The Shinchi Ultimatum

Oh yea, people blame bad genes for everything. I want to fight that.

My grandma died of pancreas cancer and my grandpa died of colon cancer. My mum and my sister is a carrier of Thalassemia. My dad has diabetes. All my grandparents had diabetes. Almost all the cousins on my dad side are obese.

Bad genes ? I do the calculation and I think I have a slight chance of beating it. If all my grandparents had diabetes, and my dad has it, then chances that I will have it in my lifetime is 80%. The only way I can avoid it is to delay the onset of it my controlling my blood sugar and prevent insulin spike. I do that my avoid all refined sugar, go with only whole food. So I do that.

What about cancer? Oh, eat a lot of anti-oxidants. Eat berries, drink Green Tea! Avoid deep-fried food. Exercise everyday. So I eat berries everyday. Cut all my deep-fried food. And exercise! Green tea rocks!

Great! I am winning the war against bad genes

Then I just got suspected for kidney stones. Great, my uncle got kidney stones too so it is probably hereditary. I do a check and realize that spinach and berries and tea has a high level of oxalate which could be causing them. High Protein diet also increase the risk of it. My daily diet consist of nuts, spinach, berries and green tea. Spinach has the highest level of oxalate. Who will know that eating green vegetables will go so wrong. I mean, Popeye ate it everyday right? And all the strawberries, green tea! Well, it turns out that these food only increase the risk factors for humans under the risk of kidney stones. They do not pose a risk in healthy humans. So? I guess its bad genes again.

Okay, now I have a choice!

Choice 1: Eat a low-protein, high carbs diet. And get Diabetes
Choice 2 : Eat a high-protein, low carbs diet. And get Kidney Stones
Choice 3: Eat a mid-protein, mid carbs diet. And have a slight chance of getting both Kidney Stones and Diabetes
Choice 4: Every whatever I want , and follow the route of my predecessor. Who cares right ?

No way I am succumbing to genes!

I will cut my protein, double my fluid intake (I am already drinking 1 gallon a day), cut all the Oxalate sources. So no berries, peanuts, coffee, tea, spinach , chocolate for me. Then I cut all my protein to lower my risk for kidney stones. Next I cut all my carbs to prevent any insulin spike. Next I cut all fat to prevent heart disease.

So my next meal will be…hmmm… just water ?