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A low carb
diet generally provides rapid and sustained weight loss,
more energy, lower cholesterol, lowered blood pressure
and stabilized blood sugar.
On a low-carb diet it
is not necessary to count calories and you may eat as
often and as much as you want. The idea is not to stuff
yourself, but to eat until you're no longer hungry.
Because fatty foods are very satisfying, your appetite
stays under control. Eating a high level of fat actually
causes you to lose weight faster than if you were
fasting! During a fast, your body thinks it is starving,
so it kicks into a very high efficiency state of
metabolism. This slows down weight loss. But in a high
fat, low carb diet, your body is not being starved and
metabolism is maintained at a normal level.
Scientific
References Related to a
Low Carbohydrate Eating
Philosophy:
DIABETES:
"These results suggest
that a high protein, low-carbohydrate diet, with
nutritional supplementation can be useful to reduce
several cardiovascular risk factors in obese adult onset
diabetic patients including weight, blood sugar and
lipid parameters. There is also no evidence that the
nutritional regimen adversely affects kidney
function."*
*Reference: Edman,
JS et al. Journal of the American College of Nutrition,
to be published in October 1998.
"It
seems prudent to avoid the use of low-fat,
high-carbohydrate diets containing moderate amounts of
sucrose in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes
mellitus."*
*Reference: Coulston,
A.M. et al, American Journal of Medicine 1987 Feb;
82(2):213-220.
CANCER:
"Sugar consumption is
positively associated with cancer in humans and test
animals.* Tumors are know to be enormous sugar
absorbers."
Sally Fallon,
Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Beasley,
Joseph D, MD and Jerry J Swift, MA The
Kellogg Report, 1989 The Institute of Health Policy and
Practice, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 129.
"Johns Hopkins
researchers have found evidence that some cancer cells
are such incredible sugar junkies that they'll
self-destruct when deprived of glucose, their biological
sweet of choice."
Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions' news release
"Scientists have long suspected that
the cancer cell's heavy reliance on glucose, its main
source of strength and vitality, also could be one of
its great weaknesses, and Dang's
new results are among the most direct proofs yet of the
idea."*
*Reference: Shim H,
Dang C, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
USA, 1998 Feb 17; 95(4): 1511-1516.
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:
"Abnormalities in glucose and insulin metabolism are
commonly found in patients with high blood pressure
[1-9]'& 'there is evidence suggesting that defects
in glucose and insulin metabolism may play a role in
both the origin and the natural history of high blood
pressure."*
*Reference: Reaven
G. et al, The American Journal of Medicine 1989; 87(supp
6A):6A-2S
"More plagues than
heart disease can be laid at sugar's door. A survey of
medical journals in the 1970's produced findings
implicating sugar as a causative factor in kidney
disease, liver disease, shortened life-span, increased
desire for coffee and tobacco, as well as
atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease."*
Sally Fallon,
Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Howell,
Edward, MD Enzyme Nutrition 1985 Avery Publishing Group,
Inc
STROKE:
"Intakes of fat,
saturated fat, and monosaturated
fat were associated with reduced risk of ischemic stroke
in men."*
(design and setting from the Framingham Heart
Study)
*Reference: Gillman M.
et al, Journal of the American Medical Association,
1997; 78(24): 2145-2150
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