Re: Non low carb diets
From: anne (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 2 Mar 2002 21:51:31 -0600 (CST)
Hi - I'm interested by your post and the link you posted. Do you know
anything about this prolonged fasting? I am wondering if there is
anything in it- i.e would it help the PCOS body respond positively and
more quickly to a suitable change in diet? Of course, I am still trying
to find out what this change would be- lower carbing doesn't seem to be
doing much yet apart from making me feel slightly better- I am seriously
considering the dreaded Atkins after all...I know nothing about fasting
and detox stuff- kind of thought it wasn't too relevant to PCOS, but now
I'm interested.
>>At Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Anne wrote:
>>>
>>>I have had success on low gylcemic diet - fruits, veggies, lean protein
>>>complex carbs. But now I'm starting a new diet - only fruit and veggies
>>>for 30 days- no processed foods to clean out my system.
>>>
>>>I discovered this diet via my mother who did it for 30 days and got rid
>>>of her life long allergies. She in turn, got it from a Dr. Joel Furman
>>>who says that a diet mostly consisting of of veggies and fruit and
>>>supervised fasting (at the appropriate time) can reverse diabetes (and
>>>therefore also insulin resistance). He writes that before the discovery
>>>of insulin that this is the way diabetes was treated, and it was
>>>successful.
>>>
>>>I'm just learning about this diet and this doctor. He says a low
>>>protein and low fat diet is the best way to go for many conditions, he,
>>>(like others) warns strongly against the Atkin's diet. See
>>>http://www.drfuhrman.com/ esp.http://www.drfuhrman.com/atkins.htm if you
>>>prefer to be a vegetarian this is probably something that would be easy
>>>for you to do.
>>>
>>>For me, I could not lose weight until I started taking glucophage, now
>>>that I'm on it what I do to lose weight actually works.
>>>
>>>Hope this helps.
>>>
>>>Anne
>>>>years, and have much weight to lose after the birth of my 6 month old.
>>>>Any advice is appreciated
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