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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chev Chelios" data-source="post: 422907" data-attributes="member: 81909">Squire Fulwood – I thank you for the reply and it is funny because I wanted to post links or at least the names of the studies taught to me which were what form the basis for the CVD-fat link in my original post . However I have recently moved back from Uni and all my literature/notes etc are everywhere - but I will guarantee you by the end of the day I will post those links up. It is a legitimate point you make and one I want to know the answer to myself – I think I do – but now I have a bit more time to step outside what I have been taught I want to explore this idea of fat not being linked to CVD.  I learnt about this particular area from one of the foremost researchers into cardiovascular health and after years of having to learn the metabolism of fat and how it accumulates in tissue, blood vessels, raise LDL cholesterol etc I just cannot see how he can be wrong. I am going straight to youtube after this to watch that video and will research this and come back to you. Serena51 – again thank you for your post but I must politely point out that I did raise this very point within my post. I absolutely agree that advising diabetics to eat a diet where the main nutrient will end up as the one thing that will raise your blood sugar sounds ridiculous. I had a problem with this during my training and was always met with the same response – “sugar are not the enemy, sugar does not cause diabetes (75% true) and it is all about the type of CHO we eat” etc. Again the idea is eating CHO based foods that are low GI will slow its metabolism and so the glucose will enter the blood stream with a trickle – meaning no peak. This is the explanation, I agree with some of this & in theory it sounds plausible but I know this is not 100% accurate. Food is too complex a molecule to work like this, there is much more to it. So I am in a weird situation, because in order to work and get paid (and I really need to start getting paid) I must advise these ideas despite me not having 100% faith in the principle. And I have to have faith in what I say because what means more to me than anything else is helping improve a person’s health. I will just add – I did my dissertation in diurnal rhythms – basically it is a new idea and an exciting one. The body is much better able to deal with food earlier in the day and insulin sensitivity/ the insulin response/postprandial fat response are all better during the day so again not only do we have complexities of food but we also have the timing of that food not to mention individual variation.Long story short – I agree with you!</blockquote>

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