Healthy Eating Ideas in times of Covid-19 coronavirus

Been on this low carb diet now for 2 weeks or more. Still got a beer belly, must be the home-made plonk I made, a bit on the sweet side.

Reminds me of this...

2 weeks is a little premature. I have people who are following a low carb diet who say similar, however look out for changes such as looseness of clothing, wedding ring fit. Often this is what is noticed first of all. This is happening with Mrs Ash.

The Fat Kid Inside - This guy is half Filipino.

Are You Smarter than Your Doctor?

In some cases yes. This Dr is Australian but no matter, this applies globally except where some General Practitioners are proving otherwise.

You might be surprised how frequently this story crops up.

Clare Wilson also talks about it on a New Scientist podcast.

Eating healthy fats such as eggs, dairy and animal fats actually improve cholesterol levels. This is repeatedly happening and the NHS test results speak for themselves. They cannot be refuted though of course some do try. So the message is, go back to eating healthy fats, cut out the carbs and bring all metabolic markers into line. It works. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

He is his own worst enemy, he has been told to totally alter his lifestyle by his doc but disregarded medical advice and continues in self-destructive mode, c'est la vie

Remember. If you go Keto (less than 20 to 30 grams of carbs per day) you switch from being a glucose burner to a fat burner and your body uses fat for fuel. The weight drops off rapidly then.

ive just eaten a bowl of cereal with dried fruit in the mix--plus added fresh blueberries and half a banana--topped with greek yoghurt and full fat milk.

now i feel sick.

Bananas are full of carbs so are cereals.
My total carbs for today. 12 grams.
this is what I ate today. .
breakfast..cream cheese. 3 eggs scrambled
lunch.. spam, spinach.
Dinner.Beef steak, veg.

haha--some of the very things i was told not to eat 20 years ago because of high cholestrol---cream cheese--eggs--spam.

next year it will all change again.

It won’t change again as we have the evidence now. We didn’t before. We just did as we were told and told wrongly. Now we know better. We have the proof.

And dried fruit. Absolutely packed with sugar.

12 grams for the day is very good. If you do that every day you will lose fat. You should flip into fat burning mode if you haven’t already.

How do we know we are in ketosis...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323544

the main thing i learned from the diabetes awareness course was.. most foods are ok--many give benefits that outweigh the negatives--but dont eat too much of anything--including fruits..just one handfull--whether is an apple or a few grapes.

man has been eating carbs in one form or another since time began.

Earliest man was a carnivore. Man is built to be a meat eater first and foremost. This is quite well known amongst Archaeologists. Then during the Neolithic grains crept in. However the current state of affairs didn’t really start until about 50 years ago.


“Meat was the original ‘brain food.’
The modern human brain is far larger than that of other primates and three times the size of the one possessed by our distant ancestor Australopithecus, the predecessor of Homo. But those big brains come at a cost in that they require tons of energy to operate. Zaraska says our brains consume 20 percent of our body’s total energy. Compare that to cats and dogs, whose brains require only three to four percent of total energy.

Meat, Zaraska says, played a critical role in boosting energy intake to feed the evolution of those big, hungry brains. “Some scientists argue that meat is what made us human,” she says”.

No. I just bought a couple of back issues.

In the podcast she simply states how views are changing based on current practices and successes out in the real world of Primary Care. She outlines the lchf approach and was asked if she might adopt a low carb way of eating. She seemed to be reticent to say unreservably that she would, being nervous about the fats because she said she would need to check lipids as she went about the dietary change. The point there is that when she made the checks, if she were to do lchf, then she would indeed see the improvements in all of her health markers including lipids. She is very positive about it in the podcast with that slight reservation in the case of the lipids.

My understanding is that she uses Dr David Unwin’s results as a part of the evidence for her printed article in New Scientist. She has to really as it is being repeated time and time again across the land and around the globe. It would be unscientific of her to dismiss or challenge the results.

Basically

Brain sizes increased about the same time as meat eating developed as seen in the assemblages left behind in the archaeological record.

However we weren’t eating the levels of carbohydrates seen today, during the Neolithic. That’s the point. An excessive carbohydrate diet really only kicked off around 1950s, 60, 70s.

We know man does not need carbohydrates. Fact. But man does need meat (protein and fat) Fact. That’s it in a nutshell and eliminates any literatures to be found on the internet. All nutrients required for human consumption are to be found in a carnivore diet. But not in a herbivore diet.