Re: [fast5] Re: Carbs: Are they bad?

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Re: [fast5] Re: Carbs: Are they bad?

THank you so much for this information Heather

From: Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@gmail.com>
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [fast5] Re: Carbs: Are they bad?

How to turn it OFF ... I'm still parsing that one. His main suggestion is "reduce fructose" in the video ... but he kind of goes onto all kinds of topics, so I'm getting the book to have it more organized. What I have found in my own research is the iron triggers uric acid production also, while egg and whey protein reduces it. So I'm guessing (someone will have to experiment!) that lowering fructose/sucrose ingestion would help trigger weight loss. If that doesn't work:

-- Restricting iron ingestion (iron-enriched foods is the main problem in the US: most common starchy foods have added iron). Also black olives, molasses, etc.

-- Eating less red meat, and/or eating it when there isn't Vit C present, and preferably with whole grains/tea/milk ... stuff that blocks iron.

-- Eating more eggs and/or whey protein

-- Possibly restricting some legumes (legumes gave my Dad gout symptoms, but other sources say legumes are ok?)

-- Plenty of tea (and maybe coffee).

And also:

-- Avoiding beer (beer seems to cause high uric acid production).

-- Avoiding more than 2 glasses of wine.

He also recommends avoiding certain seafoods, notably shellfish and crab. I'm a bit iffy on that one ... shellfish don't seem to be associated with weight gain anywhere that I have seen. In theory they are loaded with purines, but the people of the world that eat a lot of high purine fish ... like the Japanese ... aren't noted for being obese. The obese Japanese -- the sumos -- notably do NOT eat as much seafood as most Japanese. And at the times I have lost a lot of weight, I was eating loads of fish. So I think there may be a protective substance in fish. But that would require more experimentation.

I am very interested in this because my Dad had gout. As I've gotten older, I've started getting joint pain, which of course everyone says is normal when you get older. It's not normal in some cultures though, so my question is "why?". Also it comes and goes, and I'm pretty convinced it has to do with dietary changes, but it's been hard to pin down. I'm fairly sure that both my Dad and Mom got way too much iron and had problems from that. I didn't put together the connection between uric acid and heart disease though. His arteries were in very bad shape, even though his diet was quite good and his cholesterol levels etc. were good.

Anyway, my current diet is more or less as above ... more eggs (2-4 a day), more green tea, no beer, less beef, less fruit. I use rice and rice crackers as my main starch, plus tortillas sometimes, plus kimchi and various green vegies. I never have done much sugar, so that's not really an issue. It seems to be working nicely so far, my joints are doing way better, my skin is super-soft, and my appetite is more in control.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:02 AM, RickS <no3rdseat@gmail.com> wrote:

So he seems to say that eating fructose and foods that cause high uric acid levels flip the weight gain switch. Maybe I missed it, but how does he say you turn the "switch" back off?

-Rick

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks! I ordered his book. He has a lot of ideas that no one else seems
> to have thought of yet, that actually tie together a lot of random ideas
> from all over.

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