Find Out Your Nutritional Type with This Simple Test!
Dr. Joseph Mercola
http://products.mercola.com/nutritional-typing/?source=nl
The well-known and popular Dr. Joseph Mercola has produced a You-Tube video in which he asserts that there is no one perfect diet. There are certainly general rules to live by, like avoiding processed foods, staying away from fructose (a friend of mine calls it high-fructose death syrup) and anything that excessively stimulates insulin production.
Mercola then dives into metabolic typing based on the book of the same name by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey. Dr. Mercola had worked with the metabolic typing principles for some time, and then later added his own refinements which resulted in a similar system he calls nutritional typing. According to nutritional typing, there are three nutritional types:
1. Those who thrive on a high protein, high fat diet and little carbs and veggies.
2. Those who thrive on a diet high in carbs and veggies and low in protein and fat.
3. Those who are about half and half.
Dr. Mercola goes on to say that a vegetarian diet is appropriate for about one-third of people. That statement in particular set off alarms among some of our members who brought this video to our attention.
As always, we want to look at this diet scheme through the filter of what Dr. Price observed and decide whether metabolic or nutritional typing is consistent with his findings. Our website discusses metabolic typing (http://www.westonaprice.org/abcs-of-nutrition/960-theright- price.html) and the key point is that while primitive people ate many different varieties of foods, the nutrient makeup was very similar among all groups.
Price observed that nutrient density was the key to robust health. Vegetables and grains are not dense in nutrients, particularly the fat-soluble vitamins A and D. Since Dr. Mercola doesn’t seem to like cod liver oil anymore, where do these vegetarians get the needed quantities of those vitamins? Should they just take a pill? Is that what the traditional peoples Weston Price studied did? I know a lot of WAPF members are fans of Dr. Mercola, and they may want to take a pill when they see the thumb is DOWN for this one.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly magazine of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Fall 2010.
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clinical nutritionist
Mercola’s Nutritional Typing is NOT Metabolic Typing. It is a sham and does not tell you anything. He simply tried to capitalize on Wolcott’s 30+ years of proven work and solid science, but failed because he does not understand the topic in depth, and because his goal was not to actually help people but rather to cash in on someone else’s technology and trademark. Try a Google search for the trademark “Metabolic Typing” and you will see exactly what I mean.
acupuncture is spelled with one ‘c’.
I followed the recommended diet for Protein a couple of years ago and read every word Mercola had written and the weight fell off. For some unknown reason, I went back to my evil ways, had three strokes and became a full time rver. I was too tired all the time to get out and walk so I gained more weight than ever and Im going to go back to healthy fats, low glycemic veggies and clean protein ( first at every meal).. i want to say that Mercola’s website has been a Godsend for many years and Im sorry the last few years have been a hassle. Thank you for everything. 😁👍.