Don’t restrict your calories quite so much. When you go low-carb, your body must make the transition from relying on regular infusions of glucose for fuel to relying on fatty acids. It can take a couple of weeks, and during that time, you may feel foggy or tired. If you’re also going very low on calories, you may create a situation where you’re running low on available fuel.

You can’t get her to adopt a diet she doesn’t want to try. Show her Fat Head, give her a copy of “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes. Then let her go.

Not a fair trade for the UK. We get all those good BBC programs, and you end up with lousy nutrition guidelines and U.S.-subsidized corn syrup.

could be because my wife posts them.

not processed, no grains, little sugar…….not necessarily low carb vegetables or fruitless but most should fit the bill. your blood sugar will thank you.

In studies that have actually proved reversal of severe heart disease such as Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD study that has been on going since 1985, the patients have relatively low HDL levels. It seems that your body does not have a requirement to produce a larger amount of HDL when not consuming a diet based around saturated fat and low in whole plant foods. Triglycerides were also not super low. While these numbers may have some importance, this study showed a total cholesterol of below 150 and LDL below 100 (or maybe even 80) is what is desirable to prevent and even reverse heart disease.
http://www.heartattackproof.com/reversal01.htm

Although low-fat vegetarian diets have been proven to reverse severe heart disease and other chronic illnesses such as type II diabetes, there is room for improvement as these diets tend to greatly restrict nut and seed consumption and also tend to focus too much on grains rather than on high nutrient plant foods that would lower blood sugar levels, triglycerides and LDL levels even further.
A more aggressive vegetable based diet, with fruit and nuts can lower LDL to below levels that can be achieved on medication. You largely ignored this study in my last post, so I have attached a direct link to the study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11288049

The human cholesterol average is not 220! You always tend to ignore billions of people around the would when it suits you bias views! You will also need to make up some excuse as to why so many other governments around the world also recommend restricting the foods you recommend as well as their recommendations to keep cholesterol below similar levels.

“Weve never had a heart attack in Framingham in 35 years in anyone who had a cholesterol level under 150. Three-quarters of the people who live on the face of this Earth never have a heart attack. They live in Asia, Africa, and South America, and their cholesterols are all around 150.h Dr. William Castelli, Medical Director of the Framingham Cardiovascular Institute in Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School
The first link also pointed out how 35% of the people who had coronary artery disease in Framingham actually had a total cholesterol level between 150 and 200, showing that this recommended level of 200 is still far to high.

From the China Study where “Coronary artery disease mortality was 16.7-fold greater for US men and 5.6-fold greater for US women than for their Chinese counterparts” and other chronic diseases as a whole is far lower than the US:
The average level of blood cholesterol was only 127 mg/dl, which is almost 100 points less than the American average (215 mg/dl). …Some counties had average levels as low as 94 mg/dl. …For two groups of about twenty-five women in the inner part of China, average blood cholesterol was at the amazingly low level of 80 mg/dl.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9860369

As for using bias sources, this is really rich coming from someone who uses groups who “protect farmers” such as the Weston A Price Foundation to try and prove their view.

And for misinterpretations and failing to mentioning things, what about a certain movie who tried to bash Nathan Pritikin’s and failed to mention that his autopsy results that were published in the New England Journal of Medicine proved that he reversed his heart disease that he had prior to starting his diet. This movie also tried to blame that he commuted suicide due to his low fat diet rather than the fact that he chose suicide over going onto life support as he was deteriorating from his long battle with leukemia that began long before starting his diet.
http://gorillaprotein.com/Nathan_Pritikin.html

How exactly is “Pritikin came down with leukemia and committed suicide” misleading? Are you actually that stupid, or merely suggesting everyone else is?

If you want to live on a vegan diet of nuts and twigs and force your cholesterol down to 120 in the belief that you’ll live longer, please, be my guest. But you’re operating on a belief system that is more religion than science. If you want to keep wasting your typing fingers trying to convince me I should live on a vegan diet and get my cholesterol down to, oh, 100 or so, once again, be my guest. But since I’ve done the research, including reading your vegan propaganda sites whenever I need a laugh, don’t get your hopes up.

http://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/showthread.php?t=15386

a guy who gained 78 pounds in 6 months of which 46 pounds are muscle.
yes there was excess fat gained too, but as fat is easier to lose than muscle is to gain this was deemed acceptable.

also note the food intake was considerable and he was a very skinny 20 year old at the start, so arguably the best situation to be in to gain lots of muscle

I would suspect the biggest gains occur early on. That’s what happened in my case. I also noticed a difference in strength gains when I started drinking protein shakes after workouts.

Well, you know my opinion of the BMI …