Posted on 09/01/2019 6:10:50 AM PDT by BobL
Urging people to follow low-fat diets and to lower their cholesterol is having “disastrous health consequences”, a health charity has warned.
In a damning report that accuses major public health bodies of colluding with the food industry, the National Obesity Forum and the Public Health Collaboration call for a “major overhaul” of current dietary guidelines. They say the focus on low-fat diets is failing to address Britain’s obesity crisis, while snacking between meals is making people fat.
Instead, they call for a return to “whole foods” such as meat, fish and dairy, as well as high-fat, healthy foods including avocados, arguing: “Eating fat does not make you fat.”
The report – which has caused a huge backlash among the scientific community – also argues that saturated fat does not cause heart disease while full-fat dairy, including milk, yoghurt and cheese, can actually protect the heart.
Processed foods labelled “low fat”, “lite”, “low cholesterol” or “proven to lower cholesterol” should be avoided at all costs, and people with type 2 diabetes should eat a fat-rich diet rather than one based on carbohydrates...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Bob please put me into this grouping.
Thanks
Dave
You’re in. Nice to have you!
Man. They are slow.
I hope I’m on your low carb list. If not, please add me.
Oh, if you enjoy snacking, you can still snack on low carb. And still lose weight or maintain! Make sure you’ve got a minimum 12-15 hour fast every day (including your sleep). Then during your eating hours, you can snack pretty much all you want. Decide ahead of time on your quantity to fit your plan. I commute for hours a day and I enjoy chewing on food in the car.
First choice for snacks is of course protein, like beef jerky style snacks (I like my Epic brand “Bambi sticks” - what I call the venison ones in front of vegans, lol), string cheese, hand boiled eggs, etc.
Then there are the snacks that incorporate some of your carbs for a day. Like peanut butter packets or other nut butter packets. Or nuts if you can portion them properly.
Then your beloved go to fat treat. Mine is 92% dark chocolate. It is not sweet at all. It’s not candy. It’s an antioxidant high fat delicious natural food.
Snacking is ok but not on carbs!
Bravo!!!! Applauding!
Understand however, that every time you snack, regardless of what you're eating, the body is going to secrete insulin, which stops the body using your fat stores for energy, and makes it more difficult to overcome Insulin Resistance.
You’re right to keep the nutrients and minerals up. As well, we must eat the right kind of carbs to feed the gut bugs. They prefer the resistant starch, the kind we don’t digest so it goes into the lower intestine for them. The tougher parts of veggies, stalks, peels. Root vegetables, cooked and then cooled (like potato salad). On grains, the indigestible parts. Since low carbers eat very little to no grains, we can be very judicious and just add powders to water or cold beverages like inulin or (dirt cheap) potato starch. A teaspoon to a tablespoon a day. They need it and in turn when you feed them, they give you good immunity, digestion, and moods.
(My parents had animal fats every day and still got Alzheimer’s)
Nutrition bump
I lose so much so salt working out, that more than makes up for the salt I eat.
I like to drink pickle juice after a workout, it’s amazing how much better I feel right after I drink it.
From the NIH/NLHBI website, below; however, the control group was on the “typical American diet,” not a low-carb diet. Do you have a link to a RCT study using low-carb as the control?
“This study included 412 adults who followed either a typical American diet or the DASH diet. The study provided all foods and beverages to participants for one month. Their daily sodium intake levels were either high, at 3,300 mg, which is similar to the current average U.S. daily sodium intake of about 3,600 mg; medium at 2,300 mg; or low at 1,500 mg.
The DASH-Sodium study made several findings:
Reducing daily sodium lowered blood pressure for participants on either diet. However, at all three daily sodium levels, the DASH diet lowered blood pressure more than the typical American diet at all three daily sodium levels.
Blood pressure decreased with each reduction of sodium.
Reducing sodium intake and following the DASH diet is more beneficial for lowering blood pressure than following the DASH diet alone or reducing sodium alone.
A follow-up report found that combining the DASH diet with sodium reduction benefited people who had higher than normal blood pressure readings. The report also found that people who started out with the highest blood pressure readings experienced the greatest benefits.”
I understand that. But my numbers are great and I’m thin again and I eat zero sugar, very few carbs (could be in the 50-70g a day range tho), no processed carbs. My carbs are in seeds, root and other veggies, and 1/2 c fruit a day. And sometimes a few french fries. Pay no attention to that. Hey. I don’t drink alcohol. If I want fries I’m having a handful! So I really have no insulin problems at this point.
You guys are on my ping list now!
“My parents had animal fats every day and still got Alzheimer’s”
Sorry to hear that. It still could be the carbs that got them, though.
It could have been carbs that caused their Alzheimer’s but I doubt it.
I suspect a few things:
1. Plastics (theirs was the first generation to have plastics in everything, on their skins (thus in their bloodstreams), in food prep and storage, cooking (nonstick), in cans, in clothing, etc.
2. Chemicals in laundry and garden and foodstuffs
3. Pesticides in food and garden
I think those are the big three.
I can tell you Alzheimer’s does not come because “you don’t keep your brain busy.” That is 100% BS. My parents were HIGHLY active. Dad had 3 jobs in retirement that he loved. Mom volunteered. They traveled the world. They read extensively and had friends and a rich social life.
*** “ regardless of what you’re eating, the body is going to secrete insulin” ***
I was watching a speech and the Dr said “Hot Fresh Doughnuts” and everyone laughed ... he continued “Everyone’s Insulin just went up at the same time”
Don’t even have to eat
Can’t argue your theories, and I agree the ‘not using your brain’ is BS, if only because people use their brains, even if they watch soap operas all day.
I had an uncle who got a massive stroke in his early 60s...was fine, and then boom. He was a plumber, I’m convinced that the PVC glue and primer basically started to dissolve his arteries, and then something gave way.
Regardless, thanks for the info.
If you stay in ketosis, you aren’t causing any issues with insulin release with low carb foods.
That’s why you eat low carb foods, like she said she does.
When I was a young’un, I used to work out. I had read about the atikins diet and low carbing id heard from my bodybuilding friends.
during my “shredding” stages, i used to low card for weeks/months at a time to lose the fat without losing the muscle i had worked so hard to build (ectomorph here). the keto diet was amazing - the lbs melted and i would be gorging myself with vegetables, meats and fat - a nice cabbage, low carb tortilla wraps, chicken, cheese and ranch wrap was my go to snack - took 2 minutes to prepare.
glad to find out it has medical benefits too. yes, it is hard on the kidneys.
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