was at the talk and talked with him. He looked healthy. Consider that he is 65 years old and still very active, for exmaple he is an avid windsurfer.

[hermelin12]

@troecurov and he also had a stroke when he was younger, 20 or something ;) and so he had to recover/of course cant look like someone who has been healthy eating all his life and not having a stroke in his youth obviously ;), i know what u mean but just thing about his health history

[pxlfoo]

@troecurov Yeah, he looks healthy to me...

[ACLogikel]

@troecurov he weights like 150 lbs and is over 60, looks pretty damn healthy to me... especially when people half his age are obese and run out of breath walking a flight of stairs... come on, not healthy? This is what you consider not healthy? Interesting.

[jammatoonarmy]

@troecurov also something to note, at the age of 20 he suffered a stroke. at that time he was eating a SAD, (by his own admission a little worse than a SAD) diet. the stroke paralyzed the whole left side of his body. i think he looks great! :) ~ you could also look at the work of Dr Caldwell / Dr Essleystein / Dr Orinish / Dr Bernard to name but four! good luck into true health!! :)

[mrtruthforever]

McDougall's approach seems too "broad brush". He ignores all the people who can't consume wheat (celiac) or have allergies to lentils & potatoes. Starches are acidic to the blood. He tends to ignore all the raw foodists, fruitarians, etc that thrive, run marathons, etc. Although I am a vegetarian & disagree with the Atkins diet, McDougall conveniently omitted that Atkins died from head trauma & not disease due to diet.

[101011001]

@mrtruthforever He also suffered a heart attack and denied it having anything to do with his diet...yet why aren't vegans getting heart disease?

[ACLogikel]

@101011001 they do, all the time, look for them you'll find them

[armanproductions]

Not sure I agree with this guy. He's talking about our diet since the agricultural revolution...which is anywhere from 10 to 20 thousand years ago. But we've been hunter gatherers for HUNDREDS of thousands of years. Which means we ate vegetables that can be eaten raw, fruits, nuts and some meat. THAT's what our bodies are designed for by hundreds of thousands of years. All this agricultral foods, corn, wheat, rice and so on are actually quite unnatural.

[1imesub]

You know, that dead guy... Adkins. He's dead and I'm still alive.

[jimmytube177]

not sure about potatoes

they fed pigs cooked potatoes and they got fat, I think if you don't cook the potatoes then it will be better

[irlumir]

@jimmytube177 dude, we are no pigs. Is time to stop researching on animals and start researching on US. We have DIFFERENT ENZYMES, or saliva is different, all is different. In my expirience a high protein diet makes you fat, and also fat makes you fat (lol). I now eat brown rice with some lentils and start doing some wheights and the results are amazing. I add some red peeper for vitamin c and other vitamins from fruits. And that is. Awesome expirience

[g9g9g9]

Samurai eat salt to die. It dehydrates you.

[vshvideo]

@g9g9g9 too little salt in your diet can kill you, too much salt in your diet can kill you. The question is what is the optimum amount of salt to include in your diet. As this talk illustrates there is still debate on that topic.

[troecurov]

@vshvideo People can eat without salt...You can read H.Shelton's book ( which the lecturer showed )who was greater scientist and lived till 90...or even better just try 1 week on the raw food and water and no salt and you will see ...

[vshvideo]

@troecurov Yes you can usually eat without added salt, but you will suffer greatly if you don't get enough sodium in your diet. Many foods naturally contain sodium and can supply your dietary needs if you have a good diet. For example 1 serving of raw celery (110g) naturally contains 88mg of sodium which is 4% of the recommended daily consumption.

[monellasweeting]

@troecurov i have my blood result posted to show that the low fat vegan lifestyle works !!!

[becksbunny1990]

Great talk! thank you for uploading. Dr McDougall seems to be really angry here, not as happy and positive as on his own channel, anyone else think that? Still great message!

[talusan909]

@becksbunny1990 Mcdougall mentioned Robert Atkins is dead and he's still alive. I wander why he said it that way. Atkins death was due to -------------he slipped and fell backward in the street of Manhattan on a rainy day. He was knocked unconcious, hospitalized, coma, and later died.

[1imesub]

@talusan909 Adkins had a history of heart problems due to his diet. He was also sued for nearly killing people who followed his recommendations.

[EllaBella1099]

@talusan909 You are very correct.. He was very healthy.. slipped on ice I read.. but still had nothing to do with his diet! I like Dr Mcdougall... but not happy with that statement.

[irlumir]

@talusan909 it was a joke. Come on, the atkins diet is so unhealthy, besides meat carries TONS OF PARASITES. Have you seen that? is disguisting. See some discovery documentary to see how larves, and others disguisting creatures get into your body by eating cows, pigs, and others animals. Also with cheese comes thouse nasty creatures. I want my body without thouse things. Also eating raw increase enormously the chances to get thouse parasites on your body.

[talusan909]

@becksbunny1990 Agreed, 100%. Dr McDougall seems angry. He also criticized Dr Atkins by saying, "Dr Robert Atkins is dead and I am still alive." And the audience laughed. But, he did not emphasized that Dr. Atkins had an accident, slipped backward while walking in Manhattan, NY on a rainy day. He slipped backward, hit his head, unconcious, coma, then later died. I am beginning to lose trust in McDougall's integrity.

[vitor1271]

he's VERY unfair with high fruit raw vegans, it's actually very easy to get enough calories from fruits...

[irlumir]

@vitor1271 but the protein is to low and the amount of food you eat is to much. For example to eat the same minerals, protein and carbs you eat by a coocked starch diet you need like 3 to 4 kilos. WIth coocked you need like 500 grams to 600 grams. But you consume at least twice the protein and a lot more minerals like zinc and selenium. It is A LOT better that the 30 bananas xD

[AFFIRMATIONS1]

thanks

[peacewalker7]

Great vid, but salt? I think tastes disgusting. I've heard it turns to HCl in the blood. I've heard it can corrode metal itself. I've heard we can't access either the Na or the Cl in the compound. I've heard when it gets stored in cells the cell discharges it's vital fluids and loses minerals and nutrients. I've heard it causes cellular and tissue cramping and is acid forming, we lose alkaline minerals. I've heard it's is a protoplasmic poison. Was I misinformed?

[vshvideo]

@peacewalker7 An excess of most things is bad for you. Sodium is an essential nutrient and you need a minimum amount to live -- The 2010 USA Adequate Intake for Sodium is 1.5 grams (1500 milligrams) per day for adults. How much is too much is still a topic for research and debate.

[101011001]

@vshvideo That doesn't really address the question because many vegetable foods contain sodium naturally so that if you are eating adequate calories for the day you most likely are getting enough sodium without supplementing (adding table salt).

[vshvideo]

@101011001 Agreed - most people get enough sodium from their diet, although its possible to get inadequate amounts if you eat only very low sodium foods like rice. So eat a variety of vegetables :)

[82Bdog]

Great vid! thanks for posting!