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Serena, you may find that upping the fats in your diet may help to remedy your bowel issues. It certainly has helped mine. At the end of the day, like an engine, our elimination system needs lubricating too! Good fats are Coconut oil, butter, ghee and olive oil all of which can be used in...

UPB, you're not being offensive - well, I wasn't offended anyway. Healthy debate is never a bad thing. Learning how the body burns fat and uses different fuels is the crux to understand how and why low-carbing works. Personally I feel it won't work half as well if the level of fats in the...

I tell you, the more I read about this stuff the more I am amazed. I am ploughing through Bruce Fife's 'Coconut Cures' on Google Books (and will probably buy it). It is fascinating. I had already been fascinated by what I have been reading about it elsewhere, but one thing I picked up on in...

I have been asked by a friend who is not very good at creating or inventing meals, if I could suggest any good cookbooks on low carbing. Bearing in mind that we need to be gluten-free, does anyone have or know of any really good very low-carb but delicious recipe books you could recommend? It...

Everything is based on opinion. Yours is different to mine is different to the next persons'. Who says who is right? The Medical Profession has self-appointed bodies who decide whose opinion is right or wrong. The Governments have self-appointed bodies who decide whose opinion is right or...

Absolutely Ming. Just stick with it - at the end of the day, eating good nutritious healthy food cannot be harmful. As long as you are getting lots of good veggies (not starchy ones), both cooked and raw (raw is very good because you are also getting the minerals and enzymes destroyed by...

I believe that things like ME are triggered by a very toxic system. We have a good friend who developed ME about 5 years ago. Previous to that she used to get Cystitis very regularly which suggested that her body was trying to off-load toxins. Then she developed reactions to the glues and...

I am convinced that ME can be related to diet. Yes, often it will take some kind of stress to trigger it, but I am sure it comes back to food one way or another. I developed fatigue at the age of 15 after a relatively healthy and active childhood. I did have a tendency to childhood coughs and...

I thought this was so interesting that it warranted a thread of its own.... http://stanford.wellsphere.com/weight-l ... etes/94841

Don't worry Ming - we've all been there and bought the T-shirt! I don't suppose there are many of us who haven't been through the 'why me' and denial thing for a while at some point. The thing is that you (and he) have come to the right place for sensible help and support. I wish I had known...

Mathematically speaking that may be true, but thermodynamically speaking (which is how the body works) it isn't. It comes back to the old adage - it's not the amount you eat, but what you eat that is the key. The body burns fat far more efficiently and in the long-term than carbs which is a...

Believe me Mrs Pugwash - I've been there. Followed the low-carb, higher protein to the letter - the minute I added back in the highly addictive grains and starches I couldn't stop and the weight piled back on (not to mention the wild BS swings!). If you are able to limit it to a small amount...

Sounds like something else to me - have you eaten anything that might have caused a stomach upset? Do you have any constipation? Food staying around in the digestive tract for too long will tend to ferment causing gas and bloating but you may well have eaten something that your system is...

Well, I think some of these 'preparations' are pretty suspect at the best of times and what on earth is the point of taking them if you don't change your diet? Even if they do make any inroads on the beasties, the minute you stop taking them they all grow back. The only way to deal with them...

Tell him that when he is eating the 'yummy' high-carb stuff he is also feeding the extremely nasty and parasitic 'beasties' within. I would bet my bottom dollar that he has or has had some of the external signs of Candida/yeasts - Athlete's foot, dandruff, itchy scalp, fungal nail infections...

Two things could contribute to the tiredness and sweating. Because fat can also be a toxin store, when you lose weight toxins get released into the bloodstream and need to be dealt with by the body. That can take a little time. The other thing is that so many, if not all Diabetics have issues...

Well I am a T2 on insulin as my signature shows (does that make me a T1.5??) and as I also said in my earlier post not only have I gone from having 3 metformin per day to just one, but also have cut my insulin over all from 2 x 20 units to 1 x 12 - 14 units per day. Although I eat low-carb, I...

I usually start the day with an apple or two, Terry has a pear and sometimes a banana (he's borderline but not diagnosed Diabetic as yet). Terry used to have cereal (muesli) for breakfast, but he seems ok with the fruit (although he does sneak a bikkie or two with his morning cuppa). I have...

When I first went gluten-free I went out and bought a load of stuff. Half of it went in the bin. To be quite honest most of it is revolting. The only thing I buy now and only for my hub is one or two packs of GF bikkies a week which aren't brilliant but appease his sweeter tooth. As your hub...

My husband was a gloomy ... most of our married life until I got him off gluten. Now I have a new husband! No more brain fog, no more depression, no more angry and frustrated, much less pain and happier all round......... It does work. Honest. Why don't you do it with him and see what...