Just arrived in Denver, Colorado. Tomorrow until Sunday I’ll attend the conference of the American obesity doctors. As usual at the spring conference there’s extra focus on low carb diets.
The lecturers include experts on the subject like dr Eric Westman, dr Mary Vernon and dr Stephen Phinney. I also look forward to listening to researchers like Jeff Volek, Christopher Gardner and the Paleo-guru dr Loren Cordain.
Hopefully I’ll have a few video interviews on interesting subjects to share when I’m back. What / who would you like to see?
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also of course anything controversial that forced the audience to think, to disagree to defend someone is bound to drop the intellectual bomb somewhere! Let us know..Thank you doc
ciao for now...laura
Nope. He had a letter in the NY Times last week in response to an op-ed piece about meat. He is described as "...a vegetarian for 30 years, [he] is a nutrition scientist at Stanford University."
Cheers for your help.
http://sn.im/diabetessoln
She distilled Dr. Bernsteins advice down to understandable components.
You cant go wrong following Dr. Enefeldt's LCHF for beginners Going LCHF will help your diabetes immensely. Be sure to watch your BG's and work with your doctor to adjust your meds as your BG's come under control--they will!
Women are different than men and overall there's just a huge lack of information specifically for women - how to use LCHF for fertility, for PCOS, for nursing moms, for the pregnant, for acne, for sleep issues, for the peri- and post-menopausal set. Men don't have any of these issues, so they are rarely discussed, even tho' most LCHF folks appear to be female.
Ty!
YES you are so right - i have ben stalled for six monts now (i`m 50+ years of age).
sorry OT but I have to share it with you - I changed my daily 3 cups of coffie with fullfat cream to rooibos tea with coconutoil and all of a sudden I lost two kilos in one week.
I hardly belive it myself but it seemes that even very small changes can make a big differens
Mayby this swedish bestseller could be the something?
Litsfeldt is a dibetic him self.
http://www.amazon.com/Diabetes-Thanks-Scandinavian-Diet-ebook/product...
Its easy to read, from one diabetic to another!
http://annikadahlqvist.com/2011/05/24/fragor-om-kost-och-halsa/
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Bengt Nilsson says:
19 april, 2012 at 05:08
Hej,
Jag har hört några äldre säga att de har hjärtproblem och därför inte kan börja med LCHF (de skulle då få höga skadliga blodfettnivåer, om jag uppfattat det korrekt).
Vad är din kommentar om det?
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Annika Dahlqvist says:
19 april, 2012 at 18:03
@ 903 Bengt Nilsson:
Äldre personer har ännu större nytta av LCHF än yngre. LCHF höjer inte blodfetterna, och högre blodfetter höjer inte kolesterolet, och högre kolesterol ökar inte risken för hjärtsjukdom. Äldre med högre kolesterol lever längre och bättre. Läs om allt detta i Uffe Ravnskovs böcker.
Det är kolhydrater och sannolikt fabrikskemikalier som gör oss sjuka, särskilt när vi är äldre.
Reason is that low insulin levels ( from low carbs) combined with saturated fat NORMALIZES IGF1 - the insulin growth factor that can cause all kind of havoc, I read somewhere - Check it! This can be the reason why prostate swelling problems improve rapidly with a couple of table spoons of coconut oil per day. It worked for me!
And maybe also that one formerly obese female that I know who was diagnosed with breast cancer regressed and stayed cancer free for now 6-7 years by lots of heavy exercise combined with weight loss without knowing of lchf: The body fat provided the exercise provided 1/ the lower insulin environment and 2/ the weight loss the saturated fat from the tissues! (But if that's the case the bad stuff may come back when she reaches normal weight and eat standard polyunsaturated fat..)
Maybe this normalizing combination of low insulin and saturated fat could be something for menopause as well? My heart disease - angina - is regressing noticeably after now 4 months on lchf, and lots of my fat is coming from coconut oils, rest from butter, cream and eggs. From all those things then regarded too good to be eaten alone when we I grew up around 60 years ago. Then "too good" because of price alone as it was before Ancel Keys. Did Keys really live the way he preached?
Wortman, Phinney, Westman and Volek are the group I'd like most to hear from.
So let it be another great milestone for LCHF, Doc!
Har följt din blogg mer eller mindre sedan förra sommaren då en jobbarkompis på operation i Borås äter enligt LCHF! Jobbade där som anestesisjukskötare, så vi är i samma branch!
Visade videon med Dr Lustig för min crossfit-träningscoach idag o han blev väldigt nyfiken...
Annars följer många crossfitentusiaster Paleo koncepet.
Märkligt att du är här i Denver nu!! Kom hem från en semesterresa igår o gick in på din sida o såga att du skulle komma hit. Har tänkt att ev börja skriva en blogg om LCHF här, då det behövs.
Även lite märkligt att du ska med samma båt (Carnival Magic) som jag reste med i januari!!
Fantastisk kryssning!!
Ha så trevligt här i Denver!! Du har väl förmodligen fullt upp, men om du har xtra tid över får du gärna höra av dig om vad man kan hitta på här! Som t ex att delta i en crossfitworkout! Sänder en link till mitt gym: http://www.crossfitjai.com/
Du får även en PALEOblogg-link som skrivs av en av våra tränare Julie: http://paleomg.com/
Förresten en fråga som jag undrat över o som jag inte fåt nåt svar på är:
Här i USA verkar man ju äta enligt high carb high fat. Blir det den absolut sämsta kombinationen?
Ha det så bra här i Denver!!!
Mvh Jonas
Gardner is a standard CW guy. I understand that he's recently doubled down and become more vegan. He definitely believes a calorie is a calorie and that counting calories is the way to go. His research is funded, so he has to toe the line, of course; but he does actually believe it as well.
In his famous presentation on youtube about his A-Z study, he attempted very hard to explain away the low-carb results and firmly stated his moral belief in vegetarianism/veganism and his intent to raise all his children this way. Despite his scientific findings.
Sigh.
will be eagerly looking forward to the videos anyway as i watch them all, although having just subscribed to your youtube channel i am passing on the swedish ones!
(as i'm english)
Oh, he did his best to spin them! It's just that his best wasn't good enough...
Do you know what sort of a vegetarian (and now maybe vegan) he is, moral, political or nutritional?
Anyhoo was Ornish there? Now he someone who might (& should) chocke on his high carb pretzels!!!!
I tell we human are weird. Even when the truth is out we cannot stop harming ourselves. If you worry about carbs...think of smoking. NOBODY can deny the link between smoking and cancer and many too many in fact people smoke and continue doing it no matter how many images of rotting cancerous lungs you put on teh packets....
It is hard to know the truth and watch others your loved ones for example poison themselves a little every day....
I think even this apparent self harming has an eviolutionary explanation..we have evolved to make STRONG IMMEDIATE associations between a stimulus and harm (or good for that matter) but slow association just does not work...this is also why it is hard to stick to a diet that makes you lose weight slowly as we do not see results quick enough to make that all important association....don't let us forget that after all we are animals...
Bizzarely I think this one of the greatest lessons to take from lowcarb/paleo school of tought..we are animals and no matter how nicely you process a food we are not adapted to consume it will harm us!! So there...stick to your carbs if you must but at your own peril!!
Ciao for now...
Plus, I no longer have such incredible, gnawing hunger by 10am that any small child crossing my path would be in serious peril. Nowadays, I occasionally forget to eat a meal. That sure as Hell never happened on Ornish's diet.
So, at least for me, the STRONG IMMEDIATE associations between stimulus and harm/benefit are there.
I am five months in now and I do feel great with it imagine 10 years. The body will have had time to adjust and heal from all the carb assaults of the past...
Sorry for the ungodly hour of writing....I ate out for lunch yesterday and by the evening my tummy was misbehaving and so it carried on for the rest of the night. I had grilled sword fish and a little heap of rocket....(I told them what to do with their potatoes). Alas it is not the first time that eating salad in a restaurant gives me gastroenteritis....what is it with salads uh??? Do they use it as toilet paper and then serve to poor unsuspecting customers like me trying to eat paleo/lc???
Not fair! The rest of the world is asleep! lucky you guys!
Speak soon
Laura