My name is Andreas Eenfeldt and I am a Swedish medical doctor specialized in family medicine. I want to find out how to get as healthy as possible using natural methods such as diet, exercise and perhaps a supplement (vitamin D) or two.
The idea to eat less fat and less saturated fat was certainly a mistake. Inadvertently that advice may be the biggest reason behind the epidemics of obesity and diabetes. More and more people realize this. It’s time for a health revolution.
This blog is a place to learn about this for free. Do you want real food, better health and weight loss without hunger?
More
Read an interview with me from the Swedish LCHF-magazine, translated into English: page 1 / 2 / 3 / 4.
Contact
andreas@dietdoctor.com
Swedish blog
www.Kostdoktorn.se (Read it translated by Google)
The Food Revolution
This talk by me summarizes the ongoing revolution. How we realize old mistakes and the most effective way to improve our health and weight.
Possibilities
Do you want to help change the world? There are many things you can do. Here are a few suggestions:
- Be a positive example and inspire the people around you (answering their questions is more effective than trying to persuade someone who isn’t ready).
- Learn more. These blogs are a good place to start, and there are some excellent books (1, 2, 3) on the subject.
- Teach others: Comment on blogs and discussion forums and in papers, start a blog yourself, prepare a lecture, talk to your doctor.
- Feel free to spread the link to dietdoctor.com and the talk on YouTube above. You may also use anything you find on this page in whatever way you like.
- Do you have any other ideas? Please tell me in the comments below.
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Philip.
It is an evolutionary description on how our body and how it has evolved,
we can guess better on what is our body evolved/designed to eat and what types of foods are a best match for our body.
http://youtu.be/sH-hs2v-UjI
I know it would be controversial, but I think we should keep our minds open.
Can anybody comment on it? Thank you
‘Keeping an open mind”
If one is on high fat Low Carbs then eating SUGAR or GRAINS is not a menu staple.
Humans use hydrochloric acid in the digestive system. This is not the evolutionary marker of a vegan or vegetarian but rather an omnivore digesting meat
Most Americans and first world people eat few vegetables or for that matter little fruit other than the trace amount in fruit juices.
My diet is HIGH FAT LOW CARB. I consume more vegetables (Potato excluded.) than most 504 calories from carbohydrates is about 5 pounds of vegetable. 5 pounds is about the weight of the food most people eat. So how much is the right amount? 120 calories from carbohydrates ala Doctor Bernstein’s guide for type 1 diabetes? A middle number like 252? Only testing blood sugar and blood ketones can guide the individual?
So; Roberto we do eat more vegetables! We do not consume the massive amounts of grain, sugar, and HFCS that so many vegetarians consume. Vegans and vegetarians can suffer from the same metabolic ills if the eat the grains, sugars and HFCS in the modern diet.
Is what you promote eat your veggies like mom said? Or; No animal not even eggs, cream, cheese, or insects?
Why not open your mind to concepts like HFLC or ketogenic diets or alternate day fasting? No one says you must eat beef, pork, or poultry BUT eggs and dairy and or fish can be a part of HFLC healthy eating. We are not herbivores!
Diet categories in comparative proofs are typically narrow. The comparisons made are relatively simplistic, and the thinking process involved is also usually rather narrow: herbivores vs. carnivores vs. humans (and omnivores are sometimes added to the list). In referring to narrow thinking here, we mean that the comparative proofs neatly define their dietary categories in a narrow way, and ignore the fact that in nature, diets are usually not strict (i.e., "pure" diets are rare). The comparison of digestive system features comprises the second major component of many comparative proofs of diet.
http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/comp-anat/comp-anat-6c.shtml#gut morph
Its a fat diet.. i.e, a ketogenic diet!
And did you know.. one can be a vegetarian and eating this diet too.. and one need the same amount of essentiall amino acids even if they comes from vegetable sources.
And to the kidney stones.. try to find out what kind of stones you get.. its diferent agenda with different chemikal composision of the stones!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_stone
Moderate protein.
Watch the A to Z diet study video on you tube,
Although people followed the assigned protein levels at the start od diets the level of protein consumption drifted towards the average during the study.
In the USA the quintiles of protein consumtion are 14,16,18,20, and 22 percent of calories. Pick an amount you are comfortable with and aim for that level. The amount needs to be one you can liv with and not struggle that provides the protein for growth, repair, maintanance, and glycogenisis.
I aim for 315 calories from protein on my eating days (Yes I do a modified fast for 36 to 40 hours and then eat ketogenic diet for 8 to 12 hours) The 315 calories is 15 percent of 2100 calories that a 175 pound body would average if eating daily.
And YES a ketogenic diet (HFLC) does not require an alternat day eating cycle BUT it does not exclude it either.
And egg and bacon is cheap food.. for the calories an nutrients!
But you can altso eat full fat yuoghurt and there likes, perticuly strained full fatt youghurt with your own musli.. with some nuts and berries.
If you is an healty athlet, then go for full nutrients first of all, and protein.. and fat is still your major energy source!
But.. as you probably know.. in high intesity execersise one always use som glucose altso.. go for healty kind of starch food as a complemet.. like tubers.
The big question is if you want to compromise your healt and performance by eating cheap not som nutrishient food??
I try not to read blogs or news against lchf, but sometimes i do, and it makes me wonder things. Like is long-term ketosis dangerous for you? Does eating relatively more protein than carbs endanger your brains health? My percentage now is about 5% carbs, 17-20% proteins and 70-80% fat.
I feel really well and perky, and have found out that exercicing is actually fun (I've hated it all my life). I hope this is 'the one' diet for me, 'cause i love it!
PS: My weight loss has been 4 kilos on lchf in a month. It's double the amount i lost on a low calorie diet before this! And i haven't been hungry ever since...
Ketoacidos is caused by lack of insulin.. so its diabetics type 1 that get that.. if they dont take there insulin.
If you have a normal insulin secretion its impossible to get ketoacidos.
Proteins isnt doing any harm to your brain.. I think they belive that our brain only can use glucose.. but it can take up to 70E% of its demand from ketonbuddies.. think about it.. burning fat by doing a crossword!
It seems that you got it right.. enough of protein for your muscles and the rest for energy.. its a typical LCHF macro nutrient composision.
thanks.
In a marathon one need a great fat oxidation capacity.
"Western States 100 – Low Carber Wins Ultramarathon"
http://www.meandmydiabetes.com/2012/08/11/western-states-100-low-carb...
And one need some carbs too.. in the race!
Here some more about the topic.
http://eatingacademy.com/category/sports-and-nutrition
I just read your book and I think the guideliness are definetly worth following on one's daily diet. Unfortunately, I'm allergic to eggs, and have nocited that milk prodocts seem to also cause some pretty uncomfortable side effects as well.
So, my questions are:
How can I replace eggs? And should I eat milk products, which are low-lactose / lactose-free or should I just skip the whole milk stuff completely?
And I use lactose free dairys.
But as im intollerant im not that used to eat a lot of dairys, mostly butter and cheese.
Its about to eat healty food, not that much carbs and not being afraid of fat.
Eggs are probably the moste healty food one can eat.. but there is other healty food too.
I'm from Denmark, and I've been a heavy set male, for most of my adult life - and I've lost more than 50 pounds using this diet - which I actually am a little reluctant to call a diet, it's much more of a lifestyle change. And I can say, that even though fat has been a major source of energy and focus for the lifestyle change. I've never eaten so many delicious vegetables before this lifestyle change.
I've made an iPhone app, to help keep track of which foods are good for this diet. It's called Diet Signal, and can be bough in the App Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/diet-signal/id647413326?ls=1&mt=8. Currently it's available in English and Danish, but if any of you would like to help me with localising it to your language, I would be glad to hear from you. You can contact me, on our homepage called http://metonim.com.
Thanks for your great work Andreas, I've been using your webpage and great youtube channel a bunch.
Soo.. if he is Danish.. his carbs is net-carbs!
Actually it's not netcarbs right now - however, I have an update in review, where it has been updated to netcarbs (which means, that it will exclude all carbohydrates, that comes from fibbers). I expect the update to be reviewed by Apple within 24-48 hours, as of 30th May 2013. The update will be presented as v1.2.0.
But as Zepp correctly stated, fibers can be seen separately, so you can check it yourself. When the update has been released through Apple, you'll get red, yellow and green lights based upon how much carbohydrate is in each food.
If you have any other suggestions, I'd gladly incorporate them in future updates, if I see them fit for the app.
I'll write here again, as soon as the update of my Diet Signal app has been approved for sale.
Firstly I do have half a bowl of oats with one scoop of Whey protein for breakfast.Are oats ok? And secondly is it ok to have the whey protein in the afternoon and after dinner.
I have milk in my tea about 6 cups, is that also ok or must I cut the milk out.How much cream and yogurt is acceptable?
I am very grateful for the very informative site!
Thank you!
I live in Cape Town is there anyone here who I could chat to about it!
And why use Whey, eat a proper breakfast.. like egg and bacon, or similar!
Befor you cut out milk and cream, get rid of those cereals!
http://at-the-heart-of-it.blogspot.se/2012/04/what-fat.html
Best regards,
Dennis