Testimonials from the low-fat refugees

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Hello to all of you who have had health crashes or gradual worsening of

chronic conditions due to a long-term low-fat diet.

A friend of mine's girlfriend is in her late 20's and works as a nurse in a

neonatal ICU at a local children's hospital. She has pretty severe asthma

which has gotten worse throughout the last several years. Even she admits

that the worsening seems to coincide neatly with the time that she adopted a

very lowfat, extremely low saturated fat diet. She eats white chicken meat,

fish, and olive oil as her main dietary sources of fat. Her milk (in

espresso drinks only) is skim. Lately, in addition to the asthma she's

begun having a lot of anxiety, and heart palpitations (probably related).

She is *extremely* entrenched in low-fat mainstream dogma. She is repulsed

by red meat (but likes virtually every flavor in that flavor category:

Bacos, red wine, chocolate, coffee, etc). To her, the thought of eating

liver seems akin to eating worms raised in manure or grasshoppers farmed on

a nuclear waste/test site. She sees it as an inherently disgusting food

that is high in cholesterol (first bugaboo), carries a potential for vitamin

A toxicity (second bugaboo) and acts as the the bodies' hazardous waste

disposal.

I'm certain that I recall hearing anecdotes of asthma worsening on a lowfat

diet. Anybody?

How about instances of anxiety and or heart irregularities due to: lowfat,

omega imbalances, and/or magnesium/mineral imbalances?

Thanks!

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Name: Kroyer

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