Acne Rosacea: [rosacea] Re: Study: Low-Carb, CHD Unrelated

Elena,

The human health requirement for carbohydrate is zero. I quoted that from Drs Eades
book, PROTEIN POWER, on page of eight of their book, the footnote at the bottom.

While glucose is essential for human survival, we can get glucose from protein or fat.
When we eat carbohydrate we are getting plenty of glucose obviously since carbohydrate is
just different kinds of sugars. All the sugars have to be converted to glucose to be utilized
for energy in the cells. However, if you were on a desert island or the moon and had to
chose just two of the three food groups, carbohdyrate, fat and protein, eliminating only
one, if you eliminated either fat or protein you would die since both are essential for
human survival. Carbohydrate isn't required for human survival. And we can get glucose
from fat or protein. But you can't get protein or fat from carbohydrate!

Basically carbohydrate is the dessert of the three food groups. We need to limit the
dessert, rather than pushing it as the main staple. Fat and protein should be the main
staple since both are essential for survival and a healthy life style. Adding sugar into our
diet is not a good idea and is the flame that burns rosacea. I have been saying this since
1999 yet show me a trigger list that includes sugar as a rosacea trigger?

--- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, Elena Mutter <emgm42000@...> wrote:
>
> Here, here I second that! You know, just recently poor Dr. Atkins was finally vindicated
as NOT being some quack with a dangerous fad diet. All the lies that were spewed about
him at his death............it was not his diet that killed him. I don't follow his diet but have
learned enough to limit carbs. And like you Sara, I am not apparently allergic to grains,
and wheats but just do better all 'round limiting them (my fibro gets better the less grains
I eat too). Do I like it?? Hell nooooooooo! I totally prefer grains over protein, but it makes
me worse and that's that. IF I want to ignore that (like the thanksgiving stuffing and yams
with fluff, and crescent rolls and pecan pie........yeah, I fell off the wagon yesterday) then I
know and deal with the consequences. That's just the way it is. Today I'm being good. I
forget the book I read it in but there was a question about if you were stuck on a deserted
island or something what's the one thing you COULD live
> with out. There were choices of protein, fat and carbs. Well, the answer was CARBS
because I think it said we actually produce enough of them in our bodies naturally (help
me out with this someone.........Brady, I think it was from one of the books you
reccomended.........the Drs. Eades maybe?)...........so while your brain does need
carbohydrates to survive; apparently that is built into our equation. Interesting, no? I still
want my pasta and Italian bread though, but I won't have it 3 times a week!
>
> Take care,
> Elena
>
> gerlygerl <gerlygerl@...> wrote:
> brady,
>
> i'm so tired of low-carb diet trashing! one can get all the nutrients
> one needs and yet still eat low carb. my body just doesn't respond to
> low-fat diets, but i've always carried extra weight...yet when i went
> low-carb, my IBS all but disappeared, i had more energy, i lost
> weight, and my fibromyalgia pains weren't so bad. (i've been through
> testing, and i'm not allergic to gluten or grains)
>
> to each, their own, but certain people have a vested interest in
> pushing their own versions of what it means to eat 'healthy,' even
> when that version isn't the best for all of us.
>
> sara
>
> --- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, "Brady Barrows" <brady@> wrote:
> >
> > I have been criticized since 1999 that the Rosacea Diet is not a
> healthy diet
> > but more studies have shown that eating low carb is not as bad as
> everyone
> > thinks. Here is a quote from a recent study done at Harvard:
> >
> > "A new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study —the first to
> examine the
> > long-term effects of low carbohydrate diets—has found there is no
> association
> > between such diets and an increased risk of developing coronary
> heart disease
> > (CHD).
> >
> > The study, which appeared in the Nov. 9 issue of The New England
> Journal of
> > Medicine, relied on data collected from HSPH's Nurses' Health Study,
> a sweeping
> > project which collected data from over 120,000 women starting in 1976.
> >
> > HSPH researchers also found that there was an association between a
> lowered risk
> > of heart disease and low-carb diets that were high in vegetable
> sources of fat and
> > protein.
> >
> > "We are not recommending a low-carb diet over a low-fat diet," said
> > Thomas L. Halton, one of the authors of the study.
> >
> > "The truth of the matter is that neither [is] ideal. Both have good
> points and
> > bad points."
> >
> > According to Halton, carbohydrate and fat sources have a greater
> impact on the
> > risk of CHD than the quantity of carbohydrates and fat consumed.
> >
> > "You can take the best of both diets and eliminate the negatives by
> focusing on
> > vegetable sources of fat and protein and choosing lower glycemic
> sources of
> > carbohydrates," said Halton, a former HSPH doctoral student.
> >
> > Non-dietary factors such as levels of cholesterol and blood
> pressure, as well as
> > diabetes and exercise, did not appear to impact the relationship
> between low carb
> > diets and CHD risk.
> >
> > "We controlled for [those factors] in our analyses so we can say the
> association
> > between low carb diet and risk of CHD was independent of other risk
> factors
> > for CHD," Halton said."
> >
> > source >
> >
> > http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515865
> >
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