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The LLVLC Show (Episode 489): Dr. Steve Parker And Paolo Costa Expose The Flaws In The Mediterranean Diet

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In Episode 489 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we welcome back a returning podcast guest named Dr. Steve Parker (listen to my May 2009 interview with him) who has long been a big fan of the Mediterranean diet for many years. But after being exposed to low-carb living and then spending hundreds of hours of intense research to gain a better understanding of the high-fat, low-carb principles, Dr. Parker became convinced that there are a lot of health benefits associated with eating an Atkins-styled diet done in a modified manner to adapt to his beloved Mediterranean diet–especially for people with diabetes. He enthusiastically blogs about it now at his “Diabetic Mediterranean Diet” blog and has a brand new book about this concept entitled Conquer Diabetes & Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet. Listen to this nutritionally-minded medical doctor share his newfound passion and love for livin’ la vida low-carb with a Mediterranean twist.

Listen to Dr. Steve Parker explain about his diabetic Mediterranean diet:

  • Why 2009 was a “watershed year” for him professionally
  • The internal struggle he had with the “saturated fat is bad” message
  • How the blogosphere helped educate him about nutrition and health
  • The studies showing the ketogenic Mediterranean diet improving health
  • How his colleagues have responded to his change in philosophy to low-carb
  • Why his cardiologist friends love the work he is doing now
  • His response to Hope Warshaw’s column praising carbs for diabetics
  • Why he doesn’t think we should be eating a whole lot of fruit
  • How his diet is heavy on a lot of non-starchy veggies
  • What people can do about hypoglycemia fears on a low-carb diet
  • The “unknown long-term adverse effects” of the 11 major diabetic drugs
  • How several approved diabetes drugs have been pulled for being dangerous
  • Who Dr. John Rollo is and why his work with diabetics in 1797 is important
  • How low-carb was the diabetic diet before the discovery of insulin in the 1920s
  • Why he never saw any overweight Type 1 diabetics when he started practicing medicine
  • The difference between his ketogenic Mediterranean diet and low-carb Mediterranean diet
  • Why adding back carbohydrates into your diet is recommended
  • The “carbohydrate intolerance” problem that people with obesity suffer with
  • Whether low-carb diets are optimal for all diabetics to use
  • What the differences are between Atkins and the low-carb Mediterranean diet
  • Why he chooses to include 1-2 glasses of wine daily in his program
  • His lack of a preference for using or not using Splenda in recipes
  • Why everything about his diabetes program is on his web site

    Next we hear from a native Italian named Paolo Costa who doesn’t have a blog, web site, book or anything. But as you’ll hear in today’s interview, he has a lot to say about the Mediterranean diet and why it’s not as optimally healthy as most people think. And, yes, he’s quite the fan of low-carb living and is seeking to help spread the low-carb message in his homeland. ENJOY!

    Listen to Paolo Costa give you the REAL scoop on Mediterranean eating:

  • The health issues that led him to a low-carb lifestyle change
  • The book he read in 1994 that opened his eyes about health
  • His diagnosis of being bipolar by his doctor and the 12 years he was on drugs
  • How his problem was actually attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
  • The difficulty coming off of the medications he took for so long
  • His British friend that told him about low-carb living in 2010
  • How he started cutting out sugar and grains and eating whole foods
  • The big changes that happened to his health in just three weeks
  • How Dr. Loren Cordain and Mark Sisson’s work has helped him so much
  • The reaction his family had to his change to a pasta-less diet
  • Why he says the Mediterranean diet is a “fake” diet that’s not natural
  • How Italians were forced to consume grain-based foods because of poverty
  • The craziness of continuing to use statins to lower cholesterol
  • How your doctor is a little “dictator” in your life if you allow him
  • Why poor people would never buy margarine if they could afford butter
  • Why he believes the scientific method should never be applied to nutrition
  • How too many nutritional studies are just plain “biased”
  • The difficulty of not “feeling” high cholesterol or other health issues
  • The frustration of research being directed only to drug development
  • Why he likes to live as if doctors don’t exist
  • The statistics that show less people die when the hospitals are closed
  • What his low-carb diet menu looks like
  • Whether he’s going to start his own low-carb blog/web site in Italy
  • The personal vitriol that is spewed online when you express your views
  • What he likes about the American low-carb movement
  • Why it’s not as important to get so deep in the health science
  • How he is perplexed by the recent changes made by Don Matesz

    There are three ways you can listen to Episode 489:

    1. Listen at the iTunes page for the podcast:

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    3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 489 [84:31m]:

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    How did you like what you heard from Dr. Steve Parker and his low-carb Mediterranean diet for people with diabetes? And how about that Paolo Costa? Do tell what piqued your interest from these interviews in the show notes section of Episode 489. Pick up your own copy of Dr. Parker’s book Conquer Diabetes & Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet and bookmark Dr. Steve Parker’s “Diabetic Mediterranean Diet” blog to keep up with the latest from him. And although he doesn’t currently have a web site or blog, something tells me there’ll be something soon coming from Paolo Costa.

    We’ve got an AWESOME podcast in store for you on Thursday with two outstanding interviews of two incredible women. First we’ll hear from Dr. Emily Deans from “Evolutionary Psychiatry” who earlier this year was given a pretty cool writing gig with Psychology Today. She’s one of the highly-respected members of the Paleolithic blogging community and I’m honored to have her appear on my podcast to talk about her work. Then, in the second interview, we’ll hear from another Paleo/primal nutrition and cooking goddess named Cate Munroe from “Cate’s Nutrition Kitchen” who is doing her part to educate others about proper low-carb nutrition principles for healthy living!

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    • July 26th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: 1
    • Peggy Holloway

      Paolo:
      I am very interested in your ADHD improvement on low-carb. My family is pretty much universally insulin-resistant and carbs affect us in different ways. My son was diagnosed ADHD as a pre-teen and put on various drugs over the years. I consider him to have experienced a “lost adolescence” and by the time he started college (and it was a miracle he even graduated from high school) he was in danger of destroying his life by self-medication with his own drugs of choice. (Hey, if doctors can prescribe drugs to treat ADHD, why shouldn’t he be able to use marijuana, etc.?). A brush with the law and a Red Bull incident finally convinced him (after I had tried for years) that cutting out sugar/refined carbs would make a difference in his anxiety, hyperactivity, and focus problems. He went low-carb four years ago and his life has turned around. He is a health-food guru, fantastic low-carb cook, and a sane voice at the Whole Foods where he works. He is now training for yoga certification, and along with working at Whole Foods, is exposed to a lot of propaganda to go vegetarian/vegan. He is currently on a 6-week stint of ovo-lacto-vegetarianism, and admits as he nears the end of the “pledge” that it probably isn’t the best for him. He’s looking forward to “breaking his fast” with a steak cook-out at a mountain cabin we are all renting next week!
      I truly believe that many mood disorders are insulin-resistant related. My formerly-veg brother “cured” what he though was chronic fatigue syndrome by going low-carb and my daughter is convinced that her insomnia, depression, and binge eating disorder was the result of eating a high-carb, vegetarian diet, now that she has gone paleo. Pretty amazing stories abound in my family. I should write a book.

    • http://profiles.google.com/peggy.holloway5 Peggy Holloway

      What happened to my previous comment?
      I posted a comment about my son’s ADHD and the improvement he saw on a low-carb diet, along with anecdotes about other family members who had mood disorders of all kinds reversed on low-carb – and now the post is gone?

      • Anonymous

        Have no fear Peggy; we’re in the middle of upgrading the commenting system here, and the old comments are being imported automatically, but won’t be visible for a few more hours.

    • Jennifer Eloff

      Excellent Podcast!  I enjoyed listening to it.  Dr. Parker knows his stuff.