http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/saturated-fat-debate/

Nothing goes to the waist more than a big carb- rich meal, in fact when I have done this in the past my face felt fat even or at least bloated . The greater it is on the glycemic index the worse it is for the waist and heart .

Carb heavy meals especially for breakfast make me feel like complete crap.

Take Care,

Razwell

Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. Big carb meals make a lot of people feel bloated.

Nah, you’re doing it okay. You may get a tiny bit of oxidized cholesterol, but not nearly as much as if you cook them until they’re like rubber, the way my mother likes them.

Omega-6 Polyunsaturated fats have been associated with a number of health issues, cancer being one of them. (On a side note, why is it so darn hard to find a mayo that doesn’t use soy bean oil!)

Eggs are a big part of my breakfast and I do feel satiated longer when I include them, but are they not high in Omega 6’s?

How do you feel about their inclusion? They definitely have a lot of pros, but the omega-6 factor seems to be a bit of a concern. I can’t see us as a species eating eggs until we had some sort of vessel to cook things in. I wonder how long they have been a part of our diet.

Your thoughts?

I wouldn’t worry about it. I looked up eggs in the USDA database of foods, and the amounts of omega-6 are minuscule. Omega-6 fats are essential fats, so we do need them. Problem is that we get way, way more than we need in the standard American diet, mainly from vegetable fats. I would say eat away on the eggs.

The authors claim what they said 25 years ago holds true today. To prevent coronary heart diease, we must lower intake/abstain from meat, dairy products, egg yolks, and processed sugars in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes. What are we to make of this affirmation of traditional advice?

Perhaps you did not make the right decision, especially if you’re going to panic every time you read a study (or a report of a study) that appears to invalidate your decision. The study published in JAMA is an observational study and means absolutely nothing. It doesn’t matter that the people writing the commentary on they study make like it’s the second coming. It isn’t. It’s a simple observational study that means nada.

Besides, more often than not, cholesterol levels fall on low-carb diets, which means that even if this study were meaningful (which it isn’t), it wouldn’t invalidate a low-carb diet.

It’s impossible to tell without doing a body composition analysis.

I guess they inferred it from all the groups of bodybuilders (who eat enormous amounts of protein) they’ve seen gaggled around dialysis centers.

“My friend Polly who I walked with this morning has her BS in Nutritional Science and I was talking a little bit about my phase 1 diet and how good I’ve done so far with her and she said that majority of Nutritionalists do not like the low carb diet as a lifestyle, because it leads to kidney failure and then causes (due to the kidney’s) heart failure. So you might not like it as much once you’re in it if the professors are teaching you the opposite of what you love and have passion for.”

I told them today I might go back to school to be a nutritionist. But I guess she has a point, how would I get through all the BS I’d have to learn but don’t agree with? Might have to wait another 20 years for that one…

Jesus did indeed weep.

I think your site should be shut down as being subversive. Not only have learned to look askance at the main stream media reports on diet, but now I am even paying close attention to the media reporting on social issues and the presidential race. Now, I look at the abstracts, the data AND the conclusions on global warming and energy development and a host of other issues. How dare you make us think! I want my happy ignorance back and my blind faith in authority!

(Mock)Indignant

That’s probably the nicest compliment I’ve ever had. Thanks very much.

MRE