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Qalorie.com can be a very useful app for you there you can keep track of your foods, calories, exercise and NUTRIENTS that way you can be sure you are giving your body exactly what it needs to stay healthy and achieve your weight loss goals and also get help from certified nutritionists in case of any doubt.View Thread








Many folks on www.drfuhrman.com (Dr. Fuhrman's diet, most recent is "The End of Dieting") report an end to their migraines on the diet. I have been following the diet for 7 years, for heart health, cancer risk reduction etc. A similar diet is www.drmcdougall.com. His most recent book is "The Starch Solution." There are plenty of side effects, all beneficial.
The high protein, low cab diet appears to be the least sustainable of the diets. Dr. Atkins died obese, and had heart disease. His family disputes that he had heart disease. They say he had a virus that attacked the heart. But when he died, the family went to court to prevent an autopsy or public disclosure of the coroner's report, which is otherwise public. So, the family purposely prevented an opportunity to prove to the world that Dr Atkins did not have heart disease. Then the family turned around and sold the Atkins name of hundreds of millions of dollars, as a healthy diet, and they called others unethical for releasing some information that Dr. Atkins had heart disease.
Jimmy Moore wrote a book about the high protein diet that he followed, and went on a nation wide tour giving speeches about the diet. Then Jimmy gained all the weight back!
I know other people who lost 50 pounds on a high protein diet, but I don't know anyone who kept it off.
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I also wonder about the low fat plant diet. Other than certain well known low fat high carb plant based diet gurus, I have never seen a low fat diet that had a fat level below thirty percent. Unless one specifies exactly what people are eating I remain skeptical.
I just had an 88 year old cousin die from spinal cancer which I believe started out as prostate cancer. One often hears that you die with prostate cancer but not from it but in this case the prostate cancer did lead to his death.
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I read that the elderly in nursing homes have less hip fracture with a combination of calcium and vitamin D. That in the elderly, more protein means less bone fracture. I also read that the eskimos and scandinavians have what might be the highest rate of osteoporosis.
The eskimo eat plenty of protein and also bones from the fish which means they are getting plenty of protein and calcium. Of course they do not get vitamin D from plenty of sunshine but they do consume fish and oils which have D.
Scandinavians consume lots of dairy.
Bantu women consume only about 350 mgs calcium per day, give birth to and nurse several children and do not get osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis and hip fracture has been increasing all over the world except in some places where it increased then leveled out.
One article said fruits and vegetables are known to help prevent osteoporosis.
If the rates of hip and spine fracture are increasing in the US then it has to be mostly among meat, fat and dairy eaters primarily because there are lots more of them and only a very few percent of the population are vegan. So go to any hospital or nursing home and count the number of hip fractures and determine what percentage of patients are vegan and what percent meat and dairy eaters. There should be a smaller number of vegan fracture patients simply because there are far fewer vegans. If there are lots of them compared to meat eaters, or lots of them percentage wise compared to all vegans then that says something too.
If protein is important in preventing osteoporosis and improving bone health does that mean that beans and other high protein plant foods will do the job as well? Or not?
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Maybe Heretic can explain that.
I'm certainly not going to change my diet based on that but it clearly points out there are some things we don't yet understand about the Masai studies and diet in general.View Thread



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I'm not sure but I don't think Fuhrman allows fish.
Both plant based diets show success but it was the ultra low fat diet that Essee used in his famous trial to stop heart disease.That does not necessarliy make it the better diet just the better diet for heart disease.View Thread



Crow, if the human body needs animal fat, what would the consequences be of not eating it? So far as I know, humans need two essential fats, omega sixes and omega threes, both of which are obtained from plants. Everything else we can manufacture in our own bodies. Oatmeal, for instance, is about fifteen per cent fat. But I have never read anywhere of the necessity of consuming animal fat other than as a source of storage calories for times of food scarcity which those of us in this country do not have to worry about. It also might help keep arctic dwellers warm but they are not known for good health or long life.
Do you have a specific reason or a study you can point to for believing we need animal fat? Or is it just a feeling you have?
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Those were the key messages of a no-holds-barred session on dietary sodium and hypertension earlier this week at HYPERTENSION 2014 , the joint conference of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and theInternational Society of Hypertension (ISH).
Any "controversy" over whether dietary salt is a cause of heart disease and stroke is the result of weak research methodology or commercial interference, Dr Norm Campbell (Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Calgary) and DrGraham MacGregor (Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, UK) argued here.
"One of the challenges," said Campbell, "is to recognize that most of the effort to reduce dietary salt is not based on 100% conclusive data from multiple randomized trials, with hard outcomes, as we might expect from the pharmaceutical industry. It's an incomplete database, and that allows fertile ground for controversy. . . . In addition, because there is so much salt in our environment, we don't have a lot of studies where people are consuming less than 2300 mg of sodium per day."
Related to that, he added, is the glut of low-quality studies that have relied on flawed measures of sodium consumption. Both Campbell and MacGregor roundly dismissed the use of spot urine analyses as a hopeless means of estimating sodium consumption, coupled with the difficulties of accurately measuring blood pressure in large population studies.
When a member of the audience pointed to the PURE analysis showing that most of the world eats much higher levels of sodium than those recommended by most international organizations, MacGregor and Campbell leaped on this as an example of a study that had radically failed to measure salt in an appropriate fashion, even devising a new "formula" to estimate salt intake because even spot urine testing had been inadequate. "Please let [PURE principal investigator Dr> Salim Yusuf [McMaster University, Hamilton, ON> know that he should stop using spot urine analysis," MacGregor said curtly.
Poor-Quality Studies Often Reflect Commercial Meddling
"It's also important that we recognize the extent of commercial interference," Campbell continued. "This is a growing area of research. There are some academics who have financial interests in the salt and food industries [who have published misleading papers>, and we have very prominent journals, I'll mention JAMA in particular, that publish studies that probably would have [never been printed> if a medical student had tried to publish them" and that appear to be hoping to increase citations and publicity by publishing contradictory papers.
But in fact, when international and national organizations have done rigorous reviews of the literature, omitting low-quality data, they've come up with recommendations that clearly support lowering salt intake to prevent stroke and cardiac diseases, Campbell said. Doctors have a responsibility to acquaint themselves with these recommendations, then educate their peers and patients, he added.View Thread



But I have heard people that take larger doses,measured in mg sometimes have problems....so stick to mcgs.View Thread



But I need to gain weight so is it necessarily harmful to me?
Walnut oil has been shown in some studies to have a positive effect on the endothelium so its possible they may be in a different category from most other vegetable oils.
I can only eat a limited amount of nuts and beans due to the sugar content and the fermentation they cause.But Ill try increasing the number of walnuts to three per day(each meal)and give up the oil.I also eat one brazil nut for the selenium... and one almond....per day.....and a very few pumpkin seeds (for the zn)....also one tablespoon of freshly ground flax seed.View Thread



Very few will go on a low sodium diet just for prevention.They do so because of a problem.This is something to keep in mind when evaluating studies that conclude too little sodium is harmful and that low sodium diets are harmful.View Thread




POM juice can extend the PSA doubling time from 18 to 54 months.(from memory).As PSA gets above 20 the odds for advanced aggressive cancer goes way up especially if it stays above 20.
Google Dirk Benedict/prostate cancer.He had prostate cancer and beat it with the McDougall diet.He was a star in Battlestar Gallactica and The A Team.View Thread



I would like to see Dr Ornish do his research again this time only using flax seed with one group and another group only following his vegan diet.This research concludes its the flax seed and it would be informative to see if Dr Ornish draws the same conclusion.View Thread






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I was thinking about my own family members who lived past ninety. They were definitely meat eaters. But they ate abstemiously. Also no one I can think of consumed dairy in the form of milk except for a little in coffee and if they ate cheese it was just a sprinkling of grated hard cheese on pasta. Lots of vegetables and salads and crusty bread. I remember my grandfather only liked meat on the bone and not very much of it. For lunch I would see him eat Italian bread and onions and some wild greens he picked. Definitely not vegan but certainly never meat and fat three times a day like many do. I heard one speaker say even carnivores in the wild don't eat meat three times a day.
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