Posted on 01/07/2015 8:52:59 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Once reputed to be effective for killing werewolves, modern day silver bullets are seemingly magical solutions to complex problems. However, most of the time you see “silver bullet” in print it is in the negative as “XYZ is not a silver bullet against [fill in the blank].” And, in a double irony, according to tests run by ballistics experts, silver bullets aren’t even silver bullets. They tend to travel slower, with inferior target penetration, and are less accurate than conventional lead projectiles.
That’s why I had to smile at the recent headline from MedPageToday—”OmniCarb Study: Cutting Carbs No Silver Bullet.” This catchy headline refers to a study appearing in the December 17th issue of JAMA entitled “Effects of High vs Low Glycemic Index of Dietary Carbohydrate on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Insulin Sensitivity.”
The authors concluded that “In the context of an overall DASH-type diet, using glycemic index to select specific foods may not improve cardiovascular risk factors or insulin resistance.” On its face, this is a surprising finding. In an editorial that accompanies the study, Robert H. Eckel, M.D., of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus notes that…
“The unexpected findings of the study by Sacks et al. suggest that the concept of glycemic index is less important than previously thought, especially in the context of an overall healthy diet, as tested in this study. These findings should therefore direct attention back to the importance of maintaining an overall heart-healthy lifestyle, including diet pattern.”
Eckel’s comments are interesting. The Glycemic Index (GI) is determined by having healthy volunteers eat a particular food (and nothing else), while their blood glucose is being monitored for two hours. A low GI food will cause a smaller spike in blood glucose than a high GI food. As such, potato chips are...
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My father used to say “The only diet that works is to put your two hands against the table and push.”
Raise your hand if you remember the Lone Ranger’s silver bullets, from the radio program!
That's because your stomach tosses in a bunch acid to digest the butter which inactivates the salivary amylase that was helping break down the bread. The bread then passes intact and ferments in the gut while the gallbladder adds a bunch of bile to help break down the fat. The sugars in the bread result in gas and an overabundance of bacteria. In short, there's less sugar being absorbed in the intestine because the sugars in the bread are not broken into simple sugars for absorption and that may end up being worse in the long run.
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More Med Mafia Bovine Excrement!
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So the cheese on my nachos is a good thing?
I’ve had my hand up for half an hour, and you didn’t even call on me!
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Not “an overabundance of bacteria,” but an overabundance of Candida, which is ok if your large intestine ecology is normal, but horrible if it is also dominated by Candida.
Habitual pizza eaters lose.
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I thought you were signaling for a fair catch, buy I hadn’t kicked the ball yet!
Everything is better with butter... chew yer food.
Not as bad as putting cheese on popcorn.
Thanks for the clarification. I always figured there are good and not-so-good bacteria and you can’t overfeed or underfeed them.
> OmniCarb Study: Cutting Carbs No Silver Bullet
What a surprise, a ‘study’ that is put out to generate publicity for its authors by attacking an effective low-carb approach.
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