Re: High Cholesterol & Weight Gain (Signe & Ken)

[Guest guest]

Hi beth,

Thanks for all the info. It is going to take me some time to " digest "

all this.

By the way, how is your daughter doing? How big is she now? Do you

think this nutrition program is helping her? Just curious.

Ken M

>

> Signe and Ken,

>

> Bear with me as I explain how weight gain can be achieved and low

> cholesterol should not necessarily be an objective. I will

probably

> ruffle a few feathers with the following information, but hopefully

> it will give you a new perspective and allow your children to start

> to achieve the positive results my daughter has made over

> the past year.

>

> It is difficult to change a paradigm that has been in place for

more

> than 50 years. The mindset that good fats and meats in large

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

> proven incorrect, unfortunately at a very slow pace. Epidemiology

> studies that were completed from the 1940's through the

> 1990's that made a connection between heart disease and

> cholesterol are today being disproved. As more studies are more

> carefully scrutinized this old paradigm is crumbling.

>

> For instance, back in 1980 a major study was published that covered

> 12,763 individuals over seven countries that covered a ten year

> period beginning in the late 1940's. The study was intended to

> find correlations in the type of foods consumed and death rates.

> Unfortunately, some of the data was improperly misinterpreted and

> one of the conclusions was that eating cholesterol laden foods

> raised blood cholesterol levels and caused heart disease. In

recent

> years this study has been reexamined and it was determined that

> cholesterol content of the blood had absolutely no correlation with

> the cause of death rates in the study. Even more interesting is

> that death rates were lower in many groups that had higher

> cholesterol levels.

>

> Originally the heart disease theory was in part is based upon the

> fact that rabbits get atherosclerosis when feed very large amounts

> of cholesterol. What the original study did not take into account

> is the fact that rabbits are vegetarians. Humans are not solely

> vegetarians; they have a feedback mechanism that stops the body

from

> making cholesterol when it is consumed in the diet. Rabbits do not

> have this mechanism. I could list a slew of old studies that have

> been disproved but I will not draw this out more than it needs to

> be. Much of this material can be found in the book Life Without

> Bread.

>

> Switching gears to the gaining weight factor. Perhaps it can be

> best to explain this issue using a few quotes from Dr. Lutz, the

> author of Life Without Bread. Dr. Lutz strongly emphasizes that

> very thin individuals will profit the most from a diet high in good

> fats and protein. When I read his material I feel as if he is

> specifically addressing RSS children. He states, that " There is

> a tendency for Americans and the popular media to focus solely on

> overweight people when body types are discussed. But there are

> people who are to thin, and for whom weight gain is crucial to

> health " .

>

> " The very thin carbohydrate eater usually has very little muscle

> with a very slight bone structure. These people tend to burn the

> excess energy from overeating of carbohydrates, instead of storing

> it into adipose tissue as in the case in the obese/overweight body

> type " .

>

> " On the surface, this burning of energy would seem a good thing,

> and very thin people often have an enhanced energy profile. This

is

> only true, however, if a constant supply of carbohydrates is

> available. The thin carbohydrate eater cannot afford to even delay

> a meal. Metabolically, they are probably not too different than

the

> overweight carbohydrate eater. Thin people will often experience

> low blood sugar episodes because they are still faced with the

> fundamental problem associated with eating too many carbohydrates:

> insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia " .

>

> " There is no available fat metabolism to provide the thin

> carbohydrate eater with a balance of energy. Thus carbohydrates

> constitute the only source of energy for them. As with overweight

> high-carbohydrate eaters, fat metabolism is restricted. Because

fat

> supplies the majority of energy reserves in humans, the thin

> carbohydrate eaters must continually eat in order to satisfy the

> body's energy requirements " .

>

> " The low-carbohydrate program augments the anabolic processes

> that contribute to increased body mass in the form of bone density,

> muscle, and connective tissue. But the underweight person must be

> diligent. It takes some time to see the benefit of weight gain.

> Usually thin people experience a loss of weight during the first

few

> months on the diet. This eventually gives way to increased body

> mass as the production of GROWTH HORMONE eventually increases, and

> nutrients needed to build tissue (fat and protein) are consumed.

> Over a long period of time, from one to two years, they will

> eventually reach a larger body mass compared to when they began the

> low carbohydrate program. The new weight, however, will be in all

> the right places. "

>

> Hope this was helpful.

>

> Beth