Good Calories, Bad Calories
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Good Calories, Bad Calories
Has anyone read this book? It is really something...the author tackled the subject of cholesterol, diabetes, and weight loss and used the research literature to help the reader come to the conclusion that most of what we have heard fro the past 30 years aobut these topics has been a bunch of bunk!! So if you want a good read.... long, scientific, and maddening!...check this one out. By by low fat high carb diet! Of course, gluten free takes care of most carbs, and diabetes takes care of the rest...at least for me. But I am not going to worry so much about fat in my diet anymore!
"It is very difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. "
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
Sunny,
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I was unaware of this book. This is just my opinion, of course, but the author and I seem to see eye to eye on virtually all of these issues, so I say wholeheartedly that he is right on the money with his claims. If anyone would like to read some excerpts from his book, before you decide whether or not to buy it, you can do so here:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/NewYearNewYou ... 291&page=1
Historically, of course, most of this information has been available for decades, and even centuries, but it has been buried by the tendency of medicine and governments to embrace pseudo-scientific claims, and promote popular "causes", whether or not they actually have any basis in fact.
Some of this is slowly beginning to change. Note this article, for example, where a high fat, low carb diet is being re-examined as a treatment for "untreatable" cancer:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 84,00.html
If it can stop "untreatable" cancer from growing, imagine what it could do with "treatable" cancer. If I ever have to fight cancer, guess what I intend to try first.
Several years ago, I came across a research project that had been done 20 years ago, where seven patients with severe food intolerances were fed a diet where all their callories came from beef fat. By the end of the study, the average serum cholesterol reading for the group had fallen from 263 to 189mg/dl, (a huge improvement). Not only that, but their "good" cholesterol had actually improved. Here's a link to the short abstract:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... t=Abstract
Here's the original article that the author refers to about the famous demonstration in the 1930s by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, when he and a cohort lived on a 100% meat diet for a year, to prove to the medical experts of the day, that conventional thinking was wrong. The article was published in the December, 1935 issue of Harpers Monthly Magazine
http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson2.htm
It opened a lot of eyes back then, and most people have either forgotten about it since then, or tried to sweep it under the rug.
Tex
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. I was unaware of this book. This is just my opinion, of course, but the author and I seem to see eye to eye on virtually all of these issues, so I say wholeheartedly that he is right on the money with his claims. If anyone would like to read some excerpts from his book, before you decide whether or not to buy it, you can do so here:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/NewYearNewYou ... 291&page=1
Historically, of course, most of this information has been available for decades, and even centuries, but it has been buried by the tendency of medicine and governments to embrace pseudo-scientific claims, and promote popular "causes", whether or not they actually have any basis in fact.
Some of this is slowly beginning to change. Note this article, for example, where a high fat, low carb diet is being re-examined as a treatment for "untreatable" cancer:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 84,00.html
If it can stop "untreatable" cancer from growing, imagine what it could do with "treatable" cancer. If I ever have to fight cancer, guess what I intend to try first.
Several years ago, I came across a research project that had been done 20 years ago, where seven patients with severe food intolerances were fed a diet where all their callories came from beef fat. By the end of the study, the average serum cholesterol reading for the group had fallen from 263 to 189mg/dl, (a huge improvement). Not only that, but their "good" cholesterol had actually improved. Here's a link to the short abstract:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... t=Abstract
Here's the original article that the author refers to about the famous demonstration in the 1930s by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, when he and a cohort lived on a 100% meat diet for a year, to prove to the medical experts of the day, that conventional thinking was wrong. The article was published in the December, 1935 issue of Harpers Monthly Magazine
http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson2.htm
It opened a lot of eyes back then, and most people have either forgotten about it since then, or tried to sweep it under the rug.
Tex