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For the time being. I have an A friend who likes meat & has developed acid reflux, indigestion, stress, fatigue & needs to lose his spare tire. It doesn't work for him.
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Originally Posted by Bosco55David
And yet here I am, eating it all the time and still completely healthy.
For the time being. I have an A friend who likes meat & has developed acid reflux, indigestion, stress, fatigue & needs to lose his spare tire. It doesn't work for him.
That's funny, I only suffer from heartburn when eating rice and pasta, which is (as far as I can gather) a recommended food for blood type A. Looks like another strike against this diet!
Most doctors know very little about nutrition and fall back on "conventional wisdom" that's just now being debunked. This is probably because they have little time to do much reading so rely on what some pharmaceutical salesman tells them. A good litmus test would be to ask a doc if he recommends cooking with margarine versus lard. If he says the former you can bet he doesn't know squat and should be ignored on the topic of what you should be eating.
Mmm, that one's tricky though b/c storebought lard is hydrogenated. Margarine vs butter maybe. But have you ever had homemade lard? Oh my, it is really good--I went to a butcher once and got a big bag of pigfat and went home and rendered it into lard and my kitchen smelled of it for a month but it was a nice smell. The bonus was the cracklin's--the little bits of solids that render out of the fat, and they are really good. The lard made fabulous piecrusts and they didn't taste anything like the frozen ones. I can't believe I just posted this on a diet/weight loss board, lol.
Most doctors know very little about nutrition and fall back on "conventional wisdom" that's just now being debunked. This is probably because they have little time to do much reading so rely on what some pharmaceutical salesman tells them. A good litmus test would be to ask a doc if he recommends cooking with margarine versus lard. If he says the former you can bet he doesn't know squat and should be ignored on the topic of what you should be eating.
margarine vs lard. Hmmm. Maybe I will ask my doc if I should drive a volvo without a seat belt, or a Toyota. I doubt he will be up on which car is better for driving wihout a seat belt.
My doc suggested avoiding sat fats, but did not suggest adding transfats - he did refer me, IIRC, to the AHA site, which recommends against transfats. My doc DOES like me using olive oil, which doesnt appear to be part of your question.
I mean if you are gonna ask your doc questions based on the misleading choices used as part of the diet wars, its quite possible a doc who isnt up on the diet wars wont know how to answer.
Most phar salesmen are pushing their company's drugs. I dont think the docs get their dietary ideas from them.
God I love stories like this and so glad you all found your fountain of health. This is how we're supposed to eat and I bet you have fun while you're raising your food and cooking it.
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we're supposed to not eat olive oil? WTF? So much for my mediterranean ancestors. We are supposed to eat pork? So much for my kosher ancestors. And it has to be corn fed? so much for michael pollan, and the advantags of range fed meats, and the historical patterns of pig keeping in the preindustrial USA and elsewhere.
Sounds like its not "eat what your grandma ate" so much as "eat whatever pisses off the American Heart Association"
God I love stories like this and so glad you all found your fountain of health. This is how we're supposed to eat and I bet you have fun while you're raising your food and cooking it.
SO you dont love MY story? How I improved MY blood numbers, but in ways that DID not surprise my doc, cause it was through weight loss from a calorie in calorie out based plan, and cause I leaned toward the AHA approach to sat fat, and cause I didnt do low carb (beyond what the reduction in calories in naturally led to) nor did I avoid all processed foods?
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