Type 2 Nutrition

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #25: Understanding Your Lipid Panel

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As has been pointed out with each column, I am not a doctor or a health care professional, and I do not offer dietary or health-related advi...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #24: What About Cholesterol?

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And what about dietary cholesterol? Again, quoting from Mary Enig, PhD, and Sally Fallon, authors of “The Skinny on Fats, “Here, too, the pu...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #23: The Benefits of Saturated Fats

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The benefits of saturated fat? To admit to such a belief is surely heretical, so I do not expect my reader(s) to commit such apostasy “on fa...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #22: Too Much Omega 6; Too Little Omega 3

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If you haven’t heard about fish oil supplements, like the caveman in the Geico commercial, you’ve been living under a rock. Fish oil, especi...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #21: The Dangers of Polyunsaturated Fats

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For the last fifty years we have been told to eat less saturated fat and cholesterol and to exercise more, and we (collectively, as a popula...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #20: Know Your Dietary Fats: Saturated and Unsaturated

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I am about to embark on a mini-series on fats, and this may be a little dense for many of my readers (assuming I have many readers). I can a...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Nutrition Debate #19: The Archevore Way of Eating a la Dr. Kurt G. Harris, MD

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I mentioned in my last column that I had a “peripheral interest” in Paleolithic Nutrition and in Dr. Kurt Harris’s Archevore Way of Eating i...
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I was diagnosed a Type 2 diabetic in 1986. I started a Very Low Carb diet (Atkins Induction) in 2002 to lose weight. I didn’t realize at the time that it would put my diabetes in clinical remission, or that I would be able to give up almost all of my oral diabetes meds. I also didn’t understand that, as I lost weight and continued to eat Very Low Carb, my blood lipids would dramatically improve (doubling my HDL and cutting my triglycerides by 2/3rds) and that my blood pressure would drop from 130/90 to 110/70 on the same meds. Over the years I changed from Atkins to the Bernstein Diet (designed for diabetics) and, altogether lost 187 pounds. I later regained some but have managed to keep more than 150 pounds off for more than 20 years. As long as I eat Very Low Carb, I am not hungry and I have lots of energy.My goal, as long as I have excess body fat, is to remain continuously in a mildly ketogenic state, both for blood glucose regulation and continued weight loss. I expect that this regimen will continue to provide the benefits of reduced systemic inflammation, improved blood lipids and lower blood pressure as well.
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