Last year I got interested in losing weight by controlling appetite and started following something called 'The Shangri-La Diet' which I insist is not a diet at all, since there are no food restrictions. Instead it is a strategy to control appetite.
For purposes of this discussion, the important thing is that for a period of some months I consumed 2 tablespoons of extra light olive oil two times a day. If you're interested in the intentional attributes of the program, you can find details on the authors forum website at http://boards.sethroberts.net/. This isn't exactly what I'm reporting on. I was doing pretty good following the protocol and was seeing some decent weight loss results, but then got off track due to a number of substantial family emergencies hospitalizations and so on. Then.... I had my annual physical. My doctor was extremely pleased with my bloodwork. My blood cholesterol has never been a big issue but has hovered around 200 for years. This time round it was a mere 147. I can only look to the ingestion of the olive oil as the likely candidate for this change. My triglycerides were also really low at about 80. I have never taken statins and never intend to as I believe them to be harmful and at best merely hide a problem instead of correcting one. It's my belief that high cholesterol in itself is not the cause of a health problem, but is rather a symptom of a health problem. It's easy to detect, much easier than the underlying problem. So they like to focus on that. I think that the vaunted improvement in survival statistics is actually a mathematical trick. Statin drugs mask the underlying problem by artificially reducing cholesterol levels. Automatically the sick person is transferred from a high risk group they belong in to a low risk group that they really don't belong in. That's my theory. I suspect that my reduction of cholesterol that appears to be a side-effect of consuming olive oil as I did is much healthier than to accomplish it through a drug regimen. I wasn't even worried about my cholesterol levels and wasn't trying to reduce them. I think the prior level from the prior year was about 188..... ho-hum. Anybody else experience anything of note with such an approach? Steve Grover --- On Mon, 12/7/09, Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> Subject: CS>Snake oil To: [email protected] Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 1:09 PM A recent message spoke of snake oil as if it was something to be avoided. As with most things that are denigrated in the medical community, it is because they work so well, as opposed to not working at all. Snake oil refers to the oil from the Chinese black snake which has been known for thousands of years to be very effective on sore muscles and arthritis. During the day of railroad building, Chinese would work on the railroad, and apply this soothing oil to their aching muscles. The medicine men who were peddling other salves which did not work as well thus begin calling anything that did not work snake oil specifically to get their customers to associate the highly effective snake oil with things that did not work. That association still occurs 150 years later. (another interesting one is that the original term quacks referred to dentists who used quacksilver (mercury) for filling teeth. The ADA somehow managed to turn that around so most people believe it refers to those who would NOT use mercury in the teeth instead of those who do). The active ingredient in snake oil is EPA an omega 3 fatty acid. So if you check many approved arthritis protocols and medicines you will find that they contain EPA as an active ingredient. So while the medical mafia still denigrates snake oil, they are actually using it ( or the same agent from another source ) in their products. Snake oil is wonderful stuff actually: http://www.bobsgear.com/display/healthnews/The+Astonishing+Healing+Powers+of+Snake+Oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=snake-oil-salesmen-knew-something Marshall -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
