Whatever works for (anybody) is the right thing. A good way to test is to have a complete blood and lipid test (testing for Type A and B LDL, or else it does't tell you anything), and include A1C in there, too. Do that now (for instance) to see how your diet is working, and then go super low carb (or minimally, quit grains and beer for three months) and test again. Anybody can stand on a scale and look in a mirror and get a *feel* for how things are going, but the blood tests tell things the scale and mirror don't. For those unfamiliar, this is about a super low-carb diet that eliminates all grains and most other high-carb foods. It is based on the notion that the species Homo has been around for 2.5 million years, but has had access to vast amounts of carbohydrates only for the last 12,000 years at best (middle east, asia), and some cultures---notably Native Americans and Africans and Af-Americans, and notably not middle-easterners and asians— have had less than two hundred years to adapt to high-carb diets. People with long histories of carbs have in their saliva more amylase, an enzyme that pre-digests starch before you swallow it. But the famous skinny Asians that people tend to use to discredit low-carb diets--are eastern asians who eat like birds and work like bees---a fistful of white rice, some veges and fish---and that when they eat typical western diets, they plump up like the rest of us. And---this is longer than I'd planned to speak here—the science behind the benefits of low-carb comes down to one word: Insulin. Insulin is a metabolic hormone that determines whether you store fat or burn it. I am not a scientist, but even the most conservative scientists acknowledge that in the absence of insulin we burn body fat and fuel our cells with ketones (a byproduct of fat breakdown); and in the presence of insulin we create fat and store fat and burn glucose for energy. So if you carb up for a long ride, you will burn the calories that you ate, but not your body fat. (Insulin spikes with carbohydrate intake.) Is there an endocrinologist in the house who cares to weigh in here?
There is mounting evidence (spoiler alert: I will soon ask if there's an oncologist or a cellular biologist in the house) that cancer cells thrie in the presense of glucose (comes from carbs) but they cannot live on ketones (fuel used when carbs are restricted). So cancer cells have been known to shrink on ketogenic diets. Oncologist? Cellular biologist? Of course if your body fat is where you want it and your blood scores reveal a picture of inner health, then it would be nutty to change. BUT if you're not where you wanna be and your blood scores suck, then low-carb is worth...not dismissing just because it is counterintuitive. good site: theeatingacademy.com and nusi.org They are two good sites that anybody with an open mind and uncrossed arms may find interesting. Over and out on this. On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:55:21 PM UTC-7, Eric Norris wrote: > > Thought this might be of interest to some on this list. I'm not an > expert--or even an amateur--on the "paleo living" topic, but this article > makes some interesting points. > > http://www.salon.com/2013/03/10/paleofantasy_stone_age_delusions/ > > --Eric N > www.CampyOnly.com > CampyOnlyGuy.blogspot.com > Twitter: @CampyOnlyGuy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
