Re: Had anybody ever been cured using SCD?

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> To ahicks51- your scientific insight is invaluable! It was so great reading

your explanations and further insight into why this diet works. Sometimes when I

am explaining it to my friends/family/co-workers I feel like a big

hippy-dippy... " you see, I am starving the bad bacteria!!! " But I feel even more

validated now that I have read your postings.

You can tell them you're starving the klebsiella. And if you wish to research it

more, go to PubMed:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Then look for " klebsiella " + " Crohn's. " The summary of most of these articles

will be enough for many people. However, I must provide the caveat that while

Ebringer implicates starch (amylopectin starch, to be precise), I suspect that

restriction is not good enough. Klebsiella can do quite nicely on other

carbohydrates, so while starch elimination may be enough for some, stronger

measures may be required for others.

There is real science to this, people. Elaine was ahead of her time, didn't know

precisely *why* it worked, but Ebringer's research provides a rational

explanation.

> To PJ- you are on the right track with cholesterol! I bought into the whole

" hereditary " theory- my dad runs every day, is fit and thin and has high

cholesterol. My cholesterol used to be high as well. Then I cut down on carbs

(even before this diet) and cut my levels in half. That was proof enough for me.

Now if I could just convince my dad...

The drug companies, in order to sell us more statins, insist that all we need to

do is zero out our cholesterol, and we'll be happy forever. What they don't say

is that the NNT- the " number needed to treat " for these statins is high- as high

as the hundreds for some people. In order for one person to achieve benefit,

some 250 people have to take the drug (and suffer its side effects) for a year.

http://pharmamkting.blogspot.com/2008/01/statin-lottery-number-needed-to-treat.h\

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http://www.healthbeatblog.org/2008/02/fudging-the-sta.html

It is *obscene*. Moreover, risk from early death doesn't rise until cholesterol

is somewhere around 240-260 or higher. The statin makers want you to think the

lower it is, the better- and that is entirely unsupported by research. Heck,

below 170, risk from all causes starts to increase again! Some populations with

low serum cholesterol have extremely high stroke risk, but they don't tell you

that on the shiny TV ads, do they?

[Guest guest]

Another idea might be to hire a high school or college kid to be

kitchen help, rather than a chef. They could wash, chop, etc, and

keep dishes cleaned up and even maybe cook under your direction. It

wouldn't be as good as a chef you could leave to his own devices

mostly, but it would be quite a bit of help and a lot cheaper.

Consider the thought of hiring a personal chef to prepare meals for you.

Less expensive than eating out. Gives you the ability to stay on the

diet.