Dr Wolfgang Lutz

wow - what a great chance meeting and an interesting link - thanks..

That's some story WJ :thumbup:

Interesting stuff WJ thanks. If he followed his own recommendations it didn't do him any harm as he died in 2010 aged 97 so a pretty good innings.

The evidence for LC seems to be growing daily. What a wonderful story WJ, and even better for making such an inspirational new friend.

Not sure about the 24hr fasting sounds a bit extreme to me :lol:

Strange how we all get our diabetes doctor heros. I found Dr Lutz's obituary here btw.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/nov/30/wolfgang-lutz-obituary

Of course I have my own heroine Annika Dahlqvist and her LCHF stuff can be seen here

http://blogg.passagen.se/dahlqvistannika/?anchor=my_lowcarb_dietary_programe_in

She was taken through the Swedish court system for advocating LCHF to diabetics by HCLF fanatic dieticians. They lost and now the Swedes recommend her advice.

A new one on me was Stephens hero Jay Wortman. Hadn't heard about him until yesterday.

http://www.cbc.ca/thelens/bigfatdiet/wortman.html
http://www.drjaywortman.com/blog/wordpress/2011/07/15/diabetes-co-uk-update/

and of course we have the rising UK star Dr John Briffa who's blog I occasionally post on

http://www.drbriffa.com/2012/05/23/...ow-carb-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-193376

WhitbyJet wrote :
XYZZY I am ashamed to say that I didnt know about Dr Wolfgang Lutz

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I didn't either, but stumbled across this book

Life Without Bread, How A Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can save Your Life
by Christian Allan & Wolfgang Lutz 2000

Apparently Lutz wrote a book Leben ohne Brot in 1967, but it only appeared in German. I find this from the intro fascinating

"Dr Lutz didn't always champion a low-carbohydrate diet. In fact, both of us were, at some stage of our careers proponents of the low-fat diet. But as our own health began to fade early in our lives, we had to explore other nutritional alternatives. The results of our journey to vibrant health follow in the pages of this book."

Geoff

Yes like I say she's my personal Dr heroine.

Loads of links about her off her Wikipedia entry

http://translate.google.co.uk/trans...+dahlqvist&hl=en&biw=1368&bih=903&prmd=imvnso


Even the Americans like her (Jimmy Moore)

http://www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com/shownotes/2530/dr-annika-dahlkvistepisode-107/

Thanks to people like her a quarter, so one in four Swedes now do a LCHF lifestyle thus hopefully AVOIDING the ever increasing rise in db most other countries are suffering from. Of course only time will tell on that but at least they are trying something that everyone agrees works.

http://eatlikeaswede.wordpress.com/...e-swedish-population-are-now-eating-low-carb/

http://eatlikeaswede.wordpress.com/...f-the-swedish-tv-report-on-the-lchf-movement/

Really good links there Steve. I had a look earlier, then was distracted.

Wonder how long this thread will last!!

WhitbyJet said:

XYZZY I am ashamed to say that I didnt know about Dr Wolfgang Lutz

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Me too, was he a diabetic?

If I have misunderstood, please feel free to correct me here but:

Is it true that the current advice to eat 50% of your food as carbs is damaging to non-diabetics too?

My sister said it, but couldnt remember where she had read it. I am asking here as it seems its a 'difficult' subject at the moment

lucylocket61 said:

If I have misunderstood, please feel free to correct me here but:

Is it true that the current advice to eat 50% of your food as carbs is damaging to non-diabetics too?

My sister said it, but couldnt remember where she had read it. I am asking here as it seems its a 'difficult' subject at the moment

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That's a mute point. The problem is as many of us will acknowledge is that lots of people (overweight or not) way exceed even that 50% carb recommendation so even a drop to 50% is a shock!

In my own case I honestly think the answer for me was yes, it was dangerous, as I consider in my previous non diabetic life style I followed the 5 a day kind of a healthy diet that is recommended but is high carb.

When I was diagnosed pre - diabetic in Dec 2010 I was advised and then adopted the standard NHS healthy starchy carb diet in an attempt to reverse my db. The result was after 3 more months by HbA1c had risen to 8.3% and 9 months further down the line risen further to 11.3% During that year I did lose some weight as well so as a diet it worked a bit but as a means of controlling db it was hopeless. It was the shock of that 11.3% that made me re-evaluate and swap to low carb and the rest as they say is history.

Now some may say well you didn't really do the NHS diet you just continued your unhealthy ways. To them I say tell me one good reason why if I took my condition so seriously when I got that 11.3% hBA1c result that I went away did my own research and with the encouragement (no insistence) of my son I did true low carb that back a year previously I didn't try and take the NHS diet just as seriously. The answer is I did and is the reason I am T2 today.

I'd heard of this book and have now ordered it from Amazon. they have it cheap
Hana

WJ found out what 6 BE means, seems to be a "Bread Unit" where each unit equates to 12 g of carbohydrate.
Your man seems to be a forerunner of low carb Paleo diets by the looks of things

The daily carbohydrate intake should be reduced to 6 BE (corresponding to 72 g carbohydrate)

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from

http://translate.google.co.uk/trans...g+Lutz+6BE&hl=en&biw=1363&bih=939&prmd=imvnso

So he's not an extremist 5 BE carber like me :lol:

lucylocket61 said:

Is it true that the current advice to eat 50% of your food as carbs is damaging to non-diabetics too?

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Depends who you ask. Most of the "Paleo" or "Primal" lot will tell you that you didn't evolve to get 50% of your energy from carbs, and paticular from "grains", which aren't part of our ancesteral diet and cause all sorts of problems.

Although most of them started off in the low-carb camp, most of the leading lights in Paleo are now recommending eating some vegetable starches such as Sweet Potatos.

The two best are Paul Jaminet:
100-150g of carbs from "safe starches", 50-80% of energy from fat.
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/
and Kurt Harris:
5-35% carbohydrate, 50-80% fat (he also suggests limitingg your carb intake to 50-70g of carb if you are trying to lose weight).
http://www.archevore.com/get-started/

The whole Paleo movement is very anti-grains, and anything that is derived from them (vegetable oils, and grain fed animals). Harris reckons 55% of food energy across the world is from grain sources.

My Low Carb Heros:

1. Richard K Bernstein: deserves a Nobel Prize for services to diabetics
2. Robert Atkins - stood his ground against the lipid hypothesis despite professional and political ridicule
3. Gary Taubes - wrote the books that demolished the lipid hypothesis and allowed the conversation to move on
4. Jeff Volek and Steve Phinney - tireless researchers into low-carb and ketogenic diets. Volek proved that "fat in your mouth doesn't equal fat in your blood".
5. Jimmy Moore - pulls the whole low-carb and Paleo community together with his fantastic podcasts
6. Richard Feinman - another tireless voice against the flawed lipid hypothesis
7. Jay Wortman - for exposing the supidity of "low-carb/low-fat/low-protein" on these very pages.

I also love these guys from the Paleo community:

1. Kurt Harris
2. Robb Wolf
3. Paul Jaminet
4. Mark Sissons

Some links:
http://www.livinlavidalowcarb.com/
http://rdfeinman.wordpress.com/
http://www.archevore.com/get-started/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/the-diet/

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My Low Carb Heros:

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+1 :thumbup:

Geoff

My hero has to be Professor Roy Taylor of Newcastle University, he was the man who discovered the benefits of the Newcastle diet, which has given my poor tired out old pancreas a new lease of life.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press ... 2-diabetes