Dr. Douglas Graham’s new book, The 80/10/10 Diet

Let’s be fair and say I haven’t read it. I’ve had many times the opportunity to be at the same conference as Dr. Graham. His view of raw food comes pretty much from a classic natural hygiene view of raw food consumption.

 Dr. Graham has the best intentions with what he’s saying, but it pretty much completely is the opposite of what we’ve learned though real research at Hippocrates over the last 52 years.

 When someone says things like fruit is the original food for mankind and still should be today in 2008, there’s a lot missing in that story. You’ve just opened a book, read the first paragraph and shut the book. You think you have the answer.

 The point is that fruit today does not even resemble fruit from 100 years ago, even less from 5,000 years ago, 20,000 years ago or longer than that.

 Fruit has been hybrid for thousands of years for sugar. That’s only one part of this story. The second part of the story is that anatomically, we’re different than we were 100, 1,000, 2,000 or 5,000 years ago. We just mentioned that earlier with B-12.

 Our bodies can no longer ingest this high amount of sugar because our pancreas is pretty much dysfunctional. It’s so rare that we find somebody with a healthy pancreas now. It’s a talking point for all of us very interested in health care. We get on the phone and talk about a healthy pancreas, which we might only find every six years.

 The pancreas is what absorbs, regulates and adjusts sugars in the body. If that’s not functional, imagine drinking a high fructose substance like a fruit, carrot or beet juice.

 What happens to it? Those sugars pour into the blood. We have a name for that. It’s called blood sugar.

 The last part of this story is, if you want to be a little philosophic, and even the New Agers will like this, we need to go back to Biblical times and basically ask the question about how humans originally ate.

 What did our ancestors do? Our ancestors ate fruit from the trees as meat and herbs from the Earth as medicine.

 Adjust that with a philosophical view. Forget all of the real science I just gave you. Don’t you know that all of us here today on this very disturbed, polluted, touchy planet are not all healing?

 Now is the time we need greens to heal us and take the pollution out that didn’t exist not too long ago. We need to take the heavy metals out of our bodies that didn’t exist before the Industrial Revolution. We need greens to give us the protein strains we talked about earlier.

 Thinking people know that. I’m sure Dr. Graham has good intentions. I like the man.

 I just hope that those of you listening can release your addictive patterns of consuming sugars via a fruit, white sugar or honey. I hope you can start to gravitate to those things that have been proven. I hope you can start from where we stand now at this point in history, not where we stood thousands of years ago.