“Richard Veech warned against ketosis in people with pre-existing heart conditions since the elevation of free fatty acids in blood affects “the transcription of uncoupling proteins,” which can induce cardiac abnormalities like unstable angina and cardiac arrhythmia.”

Found this on http://books.google.com/

Hunger: An Unnatural History
By Sharman Apt Russell
Published by Basic Books, 2005
ISBN 0465071635, 9780465071630
262 pages

That said, it’s kind of sketchy and who knows what the original context of the conversation was.

I have personally had some palpitations, PJCs (premature AV junction contractions), while on very low carbohydrate diets. I think it may be electrolyte imbalance, due to water loss. I find it virtually disappeared after sprinkling Morton’s Light Salt (a good source of potassium) on water, and on foods. These PJCs are benign, I found after having stress test at a cardiologist and a couple of ECGs. Additionally I had a CT Heartscan done (score: 0).

This is one of those tools that can be used for great good…..or can be a tremendous waste of time!!! Looking forward to lots of good from you!

I hope I’m up to the task.

http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2009/05/fake_journals_the_internet_and.php

If you don’t feel the journals are talking about your drug enough, well then just make your own journal!!! They DID do a great job on the name…

Yes, I’ve got this one on its own special tab awaiting a post. I didn’t figure a tweet (loathsome word, that) would get the full measure of my disgust across.

“Richard Veech warned against ketosis in people with pre-existing heart conditions since the elevation of free fatty acids in blood affects “the transcription of uncoupling proteins,” which can induce cardiac abnormalities like unstable angina and cardiac arrhythmia.”

Found this on http://books.google.com/

Hunger: An Unnatural History
By Sharman Apt Russell
Published by Basic Books, 2005
ISBN 0465071635, 9780465071630
262 pages

That said, it’s kind of sketchy and who knows what the original context of the conversation was.

I have personally had some palpitations, PJCs (premature AV junction contractions), while on very low carbohydrate diets. I think it may be electrolyte imbalance, due to water loss. I find it virtually disappeared after sprinkling Morton’s Light Salt (a good source of potassium) on water, and on foods. These PJCs are benign, I found after having stress test at a cardiologist and a couple of ECGs. Additionally I had a CT Heartscan done (score: 0).

P.S. What is your opinion on the swine flu epidemic, Dr. Eades?

Pretty mild. Pretty overblown.

this isn’t about twitter (good for you….it takes me a very long time to accept new technology and i only recently bought my first ipod and dvd player so you’re light years ahead of me!) but i do have a question. i’ve been loving your blog and the low carb way but my body has taken a strange proportion. i’ve lost a good amount of weight and inches and am quite trim in my chest, belly and waist (ribs and clavical are clearly visible) but i still have way too much fat on my hips, thighs and upper arms…i’ve begun to look like a bosc pear. i do weight lifting and lotte berk routines at a ballet barre so i am building muscle but i’ve got this nasty fat that won’t budge. i eat meat/fish/poultry, vegetables, nuts/seeds, very small amounts of cheese, fruit and unsweetened greek yougurt. i’ve considered cutting out the fruit and yogurt but i seem to get very lightheaded and exhausted when i do. i’m 49 years old, 5′ 8″ tall and about 155 pounds…definitely in perimenopause but feel terrific and take no meds. any suggestions?

many thanks.
ida

The one thing that can be said in its favour is that when we are placed on a Heart Healthy Low Fat High Carb diet this generally worsens our numbers and greatly speeds the diabetic progression in exactly the same way that a low carb diet doesn’t.

Now a vanishingly small number of diabetics actually do seem to make a low fat diet work, but they are well outnumbered by the rest of us. Proportions may be different in a non-carbohydrate-intolerant population, it’s plausible that a HED diet improves on the SAD but it is certainly non-optimal compared to something along the Protein Power/Primal balance

Jana:
“As far as I can see, the ‘high-everything’ diet also restricts a lot. Actually only sat fat, starches and calories are not limited. For example, Kwasniewski differs from this diet more or less only by not allowing too many starches (but they are also the preferred carbs in his diet).”

But other diets restrict one or more of those things (carbs, fats, calories). So the HED is unique and it’s not really a diet. It’s ANTI-diet or NON-diet. There is no reason to limit anything, like JK does. The body will heal much faster by eating High-Everything (carbs, fat, and calories) – with the exception of refined sugar, HFCS, artificial sweeteners, and junk fats (PUFAs and Trans Fats).

“May I ask, which foods have you been eating on this diet?”

I eat anything and everything with great digestion, energy, focus, and attitude. That’s the whole point of HED – getting to where you can eat everything (gluten, wheat, lactose, casein, potatoes, beans, fiber, fruit, 100% fruit juiice, honey, maple syrup, occasional sugar). You are not dieting by my definition of the word, which is to “avoid foods, restrict *ANY* macro-nutrients, or restrict calories.”

I can eat a dozen different foods at the same time and have perfect digestion, no bloating, calm stable energy, no fatigue or indigestion or anything. And I am NOT the only person eating HED who can – the HED has many followers who attained the health I have or discovered they already had it when they gave up dieting. People have improved their health rapidly and dramatically, eliminating allergies and chemical sensitivity, food intolerances, and other problems simply by eating the HED. And you will notice that the final rule of the diet says you should try to overcome the rules. That is what brings you to an entirely new level of health – the level where the rules fade, and you have even more freedom than the HED has given you from the start.

Also, Jana, sugars are not restricted if you can tolerate them. People are free to eat fruits, 100% fruit juice, grapefruit juice, orange juice, honey, maple syrup, and other natural sugars. The whole myth that fructose is damaging is bullshit. It only applies to people with a crappy slow metabolism caused by dieting (eliminating foods or restricting macro-nutrients or restricting calories by any deliberate or conscious means). The HED is not a diet. It’s a way to overcome dieting and get to the level of health where you can TRULY eat high-everything (high-fat, high sugar, high starch, high calories, and even some alcohol and other sugar and other things perhaps). Basically, the term diet doesn’t do it justice. It is a tool for overcoming diets.

Also, the HED is not a high meat or high protein diet. Protein should not be more than 20% of calories, preferably more in the neighborhood of 6-10% like the human milk contains or the Kitava Diet. I feel that the HED will spare protein strongly by several mechanisms (namely being high in carbs, fat, and calories).

The Myth of the High-Protein Diet

NutritionData – Milk, human, mature, fluid

In short, the HED is not a diet. It’s a way of overcoming diets and living your life free of dietary rules and dogma. I hope you will consider the ideas with a calm and open mind. Read the testimonies that have already been given on Matt’s blog and the HED website. Forget about stupid rat studies cited by people like Stephan and Peter. Rats can’t tell you how they feel. Go with your heart and mind and instincts.

The HED will bury all other diets.

Join us or watch us surpass your health by an increasing margin.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/High-Everything-Diet/

Bruce

Okay. This is four or five comments on this subject. I’m sure most people who follow the comments have seen it by now, so I would rather you not use the comments section of this blog to troll for followers. You’re welcome to comment on anything and everything anytime, but I’m deleting any more comments proselytizing for the HED.

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-chinese-agribiz-giant-eyes-smithfield-ta

Gotta admit, I did and still poke fun at Twitter and ‘Tweeting’ and all that, but the way you are using the resource is truly outstanding. I check it often.

This, however, although ostensibly a good thing, spooks me a little bit:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/twitter.locked.in/index.html