{"id":733,"date":"2018-10-01T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:25:56","slug":"somethings-too-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/somethings-too-fishy\/","title":{"rendered":"Something’s Too Fishy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love fish! If I don’t eat fish, I feel lethargic and depressed. Is this psychosomatic or real? I don’t really know. But as I got deeper into working with Dr. Gonzalez, one of the horrible protocols I had to do was to cut down on fish and meat – otherwise known as animal proteins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh no! I ate fish- raw fish – almost two times a day. I couldn’t even think about what else to eat in its place. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Gonzalez wanted me to cut down on eating fish to only 3 times a week…Talk about depressed! I didn’t know where to start in revamping my diet! It was a huge change for me as a big chunk of my eating habits included not just fish, but the restaurants where I was used to ordering from or going out to eat at were fish restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s a woman to do?<\/span><\/p>\n

I was so upset with Dr. Gonzalez that I couldn’t even discuss this with him! I never, ever asked why I had to cut down on fish; I just didn’t want to talk about it. As time passed, it just became part of my routine to eat fish only three times a week. And I really didn’t feel the need to discuss this with Dr. Gonzalez. However, with time comes emotional distance, so then I started to wonder: what is it about animal protein that made Dr. Gonzalez take it out of the diet of a patient who was so obviously a MODERATE vegetarian?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I finally got my answer.<\/b><\/p>\n

The other day while on my way to LA, my mom (who works at the town library) handed me a book to read on the plane. It was called The China Study.’ I had wanted to read it, but as with most books, I know so much of what they talk about – or I so disagree with what they talk about – that I can’t get through it. At the start, The China Study’ was exactly what I was expecting!<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading just one chapter where they were discussing eating proteins like fish or meat or chicken, I wrote a blog wondering why it is that people leave out whether they are doing their research with raw protein or cooked. I even wondered if they were talking about eggs (I eat one raw egg almost every morning!) and cheese (of course I eat raw milk cheese), or if they meant only animal FLESH.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as I pushed on and read Chapter 3 of The China Study,’ I got some of my answers. It became clear to me that proteins turn on the aflatoxin in cells and in the process damage DNA. It didn’t matter if they were raw or cooked. More specifically, if you ate more protein, your possibility for a cancer incidence went up. If you ate less, your cancer incidence went down!<\/span><\/p>\n

Cool! This is something I can sink my teeth into, a DIRECT correlation! Or, this is how T. Colin Campbell put it: by eating a low (animal) protein diet you could: <\/span><\/p>\n

“Reduce tumors by the following mechanisms:<\/span><\/p>\n