re: "Lectins: "Tomatoes are loaded, along with peppers, eggplant, ...and all grains." Makes it sound as if Italians should all be dead...yet the Mediterranean diet is actually healthy and promotes longer life. "
You make a good point. In fact, a guy sharing some credible personal research on u-tube found that Alzheimers is not present in many old Mediterranean towns and is completely non-existant in Arctic Inuit populations. He thought is was because of the olive oil and fish oil, respectively, but, I'm thinking, maybe not.
I watched a cooking show about preparing old fashioned, traditional spagetti sauce. They use roma tomatoes, which are quite fleshy, and notably, remove the skins and squeeze out all the seeds, prior to cooking. This effectively eliminates, probably 99.9 % of the lectins. I suspect that all the other associated old world Mediterranean foods and preparation methods result in a very low lectin loading factor.
The Inuit situation is even more interesting. There's a movie out called "Into Greenland". It's a kind-of semi-professional u-tube style account of a guy who goes with his friend to visit his father who, years ealier, decided to leave France and take up residence in a remote Inuit village.
Nothing grows in the arctic. So they eat meat and fish. Not too big on cooking either, apparently. The welcoming party feast consisted of a slab of raw seal's liver. Table etiquette involves carving off bite-size bits. Later they go on a seal hunt and bag a seal. It's a bit excruciating to watch the poor young French fellow straining to show appreciation, poltely eating the treat gifted by the hunter, which consisted of the seal's eye. The town people also eat polar bear and whale blubber, but whales have been scarce in recent years. And, contrary to what one might suspect, there were old people too, pretty spry, actually. And no lectins in sight.
At the end, as a parting gift. the Frenchmen make pancakes for the townspeople. Not sure they were doing them a favor, though, considering. It's a bit funny, one old guy looked like he was eating his pancake, more to be polite, than actually enjoying the strange food.
I just saw that deplorably clueless Alzheimer's article in what, NewsWeek, about "early prevention". Didn't they get the memo on amyloid? Monthly intravenous infusions? Did I read that right? Sheesh! Throughout history, circles of institutional scowlers focus on protecting their calcified theories from being threatened by contravening facts rather than even recognize their existance. Are the Dark Ages over yet? Shall we give leeches a go at sucking out the "bad humours"? They're scarcely that up to date.
Maybe it hasn't been explicitely proposed yet, but taking a nice little Anavex 2-73 pill as a preventive measure for people at risk is easily implied. Is there such a thing as a conspiracy of organized ignorance? I'm beginning to wonder.
