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EventsCardiologist in The Washington Times: ‘Carbohydrates are killing us’
The conventional advice we’ve been given to reduce heart disease, eat less fat and more carbs, is completely wrong and needs to be turned on its head. In fact, it’s the carbs and not the fat that we should avoid if we want to reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease, writes a cardiologist in The Washington Times. And he’s probably right.
For decades, doctors and nutritionists prescribed low-fat diets to people trying to lower their risk of heart disease. Saturated fats in meats and dairy products were thought to clog our arteries. Grains — especially “whole” ones — were thought to help everything from high cholesterol to digestion.
A growing body of research suggests this advice was wrong. For most people, it’s carbohydrates, not fats, that are the true cause of heart disease.
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Stopped insulin and BP meds.
Try it for a month. Once your over adapting to burning fat instead of carbs it gets easier. You will never want to eat carbs again.
I have refined my vegetarian method by eliminating the potatoes and such, but every now and again treat myself to risotto 👍, then the next day will do a fast. Don’t feel quilt at all!
My spouse is a type 2 diabetic and has cut his daytime insulin by half with the goal of stopping it entirely, his nighttime insulin has also been cut back, although it will never be eliminated.
Bottom line, what ever works for you, fantastic, but don’t attempt to push it on others in a derogatory way and let’s not slam others for there way of eating, that’s how hate manifests itself and we don’t need it on this site....we’re here to encourage not demean.
I am curious as to how all the different civilizations of past did not have heart disease, etc eating potatoes, corn and beans? Just wondering.
Having a Dr. tell him if he didn’t take statins he would die was unacceptable& scared us to death. Finding a Cardio Dr. who believes in LCHP is proving impossible.
3 wks into ketosis & we both feel amazing. We know whatever the cholesterol number is, this diet will balance it. There’s comfort in that.
Good luck to all♥️🙏🏻
In answer to "I am curious as to how all the different civilizations of past did not have heart disease, etc eating potatoes, corn and beans?"
The Inca Indians in Peru were the first to cultivate potatoes around 8,000 BC to 5,000 B.C. Sir Walter Raleigh introduced potatoes to Ireland in 1589 on the 40,000 acres of land near Cork.
The oldest-known domesticated beans in the Americas were found in Guitarrero Cave, an archaeological site in Peru, and dated to around the second millennium BCE.
The story of maize starts about 9,000 years ago, when people started collecting and consuming a wild grass called teosinte. The plant eventually became modern maize, commonly known as corn or sweetcorn, which became genetically similar to modern corn about 5000 years ago.
So in other words, these foods were not in the human diet in any form until (at most) 9000 years ago. Even then, these foods were not widely available, and they were not in their modern, oversized, hybridized, GMO forms.
How long have humans been around? At least 2.3 million years. That means that for 99.996% of human history, we have NOT eaten those foods. We have not evolved to be able to eat them, and we still do better with a hunter-gatherer diet.