Comments on: We all want the pill

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:16:59 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_0KlKOIG0

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:46:15 +0000

I’m glad that you’re experiencing the benefits of good food. You are what you eat. If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:42:47 +0000

Many such cases.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:15:58 +0000

TRX “Guided by the ringing endorsement…”

Heh. Use the Pravda effect while it lasts. https://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/triggerhappy-modern-game-reviews/

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:53:20 +0000

Timely bump, Jim.

I missed this post originally and I too have seen the effects of a low-carb diet payout massive dividends. I’m 5’8” and was weighing in at around 195 lbs 4 years ago. I could still move athletically without issue and my wind was still decent, but my allergies were killing me. Then my wife decided to go hard into a low-carb diet for the whole family to try and help my daughters eczema.

I lost 25 lbs in ~5 months, had way more energy and my allergies effectively disappeared altogether. I now float at around 175 lbs even when I indulge occasionally and I actually get sick for a few days if I consume what would be considered normal amounts of certain foods.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:10:51 +0000

Very nice, TRX, very nice.

By: TRX

TRX — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:22:33 +0000

I came across an article excoriating Gary Taubes and his book “Good Calories, Bad Calories”. Taubes was a charlatan and a fool and probably tortured kittens, and should be prevented from spreading his pseudo-science claptrap at once.

Guided by the ringing endorsement, I purchased a copy of the book and read it. It’s not a “diet book.” It’s more of a book-length college thesis on diet and health; tediously detailed and exhaustively annotated and referenced.

Hey, worth a shot. I lost 99 pounds the first year I was on it. (missed an even hundred by *that* much…) Taubes only briefly covered the anti-inflammatory aspects of a low-carb diet. I had childhood-onset arthritis; enough that I had to retire early because of mobility problems, and had progressed from using a cane all the time to using crutches on bad days. Not to mention the fearsome group of allergies – I was allergic to *everything*, which impressed the hell out of the allergy doc.

The allergy symptoms went away after a few weeks, and I dispensed with the meds I had been on for decades. It took about six months before the arthritis symptoms mostly went away, and about a year before they went completely away. I dispensed with those meds too.

Even if I didn’t lose any weight, the low carb diet would be worth it. The weight loss was just a bonus.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:03:41 +0000

No one has ever been amerifat on a diet of steak and rice.

By: Faze

Faze — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:41:00 +0000

As one prominent cardiologist told me over dinner, “Treatment guidelines say that we are supposed to have the patient try lifestyle modification [diet and exercise] before we prescribe the [statin] drugs. But I prescribe the drug first thing. Why? Because after treating thousands of patients I know that none of them will actually attempt the diet and exercise. NONE OF THEM …”

By: BHS

BHS — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:02:37 +0000

You have no idea how hard the doctors tried to keep me from a low carb diet. And these were doctors working largely with Indian patients.

So I finally said, ‘to the heck with them,’ and went low carb anyway. No more fry bread, or pancakes, not even high sugar fruits or vegetables. Within three months I was off all medication with normal blood sugar.

Why tell people whose grandparents were hunter gatherers to eat a high carb low fat diet anyway?