I recently read this very controversial post at the weight loss dude website and I think if you start to think about what James has said you will realize he actually makes a lot of sense although you might not agree with the way he puts it over his science is pretty spot on.
I have personally worked with James on other projects and he is not adverse to flying in the face of convention when it comes to speaking his mind. Some find him a little arrogant but he certainly justifies his opinions with scientific facts or at very least backs up his argument.
Lets examine the eveidence which James put forward in support of his theories were taught at school there are 4 basic food groups
1. Breads and cereals
2. Dairy
3. Meat, fish and poultry
4. Fruits and vegetables
James clearly explains why he believes (i am inclined to agree) there are only 2 these being animals and plants and if you read his article you will understand what he says is fact not opinion.
He points out we refer to one of the food groups - 3. as Meat Fish and Poultry which to many may seem to many in America to be the only things of this group we eat (although we know this not to be true I personally have eaten scorpion, crickets and even spiders so they certainly would not fall in to these groups) Other animals are very much a part of diet in many races through out the world and indeed what on earth does Meat mean anyway ... It seems it's either a catchall or a cop out clause depending on how you read it does this mean for example in Peru where they eat Guinea Pigs that this is meat ...
Do you tell your kids to lock up your Guinea Pigs ... quick smart?
Or would this not be convered under the definition as your average American would not regard this as meat but would have not have the same distiction for a pheasant or rabbit or even an alligator would they?
Why fruits and vegetables are singled out again is without question complicating a simple definition of as they are all 'plants' world wide we eat a lot of plants which are neither fruit of vegetables so why are these ignored in such an example ?
Most interestingly is the category of dairy and how this makes no sense what so ever as a food category and indeed how dairy can be classed as an essential food group is even more in question. Lets consider the evidence.
1. Human Baby's cannot consume any other animals milk other than it's mothers or baby formula which is after all a man made approximation of mothers milk. In fact dairy would probably kill them.
2. The milk created by another animal is produced for the feeding of it's offspring and NOT human's we should not forget that a cow,sheep,goat, buffalo think I must provide these humans with a few quarts of milk for the breakfast does it?
3. Milk is a product of animals and should be grouped in the animal group not as an seperate category to the meat fish and poultry group which is wrongly classified anyway.
I am sure you can see where this is all coming from?
James then goes on to point out that the Chimpanze does not eat dairy nor are they overweight (not sure the correlation is that cut and dried as you could argue when did you last see a human swinging from tree-tree so maybe the exercise aspects are more than a little relevant but his arguements seem to have much grounding in logic and common sense.
There are many more things James so eloquently lays out for us to consider and I urge you to read this entire article as It brings in to question much of our currrent thinking on weight loss and diet. I also would point out it makes a lot sense to have only 2 food groups and It would seem to make a lot more sense for a balanced diet to consist of part of each of these and not basically ignore those things we can't neatly pigeon hole in to convenient box.
I urge you to read this article fully and I welcome your comments and views on this issue. I have a number of other interesting discussions and free reports on food related topics and would love to get your opinions on them.Any way take a look at weightloss dude today it's a great article and will get you thinking.
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