Paul1976
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I didn't know that was your call to make in all fairness.jopar said:
I didn't know that was your call to make in all fairness.jopar said:Can one of the moderators please split the thread, as this has now gone from a debate about cholesterol, to weight loss!
swimmer2 said:Can I ask a supplemental question about Ketosis (it was mentioned at the top of this page, honest).
What are the benefits of being in 'deep Ketosis' as described if you've already achieved all the weight loss you want?
Defren said:SouthernGeneral6512 said:Do you lose the visceral fat before the body fat Defren?
That's my understanding - yes! It's hard to know what happened in my case as I had a bad reaction to Metformin and couldn't eat. My daily calories were about the same 500 - 600 the same as the ND. However, I do know that the benefits derived from the ND are worth the restrictiveness of the diet. I lost a lot of weight, and my BG control while on the ND was really tight, and although raised slightly post diet is equally as tight.
SouthernGeneral6512 said:Defren said:SouthernGeneral6512 said:Do you lose the visceral fat before the body fat Defren?
That's my understanding - yes! It's hard to know what happened in my case as I had a bad reaction to Metformin and couldn't eat. My daily calories were about the same 500 - 600 the same as the ND. However, I do know that the benefits derived from the ND are worth the restrictiveness of the diet. I lost a lot of weight, and my BG control while on the ND was really tight, and although raised slightly post diet is equally as tight.
I'm glad your BG has been good post diet :clap:.
On the visceral fat the guy who made the Beeb's The Men Who Made Us Fat was scanned and told he had a lot of it now someone apparently slim like him would never think of going on a diet but perhaps that's the best thing he could do to get rid of that
catherinecherub said:Hi babs and welcome to the forum.
You might like to read these two articles.
http://www.spacedoc.com/transient_global_amnesia.htm
http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/29/fda-warns-statin-users-of-memory-loss-and-diabetes-risks/
Both support that memory loss can occur with statins. I know of two people who had memory loss but once they stopped the statins their memory problems vanished.
There might be a forum member that has experienced this and will post more information for you.
In a study covering more than 2 million people in Britain, researchers from Nottingham University found that adverse side effects of statins, which are prescribed to people with high levels cholesterol to cut the risk of heart disease, were generally worst in the first year of treatment.
The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, are unlikely to affect the use of best-selling medicines like Pfizer's Lipitor and AstraZeneca's Crestor, but the study's authors said patients taking statins should be "proactively monitored" for side effects.
"Our study is likely to be useful for policy and planning purposes," said Julia Hippisley-Cox and Carol Coupland, the two professors who led the study. They said it may also be useful "for informing guidelines on the type and dose of statins."
Statins are among the most successful drugs of all time and have been credited with preventing millions of heart attacks and strokes. Heart disease is the biggest killer of men and women in the rich world and is also a growing health problem in developing nations.
In a commentary on the study, senior cardiologists Alawi Alsheikh-Al, of the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in the United Arab Emirates, and Richard Karas of the Tufts University School of Medicine in the United States, said that, like any medical treatment, statins are not completely risk free, but that when used properly, their benefits outweigh their risks.
"It would be wise to interpret the present observations in the context of the confirmed cardioprotective effects of statins and remind ourselves and our patients that these drugs, although considered safe, are, like any intervention in medicine, not entirely free of adverse events," they wrote.
Coupland and Hippisley-Cox studied data from 368 general practices on 2,004,692 patients aged 30-84 years including 225,922 patients who were new statin users and had been prescribed a range of statins.
They found that for every 10,000 high risk women treated with statins, the positive impact would be around 271 fewer cases of heart disease and 8 fewer cases of oesophageal cancer.
On the other side, there would also be 74 extra patients with liver dysfunction, 23 extra patients with acute renal failure, 307 with cataracts and 39 with a muscle weakness condition called myopathy.
Similar figures were found for men except rates of myopathy were higher, they said. They noted that some of the effects might be due to better detection rates since patients taking statins are likely to consult their doctors more often.
The adverse effects were similar for all different types of statins, except for liver dysfunction, where the highest risks were found for fluvastatin, which is sold by Novartis under the brand names Lescol and Lochol.
"All of the increased risks persisted during the treatment, but were highest in the first year," they wrote.
Defren said:My own view, carbs and the unhealthy fats we smother them with to make them taste good, push up cholesterol and cause problems. Cut the carbs up the healthy natural fats and your cholesterol will drop - fact!!
borofergie said:Defren said:My own view, carbs and the unhealthy fats we smother them with to make them taste good, push up cholesterol and cause problems. Cut the carbs up the healthy natural fats and your cholesterol will drop - fact!!
AMEN!
xyzzy said:This is getting surreal :lol:
... and where did I find this gem?
http://www.atownunearthed.co.uk/fol...palaeolithic-and-mesolithic-periods-overview/
a site on Folkstone in Kent :lol:
Yay, where I live! Some fantastic archaeology round here, everything from ammonites to Roman Villas all within 300 metres of my house.
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