Notice that the fat content in most foods except beef is lower than the protein content. If we remember that in mother’ s milk the fat content is four times that of protein, we can perhaps explain in part the attraction most people feel for butter, fried foods, mayonnaise, and so on. However, before tossing our latest low-fat diet to the winds and running for a butter and peanut butter sandwich, let’ s consider this: Only mother’ s milk derives 40 percent of its calories from fats. Nature provides that proportion for infants, but for adults much less is indicated. As almost everyone knows by now, evidence points overwhelmingly to high-fat diets contributing directly to obesity and either directly or indirectly involved in cardiovascular disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, hernia, gallbladder disease, and diabetes. High fat consumption, from both vegetable and animal sources, is also implicated in some cancers. The charts of cooked grains, beans, and vegetables exhibit a certain consistency: They all contain minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and water. These nutrients also increase in that order, in other words, there are always more proteins than minerals, more carbohydrates than proteins, more water than carbohydrates. Sugar, on the other hand, looks like this:
Clearly, sugar is deficient in nutritional elements. It is 99.5 percent carbohydrates.( It is instructive to remember that sugar is a fragmented plant food, derived from sugar cane.) If this substance is eaten, the missing elements will have to be found elsewhere, or the body will show deficiency symptoms. High-density protein foods, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and large amounts of water will be needed to balance the intake of refined sugar. A low-protein or vegetarian diet that includes a high proportion of sugar-sweetened foods can thus cause a serious nutritional deficiency. Considering water alone, it is interesting to note that if we eat 100