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Re: What do you mean by Low Carb....Leslie? Jo-Nita? Anyone with Success...From: Deshawn (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:50:20 -0600 (CST)
At Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Cathy Allarie RN,C wrote: > >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. > >-- >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. >
-- Please provide me with information about the high protein, low carb diet that helped your friend. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome a few months ago. Thanks
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