Posted on 09/16/2015 8:49:27 AM PDT by LouAvul
I recently went on a low cholesterol and low sugar diet. Carbs were ok but I wanted to lose weight and tone muscle.
It was short term (6 to 8 months?) but I started eating egg whites. Couple dozen a week. Whole wheat bread. Couple loaves a week. Tuna. Up to 2 cans a day. And my snack was a large bowl of cheerios or corn flakes.
I had some blood work done for my new PCP and they discovered my iron level is/was 3 times normal.
Now I discover the foods I was eating are rich in iron, with the cereals being "fortified" with iron. One bowl of that stuff was my total daily allowance.
Are any of you on reduced iron diets? What foods do you eat?
thanx
BTW. My doc also tested me for hemochromotosis and I have that as well. Bummer. It's impossible to know all the stuff that can kill.
Bump for interest.
Too high iron content in your blood can be controlled by donating blood a couple times a year.
Do you use well water? I’m skeptical that diet could cause high iron. I know hemochromatosis is often genetic, often among the Irish. (Freckles really ARE made out of rust? ;-) )
Get a cereal that is not fortified with iron.
I eat Kashi Go Lean Crunch(delicious)
Iron is only 8% RDA for 1 serving. (You would probably eat more.)
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What part of a couple loaves of whole wheat bread is low carb?
You might as well eat the yolks too. Dietary Cholesterol doesn’t matter.
Here’s a link for everything you thought you knew about cholesterol.
Author´s foreword.
When the cholesterol campaign was introduced in Sweden in 1989 I became much surprised. Having followed the scientific literature about cholesterol and cardiovascular disease superficially I could not recall any study showing a high cholesterol to be dangerous to the heart or the vessels, or any type of dietary fat to be more beneficial or harmful than another one. I became curious and started to read more systematically.
Anyone who reads the literature in this field with an open mind soon discovers that the emperor has no clothes, and so did I. But I also learnt that the critical analyses or comments, that I sent to various medical journals, were most often met with little interest from the editors and mocking answers from the reviewers. Besides, the inaccuracies, the misinterpretations, the exaggerations and the misleading quotations in this research area were so numerous that to question them all demanded a book.
The first edition was published in Sweden 1991and in Finland 1992. The books made little impact. In Sweden the science journalists usually lost their interest in the subject when they, after having read the book, consulted the researchers or health authorities that I had criticised. In Finland the book was put on fire in a television show on channel 2 after having been belittled by some of the Finnish proponents to the cholesterol campaign.
The uncritical introduction of the cholesterol campaign in Sweden was most probably due to its promotion by large American health and research institutions such as the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association and their influential members. Evidently, the Swedish health authorities must have thought that such prestigious authorities could not be wrong. But Sweden and Finland are small countries. I thought that, maybe I could reach more critical and independent journalists and researchers by publishing the book in English. Several years of searching among editors and literature agents was unsuccessful, however; the book was considered of no commercial interest.
With the advent of internet I saw a way to inform the public and in 1997 I published selected sections of the book on the web. According to the search engine Direct Hit my website soon became one of the top ten most popular sites about cholesterol and from email letters I learnt that many laymen and researchers were just as sceptical to the cholesterol campaign and the diet-heart idea as I, or at least they became sceptical after having read my website. One of the responders was the author and publisher of Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon. As an academic nutritionist (correct?) she had reached to similar conclusions as I and asked if she might publish my book.
All researchers are standing on the shoulders of their predecessors and so do I. Hopefully, I have paid credit to most of them in the book. But there are other important individuals that have contributed to this book in some way or another. First of all I would like to thank Bodil Jönsson and Olof Holmqvist for their many ingenious comments to the first draft. I am also greatly indebted to Linda Newman for her tremendous and unselfish work changing my first, broken translation of the Swedish edition to good English. At a later stage, when I had destroyed some of Linda´s good work by updating and revising the text, Sally Fallon repaired the damage. I would also like to mention here Lars Werkö who has given me invaluable support and encouragement through the years.
Has your diet served you well? Are you maintaining your desired weight? Do you have well-being and are you not prone to illness? Is the extra iron a problem for health?
Why do you have so much tuna and no meat? Another thing is, you didn't mention vegetables. FWIW, my diet includes two to four vegetable servings every day.
I saw an article a couple months ago which said that men who eat two eggs every morning were six times more likely to get prostate cancer.
Imagine how it would’ve been if the poles reversed while you were younger instead of now.
hemochromotosis is bad news: excess iron is highly toxic, and iron is THE most highly conserved necessary metal in the human body: it is impossible to get rid excess iron metabolically, though menstruating females can get rid of SOME excess iron. Males and even females with large excesses must be bled to reduce a toxic iron load.
You’ll simply have to study what constitutes a low-iron diet:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=hemochromatosis+diet
If it was me, I think I would want to be tested monthly and bled anytime levels were excessive.
Could be worse. You could have Anemia as well as Hemocromatosis. I had to slowly get my red blood cell count back up. Now I just have the HemoC. BTW, is it the Genetic version? If not you will be giving a pint of blood every month. Stay away from Shellfish (maybe those Jewish Laws weren’t so crazy after all?) I can now have a steak. ONCE IN A WHILE. Watch the dark green veggies too. No Spinach etal.
Popeye says iron is a good thing.
Not like the old guy on iron supplements who began taking Viagara.
Now every time he steps outside his house he stops, turns, & faces north.
;^)
Except today. My treadmill just died and I've got to buy another.
Yes, it's the genetic version. Does that make a difference? And my doc is already talking about phlebotomy.
>>> “I eat a lot of tuna”
Might want to monitor your mercury levels, as well, if it is high end tuna. Canned white tuna tends to have more mercury than canned light tuna, for example.
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/tuna.asp (liberals)
http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Health-News/tuna-mercury-risk/2015/05/19/id/645428/ (conservative)
Fresh tuna info here:
http://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm
If you are otherwise healthy, you might be able to donate blood. If you can’t donate, there are always leeches (may have to look around for a doctor who uses medical leeches).
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