Comments on: Some Daring Ideas About Influencing The 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines With The Low-Carb Science http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/some-daring-ideas-about-influencing-the-2010-usda-dietary-guidelines-with-the-low-carb-science/3231 To educate, encourage, and inspire the world to start low-carb living Thu, 24 May 2012 21:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Stephaniehttp://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/some-daring-ideas-about-influencing-the-2010-usda-dietary-guidelines-with-the-low-carb-science/3231#comment-13225 Stephanie Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:44:43 +0000 http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?p=3231#comment-13225 As a holistic nutritionist I am disgusted every time I see the USDA's food pyramid. Just last night a friend showed it to me as a guide for how she plans her meals. My first response was "If you are eating 6 to 11 servings of grain per day you will become obese". Not to mention, of course, the fact that many of us are intolerant to dairy, and that the USDA does not specify quality of foods on their diagram (indeed, one illustration is of slices of American cheese!) As a holistic nutritionist I am disgusted every time I see the USDA’s food pyramid. Just last night a friend showed it to me as a guide for how she plans her meals. My first response was “If you are eating 6 to 11 servings of grain per day you will become obese”. Not to mention, of course, the fact that many of us are intolerant to dairy, and that the USDA does not specify quality of foods on their diagram (indeed, one illustration is of slices of American cheese!)

]]> By: Matthttp://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/some-daring-ideas-about-influencing-the-2010-usda-dietary-guidelines-with-the-low-carb-science/3231#comment-13065 Matt Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:02:06 +0000 http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?p=3231#comment-13065 I just posted a lengthy comment. Will see if it gets posted. If others post comments and see them posted, make mention of it here. Here is my post: After reading "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes, and "The Protein Power Life Plan" by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades, I am convinced that low carbohydrate living is a healthful lifestyle that needs to become part of the USDA recommendations. Over the past 30 years, Americans have increased their calories with the caloric increase predominantly coming from processed starchy foods. Who can blame us, starches, particularly processed ones, are highly addictive and non-satiating. They increase the production of insulin, and tell our bodies to begin preparation for famine, and store store store excess calories as fat. If we reduce the carbohydrates in our diet, we will turn off the insulin process, and make it more difficult to store excess calories as body fat. Our HDL cholesterol will increase, LDL cholesterol stay about the same but move toward large particle cholesterol which studies show is more beneficial to health, and triglycerides go into freefall. The research is pouring in showing that low carbohydrate living is quite healthful, and matches our evolutionary history. We as hunter-gatherers got where we are today by eating plenty of meat, some nuts, berries, and vegetables, and the rare occasion when we found a honey tree. Evolution has not caught up with the advances we have made in agriculture, so our bodies need to produce more and more insulin to deal with the carbohydrate load we throw at them. It is no wonder we are becoming a nation of diabetics. In addition, a clear recommendation away fron trans fatty acids, and toward natural fats such as butter, lard, olive oil, is necessary for optimal health. Saturated fats get a bad rap, but they also are being proven in the research to be far more healthful than the TFA's that we have developed to avoid their use. I just posted a lengthy comment. Will see if it gets posted. If others post comments and see them posted, make mention of it here. Here is my post:

After reading “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes, and “The Protein Power Life Plan” by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades, I am convinced that low carbohydrate living is a healthful lifestyle that needs to become part of the USDA recommendations.

Over the past 30 years, Americans have increased their calories with the caloric increase predominantly coming from processed starchy foods. Who can blame us, starches, particularly processed ones, are highly addictive and non-satiating. They increase the production of insulin, and tell our bodies to begin preparation for famine, and store store store excess calories as fat.

If we reduce the carbohydrates in our diet, we will turn off the insulin process, and make it more difficult to store excess calories as body fat. Our HDL cholesterol will increase, LDL cholesterol stay about the same but move toward large particle cholesterol which studies show is more beneficial to health, and triglycerides go into freefall.

The research is pouring in showing that low carbohydrate living is quite healthful, and matches our evolutionary history. We as hunter-gatherers got where we are today by eating plenty of meat, some nuts, berries, and vegetables, and the rare occasion when we found a honey tree. Evolution has not caught up with the advances we have made in agriculture, so our bodies need to produce more and more insulin to deal with the carbohydrate load we throw at them. It is no wonder we are becoming a nation of diabetics.

In addition, a clear recommendation away fron trans fatty acids, and toward natural fats such as butter, lard, olive oil, is necessary for optimal health. Saturated fats get a bad rap, but they also are being proven in the research to be far more healthful than the TFA’s that we have developed to avoid their use.

]]>