David,
The longer I low carb the more diseases I find it either "cures" or at least helps greatly. When will the word get out that the low fat high carb diet is, literally, killing us?
Hugs,
Gracie
Gracie,
In a sense Gary Taubes has put the word out both in his book Good Calories, Bad Calories and various videos such as of a November 2007 talk at UC Berkeley. I often comment in other peoples blogs about that book, but the low-fat religion is so widespread and accepted that the turn around will likely take many years.
It doesn't help that so many carbs really taste good, provide a sugar high, and make money for lots of people and corporations. The very invention of agriculture supported many more people on the land, but led directly to many kinds of ill health.
Even if TEDMed.com doesn't cover it this October, I'll try to raise the issue at BILPIL.com just afterwards in San Diego.
nitpicker,
I've gread Taubes GCBC, and totally agree. It should be obvious to anyone that low fat isn't working ( we've been eating that was for decades, and obesity & diabetes has grown each & every year). But you are right, there is a lot of money at stake, and a lot of powerful lobbies pushing that agenda. But slowly the tide will turn. Every so often a new study, properly done, comes out and shows that low carb is the way to eat. My doctor tells me I am no longer a diabetic. I tell him I still am, just a very well controlled one, thanks to Atkins. It just pains me that so many are suffering and dying needlessly.
Hugs,
Gracie
Low carb is not a panacea. I eat somewhere between low and very low and plan to continue. But neither my LDL nor my triglycerides respond to it. The LDL I have simply decided not to worry about (after likely serious reactions to doctor pushed 80 mg Lovistatin after years of low statins), but was concerned about the tri. So I take enough fish oil to total omega 3s of 3-4 grams. OTC that is about a dozen a day. It worked.
I usually have 1 medium tomato 5-7, couple slices of onion 5-7(in cooking), 1 slice of low carb bread (7-10 carbs), lots of low carb veggies 25?, misc 10. I am thinking that if I have all of that, 55-80 a day. Sometimes less. The way I measure is to think no carbs except low carb veggies, and add the exceptions. I don't think that anything below 100-150 grams of carbs should really have an adverse effect on triglycerides and LDL. I do eat over 100 grams of protein a day. This could be a problem. I also keep track with my meter, and seldom go over 130, checked my diary - 7 times in May a 138, 159, 148, 140, 156, 149. I was sick and on antibiotics which messes up things. March and April one 145 each month. Last A1C, 4.1
That's a wonderful A1C level! Congratulations.
Your diet does indeed sound like it is low-carb. But Dr. Bernstein, for example, would say that it is not low enough for the good lipid levels to kick in. As you know, he and his patients stay below 42 grams of total carbs (including fiber) each day.
I don't know either about that high amount of protein that you are eating.
Best regards,
David
This morning Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, an endocrinologist who himself has type 1 diabetes and is the author of Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution, sent me this message about my article here:
"The ACCORD results were likely due to the very high carbo (a la ADA) covered by large doses of sulfonylureas and insulin."
David
I have had high triglycerides for years. Even though my cholesterol has not been bad.
My old doctor said high "trigs" were not good and needed to be brought down but little else.
Since then I have developed neuropathy in my lower legs and feet and have been diagnosed with mild diabetes. My triglyceride levels have shot through the roof (1022).
The only way that I found out about the relationship between neuropathy and triglycerides is through very recent surfing of the net.
I think I would have been much more concerned about my "trigs" If I had known there was a potential for this painful neuropathy I now have.
Doesn't the average physician know about this?
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