Diet
A collection of download that relate to the diet component of the diabetes solution including recipes and research.
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The cholesterol-lowering myth being spread by pharmaceutical companiesworldwide could rightfully be considered the deadliest health myth in the history of mankind. Numerous studies consistently show that the higher our cholesterol the longer we live and vice-versa. This reality has been hidden and pushed under the already-stuffed pharmaceutical rug.
Impaired physical performance is a common but not obligate result of a low carbohydrate diet. Lessons from traditional Inuit culture indicate that time for adaptation, optimized sodium and potassium nutriture, and constraint of protein to 15–25 % of daily energy expenditure allow unimpaired endurance performance despite nutritional ketosis.
From an evolutionary perspective, humanity’s adoption of agriculture, and hence cereal grain consumption, is a relatively recent phenomenon. This research shows that this event occurred in most parts of the world between 5,500 and 10,000 years ago. Cereal grains represent a biologically novel food for mankind [341, 342], consequently there is considerable genetic discordance between this staple food, and the foods to which our species is genetically adapted. Cereal grains lack a number of nutrients which are essential for human health and well-being; additionally they contain numerous vitamins and minerals with low biological availability. Furthermore, the inability of humans to physiologically overcome cereal grain antinutrients (phytates, alkylresorcinols, protease inhibitors, lectins, etc.) is indicative of the evolutionary novelty of this food for our species. This genetic maladaptation between human nutrient requirements and those nutrients found in cereal grains manifests itself as vitamin and mineral deficiencies and other nutritionally related disorders, particularly when cereal grains are consumed in excessive quantity. Although, cereal grain consumption may appear to be historically remote, it is biologically recent; consequently the human immune, digestive and endocrine systems have not yet fully adapted to a food group which provides 56% of humanity’s food energy and 50% of its protein.
The belief that low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol causesatherosclerosis and subsequent heart disease is a fundamentalprecept of modern medicine. Therapies aimed at reducing serumLDL cholesterol are currently considered to be an essential elementof any attempt to prevent coronary heart disease (CHD).While it currently enjoys widespread acceptance among healthauthorities and medical practitioners, numerous lines of evidenceraise questions about the LDL hypothesis. Native LDL cholesterol isa vitally important substance and is not in any way atherogenic.Statin drugs, the only LDL-lowering agents shown to have clinicalbenefit in reducing the incidence of heart disease, have beenshown to exert their benefits via mechanisms totally unrelated toLDL cholesterol reduction.A potential causative role in atherosclerosis and heart diseasehas indeed been detected for oxidized LDL, but this form of LDLshows no correlation with serum levels of native LDL. Rather,individual antioxidant status appears to be a key factor influencingserum concentrations of oxidized LDL.
The following is a low carb bread recipe. Here are some important notes about the recipe: This recipe contains gluten and nuts and is not suitable for those with a nut or gluten allergy.Diabetics should test blood sugar levels before, one hour after and two hours after consuming the bread for the first time.Please e-mail your comments to graeme.chatham@btinternet.com (mailto:graeme.chatham@btinternet.com) who produced the recipe and kindly allowed us to post it.