Read the two books....I'd start with the Fung book. The Teicholz book will probably piss most people off.Originally Posted by bacpacker
Other good books are by Gary Taubes. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...es%2Caps%2C224
But for instance, yesterday my breakfast was a egg and chorizo bowl from McDonalds (I was on the road), without the potato cake. Coffee and cream, no sugar or artificial sweetener. Dinner was roasted chicken and cole slaw with oil and vinegar dressing. No snacks, a few cups of coffee, and water.
Breakfast this morning was bacon and eggs, and coffee. I doubt I will be hungry for lunch, steak and broccoli, maybe a baked potato with butter and sour cream.
I drink perhaps 1.5 to 2 liters of water a day. When others would grab a coke, I grab my water bottle. I am rarely hungry, and can't recall the last time I felt weak from low blood sugar.
That feeling is from your blood glucose level swinging high (from eating carbs) and then bottoming out (because the body produces more insulin than required for the glucose present...it's a slow responding process.
As Fung says, worry about your blood insulin levels - which is quite different than blood glucose: Keep the glucose down by minimizing carbs and the insulin will stay low too.
The biggest problem with the typical western diet is that since at least 1970 the US Government has been telling people to eat carbs - grains, fruit, etc. That breakfast is the most important meal of the day...brought to you by General Mills and Post. And since 1970 the incidence of obesity and Type II diabetes has increased, right along with the consumption of grain products.
Grain products are relatively easy to grow, very easy to store without a lot of wastage, and are easy to transport - they don't require refrigeration at least in the unprocessed state. So, by using bad science and the tyranny of the majority the truth is supressed.
I follow a low-carb diet. This doesn't mean a high protein diet (most people eat WAY more protein daily than they actually need), it means a low-carb diet. Fortunately, the body is a terrific processing machine and even if I ate no carbs, my body would still produce the glucose my brain and muscles need, from protein and fat metabolism.
The things I avoid (at least as a regular food) are bread, crackers, etc. No cereals. I rarely eat cakes or cookies (wow! processed grains with extra table sugar on top!). Fruit - I occasionally will eat berries since they have little sugar in them, but avoid fructose (fruit sugar) no matter if it's from an orange, an apple, or corn syrup. I will indulge every now and then, but not as a regular thing. And by making these sorts of foods treats, I appreciate them even more. I had a piece of pumpkin pie the other day, a favorite of mine: It was GOOD.
FWIW, my LDL (bad cholesterol) was 85 a week ago (pretty darned low, where it should be), my HDL (good cholesterol) is 85 (high, where it should be), and my blood hemoglobin A1C (a measure of long-term blood glucose) is 4.1 which is low normal.
Despite what some medical professionals, and rent-seeking organizations like the American Diabetes Association may claim, the physiology and biology support this sort of diet. Claims that a high-carb diet are healthy havent worked = never mind the biology involved, they just FAIL so trying them even harder don't make any sense.
Now, I'm not advising anyone to radically change their lives, especially if you have diabetes (either type). But avoiding carbs will cause most people to lose weight, and that will help them control their blood insulin by lowering blood glucose.
As far as Type II diabetics, their problem is insulin resistance: The cells in their body don't use insulin normally to move glucose from the blood into the cells, and the glucose then causes problems for the liver, kidneys, etc. The truth of the matter is that I can create insulin resistance in people.....easily, by giving them insulin. Or most of the drugs that type II diabetics normally use (metformin, for example). I can make their bodies more responsive (less resistant) to insulin by reducing their blood glucose (eating fewer carbs). There is one new class of drugs for Type II diabetics (the SGLT-2 drugs) that will actually lower blood insulin, and you will lose weight on them (a little, anyway). If there is a mechanism for replicating Diabetes Type II then that method just might have some relation to it's causes.
This is good news, and bad, for preppers. Most LTS foods are carb-intensive, because they don't require refrigeration to store. OTOH, if you are already drug dependent because of diabetes (either type) your survivability is pretty well hosed anyway. So, getting healthy NOW might be a good choice.
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks