Comments on: Low-Carb Cruisin’

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:51:27 +0000

I love the picture of you and Jimmie on stage. It looks like Jimmie is about ready to go out and whoop some heckler’s ass.

We were too busy heckling each other to worry about hecklers we didn’t know.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:36:55 +0000

It’s great to hear that Sweden is having the whole fat carbs and cholesterol debate.
Out of boredom and interest I decided to read what diabetes NZ had to say about sugar and carbs, and I found it’s extremely contradictory.
Things such as:

“Diabetes is caused by having too much glucose (sugar) in the blood.”
But then on another page,
“‘Blood sugar’ and sugar in food are not the same and this is what creates the confusion. It is important to note that sugar does not cause diabetes.”

And apparently this was written by a registered dietician. Tragic.
(then she goes on to talk about including sugar in your diet)

And related to your newest post, I searched Uffe Ravnskov in my university database, and found this interesting collaboration
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/5/1/9

I believe that was an open letter from the doctors listed to the medical community at large, trying to convince them they need to rethink diabetes treatment.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:12:51 +0000

Sometimes I want to move to Australia because of how hard it is to actually get good food. Raw milk, grass-fed meat, organic eggs, it’s all out of my reach in this desert casino Nevada town I’m in. My parents ignore me when I tell them to order these things because of how expensive it is, (which it probably wouldn’t be if the grass was subsidized instead of the corn) and the mere fact that it’s illegal to get raw milk in my state is downright punch-worthy to whoever thought raw milk was more dangerous then pasteurized homogenized mutant milk. or to whoever thought we should give grain to the cows and chickens, or whoever thought “Hey, the cows are sick because of the feed, let’s give them drugs instead of grass.” Or whoever thought “hey, this high fructose corn syrup is cheap, let’s put it in bread, spaghetti sauce, and BABY FORMULA.”

It just drives me to the point of a headache with all the horribly stupid ideas that have been put into law, into the food, and into us. I feel like just upping and leaving (if that’s the right way to put that) instead of even trying to deal with this country that thinks the key to health is getting rid of raw milk, red meat, and butter, raw, fed with grass, the way nature intended, and replacing it with cheap, artificial, diseased food. But from what I’ve heard countries all over the world are giving grain to the cows. Too bad we can’t colonize Mars yet.

I have my eyes on New Zealand, land of the grass-fed cows. And if my government keeps saddling my kids with trillions of dollars in debts, I’ll have two reasons to go somewhere else.

By: Tracee

Tracee — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:30:24 +0000

Do keep us informed on your adventures with the blood glucose meter. I was almost tempted to get one myself after reading blood sugar 101. I’m going to put that off for another year and go strict with Specific Carb Diet (grain-free tater free)for a year and then add back the gf grains and see how I do (for other health issues). In the meantime it would be cool to see someone else’s experience with it.

Dr. Davis recommends the meter as way of discovering hidden carbs in the foods we eat. His shot up after a salad with balsamic vinegar, for example. I was stunned when I checked my BG after eating a gyros salad at a fast-food Greek place: 152. I can only figure there must be some kind of starch in the gyros, or perhaps the cucumber sauce had a lot of sweetener in it. I won’t be having that meal again anytime soon.

By: Dave, RN

Dave, RN — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:45:28 +0000

Wish I could have gone! Maybe next year… I just spent the week in California visiting a collage my daughter wants to go to (Biola). We did some sightseeing too. One thing I noticed is that when I ordered a hamburger there wrapped in lettuce, they all said “oh, protein style”. Here in Texas they’ve still to learn what that is. But, whenever I tried to get coffee with full fat cream, nobody ha it. Even the fancy coffee houses. In fact, they did not even have full fat milk!

Yup, “protein style” was pretty common when we lived in California.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:11:07 +0000

Fred, you wrote:

”I’m giving Fat Head to the fat head who is teaching my 10 year old daughter about nutrition. Hopefully he’ll show it to the class and we’ll have 23 new smart people on the earth.”

You didn’t get into this to change the world, why start now?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:29:18 +0000

Oh I’m just looking for stupid things to call the doctor, mumbling to myself as I walk around my house. I don’t hold anything against the man for his race obviously. It’s just my Mom is such a mess already that a low-fat plant-based diet and a lowering in cholesterol, which is what the doctor wants, is the last thing she needs for her health. And yet the doctors we trust to help us get well are only making us worse. It simply grinds me. She’s already going through menopause, feed her like a rabbit and I think the house is going to fall down.

I’m with you on the anger. I had some choice words for my dad’s cardiologist, who kept trying to talk my mom into putting him back on Lipitor, even as his muscles weakened and his memory went south.

By: Jimmy Moore

Jimmy Moore — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:30:30 +0000

Actually Tom, we open our low-carb cruise meetings to the people on the cruise to just pop in to listen to the lectures, too. Since we don’t charge for the conference itself, the more the merrier. We picked up a few like that in 2009 and will certainly encourage it to anyone who wants to learn the truth.

Ah, didn’t know that. Next year, I’m going to suggest to people I meet that they join us for the lectures.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:49:52 +0000

Travis,

You are experiencing what is called reactive hypoglycemia. Simply stated, your body is used to a certain amount of carbohydrate and has a matching amount of insulin ready to dump whenever you eat.. but now you are eating a lower amount of carb, but your body hasn’t adjusted your insulin dump yet. I wrote about here (http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/reactive-hypoglycemia.html) on my website because I think it is one of the scarier temporary side effects of a low carb diet that none of the books seem to mention much. I had to figure mine out for myself.. my doctor was no help. It’s a temporary condition, and will go away as your body adjusts to the lower amount of carbohydrate. Hope this helps.

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:15:20 +0000

.. and of course there was this FANTASTIC movie! I have shared “Fat Head” with a few of my friends. They LOVED it and want to buy their own copies.

YOU, dear sir, did a GREAT job! Thank you so much for giving your time to us!

Delighted to be a part of it, Becky.