Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| These results suggest that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet increases the risk of subsequently developing NIDDM. Ironically, such a diet was used in the past for the dietary management of diabetes.
Chromium deficiency
Considerable experimental and epidemiological evidence now indicates that chromium levels are a major determinant of insulin sensitivity.15"20 Chromium, an essential micronutrient, functions as a cofactor in all insulin-regulating activities. Its deficiency is widespread in the US. |
Judith J. Wurtman and Susan Suffes
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 When I learned of research in England that showed significant changes in brain serotonin after dieters spent only three weeks on a relatively low-carbohydrate diet, I understood why so many of our subjects began to gain weight within two weeks of ending a diet. It was not because maintenance techniques weren't working. It was because their serotonin control systems weren't functioning.
Follow the after-diet eating plan if you have been on a carbohydrate-deficient diet. After completing the week's plan, go on to the basic serotonin-seeker's diet plan or other relevant plan. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
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 Eating five or so small meals at regular, more frequent intervals is better than eating two or three large meals daily.
¦ A low-carbohydrate diet, sometimes useful for helping to control low blood sugar, is not recommended. If you have low adrenal function, it may actually make your blood-sugar problems worse.
¦ Do not limit your salt intake. Doing so can increase the stress on the adrenals by making them produce more aldosterone in an effort to maintain sodium levels (aldosterone is a hormone that causes the body to retain sodium). |
Covert Bailey
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 Some famous books that push a low-carbohydrate diet urge people to test for ketosis by dipping litmus paper in their urine. The authors claim ketosis indicates that the muscles are burning lots of fat. They're wrong. All it shows is that the muscles are burning fat halfway. You're not burning lots of fat, you're burning a little fat incompletely.
Emaciated Runners
Another phenomenon related to the Krebs cycle shows up in some older men who are addicted to running. You may have seen some older runners who look emaciated, especially in the upper body. |
| Let's say you're a fat person on a low-carbohydrate diet. Pyruvic acid from fat metabolism builds up very slowly in the muscles. But because the Krebs cycle can't break down fat pyruvic acid without some sugar pyruvic acid, the pyruvic acid slowly accumulates. Instead of turning into lactic acid, it is converted to ketones. The important point is that without sugar, muscle turns fatty acids into ketones, which spill into your blood, creating a condition called ketoacidosis or ketosis. This can be measured by taking a sample of blood or urine. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
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 In rats fed a low-carbohydrate diet, injected ginsenosides increased pyruvate kinase activity in the liver but decreased it in rats fed high carbohydrate.37
Such normalizing activity is said to be a characteristic of adaptogens.
• Ginseng extract (oral doses, 33 mg/kg) produced an increase in adrenal zona fasciculata cell size compared to controls. In mice treated with ginsenoside Rbj or RgT (oral doses), the mean cell areas were unchanged but the distribution of cell sizes differed from controls. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 Some people lose weight and thrive on a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, whereas others get results on a high-complex-carbohydrate, low-protein diet. Experimentation, trial and error, and professional advice are needed to create the proper weight regimen for you. The diet may need to be individualized for body type (see Chapter Four).
Although every diet must be individualized, there are some basic principles that are applicable to any weight loss program.
• Eat a whole-foods diet, with generous amounts of fresh vegetables. |
Prevention Magazine
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 These people may do well on a so-called hypoglycemic diet, which is usually a low-carbohydrate diet."
If you've noticed that your headaches often occur after you eat a lot of carbohydrates, says Dr. Werbach, try eating slightly more protein in the form of tofu, lean meats, eggs, or low-fat cheese.
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Vitamin B6 has been shown to keep the nervous system healthy, relieve premenstrual discomfort, and shore up the immune system. Studies suggest that it may help relieve migraines as well. Vitamin B6 is used in the brain to increase serotonin levels, explains Dr. |
Judith J. Wurtman and Susan Suffes
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| Upon further questioning I found out that he had been on an extremely low-carbohydrate diet and had convinced himself that he wanted meat when he started bingeing because it made him feel less guilty. But when he admitted that the only part of the meal he really craved was the buns, it was clear to me that brain chemistry is stronger than any brainwashing that says carbohydrates are taboo.
Fruits are the only carbohydrate foods that do not relieve stress. |
| In both examples they plummeted into a binge-eating situation sparked by overwhelming stress and, in Wilma's case, by unnaturally low serotonin levels after several weeks on a high-protein low-carbohydrate diet. And both times the woman recognized who or what was pushing her out of control. Wilma was able to halt her binge by looking closely at what she was doing and why. She realized there was a more effective way of responding to her erstwhile boyfriend than eating her way through a large pepperoni pizza. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 This has been clearly supported by the scientific literature, including our research, and debunks the popular low-carbohydrate diet craze.17 As you'll see in Chapter Three, most carbohydrates are quite good for you—and will not make you fat. Complex carbohydrates constitute most of the Okinawan diet, and the Okinawans are not only hale and hearty well into old age but maintain lifelong healthy weight as well. Plus, their diet is incredibly delicious and readily adaptable to Western palates—as you'll find out when you try some of our recipes in Chapter Twelve. So much for fad diets! |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
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 PIONEERS OF THE low-carbohydrate diet Herodotus
Observations recorded throughout modern history reflect the benefit of low-carbohydrate nutrition. Herodotus1 tells of the meeting between a Persian delegation and the king of Ethiopia in the fifth century b.c., and of the curiosity of the Ethiopian king concerning Cambyses, the Persian king:
Finally [the Ethiopian king] came to the wine and, having learnt the process of its manufacture, drank some and found it delicious; then, for a last question, he asked what the Persian king ate and what was the greatest age that Persians could attain. |
| The glucose tolerance curves for these same individuals after a few months on a low-carbohydrate diet are shown as a broken line in Figure 4.3. You can see a return to a more normal curve. There is a greater "spike" initially after ingesting the sugar, which shows that the pancreas is not overproducing insulin anymore, so there is a slower removal of glucose from the blood. Simply reducing their carbohydrate intake eliminated the hyperinsulinemia experienced by these adolescents—and no pills or potions were needed to achieve this desired result. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 In that case, follow a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, eating several smaller meals throughout the day rather than the usual three regular ones. (See the chapter on hypoglycemia, page 256.)
There is a variety of drugs to prevent or relieve migraine headaches, and they do work. However, the most impressive one for pain relief in really severe migraine, in my experience, is sumatriptan, still available only by injection in the United States but sold in oral form in Canada and Europe. This drug relieves even the most severe migraine headache within two hours in 80 percent of patients. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 They need a high-protein, moderately high-fat, and low-carbohydrate diet.
How the body terrain responded to the two different types of lipids was an important key to rebalancing the system and rebuilding membrane permeability. Revici and his team found that some pain syndromes would respond to positive polar lipids, and other types of pain would need negative polar lipids, which has to do with essential fatty acids versus saturated fats. He found this to be true for hemorrhage control, vertigo, hay fever, arthritis, certain cancers, and a variety of other pathologies. |
| Thyroid types should avoid a high-complex-carbohydrate diet and go to a high-protein, moderate-fat, and low-carbohydrate diet. Adrenal types do best if they minimize red meat, salt, and cheese. Gonadal types do best if they minimize saturated fats and spicy foods.
As an overview, the endocrine system approach helps to point out which organ system needs to be fed for optimal functioning and weight loss. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
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| One case of an individual whose hypoglycemic episodes were eliminated after three months on a low-carbohydrate diet; (a) before the diet and (b) after the diet.
By reducing carbohydrate intake, insulin production becomes normal and too much sugar is not removed from the blood after a meal.
Remember, in the United States most of these people are told to eat more carbohydrates, not fewer. But as you have seen, this only adds to the problem. |
| He began the low-carbohydrate diet because it made sense to him. After less than six months on the diet, Hatfield has become a believer. He has reported that even though he has decreased his glucose-lowering pharmaceuticals in half, his blood glucose levels have dropped significantly. The measurement of glycated hemoglobin is also much improved. Furthermore, Hatfield has said that he no longer experiences low blood sugar episodes and is less tired. He even told us that it is the complex carbohydrates, the ones that you are always told to eat, that cause the greatest low blood sugar episodes. |
Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
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 These results suggest that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet increases the risk of subsequently developing NIDDM. Ironically, such a diet was used in the past for the dietary management of diabetes.
Chromium Deficiency The trace mineral chromium plays a major role in the sensitivity of cells to insulin.15-20 Chromium, as a critical component of the so-called "glucose tolerance factor " (GTF), functions as a cofactor in all insulin-regulating activities. Chromium deficiency is widespread in the United States. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
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 Atkins is a proponent of the high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet, while Dr. Whitaker endorses the low-fat, high-fiber diet.
If Robert Atkins is correct, insulin resistance affects some fifty million people in the United States. Many studies that show that overweight people (as well as type II diabetics) who consume large quantities of carbohydrates subsequently produce greater quantities of insulin. However, specialized receptor cells in their bodies lose their ability to respond to insulin, and thus the insulin is used inefficiently. |
Leo Galland
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 NUTRI-TYPING YOUR DIET: THE WATSON EFFECT
You may know someone who felt amazingly well after starting on a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet of the type advocated by Dr. Robert Atkins or described in Barry Sears's book, The Zone. You may know someone else who felt amazingly well after beginning a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet of the type championed by Dr. Dean Ornish or Dr. Andrew Weil. Understandably, you're confused. What's the best way to eat?
The key is to first recognize what all these diets have in common: none of them tells you to eat more junk food! |
| The fast oxidizers would feel much better on a high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. They needed to avoid all forms of sugar, including the kind that is found in fruit, and they did best when eating dark meat two or three times a day, adding butter or cream to their foods. Fast oxidizers did better without B-vitamin pills and often felt better when taking calcium. |
| That, believed Watson, is why fast oxidizers improve their function on a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet.
Over the past fifteen years, Watson's concepts have been advanced and expanded by Rudolf Wiley, a biophysicist who has studied changes in the acidity of blood induced by various foods in thousands of individuals and has developed a program for balancing cell function based upon individual differences in the rate of carbon dioxide production.
In daily clinical practice, I find that about 10 percent of my patients must pay attention to the Watson Effect. |
Dr. Gary Null
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 Atkins, consisting of a low-carbohydrate diet. That meant absolutely no caffeine, and no sugar of any kind. I was also on a program of vitamins and nutrients targeted to my specific problem. Once a week, I was given an intravenous drip of an anticancer formula developed by Dr. Atkins, which was largely vitamin C.
Soon after surgery, I had a problem. The tumor grew back into the incision. Both the surgeon and Dr. Atkins advised radiation, which I was given for five weeks. While I was undergoing radiation, I did the IV weekly, and it alleviated any side effects of the radiation. |
Christian B. Allan and Wolfgang Lutz
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| High systolic blood pressure, a known risk for heart disease, decreases when a low-carbohydrate diet is employed. Initially, thirty-eight people were evaluated. The numbers at each point are the amount of people measured at the given time. The decrease in blood pressure is maintained for over five years, which represents a stable, long-term condition. of carbohydrate per day. Many more patients with hypertension have been observed over the years by Dr. |
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.
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 Adopt a low-carbohydrate diet, and the resultant low blood-sugar levels trigger the release of endorphins, which increase our sweet cravings. Lose weight too fast, and fatty acids released from fat tissue also cause an endorphin rush that sends us to the refrigerator in search of a sweet or creamy snack.
The sugar-endorphin theory provides an interesting link between sweet cravings and several health conditions. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| High-fat, low-carbohydrate diet and the etiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The San Luis Valley Diabetes Study. Am J Epidemiol 1991; 134: 590-603
14. Marshall JA, Hoag S, Shetterly S. Dietary fat predicts conversion from impaired glucose tolerance to NIDDM. Diabetes Care 1994; 17: 50-56
15. Anderson R et al. Beneficial effect of chromium for people with Type II diabetes. Diabetes 1996; 45: 124A/454
16. Offenbacher E, Stunyer F. Beneficial effect of chromium-rich yeast on glucose tolerance and blood lipids in elderly patients. Diabetes 1980; 29: 919-925
17. Mertz M. |
Dr. Gary Null
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| Atkins, consisting of a low-carbohydrate diet. That meant absolutely no caffeine, and no sugar of any kind. I was also on a program of vitamins and nutrients targeted to my specific problem. Once a week, I was given an intravenous drip of an anticancer formula developed by Dr. Atkins, which was largely vitamin C.
Soon after surgery, I had a problem. The tumor grew back into the incision. Both the surgeon and Dr. Atkins advised radiation, which I was given for five weeks. While I was undergoing radiation, I did the IV weekly, and it alleviated any side effects of the radiation. |
Earl Mindell
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 Losing weight on a low-carbohydrate diet might not be the only thing you're losing. Chances are your potassium level is down. Watch out for weakness and poor reflexes.
Excess potassium is normally excreted by the kidneys. However, people with impaired kidney function should not eat foods high in potassium or take potassium supplements.
65. Selenium
Facts:
Vitamin E and selenium are synergistic. This means that the two together increase the potency of each other. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 For instance, some people will do better on a low-carbohydrate diet, instead of one that is high in carbohydrates, he says. As long as the fat content of the diet remains low, the overweight person can have success. This was verified by a Cornell University study, which showed that when women were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, with the only restriction being that they had to consume low-fat foods (only 20% to 25% of calories as fat), they lost weight.43 This is due to the fact that fat contains more than twice as many calories per gram as protein or carbohydrates. |
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