28 Acidic Wastes: The Real Culprit
refrigerator spoiled. Now even the organic milk I buy doesn’t spoil in
the summer (with the exception of a brand of milk called Eco Meal). It
would seem that almost all brands of milk are boiled at such a high
temperature that no nutrients are left to spoil.Fats and Oils
Most doctors recommend that only 10 to 15 percent of the diet consist
of fat because they believe it to be a major factor in colon and rectal
cancer, the second leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United
States. It was therefore a shock to the medical community when two
studies involving thousands of individuals indicated that a low-fat,
high-fi ber diet did not reduce the incidence of colon cancer.^12
These studies assumed that a low-fat diet, like a high-fi ber one, is
a colon and rectal cancer preventative—based on the assumption that
a high-fat diet is conducive to the development of cancer. A study
found that women on a low-fat diet had the same rate of breast cancer
as women who consumed large quantities of fat.^13 What isn’t consid-
ered is the fact that soluble fi bers cannot neutralize carcinogens unless
they are fi rst absorbed by fat in the colon. It seems likely, therefore,
that the low-fat, high-fi ber diet didn’t reduce colon cancer because
there was not enough fat to absorb the carcinogenic substances in the
intestines.
H igh-fat diets have also been linked to cardiovascular disease because
it is assumed that the fat the body doesn’t use sticks to the walls of
arteries and hardens. In fact, fatty cholesterol adheres to arterial walls
because these walls have already sustained injuries. The layering of fat
over infl amed, scratched, and bruised arterial walls is simply a response
mechanism, designed to protect the arteries from developing leaks and
hemorrhaging.
One of the more likely causes of artery deterioration was revealed in
a study done in 1972 at the University of Hawaii with pigs as subjects.
Eighty-fi ve percent of the pigs fed high levels of sugar developed heart
disease, while the pigs fed a diet in which 10 percent of the sugar was
replaced by coconut oil or beef tallow retained normal heart function.
It seems that the small percentage of fat fed to the pigs actually pro-
tected their arteries from the sharp, acidic crystals of sugar.