mrmagee3 Member

As you mentioned, though, going to a 40/30/30 split at 2500kcal versus your previous intake was a pretty severe restriction in carbohydrate consumption as well as calories. If your blood sugar was high under your normal diet, it would stand to reason that it would drop (and likely, rather precipitously) when you started…

For what it's worth, I'd bank on carb overconsumption as the best correlator, because it seems to make sense mechanically, but I've been wrong before.

Duly noted, though i think my point stands. I'm not saying that research supporting the article hasn't come out of other places -- I'm just saying that we should caution giving the Harvard article extra weight, simply because it came from Harvard. Conflicting research comes from elsewhere, too. It's the nature of the…

That was actually one of the studies I thought about when I asked the question. :) There are a ton of informed guesses, but no consensus as of yet. It's unfortunate.

Done. Don't see it. Please quote if you would like to. What I did state is that your physician is likely not an expert on nutrition, and is likely basing his recommendation off of old research and guidelines. Both of these things are very likely to be true. That's not saying you have a bad doctor, or that your doctor is…

Direct causes of T2 diabetes. Go. Nothing? Too bad. I was hoping we could solve that one for the scientific community before lunch. We coulda been rich, I tell you. Rich! True Protein (might be true nutrition now) has protein powder (that's quite tasty) in a bunch of zero-carb flavors as well. You can build your own…

First, on the real sugar piece -- not that I'm aware of. I think mostly people look at the correlation between the increase in sugar consumption and the increase in obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc., and use that observation as evidence that sugar is problematic in our diets at the levels consumed. I don't think…

It's interesting to view the reactions of people when the FDA issues a letter like this. One hand will use the letter as evidence that the product is worthless, a sham, and that the company is lying. The other half will use it as an example that the FDA is in the pockets of big pharma -- both are wrong and neither actually…

Hypoglycemic = having low blood sugar. Restricting carbs for low blood sugar doesn't seem to make a ton of sense. Did you mean hyperglycemic?

That's likely where your problem is coming in. Unless by walking the dog for an hour, you mean "doing 100yard wind sprints for an hour with the dog", you're likely not burning 1000 calories.

You don't seem to be following this conversation, so let's baseline: 1. You said there's no health impact to going low sodium (without defining what "low sodium" is). I gave you an example of some legitimate health impacts that going low sodium can cause. Your refutation of that is that most Americans don't eat low sodium.…

From a science standpoint, there exist many reasons why that would be. Their chosen selection methodology for meta-analyses could be questioned, they could have outcome bias based on either conscious or unconscious goals, they could have made a mistake, so on and so forth. It happens in science all the time - kinda goes…

Couple things: 1. Says me, plenty of others, and plenty of legitimate research sources as well. Simply because there's a public health policy on something doesn't mean that a contradicting stance is a lonely one - or wrong. 2. This is an article that takes a position and uses their citations to bolster that position.…

What you're referring to is a high fat percentage ratio -- i.e. kcal from fat per 100kcal total. Low cal then just becomes a portion control issue. Cream cheese Butter Bacon is probably in the 70% range Nut butters are likely pretty high

There is a measurable downside to going low sodium -- electrolyte imbalance, a host of organ problems, and in extreme cases, death. Sodium is essential. From a public health policy, we currently focus on upper bounds -- given that research doesn't support the position that a reasonable upper bound actually promotes health,…

Do you? Can you share how you do this, and what type of preservation you get from it?

It's actually too bad that his style is completely offensive and his timing is inappropriate, because he's actually pretty likely to be correct on the salt thing. Absent a legitimate medical reason (for what it's worth, I don't include moderate hypertension in this) salt has been pretty unfairly maligned, dietarily. The…

"probably" Let's hope so, because Dr. Ritchiebulk doesn't like considering that preexisting conditions could even exist before offering diagnoses.

Smart *kitten*.

All current peer reviewed science? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8373935 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7936222 Because something isn't carcinogenic or genotoxic doesn't mean that it can't cause issues with some people. I drink quite a bit of it, and you'll pry it from my cold, dead hands, but you're overselling…

Your posting style is great. You say something completely unsupported, and when called out on it, instead of saying, "whoops, you're right, I should have said [this]," you just double down on the ignorance. It's an interesting approach.

The Cochrane Collaboration has repeatedly found no evidence of mortality benefit in low-salt diets. This might be problematic for you, because it's staffed by Doctors doing actual research, who also went to medical school, and have spent thousands of hours practicing medicine. I'm not giving you any advice. Continue to do…

For what it's worth, 150g carbs per day is likely significantly lower than what the average person intakes. I'd guess by about half.

That's based on old, poorly conceived science. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt Lays out a pretty good explanation.

Statistics show that any diet plan is not a long term solution for most. That's, unfortunately, the nature of dieting.

It's funny how different people are -- I find the induction phase (or a generic ketogenic diet) to be much more easy to maintain than what the later phases would entail.

Sucralose packets contain maltodextrin as filler, so it usually works to count them as one net carb and whatever calories are resulting from that (~4). Liquid sucralose/stevia/etc. does not contain maltodextrin, as it's liquid, so it's purely zero carb and zero calorie.

You need to ensure you get your required amount of sodium. Other than that, salt away. The upper bound isn't anything to worry about.

1. Coffee, pizza, ice cream, sex....you know. When it's bad, it's still pretty good. 2. Seek help. Once you find it, please let me know where, because I pretty much always have coffee near me.

I'll drink it black 90% of the time, sometimes I'll include heavy cream and some sugar-free sweetener.