Re: Caloric restriction and longevity?

"John Edser" <edser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JE:_
You do not have to reduce your calorific intake by 50% by just
reducing your
intake of simple carbohydrates, simply substitute simple for complex
i.e.
eat whole grain products. These provide a satisfying and _balanced_
meal
which can drastically reduce carbohydrate intake over time.

I live in multi cultural Australia where every type of cuisine is
available
in a "non Anglicized" way. My experience of the USA is that of a
country
addicted to simple carbohydrates (the white four products etc favored
by
Queen Victoria as "pure"). During the industrial revolution these over
refined foods were provided very cheaply and in massive quantities.
Simple
carbohydrates run the pancreas in overdrive (and probably the aging
clock
along with it). Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and some forms of
diabetes
can be common side effects of this addiction which is based on the
need of
the pancreas to correct ballooning blood sugar levels within the tight
limits set by brain cells. Simple carbohydrates flood the bloodstream
with
sugars. The pancreas ends up taking out TOO MUCH of these sugars
because it
panics. It is simply NOT ADAPTED to a quick influx of sugars into the
blood
via simple carbohydrate ingestion. The enormous quantities of simple
carbohydrates we see available today did not exist until after the
industrial revolution invented things like the steel mill for flour
milling.
Hypoglycemia may result in producing a cycle of tiredness and craving
for
sugar (the addiction cycle) until the pancreas gives up. I contend
that the
pancreas is the key to many other modern afflictions such as heart
disease
and cancer (via immune system degradation).


I whole-heartedly agree but would like to supplement by saying that
"CURSES" type memories - which BTW are, by definition, steeped in
"SHITS" - typically 'translate' into a *normally* hidden (insidious),
very common,
and to an important extent both unconscious and habitual, burden on
the pancreas (and of course on other organs as well), the immune system,
and the (in a general sense) metabolic (including the neurometabolic or
nervous) system.


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CURSES (type memories) are (as if) "put" (or "conditioned-in") into
brains
(or "actention selection systems") by stressors (situations or
environmental causes
of stimulation) such that a thus affected animal individual is
'evolutionarily implored'
to respond (or are 'phylogenetically forlorn' unless it not only has
become genetically
endowed with the capacity to, but actually *does*, respond) by "specific
(synaptic) hibernation"
rather than by "general" (conventionally meant) hibernation
(or, for this metabolism "muting" matter, aestivation) or by "paying"
(in the currency of limited attentional and metabolic resources)
and focusing "actention" (concEPT referring to any realistic
content/proportion
of mental attention and muscular activity) in a futile and
self-defeating (and mutually exclusive -
in accordance with the fairly general principle of lateral inhibition}
"flight or fight"
(as in defensive or, IOW, adversity avoiding, "fight") and
immunoreactive manner.

By the acronym SHITS [aptly designed to be both toilet humored (or
septic humored)
and easily associated with aversive sensations and psychologically
onerous experiences]
I represent a wider range of possible "traumatizing" influences or
factors (in the lifetime of animal individuals)
than is commonly _and normallly_ recognized as being of great social,
psychological,
developmental, and medical significance.
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Regards,

P



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