WHAT SCALES TO BUY?

[HSSS]

Read your message twice, thank you very much. At the heart clinics they tell me to cut out fats, my triglycerides are high ATM and I can't eat fats. Hard isn't it, I'm with you on the cheese though, is there any special brand or type you eat?

I appreciate you have different heart concerns than many of us but triglycerides often drop on low carb high fat. The carbs cause inflammation and higher trigs. Not all cardiac specialists take the same low fat view. See dr aseem malhotra

 

[1spuds]

Read your message twice, thank you very much. At the heart clinics they tell me to cut out fats, my triglycerides are high ATM and I can't eat fats.

Maybe,maybe not.You still have a LOT of nutritional learning to accomplish yet.And a lot to unlearn as well.Keep your mind open and LEARN,then make decisions.Learn,not what you are told,but actually research it yourself and learn.Dr's are a notoriously bad source for dietary advice is something a lot of us have figured out.
And something a lot of folks will never figure out.

 

[wiflib]

If not eating fat has resulted in your high trigs, why not stop eating carbs and try eating fat instead? The UK cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra will tell you sat fat (not vegetable oils or margarine) will improve your hear health if you stop eating the carbs that go with it.

 

[Q007]

Oh I agree there, my diabetic GP is so bad I'm looking to change primary care practice. My uncle was diabetic who died from complications but we used to trade info on foods once I joined the club. What spiked me didn't spike him and v. versa. I am listening to all advice but in the end I have to make my own decisions I suppose. My biggest risk, according to my cardiologist is having diabetes with heart failure. I'm siding with their advice on fat as atherosclerosis caused the big bang for me. My triglycerides have doubled and its so hard to choose food low carb and low saturated fat. It's why I asked you what cheese you buy. But thank you for your advice, much appreciated. Q.

 

[wiflib]

Oh I agree there, my diabetic GP is so bad I'm looking to change primary care practice. My uncle was diabetic who died from complications but we used to trade info on foods once I joined the club. What spiked me didn't spike him and v. versa. I am listening to all advice but in the end I have to make my own decisions I suppose. My biggest risk, according to my cardiologist is having diabetes with heart failure. I'm siding with their advice on fat as atherosclerosis caused the big bang for me. My triglycerides have doubled and its so hard to choose food low carb and low saturated fat. It's why I asked you what cheese you buy. But thank you for your advice, much appreciated. Q.

Saturated fat does not raise triglycerides, carbs do. That is researched evidence.
Go to you tube and watch Ivor Cummings or ask any of the low carbers here how their trigs plummeted once they stopped eating carbs.

 

[Listlad]

Oh I agree there, my diabetic GP is so bad I'm looking to change primary care practice. My uncle was diabetic who died from complications but we used to trade info on foods once I joined the club. What spiked me didn't spike him and v. versa. I am listening to all advice but in the end I have to make my own decisions I suppose. My biggest risk, according to my cardiologist is having diabetes with heart failure. I'm siding with their advice on fat as atherosclerosis caused the big bang for me. My triglycerides have doubled and its so hard to choose food low carb and low saturated fat. It's why I asked you what cheese you buy. But thank you for your advice, much appreciated. Q.

Again, I appreciate your position as I had been worried about high fats owing to other conditions of mine. I have upped my fat intake considerably since February and no ill effects (I was getting a bit bunged up but that stopped and occasional issues as I have no gall bladder) but my blood pressure is coming down slowly but surely.

I have been taking it steadily and not taking extreme measures and it seems to be paying off.

I eat loads of Brie and Camembert.

 

[Q007]

That's interesting, I have 6 stones following a scan I'm hoping they can remove the stones without an ectomy. The consultant I saw, said I would have to go on low fat diet for life if my gall bladder has to come out.

 

[Listlad]

That's interesting, I have 6 stones following a scan I'm hoping they can remove the stones without an ectomy. The consultant I saw, said I would have to go on low fat diet for life if my gall bladder has to come out.

Well......I had my gall bladder removed in 2005. I cut out almost all fats as recommended. Until February this year, where I started LCHF (in my case lower carb higher fat) and as if by magic I dropped out of the prediabetic range, shed 10 kilos in weight and reversed my high blood pressure to an appreciable degree. All without a gall bladder. I eat cream cheese, full fat yoghurt, full fat milk, streaky bacon, without issue.

 

[Q007]

Wow, that's some story, well done.

 

[1spuds]

Saturated fat does not raise triglycerides, carbs do. That is researched evidence.
Go to you tube and watch Ivor Cummings or ask any of the low carbers here how their trigs plummeted once they stopped eating carbs.

Yup.Carbs are killers as we here have seen.Will be nice when the medical community gets on board,but theyve had the last 50 years telling us they were great,as obesity and diabetes skyrocketed.Give em 50 more years and they will finally admit the low fat advice,high carb advice was very bad advice.Glad I do my own research and know more about nutrition than any Dr Ive ever personally met,and Ive met a lot.

Learn about sugar causing inflammation of arteries and cholesterol being the bodies response of trying to protect those arteries.Cholesterol is not the cause,its the response.This has been known for a long time,but to buck this anti fat advice was to kiss your career goodbye.Agenda in diet? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT! And you can research it and prove it,if your mind is open.

As I said,a lot to learn,and a lot to unlearn.

 

[Listlad]

Wow, that's some story, well done.

Cheers mate. It’s a complete relief. I was lost back in February, not knowing what to do. I was searching for a dietary solution and only really found it through this forum. My local surgery at that time was giving me mixed messages at best. It’s been a struggle but it most definitely has worked.

So you can do the same.

 

[Goldenoldy]

Read your message twice, thank you very much. At the heart clinics they tell me to cut out fats, my triglycerides are high ATM and I can't eat fats. Hard isn't it, I'm with you on the cheese though, is there any special brand or type you eat?

Right with you there. Going the low carb way of dealing with prediebtics. We had a visitor last weekend who kindly brought me two vanilla slices and two jam Donuts! As I’d been so good the previous two weeks I treated myself to one and a half! I couldn’t believe the effect, all evening I was prowling the kitchen. The craving shocked me. I just popped berries and baby tomatoes all evening. Back on track now, but it is difficult. The smell of boiled eggs started to get to me, it’s a total re education for me. G.

 

[DCUKMod]

Appropos nothing really, I notice they had some perfect, for this purpose, scales on the shelves this morning.

Flat bed, the weigh imperial, metric, fl oz, ml etc., have a tare function and all for the princely sum of £5.99 British pounds.

 

[Crounauer]

I've had a set of Salter disc scales for years - Cheap and cheerful and they do the job. They've been dropped, dunked in soapy water and left on top of the toaster so are now slightly warped. Don't know if they're still 100% accurate though.

 

[Nicole T]

Digital scales are all pretty accurate and trustworthy. The vast majority will have a 'tare' (reset to zero without removing items) function. Always have a spare battery or a second set of scales in reserve, because one day the battery will decide to go too low to read anything, when you desperately need to weigh something.

I found a little glitch with my Aldi ones, though, while weighing out 5g of yeast for a bread recipe. I'd put loads onto a piece of paper before thinking "this can't be right." When I put a container on the scales, zeroed and re-added the same amount of yeast, I had way more than I needed. So clearly some digital scales need ballast, and don't perform at all well when the weight on them is close to zero.

Watch out for rice when measuring carbs. The Morrisions basmati lists the carb content as around 35g per 100g, when in fact it's more like 75. When you read the small print, the figure is for 100g of cooked product (where it's soaked up and added weight from water) but if you weigh it dry, you're getting the much higher figure. There may be other foods that soak up water during cooking that are labelled similarly.