Don't fall for this, though. I heard that was fake.
Posted on 02/24/2019 9:06:24 AM PST by fireman15
Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A nutrient once thought to be healthy if eaten in abundance may actually cut life short, a new study says.
A low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet has been linked to living longer and maintaining brain health, according to a study published this month in Current Biology.
Eating too much protein, Proud says, can speed up protein synthesis, which quickly causes a build-up of "faulty protein" -- leading to a likelihood of early death. The researchers tested this theory by feeding high protein diets to fruit flies and worms.
"Since this link also operates in humans, our findings show how lower protein consumption could promote longevity in people," Proud said.
However, Proud not only recommends eating less protein but also more carbohydrates, which many have long-associated with an unhealthy diet.
"Carbohydrates get a lot of bad press, especially in relation to dieting, but the key is balance and knowing the difference between 'good' carbs and 'bad' carbs," Proud said.
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“Flax seed for hypertension”
I do do a teaspoon of flaxseed with my daily oatmeal. I do poppyssed as well.
My bp is above 190 most of the time, and I have conclusively (at least to my personal satisfaction) proven that it is stress rather that chemically caused.
I like taking plain yogurt and putting it over frozen fruit like cherries and strawberries. The yogurt freezes to the point where it’s like eating ice cream.
Lol!
I did..
Along with the old guy waistline
My favorite yogurt for this is the Siggi's Triple Cream (plain or vanilla). I swirl in some frozen berries and it is almost indistinguishable from ice cream.
Don't fall for this, though. I heard that was fake.
“In a nutshell, prebiotics are a type of fiber. They are undigestable plant fibers that feed the probiotics or the good bacteria already live inside the large intestine. The more food, or prebiotics, that probiotics have to eat, the more efficiently these live bacteria work and the healthier your gut will be.”
Agreed.
You know it’s good stuff when they have to use a smaller font on the ingredients list to squeeze it all in.
I know of HIIT and Weights (”do you even lift, bro?”) — but what is LISS?
To use Thomas Sowell’s term, this is “The Empire Fighting Back”. If overweight and unhealthy people actually do figure out that eliminating carbs is the secret for most of them to get healthy again, literally MILLIONS of jobs would be lost.
...and we can’t have that.
To: ConservativeMind
Can someone point to an “essential” carb?
“Doritos.”
He got your ass, Laz, with that one.
“If anybody is interested in Keto, watch you tube videos by Dr. Berry. They are eye opening about so many diet and eating rules that we were taught over the years that were just plain wrong.”
I’ve seen many (maybe most) of his videos too. He nails it, and he loves to debunk studies like this one, often by just telling us who funded it.
I think the real fear in Big Food now is Dr. Berry and people like him - they are changing eating habits and millions of jobs will change with them - and they are now seriously trying to fight back, but the stories of success keep rolling in, even on this thread. Big Food may just lose in the end.
“Too much” the key words in every article of this kind.
One school preaches moderation in all things and a balanced diet.
The other school preaches salvation food of the month and devil food of the month.
Just a personal observation... I have known a lot, a whole lot of overweight people who seemed pretty healthy. When they give up “carbs” most of them actually do lose some weight at first. Then most of them discover all the high protein snacks that are available these days and start gaining the weight back. Only they seem grumpier than they were before. Then after awhile most of them start having health problems possibly related to the lack of variety in their diet.
I literally have known a slew of people who have gone on high protein diets, many of them are evangelists for the cause in the few months after they start, but I don't know any who kept the weight off or seemed any healthier in the long term.
What a releif that we have people so much more knowledgeable than Christopher Proud PHD, an award winning physiologist and biology professor and scientist who has spent the majority of his career studying and teaching other professionals about nutrition. I might have made the mistake of taking some of his nonsense seriously.
“Chris Proud
Positions
Theme Leader, Nutrition & Metabolism, SAHMRI, Adelaide, Australia
Director, Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology (formally the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit)
Affiliate Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, University of Adelaide, Australia
Deputy Node Head (SA Node), EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory
Qualifications
BSc University of Bristol, UK
PhD University of Dundee, UK
Awards and Honours
Chartered Biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Member of Faculty of 1000
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award
Susan Swerling lecturer – Dana Farber Cancer Center Harvard Medical School, USA
White Lecturer - Loyola University Chicago, USA”
“Professor Chris Proud has held positions as lecturer, reader or professor in universities in the UK, Germany and Canada.
At the University of Dundee (Scotland), alongside his duties as Head of the Division of Molecular Physiology, he also coordinated the Medical Research Council Nutrient Sensing & Signalling Research Group.
From 2005-2008, he was Head of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, where he continued his research into the molecular mechanisms that regulate protein synthesis. He also served as co-Director of that University’s Life Sciences Institute.
Chris worked at the University of Southampton from 2008 – 2014 where he led a substantial research team studying the mechanisms that control protein synthesis and ribosome biogenesis. He studied their roles in metabolic diseases such as diabetes, in cancer, in cardiovascular disorders, and in neurological processes.
He has supervised more than forty MSc or PhD students and about fifty postdoctoral researchers.
In September 2014 Chris moved to Adelaide to take up the position of Theme Leader: Nutrition and Metabolism at the SAHMRI.
Chris is also an affiliate Professor in Molecular and Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide.
Chris is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Biochemical Journal and f1000 Research. He holds a Visiting Professorship at China Ocean University in Qingdao.
His research at SAHMRI includes studies on the regulation of protein synthesis nutrients and hormones; cancer cell biology; and the molecular mechanisms involved in diet-induced inflammation, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Much of this research focuses on protein kinases that control the protein synthesis machinery, i.e., mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) and the MAP kinase-interacting kinases (MNKs).
Since 2016, he has also been Director of the Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology (formally the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit) at SAHMRI (the HCN)
Publications
He has authored almost 300 research papers, review articles and book chapters and has a current ‘h-index’ of 90.”
https://www.sahmriresearch.org/our-research/themes/nutrition-metabolism/theme-leader-3
LISS = Low Intensity Steady State Aerobic.
Target 60-65% Max HR.
As Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman said, "It doesn't matter how smart you are, it doesn't matter how elegant your theory is. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
Tapeworms and fruit flies are sufficiently different from humans that you cannot take their physiological response to diet, as proof of anything in humans.
On the topic of sodium, switched to potassium-chloride salt for home meal preparation. If can stand the flavor shift from sodium based table salt, will see an interesting shift toward lower blood pressure. For myself, presents a hint of bitter if consuming a bland food.
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