Re: What do you mean by Low Carb....Leslie? Jo-Nita? Anyone with Success...
From: Cathy Allarie RN,C (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:33:24 -0600 (CST)
Please contact me if you are looking for info a high protein low carb
diet - (Not Atkins) - I may have information that can help you. I have
experience with a friend who suffered from Polycystic Ovarian Disease
who had difficulty losing weight - the only way she was able to lose
weight was via a High Protein Low Carb Approach. The is information
about the program she used which was effective for her. Please indicate
in your e-mail that you want info about the Low Carb High Protein
Program; also if you have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome please let me know
that as well.
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Cathy Allarie RN,C
rnherbal@ptd.net
At Mon, 5 Feb 2001, hf wrote:
>
>May suggest the CAD approach? (Carbs Addict's Diet)
>
>Avoid carbs for breakfast, and lunch. Eat the carbs you please for
>supper. The idea is to energize yourself with prots and fats (I prefer
>oils, like olive oil, flaxseed oil)
>
>SEE ALSO
>
>http://www.kathyland.com/lowcarb.shtml
>
>Change the carbs you allow yourself from GRAIN based to fruit/vegetable
>based. SEE
>
>http://www.mercola.com/article/Diet/carbohydrates/lower_your_grains.htm
>
>"Avoid" recognizes that fruits and veggies contain carbs, too, and that
>carbs are almost impossible to abstain from and probably abstinence will
>turn out to not be a "perfect" solution either. By allowing carbs for
>supper, you have a reward for being good to look forward to. The
>serotonin that will come from eating the carbs for supper will also help
>the brain to take in natural tryptophan which will boost your serotonin
>levels and make you sleepy. But I just read that if your evening diet
>has even 2 - 4% protein, that protein will prevent your brain from
>taking in that tryptophan. After experiencing the sleepiness that comes
>from carbing it, one may decide that carbs are not the greatest gift of
>farmers after all. In particular, the Adkin's diet theorizes that we
>were never meant to eat grains since the beginning. Grains are so often
>mixed into everything we eat out of boxes and in restaurants. They are
>dirt cheap, subsidized, and have a super long shelf life so they are the
>grocer's favorite.
>
>In America, we have possibly the greatest distribution system the world
>has ever known and what do we see on the shelves? DRIED. BOXES. GRAINS.
>We could be seeing fresh fruits and veggies and meats and olive oil -
>but NO! That's not what sells. 11 cents worth of corn is turned into
>dried cereal flakes, or dried fried chips which are priced at dollars!
>Not cents, anymore. And we can't eat just one - because that's the
>design!
>
>Wow, I guess my soapbox is cracking up.
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