Sometimes it just makes sense !

Sometimes it just makes sense to help others (ok, it pretty much always makes sense to help others) Go for it and feel good. Save someone’s eyesight or limbs today. Never stop kicking butt, make a comment or send a post today and it will be placed on this blog. if you are a believer, never stop spreading the lowcarb message.

Who are the Lowcarb Team ?

The lowcarb team are all diabetics. Some type two’s and others long term type one’s. All believe in the lowcarb lifestyle. All believe in the reduction of high carb foods and factory produced junk is the way forward for all, whether diabetic or not. All believe sugar and high starch foods have lead to the epidemics of obesity, heart disease and type two diabetes. More carbs need more insulin and whether natural or injected, is not the way to good health and long life.

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Common sense instead of governmental dogma !

If you listen to all the mainstream sources they will tell you to do all the things that we know, and have proven, are bad for us as diabetics. The mainstream sources tell us that we must eat a high carb diet, and to ensure that each meal contains "plenty of starchy carbohydrates". If you follow that mantra, and millions do, then yes, it is essential to eat less fat because it is the combination of high carbs and fat that does the damage, not fat on its own. Even many members of the medical profession are now realising that the advice they have been told to give to patients is plainly flawed, and an increasing number are risking censure by following common sense instead of governmental dogma.

Much of the research that has now disproved the theories of Ancel Keys, on which most western government heath recommendations have been based, was actually funded by the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association, and both bodies are finding it enormously difficult to come to terms with the fact that the advice that they have been giving for decades was probably responsible for millions of early deaths. In 2006 the AMA ditched the "food triangle", describing it as "no longer appropriate", and came out with new guidelines based not on pictures but measured amounts of carbs, protein and fats in a diet, expressed in ounces per day. The ADA followed suit by changing the recommended daily carb intake for diabetics from 280g per day to "between 135g and 185g per day as appropriate to the needs of the individual". This was a brave reduction but even then only half the reduction that had been recommended by Stanford University, who had carried out the AMA/AHA research.

If you wish to risk your own health by following government dietary advice then that is your choice. But please do not try to convince others that they should risk their health, when the mainstream advice is plainly wrong and is at last being recognised as such by at least some of the more enlightened medical professionals.

Low-Carb Diets – What Is Missing?

Those of you who are regular readers of diet and diabetic forums will be familiar with the ranting of a barely literate dietician. I have always put the illiteracy down to the possibility that English may not be her native language. Although the ranting is enormously amusing it may be a cause of confusion to newly diagnosed diabetics - the dietician has repeatedly insisted over many years of the possibility of scurvy, osteoporosis, constipation, etc, from following a low-carb diet. It is interesting to try to find what is missing in following a low carb diet. Perhaps the simplest way of doing this is to consider identical meals (identical in both portions and meat/fish etc) over a day in which the high-carb food type (potato, pasta rice, bread, fruit, etc) is replaced by a low-carb food type (or more likely a combination of low-carb food types). An example of such an analysis is provided by the following link

http://www.lowcarbdiabetes.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=979&sid=12e8b0d334189b578e7567b0671e239f

In the following example 100g of new potatoes boiled in unsalted water is replaced with 100g of broccoli boiled in unsalted water. Table 1 indicates the vitamin and mineral content for some of the more important dietary elements. It can be seen that broccoli in 13 out of 18 of the important dietary elements has a greater or equal amount of the element. In those instances where potato has a greater or equal amount of the dietary element (vitamin B1, vitamin B6, potassium and selenium) the deficit in dietary element is easily made up with side-dishes made up of combinations of one or more of celery, courgette, radish, cauliflower, or mushroom.

It is interesting to consider the possibility of scurvy, osteoporosis, and constipation.

Table 1 Potato versus Broccoli

	Potato	Broccoli	Winner
Vitamin
A	0.00	80.00	+
B1	0.13	0.05	_
B2	0.02	0.05	+
B3	0.40	0.70	+
B5	0.38	N	_
B6	0.33	0.11	_
B12	0.00	0.00	Draw
Folic Acid	19.00	64.00	+
C	9.00	44.00	+
D	0.00	0.00	Draw
E	0.06	1.10	+
Mineral
Calcium	5.00	40.00	+
Iron	0.30	1.00	+
Magnesium	12.00	13.00	Draw
Potassium	250.00	179.00	_
Selenium	1.00	Tr	_
Zinc	0.10	0.40	+
Dietary Fibre	1.10	2.60	+

 

broccoli contains almost 5 times as much vitamin C as potato

broccoli contains 8 times as much calcium as potato

broccoli contains almost 2.5 as much dietary fibre as potato

Unless an increase in vitamin C, calcium and dietary fibre increases the respective possibility of scurvy, osteoporosis, and constipation, it seems reasonable to conclude that the replacement of potato by broccoli (or numerous other nutrient rich vegetables) provides a viable dietary strategy for the diabetic and the illiterate ranting of the said dietician can safely be ignored.


Source http://www.food.gov.uk/science/dietarysurveys/dietsurveys/

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