Re: book on cholesterol and heart disease?

[Guest guest]

> Maybe I'll just leave one of them " by

> accident " at her house.

> Help me get her off my back!

> -jennifer

Sounds like two different problems.

One is, her understanding.

The other is, getting off your back.

Moms are a special case. Unlikely that your mom will change her mind

based on " education " from you.

With my own mom I " let go " of trying to fix her understanding.

Then I said, my dietary choices were no longer up for discussion since

we seem to disagree.

That pretty much stopped that!

Connie

[Guest guest]

I recommend Life Without Bread. It certainly convinced me that high

cholesterol doesn't contribute to heart disease. Here are two links

you can follow to see if it fills the bill. The book speaks highly of

Weston A Price, Sally Fallon and Enig, and highly recommends

Nourishing Traditions. It has very good reviews by 41 readers who also

seem to find it very convincing.

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Bread-Christian-Allan/dp/0658001701

Also convincing is Stella's story which is told on his website.

He's a chef who was enormous (467 pounds). So were his two sons. His

wife was 75 pounds overweight. Being a chef, he whipped up some

wonderful low-carb/high-fat recipes, and they lost 560 pounds between

the four of them. There are pictures and videos of their whole family

before and after which are quite inspiring and convincing as to weight

loss on low-carb/high-fat. They've been featured on television

specials which tell of 's death sentence due to congestive heart

failure that was totally reversed by the diet, including his once high

but now totally healthy cholesterol levels. He is currently the

picture of health. He also has two cookbooks that tell his story, but

not in detail. I believe he has a low-carb cooking program on the Food

Network.

http://stellastyle.com/newPM/cgi/pm.cgi?action=show & temp=media_clips & session=ses\

sion

http://www.stellastyle.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Stella-Style-Low-Carb-Recipes/dp/0743285212/ref=sr_\

1_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1230016715 & sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/-Stellas-Livin-Low-Carb/dp/0743269977/ref=sr_1_2?ie=\

UTF8 & s=books & qid=1230016715 & sr=1-2

Hope you're able to help your Mom, and that these resources will help

you to do it.

--- In , Steinbachs <jen@...>

wrote:

>

> My mom buys into the mainstream dogma that high cholesterol

> contributes to heart disease. Indeed, she has sent me link after link

> to websites promoting a low (saturated) fat diet (but high PUFA)

> diet. Is there any one good layperson (not so science-y) book that I

> can stuff in her stocking to give her an alternative viewpoint?

>

> I've read most of M.'s review of the predominant recent books

> and he points out a different major problem in each of them. Which

> *one* to choose?

>

> I had thought of giving her either an Atkins book or " Protein

> Power " (she just decided to do the Scarsdale low fat/low carb diet for

> weight loss) but I'm not so sure they'd be well received (though I do

> think she'd learn quite a bit). Maybe I'll just leave one of them " by

> accident " at her house.

>

> Help me get her off my back!

>

> -jennifer

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I'm new to the group, follow WAPF but am influenced by Ray Peat's views and

research

since I have realized I am hypothyroid. So is my son and husband. This has led

me to the

book Hypothyroid: An Unsuspecting Illness by Broda , MD. The chapter on

heart

disease is the best that I have found describing the roles cholesterol plays in

our bodies.

Joan

> >

> > My mom buys into the mainstream dogma that high cholesterol

> > contributes to heart disease. Indeed, she has sent me link after link

> > to websites promoting a low (saturated) fat diet (but high PUFA)

> > diet. Is there any one good layperson (not so science-y) book that I

> > can stuff in her stocking to give her an alternative viewpoint?

> >

> > I've read most of M.'s review of the predominant recent books

> > and he points out a different major problem in each of them. Which

> > *one* to choose?

> >

> > I had thought of giving her either an Atkins book or " Protein

> > Power " (she just decided to do the Scarsdale low fat/low carb diet for

> > weight loss) but I'm not so sure they'd be well received (though I do

> > think she'd learn quite a bit). Maybe I'll just leave one of them " by

> > accident " at her house.

> >

> > Help me get her off my back!

> >

> > -jennifer

> >

>