What we all think we know is that cholesterol is bad for us and we need to reduce consumption of saturated fat or suffer the consequences. It's a crock of crap! The sugar industry has been caught paying off researches to lie. Sugar and other high carbohydrate foods are the cause of all autoimmune diseases including heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes, cognitive decline, etc. There is hope beyond the silly palliative drugs that your doctor gives you, but it takes more courage than most people have. The solution is that you must give your body time to heal itself. Proof of the hoax and the only proven way to reverse health issues:
Damage to blood vessels leading to heart disease:
http://www.drcynthiahorner.com/cholesterol-build-blood-vessels/
Sugar causes High Cholesterol:
https://blogs.webmd.com/heart-disease/2017/07/how-sugar-really-affects-your-cholesterol.html
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1819573
Mediterranean Diet Flawed
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/following-charges-flawed-statistics-major-medical-journal-sets-record-straight
The sugar industry financing the hoax:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html
Now read how to improve your health. If you already have an autoimmune disease this could extend your life by many years. This link takes you to chapter 5, but please start at chapter 1. There are links to other chapters and the supporting references. If you are not currently suffering from a carbohydrate related disease I'll bet someone you love is suffering.
https://steemit.com/health/@chuck2u32/chapter-5-wisdom-god-vs-human
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have you ever heard of the The Ketogenic Diet ...or zero-carb?
Yes, I've used it. It is the hardest diet to stick with that I have ever experienced. It has been used since the 1920's to reduce and eliminate, in most cases, epileptic seizures. It also reverses diabetes. I've read that experiments are under way to see if it can also shrink tumors. We already know that water-only fasting shrinks tumors. Soft ones can nearly disappear in as little as three days. Hard ones can take up to three weeks. It's all in the books I reference.
bitch ain't it?
sugar is everywhere...it's everywhere...
and carbs are worse.
My current diet is meat and raw vegetables...only.
It hard..but I'm loosing weight...dunno about the other health issues but what have I got to loose?
The toughest part of the ketogenic diet for me was the minimal amout of protein. For my weight it was the equivalent of 2 hard boiled eggs a day. All day. A tiny portion of chicken or fish or meat. Fasting works better for me. Just water/black coffee for a few days and then I skip breakfast and do low-carb to keep it off. Down 50 pounds now for a year and a half.
minimal protein? what nonsense is that?
my diet is 'vegatable is what food eats...eat vegatables raw'...lots of meat...all I can afford...lots of fat, dairy, cheese etc..
only cook the meat (and eggs)...everything else raw.
Our bodies are versatile. We can manufacture glucose/glycogen from two macro-nutrients: carbohydrate and protein. I learned this from the physiological testing and research done for two books that I've read: The Complete Guide to Fasting by Dr. Jason Fung and Fat for Fuel by Dr. Joseph Mercola. Limiting protein while eating all the green veggies and fat you want simulates a fasting condition in the body for healing purposes. You also lose tons of weight. Eating the stuff raw is recommended in Mercola's book. Glucose is cancer's favorite fuel. That was discovered by Otto Warberg for which he won a nobel prize in physiology in the early 1930's. Fasting forces the body to fuel itself with ketones or a state of ketosis. That is why it so effectively manages cancer. Dr. Thomas Seyfried is the leading biologist for this effort. He has youtube videos and also a book Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. It's expensive though $90 on Amazon and is not yet available for Kindle.
yup...
hunter gatherers were in ketosis all the time.
when agriculture was invented carbs become the norm and people 'switched states'...which was not healthy.
Most doctors are naive on anything to do with the physiology of how the body feeds the mitochondrial system. Too much protein in the diet causes a process called glyconeogenesis to convert that excess protein into glycogen. The body can then convert glycogen into glucose which stops ketosis and the burning of body fat. That is why the last 20-30% of the weight loss in a low-carb diet to reach a goal is so challenging. At my current 204# according to the .7-.9 grams per pound of weight I should eat only about a third of a pound of protein a day to stay in ketosis. A true keto diet is the toughest diet I think you could be on. I've done it for two days now plus fasting until supper. Last night I had about two cups of green beans sauteed in bacon grease and sprinkled with Old Bay season salt with 5 ounces of my homemade Canadian bacon topped with American cheese. I also had about two cups of cherry tomatoes with plenty of salt and pepper. On a true keto diet the need for fat is high otherwise your assisdragon with low energy. How to eat enough fat without adding protein or carbohydrate gave rise to the fat ball. I use a mixture of coconut oil, chocolate, vanilla, butter, and Stevia packets. Ketosis gives the body the rest it needs to cure/arrest disease or to prevent disease. It also makes fasting easier because less hunger pangs.
sounds complicated.
my rule of thumb is that the meat (fish, fowl) is cooked.
Everything else I eat raw.
Right now I'm eating a 'refergerator salad'....
I put a double handful of chopped lettuce into a big bowl...and dumped left overs from the fridge into it. (steak, boiled eggs, onion, bell peppers, cheese, etc)...
spice to taste.
I eat a lot of salads....seems to work.
For Example...
A snack:
Take one LARGE bowl ....
.....dump in a double handfull of pre-mixed salad (lettuce, carrotts, etc)
.....cut a half bell pepper (red/yellow...or both) into slices.
.......about half a big onion.
.......a package of salmon or tuna
........half of a large tomato
.......anything else I can find in the fridge that doesn't require a lot of work (I'm lazy)
....perhaps two or three hard boiled eggs.
..........lotsa shredded cheese...
...........spice to taste (garlic salt, lemon pepper, etc)
mix...
Eat...two or three of those a day keeps the hunger at bay..
zero carbs best I can figure.
I love low-carb. However, the last 20% of the weight you want to lose will be hard to get rid of due to the bodies ability to convert protein into glycogen. Water-only Fasting burns fat and protein in a ratio of 97% to 3% respectively. That's a trade I'll make all day long. This ratio was estimated first by Dr. Herbert Shelton in his book Fasting and Sunbathing. Physiological testing proved him right as was published with Dr. Jason Fung's book The Complete Guide to Fasting. Shelton's book is a free read and the best of the book's I've ever read on fasting.
lessee...when I started trying to loose weight I weighed 330.
I weigh less now...306 last time I checked.
If my goal was to weigh 180...and I could only drop to 220....
awwwwww.
Everything in excess hurts, the human body has systems or mechanisms that regulate excesses, for example if my blood glucose is greatly increased and exceeds the threshold level that exists in the kidney, it will be excreted in the urine. This is the case with many substances in the body. My advice would be not to abuse, not to exceed myself as to what I eat.
I add that the HDL and LDL cholesterol are both important for the organism, but speaking of the excesses, if I do not have a balanced feeding, the increase of one in this case HDL will favor me more than the other, LDL that is related to cardiovascular diseases.
Thanks, but can you put that in English?
Ready!
Ready for what, sir? I see you converted to English. Thank you very much!
I cut sugar from my diet and my cholesterol plummeted to levels that did not prompt a request for using statins from my doctor. I would never take them anyway.