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"The low-carb diet craze of recent years has confused many people about the role of grains in their weight-reducing plan. In fact, research shows that whole grains make a critical contribution to successful weight loss for all the reasons outlined above. Many people also have found that low-carb diets made them feel poorly and lacking in energy and, at least partly for these reasons, are difficult if not impossible to stick with in the long term." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Low-Carb Diet for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome WHEN I HEAR the three words polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the first thing I think of is insulin resistance And the next thing I think of is low-carb diet Let me explain. PCOS is both a metabolic and a hormonal disorder. No one knows exactly what causes it, but there are a number of risk factors (see below). As the name suggests, it's a syndrome, which means it's more like a collection of multiple symptoms than an actual disease." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The scientists at Aberdeen's Rowett Research Institute found that prolonged adherence to the low-carb diet may adversely affect the gut bacterial populations that beneficially produce a substance called butyrate, which is important for keeping the gut healthy and preventing colorectal cancer. Thankfully, low-carb diets recently lost popularity with the public since the approach has been shown to put followers at a higher risk for clogged arteries, heart attack, and possibly colorectal cancer as well. Yes, Your Body Can Store Protein!" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Chromium picolinate (see page 46) does the same thing and is a great supplement to use together with a low-carb diet to help manage both blood sugar and insulin. In addition to chromium, which improves glucose tolerance, decreases fasting blood sugar, and has been shown to help insulin resistance in people with diabetes, two other supplements may be helpful. Though not normally thought of as the first nutrient you'd take for PCOS, biotin in high doses (8 to 16 mg) should be considered because it has the potential to be of great help in normalizing and lowering blood sugar." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Enter the low-carb diet, the perfect "natural" solution to high levels of insulin and to the problem of insulin resistance. Conventional Medicine: An Incomplete Answer Conventional medicine usually treats PCOS with drugs that lower levels of male hormones (androgens) or with diabetes medications that help the body to utilize insulin better. For women who don't want to become pregnant, docs will sometimes use birth control pills to help regulate menstrual cycles, clear up acne, and reduce levels of male hormones, but the Pill does not cure PCOS." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"For those of you who don't want to have to think about just what to prepare, a good book that you can use to fill in the blanks about what to serve when is The 30-Day low-carb diet Solution by Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D. One supplement I do recommend when you are on the diet is a good once-a-day vitamin tablet. If your doctor is in agreement, perhaps he or she will prescribe Strohvite Advance. I prescribe this vitamin to patients with mild to moderate fatigue and to patients going onto my diet." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"As an example, the generic low-fat diet of the WHI reduced LDL cholesterol by only ten points, whereas a diet high in fruits and vegetables, soy, and nuts, and low in animal fat dropped cholesterol by 30%, a figure that equaled the effects of a statin (33%). A low-carb diet does not prevent heart disease. Look at the doctor who developed it: He died of a heart attack. In addition, women subjects from the Nurses' Health Study (82,802) who had low carbohydrate intake did not experience a reduced occurrence of heart disease. Eating a high-sugar diet increased the risk of heart disease by 90%." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Ketones have a strong characteristic odor and are the reason many people following a low-carb diet experience bad breath similar to the breath of alcohol intoxication. Is ketosis necessary for weight loss? Absolutely not, and while ketosis is usually not dangerous (though it can be life-threatening if severe, especially in a diabetic), it is certainly not a particularly healthful state. In addition, one of the major problems with a low-carb diet or even a very low-calorie diet is that they inevitably produce a loss of significant amounts of muscle mass." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"The realization of what carbs hath wrought has inspired a seemingly endless production of low-carb diet books and revitalized the life of the high-protein classic, the Atkins diet. We use the term glycemic index to characterize carbohydrate foods by the relative speed with which they are broken down into glucose for entry into the bloodstream and delivery to cells. Refer to the glycemic food index in appendix B. The rate of conversion determines the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas to regulate carbohydrate metabolism." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The Fiber Factor: The Secret of the Glycemic Load As we have been discussing throughout this chapter, the whole issue of whether a low-fat or low-carb diet is better or whether you should eat Atkins, Ornish, the Zone, or South Beach misses the point entirely.The secret factor behind the glycemic load that hardly anyone talks about is fiber. Some studies have shown that low-carb diets result in more weight loss than low-fat diets, while some studies show exactly the opposite. How can that be?" - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"A low-carb diet Is the Answer High-carbohydrate diets stimulate high blood sugar, which in turn stimulates high levels of insulin, especially in susceptible people. High levels of insulin then stimulate the androgen receptors on the outside of the ovary, which may lead to more cysts as well as other problems related to too much androgen production. And high insulin levels are thought to increase the production of male hormones. Thus high levels of insulin are intimately connected to the typical PCOS symptoms of excess facial hair, thin hair on the head, and acne." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Oranges A few years ago, when the low-carb craze was "sweeping the country," there were rumblings that an association of citrus growers was threatening to sue low-carb diet docs who were claiming that orange juice was not much more than sugar water. At the time, my book Living the Loiv-Carb Life: Choosing the Diet Thafs Right for You was a bestseller, so Fox News asked me to be a talking head on one of their magazine shows, debating another talking head representing the orange growers." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "The Truth about Coffee and Blood Sugar Coffee got a bad rap from the low-carb diet movement for a while because of very questionable information that it significantly raises blood sugar and insulin. The truth is a bit more complicated. In a recent study from Finland published in the journal Hormone and Metabolic Research, coffee actually showed an inverse relationship with fasting insulin and with blood sugar markers, meaning it had a positive effect that the researchers believed "could reduce the risk of type II diabetes." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"In a study at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, researchers placed men on a high-fat, moderately high-protein, and low-carb diet for five weeks. The men's blood-sugar levels decreased by more than a third, and their HbA]c (glycated hemoglobin) levels dropped by 22 percent. The researchers calculated that if the men had stayed on the diet longer, their HbA)c levels would have dropped by half. • Protein reduces appetite and creates a "full" feeling. Protein increases satiety after eating, partly by suppressing the appetite." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Lynn's physician diagnosed her with prediabetes, and he recommended that she follow a high-protein, high-vegetable, low-carb diet. Instead of skipping breakfast, as she usually did, she ate two scrambled or boiled eggs. Within three days of adopting the diet, her energy levels improved—and so did her moods. foods that are higher in sugars and fats. That's why the incidence of obesity and diabetes has increased rapidly—and part of the reason why I believe mood problems are also on the rise." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana, placed obese middle-age women on either a high-protein, low-carb diet or a high-carb, low-protein diet. They also asked some of the women to exercise regularly. All of the subjects lost weight, but those following the high-protein diet, and those on the high-protein diet who exercised lost the most body fat and the least muscle. The combination of a high-protein diet and exercise led to a 21.4 percent reduction in body fat. In contrast, women on the high-carbohydrate diet who didn't exercise lost only 12.8 percent of their body fat." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"Research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine and reprinted on the American Diabetes Association Web site demonstrated that people following a "Modified Low-Carb Diet" higher in monounsaturated fat lost more weight than a matched group of people following the standard National Cholesterol Education Program diet. And monounsaturated fats are a key component of the Mediterranean diet, which in every major study has been linked with lower rates of heart disease. Great for Eyes, Heart, and Skin!" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"If so, choose a low-carb diet. But if you really need to get your total cholesterol and your bad LDL cholesterol under control, the low-fat diet is a better way to go. We have a friend who has managed to lose and keep off about 30 pounds over the years. This weight loss has brought his total cholesterol down so well that he does not need a cholesterol-lowering drug. This surprised his doctor, who assumed that he would require a prescription for Lipitor (atorvastatin) or Zocor (simvastatin) sooner or later. What impresses us is his persistence. He is always very careful about what he eats." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2004, 244. "Low-Carb Diet May Help Women with Ovary Problems." http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ ng.asp?n=67217-pcos-low-carb-diabetesdup. Lowcarbezine website. "Low Carb and Fertility Continued," August 3, 2004. http://www .holdthetoast.com/httblog/archives/000009.html. Mayo Clinic website, http://www.mayoclinic.com. Mercer, M., and M. Holder. "Food Cravings, Endogenous Opioid Peptides, and Food Intake: A Review." Appetite 29, no. 3 (1997): 325-52. Michener, Q., et al. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Daniells, Stephen. "Low-Carb Diet May Help Women with Ovary Problems." http://www .nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=67217-pcos-low-carb-diabetes. Douglas, C. C, B. A. Gower, B. E. Darnell, F. Ovalle, R. A. Oster, and R. Azziz. "Role of Diet in the Treatment of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome." Fertility and Sterility 85, no. 3 (2006): 679-88. Dye, L., and J. E. Blundell. "Menstrual Cycle and Appetite Control: Implications for Weight Regulation." Human Reproduction 12, no. 6 (1997): 1142-51. Dye, L., P. Warner, and J. Bancroft. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Diabetes in Control. "Low-Carb Diet Controls Diabetes Without Weight Loss or Insulin Use." http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/modules. php?name=News&file=article&sid=3601. Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/preventionprogram/. Dominguez, Alex. "Waistline Good Indicator of Diabetes Risk." AP News Wire, March 22, 2005. http://life.channels.netscape.ca/life/article.adp?id=20050322131409990011. Ebbeling, Cara B., Michael M. Leidig, Kelly B. Sinclair, Linda G. Seger-Shippee, Henry A. Feldman, and David S." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "University of Cincinnati's College of Nursing, who spearheaded a study showing that a low-carb diet was more effective than a low-fat one for short-term weight loss and it led to improvement in cardiovascular risk factors. "Maybe now we'll see doctors help people realize that carbs aren't free food. Probably, they will be educating their patients more about why we need to moderate both our fat and carb intake," predicts Dr. Brehm. Sugar Watching Grips the Nation: Is Low Sugar the New Low Carb?" - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"It goes by the name "low-carb diet," and it has become very popular. Almost all diet books on store shelves are variations of this one theme: eat as much protein, meat and fat as you want, but stay away from those "fatty" carbs. As you have seen already in this book, my research findings and my point of view show that eating this way is perhaps the single greatest threat to American health we currently face. So what is the story, anyway?" - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"This is not a good choice for diabetics or those on a low-carb diet. Cost: $3 to $4 for 64 ounces. That is enough for about a week. Budo-no-megumi. They found that it partially blocks this enzyme and activates another enzyme (nitric oxide synthase), which may account for its ability to dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure.598,599 Since this drink does not appear to be available in the United States, you could experiment by mixing various proportions of red wine vinegar and grape juice to find a pleasing concoction. Check your blood pressure to see if you notice any benefit." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Subjects on the low-carb diet reduced their fasting blood glucose from an initial 95 mg/dl (5.3 mmol/1) to 79 mg/dl after six weeks, while those on the forty-five percent carbohydrate diet reduced their blood sugar levels from 96 mg/dl (5.4 mmol/1) to 89 mg/dl (5.0 mmol/1). The low-carbohydrate group also experienced significantly greater reductions in fasting insulin, indicating superior overall glycemic control in the low-carbohydrate group(67). • In hyperinsulinemic men, fasting blood glucose levels were reduced from 97.6 mg/dl (5.5 mmol/1) to 89.6 mg/dl (5." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Does your diet still contain MSG and other ingredients made with MSG? If you answered "yes" to both questions, it may be due to the increased toxicity of MSG in a low-carb lifestyle. Once again, this is a "missing piece of the puzzle" that helps explain some of the mysterious side effects some people experience on a low-carb diet. It isn't the low-carb diet that's to blame: it's the MSG still in your diet!" - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"If you search the medical literature, you will discover that as far back as 1972 researchers reported that a low-carb diet was far superior to a "gastric" diet for heartburn relief.385 In those days a gastric diet was likely bland: low in fat, low in acid, and restricted in coffee and alcohol. Another small study (2001) confirms these observations. Duke University physicians carefully observed several patients on a low-carbohydrate diet." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"In addition, one of the major problems with a low-carb diet or even a very low-calorie diet is that they inevitably produce a loss of significant amounts of muscle mass. The muscle is sacrificed in order to provide the dieter with a constant supply of blood sugar. In fact, if you lose weight through fasting or other forms of severe dieting, a significant proportion of the weight loss will be in the form of water (each molecule of glycogen binds six water molecules) and muscle mass." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

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