“Compulsive sugar consumption is mediated by a different neural circuit than physiological, healthy eating.”
http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/appetite-control/
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/decoding-sugar-addiction-0129
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Nutritional ketosis – running on your fat stores and healthy fat fuels
I am in nutritional ketosis. Low levels of ketones in the bloodstream and a very low carbohydrate intake. Most of my body is running along very efficiently on ketones as a fuel source rather than glucose and carbohydrates. Only my and our red blood cells have to have glucose as a fuel source. It’s easier than you think.
There are more and more studies showing the benefits of this way of eating.
There is a proven role for nutritional ketosis in health, weight loss, diabetes, cancer, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, mental health, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disease. The more I research the topic the more evidence I find. Continue reading
Low Carb beats Low Fat Diets
Needing ‘proof’ to explain to people that eating a Low Carbohydrate way is better for you than Low Fat.
This has been studied over and over and consistently comes out with better results for weight loss. It is sustainable.
When you look at the cardiovascular risk factors, the most important Triglyceride levels tend to drop and the small dense LDL (bad cholesterol) particle numbers also drop. The good HDL numbers go up and there are generally no major changes in total cholesterol numbers. Those that follow this page know that I am not fussed by that cholesterol number. The other numbers are more important.
Cholesterol testing at http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/other-stuff/cholesterol-testing/
The review of 23 articles at
http://authoritynutrition.com/23-studies-on-low-carb-and-low-fat-diets/
http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/other-stuff/more-information/studies-on-low-carb-diets/
Mental health and dietary options
Diabetic patients are nearly 3 times more likely to have an ‘Affective Disorder’. This is a wide variety of common conditions including depression, personality disorders, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, migraine, chronic pain and panic disorders. Continue reading
Removing sugar sweetened beverages will help prevent the development of diabetes and obesity.
It is time to increase taxes on these items.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23763695
Obesity linked to osteoporosis.
For a few decades I have been informed that obesity is protective for osteoporosis. All that extra fat was producing estrogen and that was protective. All that load was good for the bones. Well – not so.
I think inflammation goes hand in hand with osteoporosis and new studies are showing that obesity is directly related to osteoporosis.
I see a lot of people who break their bones and when a big person goes to ground they can do a lot of damage. Add in osteoporosis and my day job as an Orthopaedic Surgeon is definitely getting more complex as time goes by.
Reducing inflammation and getting weight down will help. Cutting out the sugars is the first step down that path.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/…/…/11/26/ajcn.113.081778.abstract
How much sugar is in those lunch box sultana packs?
Who are we to believe? Coles or Sunbeam? 35% or 64.2% sugar for the ‘same’ Australian sultanas. Same dried fruit but different percentages. Hmmm
The Coles sultanas are 35.0 g/100g sugar and 76.4 g/100g carbohydrate.
The Sunbeam sultanas are 64.2 g/100g sugar and 69.0 g/100g carbohydrate. Continue reading
Why we need to keep low fat milk on the market.
You thought you would never hear that from me.
My latest indulgence – a glass of full cream! Full FAT. The only ingredient is cream. No additives. No thickeners. Just natural Tasmanian cream.
42.8% fat and only 1.3% sugars and they will be predominantly lactose. The protein is at 0.9%. Cream makes a perfect fuel for Low Carb and Health Fat eating (LCHF).
I have come across this local cream available in northern Tasmania and it is indulgent. I am not lactose intolerant and most Caucasian descendants cope well with dairy produce. I am also not Paleo and see the benefits of dairy in our evolution.
I spoke to the Ashgrove distributor this week and quizzed him on the cream. It is made when they take the cream off to make low-fat milk. Simple as that. If we don’t produce low-fat and skim milk varieties I will not get as much cream.
So to keep me happy we need to have a population still believing in low fat options.
The best thing is that they are producing a 2 litre container. It’s available from Youngs Veggie Shed and IGA supermarkets around northern Tasmania. All you need to do is ask if they have the 2 litres in stock.
I have warned Ashgrove that they might get a few orders this week. 🙂
If you are not here in northern Tasmania then start asking your local dairy producers to supply into the market.
‘Bone’ appetit
PS: No freebies or kickbacks for me on this one in case you are wondering. I am just owning up to my latest ‘hit’. It was ‘super’ milk before with 2/3 full cream milk with 1/3 cream. That remains a great snack fuel for children and active individuals.
PPS Drinking ‘glasses’ of cream will prevent weight loss so be careful of the amount on this.
More on appetite control at http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/appetite-control/
Starting to look like the food pyramid?
Fourteen million Australians are overweight or obese.
The huge amounts of refined carbohydrates we are consuming in the form of bread, pasta and rice are converted into fat. Our bodies turn that carbohydrate into glucose and we can only ‘use’ about a teaspoon of glucose in our bodies at one time. The rest is converted into fat. Sugar is a carbohydrate too. Added sugar adds to the burden of excessive fat production.
The prevalence of obesity in Australia has more than doubled in the past 20 years. Continue reading
Why we need to keep low fat milk on the market
You thought you would never hear that from me.
My latest indulgence – a glass of full cream! Full FAT. The only ingredient is cream. No additives. No thickeners. Just natural Tasmanian cream.
42.8% fat and only 1.3% sugars and they will be predominantly lactose. The protein is at 0.9%. Cream makes a perfect fuel for Low Carb and Health Fat eating (LCHF). Continue reading