Wondering if you have heard of or have come across information on the new SweetTree organic Palm Sugar…It is 100% produced from the flower nectar of coconut palms in Indonesia. It is low glycemic though not super low (35) and also it packs quite a nutrient punch (although thats relatively speaking in comparison with other sweeteners…this is not after all a bowl of veggies!). It is about 75% sucrose and remainder fructose/glucose. Would love to know what your thoughts are on this sweetener since it is going national with Whole Foods and is starting to be used by many manufacturers who are starting to question the perfection of Agave.
Best,
Ben Ripple

This product is basically the same as table sugar with a few vitamins and minerals thrown in. Table sugar is sucrose, which is half glucose and half fructose. This product contains half glucose and fructose, so it will work metabolically the same as table sugar. In my opinion, it should be avoided just a table sugar should be avoided.

And – how long can a person safely stay on induction. I’ve done 20-15 net carbs for 16 weeks now. Feel very good, not missing any foods, have lost 21 lbs., but am hearing I should being to up my carbs.

(By the way, I’m the post menopausal woman who was convinced the eating plan would not work for me!!! Am “eating crow” now (0 carbs, I’m sure)

Corky

Overall, I enjoyed the post and learned a lot from it.

To me (having read the original Swedish version), it is a good bit more substantial than M Kendrick’s Cholesterol con book (as for Colpo’s, I haven’t read it) – I have of course no business interest in it (and Uffe doesn’t exactly expect it to make him rich quick – he isn’t too happy about his publisher’s pricing policy but… At $29, it is at least cheaper than his older book, offered for the round sum of $232.96 )

Regards,

Nils Olof Carlin

I have Dr. Ravnskov’s new book. I can’t believe his old one is selling for over $200.

There is a nice article on the prostaglandin pathway, and the good role of arachidonic acid in this article “Tripping lightly down the prostaglandin pathway” from westonaprice.org

The firm I work for has bagels delivered every Monday morning as “treats.” Yesterday’s batch included several that are dyed bright green and rather repulsive looking. As of yet, no one has touched them.

I had to laugh at the two pictures of the vendors at the vegetarian booths. There are Vitamin Cottage ads on tv touting the healthy foods they sell and the people in them are the reverse, drawn-faced and bordering on emaciated. I’m not sure which is worse. Even hubby, who rarely pays attention to such things, commented to me that you’d think they’d find some healthier looking people to put in their ads.

I actually went slowly up and down every food aisle, looking at all the products for sale. Wow, it was actually sort of scary. I felt like I was in a foreign country almost. Row after row of Frankenfoods. When you walked in the door the first thing they had at the door was a huge display of “goodies” for St. Patrick’s day – all BAKED goods – cookies, cupcakes, cakes, and all virulently green with food dye. Yuck.

Me? I’m going out with friends to a local pub for the annual “all you can eat” corned beef and cabbage dinner. A perfect low carb meal as long as I avoid the potatoes and the Irish soda bread – as well as the *green* beer, LOL. Luckily avoiding those things is so easy to do.

Due to fructose’s effects on the liver-ergo-triglycerides – would you recommend staying away from fruit?

Reason I ask, I eat Paleo as does my wife, but she really loves sweet stuff and really goes all out on fruit, in lieu of chocolate etc etc

Actually, a little fructose – maybe 3-4 gm per day – helps the body deal better with glucose. The problem comes from eating way, way more than those 3-4 gm/day. A little fruit, with emphasis on the little, is probably a good thing. But overconsuming fruit can result in the consumption of a lot of fructose. If your wife is thin and healthy, then eating all the fruit she eats is obviously not causing her problems. If, on the other hand, your wife has a weight problem and/or other metabolic disorder, she might want to cut back on the fruits. Fruits were a part of the Paleolithic diet, but fruits then were consumed when they were in season, not all year. And the fruits then were not the giant, sugar-filled things they are today.