Why Bacon and Eggs Are Still The Best Breakfast

    MAPLEWOOD, NJ, July 29, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Why Bacon and Eggs are still the Best Breakfast
By Linda West Eckhardt and Dr. John Salerno
From their new e-book The Silver Cloud Diet
Available at http://silverclouddiet.com

Going beyond Atkins and South Beach, Dr. John Salerno and Linda Eckhardt announce their new e-book, The Silver Cloud Diet. A diet high in saturated fats and absent processed foods, the diet will lower cholesterol, reverse type 2 diabetes, is sustainable and organic, and is a traditional diet made up of whole, unprocessed foods. Quick weight loss and detox occur within the first two weeks of Dr. Salerno's Full Fat Fast, a period wherein saturated fat and protein dominate the diet. A weight loss of 10-15 pounds and waist measurement loss of 2-3 inches, edging up to the Flat Belly Diet, have been experienced by Dr. Salerno's patients in his New York City practice.

Heresy is the word applied to anyone who sings the praises of saturated fats in the diet. Or at least it has been for the last 30 years. While the public has been manipulated by the public relations efforts of industrial farming and big pharma to eat a low fat diet, the health stats of our population have sunk to dangerous lows.

So what can you do? Do what your grand parents did. Eat a diet of broad and varied unprocessed foods, mostly organic, with plenty of saturated fats.

What can you expect? Your weight will normalize. Your life span will stretch out longer, and you will be in peak health.

Just to show how the world is turning, even the venerated Natural Gourmet School, in New York, has begun to recommend more saturated fat in the diet.

Yes, it wasn't long since a plant based diet was recommended, but now, Jenny Matthau, the president of Natural Gourmet School, beats the drum for saturated fats as a part of whole foods cuisine

"A lot of students expect to hear just what the government is saying: You have your good fats and your bad fats, and you should try to eat a very low-fat diet," Matthau says. "And we don't agree."
Instead, Matthau's lecture includes a long section on why we need fats of all kinds in our diets, much more than we've been led to believe. She points out societies like the Masai, a Kenyan tribe that counts meat, blood and whole milk among its dietary staples, yet has low rates of heart disease and obesity. She praises fat's capacity to add flavor to a dish and make people feel full. "Fat makes things taste great, period," Matthau says.

Organic Butter, cream, full fat cheeses, bacon and eggs. Prime Steak with ribbons of fat. All these foods are now praised by industry leaders including science writer, Gary Taubes, author of the book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage).

With the rise of molecular gastronomy influencing the new generation of chefs, whole foods are often cooked at super low temperatures for a long time in a bath of 150 degree water, sealed in ziplocks, then cut into fanciful designs and finished with a dip into boiling oil. What started in Spain at Il Bulli, a restaurant which began this move to full fat, whole foods, is now reaching down to convince the rest of us.

The French paradox may have confused us, but it never fooled the French. They have been eating more saturated fats and chasing it with red wine than we can ever imagine and with better health statistics to show for it.

So what's up with bacon and eggs for breakfast? Start your day with protein and saturated fats and your day will be off to a great start. You won't be hungry again in an hour, as you are if you eat cold cereal, or worse yet donut and coffee. Your blood sugars won't spike, and you will be satisfied and able to put in a good day's work.

Aside from the beneficial effects some fats can have on cholesterol -- unsaturated fats, like olive oil, tend to raise levels of good cholesterol and lower levels of the bad. Fats help deliver vitamins, build cells and regulate hormones. Unsaturated fat also has antioxidant properties, which may help fight cancer; so does meat from grass-fed animals. And when it comes to appetite, hunger and obesity, fats and protein, green vegetables and whole grains -- take more time to digest, making people feel full longer.Of course we are beginning to see the light and understand that the 30 year reign of the industrial food productions is drawing to a close. Although they told us fatty foods are to blame for a plethora of health conditions including cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, the rhetoric doesn't match the health stats.

Even the venerated American Heart Association has revised its nutritional guidelines and has increased the daily recommendations for fat. "The science just wasn't there," reports Robert Eckel, president of AHA and professor of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at U. Colorado Health Sciences Center.

With grocery store shelves bulging with processed foods high in sugars, starches, and chemicals, the net result for the past thirty years, is that not only are these so-called value added products not valuable, they have supersized our population.

With 1/3 of the American population either overweight or obese, we have to stop and take stock of our situation.

People on high-fat diets eat less because they aren't as hungry. And according to studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), many people even have a type of fat known as brown adipose tissue, or brown fat that burns calories rather than piling them on.

After an induction phase that stresses 5 meals a day high in saturated fats and proteins, The Silver Cloud Diet recommends a diet of mostly organic, whole foods with 9 servings of fruits and vegetables, plenty of protein and saturated fats, and no processed foods at all.

To order go to www.silverclouddiet.com. The Silver Cloud Diet e-book will land in your inbox within moments.

For more information call Linda Eckhardt 973 762 4857

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