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Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Did Eating in Restaurants Kill My Friend?

November 23, 2014 7 Comments

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Did Eating in Restaurants Kill My Friend?

Guest post by Joanie Blaxter, founder of Follow Your Gut

Did Eating in Restaurants Kill My Dear Friend, Leotha?

A very close friend of mine died of liver cancer a couple years back at the relatively young age of 62, a full ten years before his median life expectancy of 72.

To be honest, as a health coach and Traditional Foods proponent, it was a bit of a shock because Leotha grew up on a farm in Mississippi, drinking raw milk and eating an all organic, home-grown diet, including pasture-raised and farm-harvested meat.

A robust body and mind, constructed from the strongest materials, can, and should, be able to take a lot of abuse in later life. Anecdotally, nearly all our current long-lived individuals in this country (100+ years) have a lifelong personal history of eating clean, Traditional Foods, similar to Leotha's childhood.

Leotha did not, however, have the advantage of those nutrient-dense foods beyond his early 20's. As a young man he moved away from the farm to urban life, became a police officer and began living on the Standard American Diet.

eating-out-guideActually, a correction – Leotha ate worse than that. Not S.A.D., but the far deadlier S.A.R.D.

(By the way, check out the restaurant guide to dining out!)

Standard American Restaurant Diet…

As a single man on his own for his entire life, probably the only homecooked meal Leotha ever ate was when he visited one of his sisters every few months, at most.

I remember meeting him, at his request, once in a Marie Callender's and later at an IHop. These working-and-middle-class chain restaurants were typical of Leotha's tastes and income, and where he got his breakfast, lunch and dinner, day in and day out.

If your reaction to that is, So what? You definitely need to OPEN THE LINKS BELOW!

The first article details how extraordinarily toxic is the heating of any industrially produced cooking oil.

Coming from the deep South, fried foods were a favorite of Leotha's and since almost all the food he ate growing up was processed on the farm, most of his childhood dishes were cooked in lard. All that changed when he left home and began eating “healthy.”

Turns out that restaurant fried food is likely THE most toxic food possible.

big fat surpriseIn the frying process, liquid polyunsaturated oils (canola, corn, sunflower, safflower, etc), inherently unstable, rancid, cheap and industrially produced, are not only heated, but repeatedly taken above boiling by 150+ degrees to 375 degrees or higher, causing the oil to break down into dozens and dozens of carcinogenic by-products.

As Nina Teicholz, author of the new book, A Big Fat Surprise, clarifies “… in one analysis, a total of 130 volatile compounds were isolated from a piece of fried chicken alone.”

Think French Fries, bacon, pancakes, hamburgers, fried eggs or basically, any food cooked on a grill or fry pan. (Really, with the exception of a salad, what chain restaurant food is NOT fried on a grill?)

This is Kelly interjecting…  Watch this short video, it will freak you out about fast-food, and especially fast-food French fries (Try my homemade real foodie version of fast-food fries, fried in a healthy oil!):

Please note: While this information has been known since “the mid-1940's,” it was only available to a select group of “oil chemists” until very recently, beginning with the investigative work of researcher Mary Enig, PhD.

Other markers for toxicity in restaurant fare include non-organically and/or commercial, factory grown food; this describes 99+% of the menus of most restaurants. (How many restaurants do you frequent that serve only organic produce and/or pasture-raised animal food?)

Since about the late 1980's, it turns out that a majority of the non-organic carbohydrates that we eat – wheat, barley, rice, dried beans and peas, nuts, seeds, sugar – are drenched in glyphosate as part of the on-farm, pre-harvest processing.

Gyphosate, as we know, destroys the microflora in our microbiome and with it, our autoimmune system.

I think it's fair to say that Leotha probably consumed a daily dose of toxic pesticides, including high levels of glyphosate, in combination with hundreds of highly inflammatory, unnatural chemical by-products with each restaurant bill that he paid… 3 times a day!

Given what I understand now about how truly immune-suppressive, rancid, toxic and deadly Leotha's diet must have been for four decades, dying at an early age of cancer of the liver, our major detoxifying organ, no longer comes as a surprise to me, despite how nutrient-dense was his childhood fare.

Would he have lived longer if he had consumed a Standard American Diet that was home, as opposed to restaurant, cooked?

I'm guessing yes, simply because the oil used in restaurants to deep fry is commonly reheated many, many times, making it extraordinarily toxic. This is generally not the practice at home.

Furthermore, as he aged, Leotha did get more health conscious. If he had cooked at home he would have likely switched to organic foods. Choosing instead, however, to eat out every meal only at affordable restaurants meant “organic” was never on the menu.

It would appear that even having the absolute best start in life is no match for… Death by Restaurant.

If you think this kind of demise won't happen to you… tally up the number of times per day per week you:

Eat non-organic food,
Use industrial cooking oils in your own baking or cooking or
Eat out, particularly anything fried.

And then read the articles below:

  • The Big FAT Surprise: Toxic Heated Oils
  • Turns Out the Problem May Not Be Gluten: Glyophosate Drench on Commercial Wheat, Sugar, Rice, Seeds, Beans and More

eating-out-guideThis is Kelly again.  Eating out doesn't have to be ALL bad!  Kristen's new e-book will help you figure out the best places to choose if you're eating out (you know you want to sometimes!), and what is best to order no matter where you go!   Click here for more information.

joanieThis was a guest post by my sweet friend, Joanie Blaxter, who is now a regular writer around here!  She’s been the Ventura County, California chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation since 2010, and you can contact Joanie here for health consultations. Also, find her past guest posts here.

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  1. Beth says

    December 15, 2018 at 3:26 PM

    What are some “less bad” restaurants? I’m not in a living situation where I can cook much from scratch (when at all). Back when I had my own kitchen and more control over my life I was able to feed us real food. Can’t anymore and it’s already affecting us.

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    • KitchenKop says

      December 15, 2018 at 5:22 PM

      Hi Beth,

      I didn’t realize you moved?

      There are a few different options that come to mind…

      1. Check out this place for easy meals that come right to you: https://kellythekitchenkop.com/sun-basket-35-off

      2. Soon the WAPF will have a restaurant rating system in place that will help know which places are better.

      3. Also we will go to Panera now and then (supposedly no preservatives and better guidelines than most places), or Chipotle (some but not all have pastured meats!), otherwise I’ll often eat no-meat meals at restaurants since it’s mostly factory farmed, and not eat fried foods since they all use crappy oils.

      Hope that helps! If you want to share a bit more about your living situation, I can try to help with more specific ideas.

      Kel

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  2. Jill Fischer says

    December 11, 2015 at 9:24 PM

    Yep…stay away from processed foods, veg. oils, Sugar. Go organic when possible, especially on foods that are eaten daily. Ex: coffee, creamer, eggs, butter, bread etc…. I fry only in organic sunflower oil. It can withstand high temp heat without going rancid. I even use it as a makeup remover.

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  3. Cristoforo Sartor says

    December 11, 2015 at 7:07 PM

    Let’s stop kidding ourselves right off the hop. This stuff is not really even food. Admit it. Real food is found at home, a place where you know exactly what ingredients were used and exactly how it was prepared.

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  4. Debra Kurtz says

    November 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM

    I can’t help but think that the fact that he never married played a part in his demise. It has been proven that married men live longer than single men.

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  5. Naomi Williams says

    November 23, 2014 at 8:45 AM

    Totally agree! Until their 60s, my mom and dad ate primarily home-cooked meals. Then, they decided it was time to “take it easy”, which included switching to the Restaurant Diet for probably 80% of their meals instead of cooking. My dad started a long, slow drop into Alzheimer’s, and my mom had a stroke. When they both moved into assisted living in their 80s (my mom by choice) they still ate out quite a bit, and the dining room at the assisted living center wasn’t much better. They followed government guidelines for Healthy Living, and you know what that means: Whole grain (store bought) bread at every meal, crappy butter substitutes made from soybeans and canola oil, etc.
    If they had continued to eat well for their entire lives, they’d probably still be in great health in their late 90s right now. They both had great genes; I had several great-aunts who lived way past the century mark. I’m named after a great-aunt Naomi who lived to be 107!
    My dad died of congestive heart failure at age 90, and my mom died of cancer at age 92. Doesn’t sound too bad, until you factor in their quality of life for the last two decades of their lives.

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    • KitchenKop says

      November 24, 2014 at 7:09 AM

      Naomi,

      Wow, that’s so sad, but SO normal these days I think!

      Kel

      Reply

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