Diet and Health

This is the new edition of this book. As before, I am giving basic information to the person in charge of feeding the family with the goal of maintaining good health, and especially to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes. Each of the major topics is discussed in detail in other books, but this book gives you the overview. WHAT IS THE BEST DIET?This is a moving target. If we look at the last 5000 years, there was not an epidemic of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Our food and the processing of it has changes the last 500 years. It has dramatically changed the last 150 years with the adoption of the modern western diet around the world. Now we have obesity, prediabetes, and Type 2 diabetes in addition to the increase of many modern diseases. WHAT HAPPENED?To understand you must know what happens in your body when you eat and when you stop eating. You also must know what you are eating. I will teach you what you need to know and count on your common sense to eat the right diet. MY GOALI started out wanting to prevent Type 2 diabetes. To do that I must prevent prediabetes. To do that I must prevent obesity If you already have that, I must get you to lose the extra fat. Finally, we will get to the diet for you and your family to eat to prevent these things to start with. THE FOOD ENGINEERThis all depends on the person to makes the menu, gets the food, prepares the food, and serves the food. To do this correctly it is a full-time job. The book is divided into five sections: Diabetes, Ketogenesis, Fasting, Maintenance Diet, and Bread. All with the goal of treating or preventing obesity which is subsequently decrease Type 2 Diabetes. CHILDHOOD OBESITYChildhood obesity is not about 30% of the kids. I realize to accomplish my goal, I must start in the womb. The next series is Epigenetics in Diet and Health which is starting with Introduction to Cell Biology and Epigenetics, and Epigenetics in Pregnancy.Prevention of childhood obesity depends on the food engineer who is usually the mother. Read more