The Starch Solution and Why Salt is a Scapegoat

A presentation by John McDougall, M.D..

The human diet is a starch-based diet. All large populations of trim, healthy people, throughout verifiable human history, have obtained the bulk of their calories from starch. Examples of once thriving people include Japanese, Chinese, and other Asians eating sweet potatoes, buckwheat, and/or rice, Incas in South America eating potatoes, Mayans and Aztecs in Central America eating corn, and Egyptians in the Middle East eating wheat. Starch tastes sweet to the human tongue. The tongue also enjoys saltiness. Salt is not a health hazard for most people. By understanding the true roles of starch and salt, a healthy diet becomes a powerful and preferable way of eating.

Dr. John McDougall${q}s national recognition as a nutrition expert earned him a position in the Great Nutrition Debate 2000 presented by the USDA. He is a board-certified internist, author of 11 national best-selling books, the international on-line "McDougall Newsletter," host of the nationally syndicated television show "McDougall M.D.," and medical director of the 10-day, live-in McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, CA. Other McDougall activities include seminars and health-oriented adventure vacations.

Filming and editing by Dr William Harris M.D. on November 14, 2009 at McCoy Pavilion, Ala Moana Beach Park, Honolulu, Hawaii
Sponsored by: Vegetarian Society of Hawaii http://www.vsh.org

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Education

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• Vegan
• Nutrition
• Vegetatian
• diet

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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!! :)

[monellasweeting]

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

[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.

[ACLogikel]

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

[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?

[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

[pxlfoo]

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

[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