6 Diet Wise
Nowadays those of us out in front, looking for answers, have begun
to realize the genetic incompatibility with foods is at least as important
as the allergy phenomenon. Our DNA controls the performance of
numerous metabolic pathways and that in turn regulates how we deal with
substances introduced into our bodies. Foodstuffs, of course, are nothing
more than a conglomerate of chemicals (with a little life energy thrown in!).
The emerging new science of nutritional genomics, as it is called, is telling
us that the old paradigm in which “bad” foods gave you heart disease or
cancer unless “good” genes intervened to protect you is too simplistic and
wide of the mark. New research suggests a continual interaction between
foods and health, in which certain foods are found to enhance or suppress
the action of genes, some of which are protective and some of which may
be very harmful.
That means you can regulate your own genes by what you eat,
helping them or blocking them. It’s all very new and shocking to a body
of science that is steeped in the belief that DNA is the inviolate blueprint
of our lives but the truth is clear and becoming clearer every day. There is
no logic in the search for a universally healthy diet and those authors who
proclaim they have one are misleading you. Forget the Atkins Diet, The
Perricone Promise, the South Beach Diet or any other pre-determined diet.
Even William Wollcott’s metabolic typing diet is erroneous in supposing we
can all be fitted into just three metabolic types. There are as many unique
individual correct diets as there are combinations of genes – and that’s
almost infinite! Note: this same principle applies if you are using the Gerson
Diet or other non-customized diet for cancer control.
This is exactly what I tried to tell the world over 20 years ago with
my first book, The Food Allergy Plan, but the world was not yet ready and
we didn’t have the genetic incompatibility model to fill in the gaps where
the allergy model didn’t suffice. The scientific truth, as you will learn, is
that each and every one of us has to discover his or her own personal safe
diet. To work out yours you will need to become diet wise, exactly as I have
described in these pages.
How to live one hundred years
True life examples, I have always felt, enhance understanding and are easier
to remember. Here is an historic tale, from Italy.
The central character was a Venetian nobleman called Luigi Cornaro.
He was born in 1467, which makes him a contemporary of Michelangelo
Buonarotti and Leonarado da Vinci, who were busy, along with numerous