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Events“I was wrong, we should be feasting on fat”
More and more people (and doctors!) realize that the fear of fat was a mistake:
Daily Mail: I was wrong – we should be feasting on FAT, says The Fast Diet author DR MICHAEL MOSLEY
More
TIME: Eat Butter. Scientists Labeled Fat the Enemy. Why They Were Wrong.
WSJ: “The Dubious Science Behind the Anti-Fat Crusade”
Saturated Fat Completely Safe According to New Review of all Science!
Heart Doctor: Time to Bust the Myth About Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
The Real Association Between Butter and Heart Disease in Sweden
I hate to say this, but this is one instance where the Daily Mail seems to be ahead of the Guardian, :-).
Eat real food and stay away from (most) doctors unless it's a medical emergency!
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”- Hippocrates
about not pouring cream down your throat and then
says he consumes "semi-skimmed milk". What's that
except semi-fatted sugar water.
Carbohydrates are made of sugar molecules all strung
together. Please, let's try to keep this in mind.
He might not really get it at all.
http://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.kr/2014/04/jimmy-moores-take-on-hi...
"When someone asked him why he didn't include any spinach or other greens with the eggs, he said that occasionally he eats greens but "I'm so carb sensitive that even greens can be problematic." This is nonsense, of course. And he doesn't even have diabetes!
His latest cholesterol profile is abominable; I know you use different values in the UK, but his LDL-C and LDL-P are extremely elevated and place him at very high risk for a cardiac event.
I'm so conflicted because on the one hand Jimmy has been a great advocate of the low-carb lifestyle and is friends with all of the major researchers in this area. But what he's promoting now is very irresponsible, in my opinion. I'm worried about his health and the perception that the non-low-carb community will have of us, since he's such a visible and vocal proponent of low carb.
Moderate protein, higher percentage of healthy fats, and lots of healthy vegetables. That is the way to follow low carb if you want to improve your health."
What does he, do we, "not get?" Should he "up the fat" more?
http://carbsanity.blogspot.kr/2014/04/jimmy-moore-low-carb-asset-or-l...
I do wonder, however, about the reported concern regarding carbs in spinach. With a healthy gut flora, I would expect one gets zero carbs from spinach and other leafy greens and that all the carbs are consumed by bacteria (unless the spinach is processed by purée in a smoothie or something). Indeed, bacteria produce butyrate from leafy greens so they are really a good source of saturated fat. The only concern I would have with spinach is oxylates, which are significantly reduced by cooking.
When Evie publishes with proof of date, some current full length photographs of herself, I will take her seriously. While she hides in the shadows, sniping at others, she will only be the bloated blogger to me, with some very serious personalty issues.
Eddie
She is obese, she stated it on the infamous Jimmy Moore podcast where she made a complete idiot of herself, no help needed from Jimmy. On the JM podcast she admitted when she low carbed she lost a great deal of weight, for the first time in her adult life. More recently she confirmed the ongoing weight problems on a radio podcast pushing her 'Addiction Restriction' book that no longer gets mentioned by Evie. Furthermore her endless rants regarding CICO is looking more out of date by the day.
EK blew it a long time ago, nothing but negative rants, rubbishing anyone who gets a book published, anyone with a high profile in the low carb and paleo world, how the bitterness and jealousy shines through. She wants so desperately to be a player, but she has not learnt how to lose yet, and will never know how to win.
"Recent clinical research has studied weight responses to varying diet composition, but the contribution of changes in macronutrient intake and physical activity to rising population weight remains controversial. Research on the economics of obesity typically assumes a “calories in, calories out” framework, but a weight production model separating caloric intake into carbohydrates, fat, and protein, has not been explored in an economic framework.
To estimate the contributions of changes in macronutrient intake and physical activity to changes in population weight, we conducted dynamic time series and structural VAR analyses of U.S. data between 1974 and 2006 and a panel analysis of 164 countries between 2001 and 2010. Findings from all analyses suggest that increases in carbohydrates are most strongly and positively associated with increases in obesity prevalence even when controlling for changes in total caloric intake and occupation-related physical activity.
Our structural VAR results suggest that, on the margin, a 1% increase in carbohydrates intake yields a 1.01 point increase in obesity prevalence over 5 years while an equal percent increase in fat intake decreases obesity prevalence by 0.24 points."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Eddie
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2279503
Thanks for the link to the pdf.
Kind regards
Eddie
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-up-beef-red...
Yet it confirms the advantages of grass-fed cattle.
...but then neither do exaggerated caricatures of an LCHF approach
...but then neither do exaggerated caricatures of an LCHF approach"
You are free to form your own opinions but not to create facts as you see fit. Nothing in the facts is "exaggerated." Perhaps next time you can contribute with a bit more honesty and integrity.
1) http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.kr/2012/12/does-nutritional-ketos...
2)http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-66n11pqJGyA/Uh5I1Db3YTI/AAAAAAAAEBE/1joMdES7gic/s1600/Dayspring+on+TC.jpg
3) http://thelowcarbdiabetic.blogspot.kr/2014/04/jimmy-moores-take-on-hi...
"Sorry for the pre amble, but contrast our meals to a Jimmy Moore breakfast. "Five eggs and a stick of butter" he posted up on Twitter within the last 24 hours. In the UK a standard pack of butter is 250 grams or almost nine ounces. If a stick of US butter is the same, I have to ask is Jimmy spoofing us, is this a wind up ? We need to be told !
Eddie
Post edit. A message via email from a well known and highly respected medical professional who asked to remain anonymous on this blog. Full name and address supplied.
"I follow Jimmy on Twitter, and yesterday he tweeted that he was eating five eggs cooked in Kerrygold butter with an additional stick of Kerrygold (8 oz, or roughly 240 grams), and that was it for the day. That's less than 40 grams of protein and over 200 grams of fat for the day. Jimmy is quite tall and needs at least twice that amount of protein at a minimum.
When someone asked him why he didn't include any spinach or other greens with the eggs, he said that occasionally he eats greens but "I'm so carb sensitive that even greens can be problematic." This is nonsense, of course. And he doesn't even have diabetes!
His latest cholesterol profile is abominable; I know you use different values in the UK, but his LDL-C and LDL-P are extremely elevated and place him at very high risk for a cardiac event.
I'm so conflicted because on the one hand Jimmy has been a great advocate of the low-carb lifestyle and is friends with all of the major researchers in this area. But what he's promoting now is very irresponsible, in my opinion. I'm worried about his health and the perception that the non-low-carb community will have of us, since he's such a visible and vocal proponent of low carb.
Moderate protein, higher percentage of healthy fats, and lots of healthy vegetables. That is the way to follow low carb if you want to improve your health."
Rather slippery of you NS to copy and paste my post and leave out the good news. I also said.
As a type two diabetic controlling my diabetes with a low carb (50 grams per day) high fat diet for close on six years, I reckon my dietary lifestyle is about right. Going from 300 grams plus carbs at diagnosis to 50 is a big chunk out of my daily food intake. As my protein intake has been about the same all my adult life, the fats had to be increased to maintain the same daily calorie intake. No rocket science needed there. The extra calories from fats came by way of butter, double cream, cheese, nuts, avocado, oily fish, olive oil and seeds etc.
This diet has kept BG numbers non diabetic, helped with BP, a good lipid panel and minimal diabetes medication (2 x 500mg Metformin) it works, it's simple, and I enjoy food as much as I ever did. Checking out the meals, Jan and myself and many diabetic friends eat and have been posted here, and on our website and food blog, most would say the meals do not appear to be overly high in fats.
I was addressing the following exaggerated caricature in your comment... that is a fact...
because after all "drinking cream/feasting on fat" should be encouraged....
Perhaps next time YOU can contribute with a bit more honesty and integrity.
I have no interest in discussing the particulars of Jimmy Moore here... none of my business. That you hang on his every word on Twitter I think rather says something about you.
I now see that pretty much the entire comment #23 by NS was a copy and paste from elsewhere... not really very clearly done.
That changes nothing from what I said...
I have no interest in discussing the particulars of Jimmy Moore here... none of my business. That anyone hangs on his every word on Twitter I think says something about them, rather than Jimmy. What is the fascination with him?
Unfortunately, not everyone can solve personal metabolic and weight problems even on a LC diet, however I think that eating such diet gives several advantages for the people like Jimmy anyway. From my point of view he is misguided by his food instinct more than some average person - very few people can relate to eating so much butter.
EK herself I have not time for.. so her health holds no interest for me. I don't find her a credible source. Last time I read over there she continued in her vicious, sarcastic, abusive way.. delighting in "witty" acronyms or "cutesy super-hero" names for the individuals she was targeting. Not a scientific approach but rather appealing to the lowest-common denominators and basest natures of humanity. Even if there are occasional gems of wisdom offered over there from time to time, I'm not willing to drag myself through the mire to discover something that I have no doubt will come to light via more rational avenues in due course... assuming it was worthwhile to begin with.
I could not have worded my thoughts on EK's disturbing obsession with criticizing others than you have here. Thank you.