Friday, November 24, 2006

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

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Brady

--- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, ellen lafrancis <ellenlafrancis@...> wrote:
>
> It's mostly about the low-glycemic right? I'm hypoglycemic with a family history of
diabetes. Sugar has been slightly elevated and my sweetie G.P. has told me that I need to
eat mostly protein but go more in the South Beach direction which in my mind is more
protein and some complex carbs. Brady, I haven't read your book yet. Just did an on-line
search at my local library and found that they offer very little about Rosacea -- diet or
otherwise.
>
> arteest103 <arteest103@...> wrote: I think a lot of the general public assumes
³Atkins² when you mention low
> carb. I do really well on low carb and lost 50 lbs as well. People asked me
> how I did it and when I say ³low carb,² I get the scrunched up face. Then I
> say, ³I said LOW carb, not NO carb!²
>
> Karen
>
> From: gerlygerl <gerlygerl@...>
> Reply-To: "rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com"
> <rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:21:36 -0000
> To: "rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com" <rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [rosacea] Re: Study: Low-Carb, CHD Unrelated
>
> 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
> <mailto:rosacea-support%40yahoogroups.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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