Heather,
When I said "your ideas" I just meant adding grains. Not exploring
all the facets of the ferritin connection in the other ways you wrote
about. Those i will look into further. Thanks. I wrote that in a
rush because our roasted chicken was ready to take out of the oven and
I was hungry.!
And the good news is that we have lots of our own chicken, ducks and
geese in the freezer or the back yard.
Just to confuse things even further, There is also the whole idea of
mineral balancing ... that many minerals in your system play a role
in balancing each other. And that it may not be as simple as iron in
or iron out.
UGH! So many variables.
Ellen
> t But lowering carb intake certainly helps me and many others.
> Which is not to say that there aren't some that would be helped by
> you ideas. I just haven't met anyone like that.
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> On 8/31/09, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@
>> I'm not Bert either, but I have been looking into this some.
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>> There is some relationship between a diet high in meat
>> and T2 diabetes. Heresy, I know!
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>> The relationship, though, seems to have to do with ferritin
>> levels. Pork, chicken, and fish don't raise ferritin levels.
>> Beef does, esp. in diets that aren't high in phytates or
>> turmeric. And it becomes a problem mainly after menopause,
>> for women.
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>> There is a huge link between high ferritin levels and T2.
>> Donating blood lowers insulin resistance. Of course the
>> blood bank won't accept blood if you actually are sick
>> (or for a number of other reasons). Which puts people
>> in a bind: ferritin levels don't have to be out of bounds
>> for this to be a problem.
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>> If you want to experiment with this, you can cut out
>> red meat and esp. organ meats from your diet, eat
>> more whole grains (GF oatmeal?), take turmeric caps.
>> And or get a ferritin/TIBC test.
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>> But my basic take is that "carbs" are not at the root
>> of the diabetes problem. The US is one of the few countries
>> where ferritin levels are HIGH (anemia is the problem in
>> most countries). Japanese eat a LOT of simple carbs ...
>> rice ... but most of their protein comes from fish.
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>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Ellen Ussery<ellen.ussery@
>> wrote:
>>> Two years ago I started Fast-5 for the first time. I loved it. Felt
>>> more energy, more even moods, easily lost the weight I needed to lose
>>> at the rate of 2 pounds a week. And it fit easily into my life. I
>>> simply ate lunch and breakfast and was not terribly strict about
>>> whether my window was 5 hours occasionally 7.
>>>
>>> It also lowered my small dense LDL (tested directly) and reduced
>>> greatly my already low CRP
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>>> But I also found at the end of 6 months, that I had the first higher
>>> than 100 blood sugar at the doc's. My blood sugar levels have remained
>>> above 100 since that time ( a year and a half). I tried Dr.
>>> Schwarzbine'
>>> strict with my carbs as per Dr. Bernstein (The Diabetes Solution)
>>> But haven't gotten them down below 100. They are not high enough to be
>>> diagnosed as diabetic, but that is only because I am very strictly low
>>> carb. But if you think about the arbitrary way they assign that
>>> diagnosis it is rather silly. Either you have some inability to
>>> metabolize carbohydrate, or you don't. IMO it is like being a little
>>> bit pregnant!
>>>
>>> Because of this I have talked about blood sugar issues a number of
>>> times here. I have wondered about my first high fasting blood sugar
>>> was caused by doing fast-5 or if it was a coincidence. What was the
>>> relation between Fast-5 and my blood sugar issues.
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>>> My most recent theory is that I had some kind of insulin, blood sugar
>>> irregularity all my life which manifested in my constant hunger, and
>>> mood and energy swings. For at least ten years before Fast-5 I was
>>> probably insulin resistant. I had the signs: a new pattern of
>>> overweight much of it around the middle and I could not lose it . I
>>> did not have high tryglycrides but I did have high LDL I probably had
>>> high post meal blood sugars all that time too, but had so much
>>> circulating insulin that my fasting blood sugar was below 100 all that
>>> time. So finally getting the insulin levels down did not *cause* the
>>> higher blood sugars...it just revealed the other aspect of my problem
>>> . And this is a good thing.
>>>
>>> Ellen
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>> Heather Twist
>> http://eatingoffthe
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