Posted on 11/17/2015 1:20:11 AM PST by WhiskeyX
KETO..ARE YOU CONSTIPATED?
[The story of good bowel habits while on a ketogenic diet.]
Are you associated with the medical community?
I've never hit the "abuse button", didn't know there was one. Should I do so now?
I have no idea who that is.
I just put some epsom salts under my tongue and viola!
In a few hours my butt explodes.
“Quick question. I see these repeated “medical†posts over the past week. Has FR taken to advertising “medical†advice and promotions? Sponsored posts or spam? I do not see mentioned, but what is your paid/unpaid affiliation, e.g., as regards FTC guidelines that require full disclosure of affiliation when posting promotional material, recommendations, reviews, etc. Odd question on FR where we normally talk about politics, but seeing off-topic promotional content raises numerous questions. Not my Web site, but as a participant, I am curious.”
Before I respond to your message in detail to refute your false accusations, I want to ask you the following questions so there are no misunderstandings about your intentions. Did you mean to use your comment about the FTC guidelines as a means of intimidating Jim Robinson, FreeRepublic, and/or myself into pulling and censoring any further posts with links to these informative YouTube videos in order to avoid being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission and/or other U.S. Government agencies? If so, what makes you think that you have the right and authority to do so?
I discovered squatty potty about four months ago while looking for a bidet ... which they sell for 38 bucks
Give it a few years and YOUR idealism will give way to pragmatism, ALSO
Please keep posting these informative videos. I cannot imagine why someone, who obviously has no interest in the topic, would take the time to rebuke you about this sharing of information.
Before I learned about LCHF, 5 years ago, someone took the time and trouble to post an LCHF video which I fortunately happened upon. That video set off a long chain of research and education about this topic. My health, along with the health of my family, improved remarkably as a result. So I am thankful to the person who led me to this new information about diet.
So thank you for taking the effort to do this. What you are doing can only improve the overall health of this conservative community.
I exhort everyone to take this topic seriously. There are too many people in our country with unnecessary chronic diseases. Diet is everything.
“You got medical religion all of a sudden...what happened?”
No, the sarcasm, “medical religion,” is wrong and quite inappropriate. The series of posts regarding nutritional health was motivated as a response to an earlier article exactly as it is stated in each and every one of the postings of the YouTube videos. The motivating post was:
Junk Food Isn’t the Cause of Obesity Epidemic: Study
Newsmax ^ | November 5,2015
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356982/posts
When you read all of the comments for this article you will find a number of grotesquely cruel comments which falsely accuse all obese people of what amounts to the classic accusations of gluttony, sloth, and having a lack of moral character. The first of the videos were posted to refute the lies. The later videos were posted in response to dozens of requests for more of these kinds of videos with more to say about the nutritional health, the low carbohydrate diets used for nutritional health, and related topics. I’ve been spending countless hours reviewing these kinds of YouTube videos in the last few years to provide citations to some of my physicians. Since I was already somewhat familiar with some of these videos, I was able to pick out a few of these videos that seemed likely to be responsive to the requests I’m receiving from the FreeRepublic community. They seem to be especially interested in the low carbohydrate recipes. I’ve received comments from physicians and other healthcare professionals giving thanks for some information in the videos they have found to be of interest to them. It is unfortunate that a few people who are not interested in the videos want to censor what so many dozens of other people want to see and discuss.
I’ve been on FR for years, and I don’t mind one bit the videos. Thank you for doing it.
Look, I was not being condescending.
I notice when you post and it just seemed like all of a sudden you were posting “natural cures they do not want you to know about” (and THAT was sarcasm too, not meant to be offensive.)
If we cannot have fun with each other on here without being offended, how can be make fun of all of the PC idiots for being offended.
Making fun of you was not my intent. I guess we need icons on here to make sure no one is offended by a post in jest.
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Like as if we are incapable of just leaning foreward without a crappy plastic bench?
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We all know that its just not ‘conservative’ to be healthy the natural way.
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“If we cannot have fun with each other on here without being offended, how can be make fun of all of the PC idiots for being offended.”
More than one person here didn’t take it as a jest, FWIW.
“I notice when you post and it just seemed like all of a sudden you were posting “natural cures they do not want you to know about†(and THAT was sarcasm too, not meant to be offensive.)”
Funny that you should say that, “natural cures they do not want you to know about.” I’m really not one to pursue the homeopathic type remedies and so forth, however, you may have no idea how close to the truth that remark goes. No matter what you want to call it, it is nothing but astounding to witness just how steadfast the medical community is towards withholding certain types of lifesaving and life changing medical information from their patients. My recent personal experience is just one of millions of examples. Not one physician in decades every disclosed the existence of very low carbohydrate diets or ketogenic diets as a therapeutic treatment for diabetes, which is eerily similar experience to the real life experience of the epileptic patients depicted in the movie linked in one of these videos. My own physician was surprisingly supportive once I used my personal research to suggest its use, but never suggested it is one of the possible means of treatment. Reading between the lines it seemed as though the physician was relieved I had finally found the solution without the physician’s help and was perhaps not responsible for departing from some kind of standard of car that could make the physician and medical license liable. Nonetheless, the physician suggested I needed to see a specialist about the diet. After an extended period of contacting every one of the several dozen endocrinologist within a radius of about 100 miles, not one was experienced and/or willing to support a patient using a ketogenic diet. When I reported this experience back to the general practitioner, they were not at all surprised. Given the way in which this diet has been used for centuries as a treatment for Type II Diabetes and the mayo Clinic used the same diet as a standard medical procedure in 1920 and decades later, any rational person has to wonder why today’s medical community withholds information about this formerly standard medical treatment from tens of millions of diabetic patients who will only progressively get worse as time goes on.
Thinking I might get lucky enough to find some kind of a resource listing endocrinologists who do support patients using a ketogenic diet as a treatment for diabetes, I telephoned one of the office of one of the doctors that made one of these videos. I had expected one of the receptionists to answer the telephone call and refer my request for a resource to contact a suitable endocrinologist. instead, the doctor answered the call himself. We had a short and very interesting conversation, but he wasn’t able to help me find such an endocrinologist. He observed that I was going to be very lucky to find one at all. My general practitioner later agreed. in other words, there is more than a little truth to the belief that there are some proven medical treatments the present day medical community is withholding from their patients.
Talking about politics, this immediate situation is one small part of the larger medical failure and non-scientific dogma surrounding the fraudulent medical publications by Ancel Keys relating to the role of fats in heart disease. So far the scientific hoax of Global Warming or Climate Change has not taken anywhere near the number of lives worldwide caused by Ancel Keys, organizations, and governments responsible for the epidemic of heart disease.
My wife is a physician and a strong advocate of LCHF. She is not in private practice anymore, but she told me that if she were, she would have a difficult time treating diabetes patients with an LCHF diet. That is because, if a doctor doesn't prescribe what is called the "standard of care," then they are liable to lawsuits as well as censure from the medical authorities.
My wife knows that the prevailing "standard of care" for diabetes, heart disease, etc is wrong in many ways, but the system would constrain her from treating the patients as she would see fit. So were she still in practice, she would feel pressure to continue the dogmatic failed treatments that she was taught. This is one reason she left practice.
From our experience though, for the vast majority of doctors, it it a matter of ignorance more than anything else. They were taught the diet-fat-heart hypothesis. And that is what they know. Dietary fat causes high cholesterol. High cholesterol causes heart disease. To remedy this you tell patients to avoid fat and always give a statin. No one gets sued for prescribing a statin.
The few, like my wife, who know better, either leave the system, take a great risk by going against the established dogma or go along to get along.
It is now the responsibility of the patients, as free-thinking individuals, to do their own research about diet and health. Use the medical system as a resource, but do not give doctors full authority over your body or your health. That is why information sharing, like you are doing here, is so important.
Keep it up.
WhiskeyX...Are you kidding? I am just a citizen, living in the Free Land of Texas. I saw this DVD yesterday at a ladies bible study, which was private, educational, and interesting. I have no false statements to make. You can either look at it or disregard it, I simply don’t care.
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