Jesus wants us to be vegetarians, but not vegans according to the gospel of peace.

But he who kills the beast without a cause, though the beast attack him not, through lust for slaughter, or for its flesh, or for its hide, or yet for its tusks, evil is the deed which he does, for he is turned into a wild beast himself.

Eat only when the sun is highest in the heavens, and again when it is set.

"From the coming of the month of Ijar, eat barley; from the month of Sivan, eat wheat, the most perfect among all seed-bearing herbs. And let your daily bread be made of wheat, that the Lord may take care of your bodies. From Tammuz, eat the sour grape, that your body may diminish and Satan may depart from it. in the month of Elul, gather the grape that the juice may serve you as drink. In the month of Marchesvan, gather the sweet grape, dried and sweetened by the angel of sun, that your bodies may increase, for the angels of the Lord dwell in them. You should eat figs rich in juice in the months of Ab and Shebat, and what remain, let the angel of sun keep them for you; eat them with the meat of almonds in all the months when the trees bear no fruits. And the herbs which come after rain, these eat in the month of Thebet, that your blood may be cleansed of all your sins. And in the same month begin to eat also the milk of your beasts, because for this did the Lord give the herbs of the fields to all the beasts which render milk, that they might with their milk feed man. For I tell you truly, happy are they that eat only at the table of God, and eschew all the abominations of Satan. Eat not unclean foods brought from far countries, but eat always that which your trees bear. For your God knows well what is needful for you, and where and when. And he gives to all peoples of all kingdoms for food that which is best for each. Eat not as the heathen do, who stuff themselves in haste, defiling their bodies with all manner of abominations.

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McDougall quotes

The Human Body Does Not Turn Sugar to Fat 

The process of synthesizing fat from sugar is known as de novo lipogenesis—the new production of fat.  This activity is highly efficient in some animals, such as pigs and cows—which can convert low-energy, inexpensive carbohydrates—grass, say, in the case of cows and grains for pigs—into calorie-dense fats.⁵ However, human beings are very inefficient at this process and as a result de novo lipogenesis does not occur under usual living conditions in people. Thus the common belief that sugar turns to fat is scientifically incorrect—and there is no disagreement about this fact among scientists or their scientific research.^5-8 

Under experimental laboratory conditions, however, where people are overfed large amounts of simple sugars, the human body will resort to converting a small amount of sugar into a small amount of fat (triglycerides) in the liver.  For example, in one recent study, trim and obese women were overfed with 50% more calories than they usually ate—note, 535 of these extra calories each day came from four and a half ounces (135 grams) of refined sugar.  In this forced-fed situation, the women produced less than 4 grams (36 calories) of fat daily from the extra carbohydrate.⁸ (So where does all that fat come from?—the fat you eat is the fat you wear.)https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2006nl/sept/sugar.htm

Sugar Does Not Cause Diabetes 

After eating high-carbohydrate foods you might suspect that all that dietary sugar would cause the sugar in the blood to rise and this might lead to diabetes. That’s what many lay people believe.  Even a few scientists have theorized that chronically elevated levels of sugar in the blood might wear out the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas and produce diabetes.¹¹ Actually, this common thinking is incorrect—studies comparing sugar intake with risk of developing type-2 diabetes show people on high sugar diets are less likely to get diabetes.¹²  There is, however, a strong relationship between red meat consumption and diabetes.¹³

The lowest rates of diabetes in the world are found among populations that consume the most carbohydrate—for this reason type-2 diabetes is almost unknown in rural Asia, Africa, Mexico and Peru.^14,15  However, when these people change to a diet rich in fats and low in carbohydrates they commonly become diabetic. Some of the highest rates of this disease (and associated obesity) are found in Hispanics, Native Americans, Polynesians, and Blacks who have recently adopted the American diet.¹⁶

Contrary to popular belief, refined sugars actually make the body’s insulin work more efficiently.¹⁷  When the refined sugar content of an experimental diet of people with mild diabetes was doubled from 45% sugar to 85% sugar, every measurement of their diabetic condition improved—fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin levels, and the oral glucose tolerance test all showed their diabetes was better.¹⁸  The researchers concluded, “These data suggest that the high carbohydrate diet increased the sensitivity of peripheral tissues to insulin.”  The increase in insulin’s sensitivity (efficiency) exceeds any blood sugar-raising effect from consuming more carbohydrate.¹⁷  Because sugar does not cause type-2 diabetes, the American Diabetic Association has recommend “55% to 65% of a diabetic’s diet come from carbohydrate,” and sugary foods are allowed.¹⁹

The carbohydrates found in whole foods (starches, vegetables, and fruits) are much healthier to consume than refined sugars for a person wanting to prevent or cure type-2 diabetes for a variety of reasons—especially because of the adverse effects on weight gain and blood cholesterol and triglycerides of sugars compared to starches (more in next month’s newsletter).  A high carbohydrate, vegan diet, has recently been shown to help diabetics stop medications and improve their overall health.²⁰ (See my August 2006 newsletter)

Acceptable Sugar Use

The main reason sugar has a bad reputation is because of the company it keeps.  People living in Western societies eat loads of rich foods that make them fat and sick.  Along with their high intake of meat, dairy, and refined grains, they also eat a lot of simple sugars.  In this caldron of malnutrition, sugar’s exact contribution becomes indistinct.  But, in most people’s minds, sugar is the villain—the scapegoat, taking focus off the animal-foods and free fats (vegetable oils), which are much more of a burden to one’s health than simple sugar is.  This misplaced emphasis results in a lost opportunity to regain lost health and appearance.

Sugar tastes great and can hugely enhance the enjoyment of eating. One practical point is that the addition of sugar will boost the acceptance of a low-fat diet, like the McDougall diet—increasing long-term compliance.  However, to reap the greatest pleasure with the least harm, simple sugar should be put on the surface of the food where the tongue makes direct contact.  This means sugars should not be added to the food during preparation—mixed up in the ingredients where the sweet flavors are hidden from the tongue’s taste buds.  Using a small amount of sugar on the surface of the food is my recommendation for trim, healthy people. 

Meal frequency: There was a second paper published on these same subjects (which was a double cross over design, so a very well done study) and the found significant increases in total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and in blood pressure, compared to when they ate more frequent meals. These findings were published in the April 2007 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. However, remember, this was from one very large meal per day with the exact same calories as the more frequent meals.

This older study (3) found that "Although there was no difference in change of body weight by food restriction between the two groups, the decrease in lean body mass (LBM) was significantly greater in the 2M [meals per day] group than in the 6M [meals per day] group.

How do we lose fat when getting enough calories from carbs? Generally speaking, the human body is almost always burning fat. Under normal conditions, the body is burning about 50% of its energy from carbohydrates and about 50% from fat. Some say these may vary and range from 50-70% Muscle cells burn glucose from carbohydrate or fatty acids from fats. At rest, and during low activity levels, the human body is burning around 50/50 glucose and fat. The harder one works, the relative percentage of fuel from sugar goes up and the relative percent of fuel from fat goes down.

Digestion time for different food

DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS: (The time spent in the stomach before emptying).

Juices: Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.

Semi-liquid: Blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.

Fruits: Watermelon - 20 min. digestion time. Other melons - Cantaloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew, etc. - 30 min. Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min. Apples, pears, peaches, cherries, etc. - digest in 40 min.

Vegetables: Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cucumber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. - Steamed or cooked vegetables Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min.

Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches. Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion.

Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains: Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min. Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein) Lentils, limes, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time soy beans -120 min. digestion time

Seeds & Nuts. Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours. Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, Brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.

Dairy: Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time

Animal proteins: Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time Whole egg - 45 min. Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time Chicken - 11/2 to 2 hours digestion time (without skin) Turkey - 2 to 2 1/4 hours digestion time (without skin) Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time Pork - 41/2 to 5 hours.

Top Tips for Good Digestion

Eat in order of digestibility.

You should eat the easiest to digest foods first in each meal and slowly move towards the more complex. Think of a highway, if the slowest cars are in front they'll hold up the faster cars behind them, causing a traffic jam. The same goes for your food. Eat those fastest to digest first and save the tougher to digest foods for the second half of your meal.

Here are the time sequences for different food groups:

Water & Juices: 20-30 minutes.

Fruits, Smoothies, Soups: 30-45 minutes.

Vegetables: 30-45 minutes.

Beans, Grains, Starches: 2-3 hours.

Meat, Fish, Poultry: 3 or more hours.

Drink warm or hot liquids with your meal.

Ice cold drinks can slow down the digestive process, think of it as putting ice on a muscle. The muscle stiffens and does not function as well. Warm or room temperature water, juice, or decaf tea will encourage proper digestion. (Just remember the traffic jam – drink liquids prior to meals).

http://www.cleanse-yourself-lose-weight.com/digestion-time.html

Weight restored and I feel amazing.

The longer you eat recovery amounts the stronger you will be to tolerate the weight gain and bloat. I live with what I feared my whole life now every day. A body with normal weight with fat on thighs and stomach. But anyway I feel amazing. I had forgot how good it feels to be nourished. I am more positive because the mood is way better when I have eaten so I look at the positive aspects of my body. I DON'T NEED TO LOOK PERFECT.

More energy, no edema.

So, it's been 11,5 weeks on recovery amounts of food now. The edema is completely gone. I noticed my butt was no longer hard as it was when it was full of water. I look better. I think maybe redistribution has began now. I know it is very soon so perhaps I'm wrong, but I think the fat is distributed more naturally now than before.

I have got more energy the last days as I started being more active by doing strength training at home. I actually felt I had energy to do some yoga today as well. I'm very happy about this, and the improvements in strength day to day is motivating. I still don't take long walks. That is the last thing I'm going to do. I have to be smart so the adrenals gets the rest it needs. I will not strain myself. My manual therapist wanted to see me in his gym in 4 weeks time. I said I would show up and I could bring my buddy that moves in with me this week, who also needs to start building strength. Edit: It was too early to start strength training so I stopped after a while.

I have eaten mostly fruits and potatoes lately + oats. I love it, and it makes me sure I won't gain more fat. I gained more than enough when I ate mostly fat the first 7 weeks. I regret doing that, but I'm confident the amount that is too much will come off as I continue to eat low fat. Edit: I did lose the overshoot weight quickly while eating mostly whole food carb-sources so my prediction was correct.

Higher weight

It's can be easier to handle being at a higher weight the longer you have been in recovery because you feel better over all, your mood is so much better and you feel stronger. That is how it is for me at least. It is so nice to be able to make jokes and laugh hard again. It is strange to be spontanious again, but now I don't take myself that serious anymore, so I can live with the shame of saying stupid jokes sometimes. I think my energy has started to increase too now. I don't think so much that I am in recovery anymore. Instead I focus about getting stronger and enjoy life. Like, i eat because that is normal, not because I'm in recovery. The only reason why I could start restricting again would be my vanity, but I do not want to be a slave of vanity. Then I'm more proud of looking normal. Most people are at a BMI between 23-28 or something. Don't remember exactly. So it is not that we will look bigger than most. So, no worries. Those who make a lot of effort just to look a certain way is not someone I look up to anymore. I feel a bit ashamed I have been such a person all my life. I will focus on important things instead. Not appearance. I will eat and move because it is natural and enjoyable.

Pretty happy with it all now.

I've eaten around 2600 calories a day for a couple of weeks and I'm excited that I can eat food that I've missed. I have baked my own rolls, eaten mashed potatoes almost daily, oats with yoghurt and pineapple and a lot of fruit. I can't see a weight gain because of this, so it's great. Today, even though I'm as big as before my eating disorder started I think I look pretty good. I don't think a redistribution will make a lot of difference on how I look now because I do not have the toddler shape some say they have before the redistribution (fat around the waist).

My metabolism is definitely improved. I know this for a fact because I have measured my body temperature for weeks now. It's gone up slowly from 36,3 to 36,9. Before recovery it was far less than this. Some people have cold hands and feet, but a high temperature. Then it have to be poor circulation. I know vitamin E can help. Probably a lot of other things too.

I eat meat only once a week or two. I get enough protein from all the grains. I have tried rolls with wheat, spelt, barley and rye and prefer rye. I have read that modern wheat contains more gluten that the original wheat so it's best to avoid it as much as possible. I like the taste of rye better anyway, but it is very hard to digest for me.

I have ordered a blender and look forward to make nice cream, using frozen fruit to make fat free sorbet. I'm gonna use banana, mango, peach and papaya. I'm happy I can eat food like that with no problems. I do get some gas from the grains, but it doesn't hurt as I am far from constipated.

The pain in my legs and feet are less, the head aches are almost gone and it's a long time since I had flu like symptoms (migraine).

My family has been supporting and nice to me. I have avoided other people, but now I accept more how I look so this will change. A guy who likes "the skinnier the better" is coming to live with me in ten days time. He hasn't seen me since before I started eating more so I worry what he will say. 

I look forward to have energy to exercise again. I have burned out my adrenals so it will take years, probably. I sleep a lot to heal them.

My energy level and strength is not improved more than say 15%. I will do a bit of strength training at home for my back, thighs and stomach because I need it. It will just be a few minutes a day in the beginning. Hopefully I can do a bit of yoga as well soon. Just sun salutations and a couple of other asanas to start with. I will stop as soon as I feel I'm straining myself.

I have not stepped on the scale these ten weeks. If I should guess I am probably at a BMI of 23 now.