Quote: Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson I love this quote. Words to live by! What are you up to this weekend? The Geezer and I are going out of town to a trade show and catching a local festival in a very small burg on the way back. I hope the rain clears up!
Hi guys! My name is Leela and I’m a newbie to the forums. My gorgeous Amelia came into this world a few months ago and I haven’t been happier for anything else in my entire life. I guess the only problem is that I still haven’t lost the baby weight — and I have a lot to lose. So I decided to take action and joining the forum is only the first step. Figured I’d join all of you great folks and see if I could get some wonderful tips. Anyway, that’s all i gotta say for now. Toodle oo!
Okay, admittedly it’s a study in mice; and admittedly it involves some rather recondite genetics. But this study shows that high-glucose diets directly affect the genes involved in digestion…and not in a good way. The abstract opens with Long term intake of high-glucose diet (HGD) may induce many diseases such as dyslipidemia, fatty liver and diabetes disease. Most of the research for molecular mechanisms of the association between HGD and the above diseases focus on the metabolism of glucose and lipid. However, there are few studies on molecular mechanism of the effect of HGD on digestion and absorption. Interesting. It’s also a little surprising that the research is from a Chinese university, and the authors accept from the outset the role of glucose in dyslipedemia, fatty liver, and diabetes. Everybody is worried the Chinese are catching up with us in manufacturing and electronics. Apparently they’re already ahead of most of our nutritional scientists.
Psychologists studying physiology and decisionmaking have concluded that drinking sugary sodas before making a decision results in less-impulsive, sounder decisionmaking. In other words, higher blood sugar means a greater willingness to delay gratification. And one of the study’s authors says, “So diet soft drinks lead to increased impulsivity.” (This is one of those cases where you can’t get at the actual study without subscribing. This is also one of those studies the newspapers love.) I can believe that there might be something in the idea that satiation affects decisionmaking in a favorable way, but they really should have looked at more than just a blood sugar spike. They also should have considered what happens to decisionmaking in the following blood-sugar crash. Oh, well.
Hi everybody, I just started working as a personal trainer, and am spreading the word about Protein Power, was curious if anyone has had any experience with the 6WC in people in say, their twenties? I’m wondering since they might not have as much visceral fat (yes, no?) and so possibly wouldn’t see the initial rapid changes that those of us who are older do? Thanks! Garry
I have been on the PP for several weeks now, and the last 3 weeks have been careful to keep the carbs way down. The diet was started when a blood test showed 170, but but before results were in for the glucose tolerance test 3 weeks later (which was on the low end of the scale for diabetes). I have been testing my bs for two-and-a half weeks (3x day, 3 days a week). My bs levels have dropped to below 100 before a meal and around 120 or lower 2 hours later. What is your opinion as to how long to stay on the intervention phase of PP before slowly increasing the carbs. I find 30 VERY difficult to achieve, but haven’t noticed any difference in the bs levels on the days I go over - the highest was 49 one day only, mostly I stay between 33 and 39 carbs. I guess I’m wondering how long it takes for insulin resistence to be more or less healed after achieving normal bs levels.
I am allergic to eggs and milk, so cannot use them for breakfast (or any other meal). Does anyone have any ideas for interesting foods for breakfast without eggs and milk products (i.e., cheeses) which feature so prominently in the PP recipies? Oops, I just noticed another recent thread on this same subject.
I’ve long been interested in the issue of weight loss plateaus and stalls–a topic that doesn’t seem to have been studied much. I hear a lot of theories: 1) Carb drift (people lose lock on their actual carb intake) 2) Low-carb frankenfoods 3) Maintaining same level of caloric intake after considerable weight loss 4) Temporary homeostatic pressures (a long period where the body readjusts to a new equilibrium before moving on) 5) Your favorite theory here One that I’ve been wondering about is a gradual “starvation” reaction of the body. I’ve noticed that a number of my friends who have gone low-carb have found ways of getting to satiation rapidly–and now their daily calorie intake is pretty low and pretty level. Tom Venuto interviewed Joel Marion about Marion’s Cheat Your Way Thin Diet , which involves both calorie cycling and carb cycling. Frankly, the approach seems unnecessarily complicated to me, but Marion’s underlying thesis–that too many days (which Marion claims means more than seven days) of low-calorie intake results in lowered output of leptin and thus downregulates metabolism. The essence of Marion’s argument is that you need to “overfeed” at least one day a week to let your body know it isn’t starving and doesn’t need to conserve fat and calories. There seems to be some logic and some research that support this idea. I wonder if stalls and plateaus aren’t sometimes the result of slipping into a low-calorie rut? This would explain two observations: 1) Many of the people I know who have stalled respond by cutting calories–to no avail; and, 2) Many low-carbers have reported that jumping fat intake can jar a body out of a stall or plateau. Any thoughts? =================== (I should add that Marion thinks carb cycling, with a week starting in ketosis and then gradually climbing through low-glycemic foods to an all-out carby day, is an essential part of his program. I’m not yet convinced about this aspect of his diet–and it seems mighty cumbersome–but I think there may be good logic behind the idea of a once-a-week overfeed.)
A quick news item about a study that links low testosterone to both obesity and diabetes. Of interest is the fact that diabetes and obesity appear to be independent risk factors for low testosterone.
If you have a serious interest in the Paleolithic diet, you may want to take a look at either or both of the following books: 1. Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution (Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford, editors, 2002, Praeger Publishing). 2. Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable (Peter S. Ungar, ed., 2007, Oxford University Press). Access the Table of Contents . Ungar is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Teaford is Professor, Dept. of Cell Biology and Anatomy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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