Experts Criticize Paleo Diet And Lectin Attacking Steven Gundry

Steven Gundry in his book Plant Paradox criticizes lectins in grapes, mangoes, ripe bananas, pears, legumes, tomatoes, chick peas, apples and most other fruits, oats, many vegetables, potatoes etc. "The recent Global Burden of Disease Study identified inadequate fruit intake as the third most powerful factor in 11 millions deaths annually worldwide due to
dietary factors. The fact that fruit was found to be protective against the development of diabetes mellitus type 2 in a 7 year study of over 500,000 participants was not referenced. The data that increased intake of fruit is associated with less erectile dysfunction in young men was not acknowledged. "
wrote Joel Katz, MD.

Gundry lists meat and fish recipes in his book, recommends 20 kinds of cheese, and profits from
recommending a purchase of his supplements costing $80 a month. He states on page 4 a falsehood... alleg‌ing that shellfish and egg yolks reduce cholesterol. Factory farmers with millions of chickens confined 9 to a small cage must be happy. The Egg Board, an industry organization, promotes many studies in which scientists they pay come up with predictable results. The Mayo Clinic unpaid by the Egg Board reports 186 mg of cholesterol in a large egg, all in the yolk. Shellfish are a source of cholesterol as well wrote as of anaphylactic shock because they are coprophagous, eating human and other waste.
Countless people have died from eating shellfish. 1 egg a day equals 5 cigarettes a day in terms of arterial damage,
said a Toronto cardiologist, David Jenkins in a long plaque study of 1000 people.

Joel Kahn, MD and Dr T Colin Campbell, world famous nutritionist, author with his son of The China Study,
on Chinese nutrition, James Hamblin, MD, David Katz, Stephan Guyanet Ph.D, Michael Greger,
and Zaga Novakovic are some of Gundry's
many critics. Kahn:"Dr. Gundry references his “published” research although a search
on Pubmed reveals that his last peer reviewed full paper was on aortic surgery
published in 2004."
Both Campbell and Kahn point out that the world's longest lived people such as in
the blue zones (Okinawa, Costa Rica, etc) have high lectin diets. Past studies of
centenarian tribes included
people in Ecuador, the Hunzas, the Azerbaijans, Seventh Day Adventists in
California. When Dr Katz brought this up
with Dr Gundry on national tv, Gundry's statement "How long you live is not important."


The Inuit and the Masai, with short life expectancies, have virtually no lectins
in their diets. Dr Kahn had a patient who on his own decided to test paleo diet.
He ate only meat for 2 months and his cholesterol went from 250 to 750.
Dr. Campbell cites at least four studies indicating that legumes have anti-cancer
properties or other benefits.
A quote from Campbell: "It is no wonder that this lectin theory is now a darling
of the paleo, low carb, "primal" communities."
Conversely he says the rich western obesity diet has few lectins, is high on meat,
fats, sugars to which we would add
fish, eggs and dairy. Only meat, fish, eggs and dairy have cholesterol.
Dr. Kahn asks if paleo ketogenic practitioners can name a single longlived
community eating the paleo diet.
He says tomatoes are inflammatory whereas research says they are antiinflammatory
1 egg a day equals 5 cigarettes a day in terms of arterial damage, said a Toronto
cardiologist, David Jenkins in a several year plaque study study of 1000 people.
The single best way to prolong your life is to reduce your calorie intake.

https://bluezones.com/2016/06/10-things-about-beans/
Keto Diets V Plant Based.. with Joel Kahn MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCaG2gT2Vg&list=PLTobH6RvVoZomcpugbswglELYIfIgNvrF
Kahn debates Gundry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e61XfKF_NpI
T Colin Campbell criticizes Gundry
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