Re: Cholesterol and saturated fats ()

[Guest guest]

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Good questions. I'm glade to see you are getting the book since

my typing hand, meaning only one via the hunt and peck method, is

wearing out quoting Life Without Bread.

From reading the book a few times it is my understanding that Dr.

Lutz appears to be in the same situation as Dr H, funding such a

project would be prohibitively expensive, and frankly food

processing and drug companies are not about to invest their millions

into something that would negatively impact them financially. I can

only surmise that of the 10,000+ patients Dr. Lutz has seen not all

are impacted by insulin resistance. He has seen patients that cover

a full spectrum. The best I can do is first recommend to everyone

is read his book which will go a long way to explaining much greater

detail some of what I have posted. Secondly, there are a number of

graphs in the book that would be relevant to this issue, but I will

only quote from one.

This graph the book is about to describe covers a 63 month period of

observations. " Another risk factor for heart disease is high

blood pressure, or hypertension. Figure 6.2 shows the blood

pressure of thirty-eight patients with moderate hypertension, in

response to a diet of 72 grams of carbohydrate per day. Many more

patients with hypertension have been observed by Dr. Lutz, probably

close to 500, but in this study only those who never had to take

antihypertensive medication during the observation period were

included, since such a medication naturally would obscure the

result " .

" This is also why the average initial blood pressure prior to the

diet reached only 193 mm/Hg. Patients with higher blood pressures

usually required medication and they do not respond well to the

diet; under carbohydrate restriction, though, the blood pressure

rarely rises any further " .

" Results from the study found that the systolic blood pressure

dropped immediately (in this case to an average of 161 mm/Hg and

after two weeks rose again slightly. It finally stabilized at a

level 20 mm/Hg below the initial value. Certainly the fact that

patients are more nervous at the time of initial pressure reading

than later during control measurements may play a role. However, a

drop in blood pressure with carbohydrate restriction can still be

demonstrated when the initial measurement was taken several times

during the first days. This same result was observed in 1952 by a

Delaware physician, who noted that high blood pressure dropped under

a low-carbohydrate diet, and it was parallel to weight loss " .

There is extensive documentation in this book that helps make me

feel comfortable plus our family has experienced its benefits first

hand over a year's time.

Beth

> >

> > > " The mindset that meats in large

> > > amounts are bad for humans because of cholesterol is now being

> > > proven incorrect "

> >

> > >Beth, I don't want to go back and forth with this. But after

> > >reading

> > >the latest messages on cholesterol and saturated fats, I feel I

> > >have

> > >no choice but to try one more time to get my point across.

> >

> > >The National Heart Foundation maintains that saturated fats do

> > >increase cholesterol levels.

> >

> > >Here are the latest Heart Foundations recommendations for

(some)

> > >dietary fats:

> >

> > > Saturated fats

> > > There is good evidence that:

> > > i) An increase consumption of saturated fat is associated with

> an

> > > increase risk of coronary heart disease.

> > > ii) An increase in the consumption of saturated fat, results

in

> an

> > > increase in the concentration of total and low density

> lipoprotein

> > > cholesterol. (LDL-C)

> > > It is recommended that:

> > > Saturated fat and trans fatty acids together contribute no

more

> > than

> > > 8% of total energy intake.

> > >

> > > Trans fatty acids

> > > There is good evidence that:

> > > i)Trans fatty acids increase the concentration of total

> > cholesterol

> > > and LDL, and lowers high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL)

> > > The recommendation for it's use is as above.

> > >

> > > Dietary cholesterol

> > > There is moderate evidence that:

> > > i) Dietary cholesterol increases total cholesterol and LDL.

> > > ii) Dietary cholesterol contributes to the development of

> coronary

> > > heart disease.

> > > It is recommended that:

> > > People with plasma cholesterol levels greater than 198mg/dl (

> > > 5.0mmol/L) restrict the intake of cholesterol rich foods.

> > >

> > > (Reference

> > > National Heart Foundation. A review of the relationship

between

> > > dietary fat and cardiovascular disease. 2002.)

> > >

> > > Beth, I applaud your research and energy in seeking what is

best

> > for

> > > your daughter and it is great that this diet is working for

her.

> > > However, I am concerned that people with raised cholesterol

> levels

> > > may be reading the messages and getting the wrong advice about

> > > saturated fats.

> > >

> > > I'm sorry that I have to disagree with you.

> > > ne