Jewish Life Digital Edition September 2015 | Page 69
UMHLANGA KOSHER
ACCOMMODATION
13 Flamingo Lane – Umhlanga Rocks
certain mono-saturated fats found in avocados and extra virgin olive oil. Saturated fats found in animal protein such as
red meat is debatable, and should be eaten sparingly. Bad fats are trans-fats that
are the basis of margarines and reheated
oil used in restaurants. Trans-fats result
when liquid oils are combined with hydrogen for the purpose of making the fat
solid and increasing the shelf life. Although very good for the processed food
industry, hydrogenated oils directly increase the bad cholesterol, low density lipoproteins (LDLs), the chemical X factor
of blocked arteries.
SECONDLY, healthy complex carbs are
found naturally occurring in fruits and
vegetables (especially their leaves, which
are also packed with vitamins, minerals
and flavonoids) and should cover most of
the serving plate. Foods that should not
be part of our daily diet are processed
sugars found almost everywhere in
boxed, tinned, bottled or packaged foodstuffs: all sodas, breads, pastas, sweets,
cakes, bagels, beers, and low-fat yoghurts
(most have added sugar). The main culprit is high fructose corn syrup (a very
sweet, dense sugar) added into low-fat
food to give it a tastier flavour. There’s a
strong correlation between the emphasis
on low-fat food, with added sugars, and
the onset of diabetes and obesity in the
United States. South Africans are following this trend.
SO, HOW DOES ONE ADD THESE
NEW GUIDELINES INTO A DAILY
DIET?
FIRSTLY, it must be pointed out that a
high carb diet consisting of white bread
and soda (Coke, Fanta), fruit juices, sugar, and pasta may be cheaper at the shop
till in the short run – but those savings
evaporate in the long term due to the illnesses that they cause. A plant-based diet
is much healthier in terms of stable energy levels, weight control, and a host of diet-sensitive illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes, which means less
doctor and hospital visits in the long run.
What is exciting is that lifestyle medicine is edging its way into mainstream
medicine – not only in treatment options, and prevention, but in the magisterial idea of reversal of disease. These findings are from, among others, the work of
Dr Dean Ornish, a cardiologist in San
Francisco, whose team has found that the
four pillars of lifestyle changes: plantbased diet, daily exercise, de-stressing
(meditation), and love and intimacy,
combined, can reverse heart disease
(opening the blocked lumens, internal
spaces, of the arteries supplying the heart
muscle with oxygen and nutrients), reverse early stage prostate cancer, and reverse pre-diabetes or type 2 maturity onset diabetes.
SECONDLY, there needs to be a clearout
of the non-desirables from the kitchen
and pantry (and any other places where
they may be hidden in the house).
THIRDLY, only the list of desirables
should be purchased. And, to help, there
are a zillion books of recipes that incorporate the new guidelines on healthy lowcarb eating.
FINALLY, and probably the most difficult, is to persuade the shul committees
to cut out the junk food at the weekly
Shabbos brochas. Oy vey!
The sugar wars have begun. Lock up
your chocolates! JL
Further reading: http://fortune.com/author/ dean-ornish
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Dean Ornish is founder and president of the
Preventive Medicine Research Institute and
clinical professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.
Jonathan Moch is a practising psychiatrist who studies the mysterious
human condition from many diverse angles. Torah, science, medicine,
psychology, nutrition, raising children, and marriage are deep pools of
knowledge and experience that allow him to reflect, teach, write and
converse to nudge people to take responsibility for their lives. He now
focuses on the critical factors in the external environment on individual
decision-making, and how one can create the future.
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