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Heart disease combined with diabeties
- Thread starter David RN
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Try the GI diet by Rick Gallop, thats good for most diabetics and is also low in fats. I try to avoid fats, not for my heart but because I had pancreatitus 20 years ago and was advised to try to keep as low fat as poss.
Not sure what your supposed to eat and I'm certainly no expert but healthy eating is healthy eating I suppose?
Not sure what your supposed to eat and I'm certainly no expert but healthy eating is healthy eating I suppose?
Hi David,
A Professor I know tells me that cardiologists in London no longer recommend low fat diets for their patients. Part of the thinking at least is that triglycerides are by far the most harmful blood fats in terms of cardiac illness. Since triglycerides are greatly elevated by carbohydrates in the diet, the low fat heart healthy idea is looking very shaky now.
All the best,
fergus
A Professor I know tells me that cardiologists in London no longer recommend low fat diets for their patients. Part of the thinking at least is that triglycerides are by far the most harmful blood fats in terms of cardiac illness. Since triglycerides are greatly elevated by carbohydrates in the diet, the low fat heart healthy idea is looking very shaky now.
All the best,
fergus
Hi Fergus
So does this mean that i can eat anything then and still stay healthy?
There is so much conflicting evidence about what is healthy to eat that i think i will decide what is good for me by body reaction to things.
The Draw back to this is i tend to put on weight, my BMI is 28 and should be 23 so again i am caught between the devil and the deep.
Camerman's GI Diet looks good so i will learn more about it and try it.
Regards to all DAVID
So does this mean that i can eat anything then and still stay healthy?
There is so much conflicting evidence about what is healthy to eat that i think i will decide what is good for me by body reaction to things.
The Draw back to this is i tend to put on weight, my BMI is 28 and should be 23 so again i am caught between the devil and the deep.
Camerman's GI Diet looks good so i will learn more about it and try it.
Regards to all DAVID
Hi David,
No, what it means, I think, is that dietary fat has been wrongly implicated as the prime suspect in relation to heart disease risk. Risk factors appear to reduce as refined and starchy carbohydrates are replaced by dietary fats (trans-fats excluded of course).
fergus
No, what it means, I think, is that dietary fat has been wrongly implicated as the prime suspect in relation to heart disease risk. Risk factors appear to reduce as refined and starchy carbohydrates are replaced by dietary fats (trans-fats excluded of course).
fergus
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fergus said:Hi David,
A Professor I know tells me that cardiologists in London no longer recommend low fat diets for their patients. Part of the thinking at least is that triglycerides are by far the most harmful blood fats in terms of cardiac illness. Since triglycerides are greatly elevated by carbohydrates in the diet, the low fat heart healthy idea is looking very shaky now.
All the best,
fergus
That's good to know, seems it is finally catching on that Ancel Keys was a charlatan rather than a genius
William Davis is a cardiologist
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/
much of what he writes is backed up both by research and personal experience
It would appear that fats are only dangerous in the presence of toxic levels of carbs. Without the carbs and ensuing high BG, trigs and insulin, fats are metabolised quite differently
