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troll or food industry shill, not sure which yet
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I see. hate to break it to you buddy, but that quack had a lot right. Go talk to a bio-chemist or anybody specializing in metabolic or nutritional chemistry and you'll hear a different story. People like to point to his saturated fat theories to indicate he was a complete moron; yet all the modern research on cholesterol…
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Exactly! The human body is immensely complex and the only way to figure out what works for you is to try something and gauge the results. N=1 experiments rock, but only for that N :D
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Good for you! (no sarcasm). Most nutritionists I have heard are still toting around "if you eat cholesterol you'll die of heart disease" and "eat more complex carbs"! so I have little respect. Regarding the prof development, my wife is an OD and she has to as well. What qualifies as prof development though is fairly easy…
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Warms my heart to see people talk about leaky gut and auto-immune. Too many people live with these diseases and are never told that proper nutrition, including elimination of gluten and other lectins, can go a long way to helping alleviate problems. Does it work all the time? Probably not but what could it hurt to try? If…
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Go Paleo. A lot of people have had luck managing RA, diabetes, crohns, and other auto-immune diseases. Robb Wolf's website is a great resource as is his podcast.
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Can I make a suggestion? I listen to A LOT of exercise and nutrition podcasts and this sounds like a very familiar story. For one, you are doing too much steady-state cardio (making an assumption here that your cardio is probably something like running/biking/jogging/whatever for the same speed) and its probably affecting…
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Keep at it, I have been doing the same thing and have dropped 7% body fat and 30lbs in 4 months.
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If you are bloated it could be excess gas or inflammation from gut irritation. There are lots of possible issues. Bread, pasta, and rice are some of the biggest offenders (as are most grains) alongside dairy. Try removing them for a period and seeing how you feel. If its too much gas it could be b/c you are not properly…
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Go to google, type in the words "paleo recipes" and have fun. Paleo (or primal) foods do not contain gluten. A few good books are 'Everyday Paleo', 'Paleo Comfort Foods' and 'Everyday Paleo' (just released today). Really wish more MD's knew about Paleo and recommended it to people with CD b/c it would help them out quite a…
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double face palm.
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and you're laughing at what exactly?
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If you dropped from very high to very low quickly then that could cause problems. If you gradually moved down then who knows. That being said, if 100g works for you and you feel good and have good control over your glucose levels then you are better off at 100g :D Could not agree with you more.
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well, technically you need glucose, but I believe your body can produce that from protein and ketones. The rest can be made up of carbs from fruits and veggies. I'd disagree with pasta and ice cream being good sources of carbohydrate. I'd shoot for roots and tubers like sweet potato, yams, taro,etc Pasta, especially from…
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Soy can contain a lot of phytoestrogens so I would watch it closely. I believe there was a Swiss study that claimed that 2C of soy milk a day (for women) provides the equivalent estrogen in one birth control pill. Lots of studies have been done over the years showing adverse effects in excessive soy consumption…
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The problem is energy and mass are not the same thing and there are more things at play here than what you put into your body vs what you expend. Your body chemistry just isn't that simple. Your body is a complex system of hormones and chemical responses. What you put in (food quality) is more important than calories (food…
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hate to break it to you but most nutritionists are pretty clueless beyond what they were taught in school. Maybe your friend is different, but I don't buy it as "this is true b/c my nutritionist friend said so". I read A LOT of bio-chemistry (nutritional, metabolic, disease, etc) and most of what you said is contradicted…
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I believe that is very common in weight loss. Can't remember where I was reading up on this, might have been Tim Ferriss' book '4 Hour Body'. Anyway, I remember it was explained as a pelvic issue that would have always been there, but you had uh, some padding over it before *grin*. Good way to correct it is with movements…
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well it is the fat storage hormone isn't it ;) I use to snack A LOT in the evening. Lots of things can trigger this sort of behavior. Stress, low blood sugar, and insufficient protein (lots of research showing the brain can stimulate appetite if it requires more protein, same way it does for regulating glucose levels) are…
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I think macro-nutrient ratios are the wrong way to look at this honestly. There are plenty of examples of societies, in modern day and in the past, the subsist on a wide variety of ratios from very low carb/high fat to very high carb/low fat. Don't know that I'd recommend that high of protein as most literature I've read…
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I'm a bit leery of spike days, I use to do them but the more I get into nutritional/metabolic biochemistry the less convinced I am that they serve any real physical purpose. If you find dieting stressful I wholeheartedly think its a great idea b/c you don't feel as deprived. The "slower metabolism' explanation is also only…
