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Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #59: What I Eat and Why: The Very Low Carb Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD)

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I eat a Very Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD) because I want to lose weight, and do it in a healthy way, and because I want it to be...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #58: What is Dietary Ketosis?

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Fasting ketosis occurs “after a few days of fasting,” “when liver glycogen stores are depleted” and “the body shifts from a glucose-based ...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #57: What is Ketogenic Nutrition?

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A few months ago a very well read fellow blogger, Beth Mazur, commented on a post of mine. She said she shared my view that as lay bloggers...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #56: Metabolic Disregulation

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Readers of Dr. Kurt Harris’s Archevore website may have noticed that at the end of the Archevore Diet tab there is a footnote, the last c...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #55: The Beleaguered Gary Taubes

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I’ve just reread Gary Taubes’s “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat,” first published March 31, 2001 in Science and available in PDF format on...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #54: Loren Cordain, Robb Wolf and Kurt Harris

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What do these three guys have in common? If you said Paleolithic nutrition, you would only get an argument from Kurt Harris. Although he st...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

The Nutrition Debate #53: On the Digestion and Absorption of Food

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Food digestion physiology varies between individuals and with the composition and size of a meal. There are other factors, but a primer on ...
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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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