Re: Health Benefits of a Low-Carbohydrate, High-Saturated-Fat Diet

Hello Wombat,
what I took issue with originally was the concept that "the diet Dr. Fuhrman espouses will predispose future generations to diabetes: vegan(=high carb) diet in pregnancy and increased incidence of type 2 diabetes in offspring"..........

....................without making any distinction between refined carbs' and unrefined complex carbs'.

Also the study you quoted said in conclusion: "our data raises the important possibility that high folate intakes in vitamin B12-deficient mothers could increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in the offspring. This is the first report in humans to suggest that defects in one-carbon metabolism might be at the heart of intra-uterine programming of adult disease."

So high folate intake, coupled with B12 deficient Mothers, increases the risk of type 2 Diabetes.

This of course is a nutritional imbalance, and I wouldn't advocate this, and where I have already posted on the reasons why a deficiency of B12 can occur, and not because anyone is vegan or strictly vegetarian by living on a plant-based diet..............
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/articles/vetrano1.html


This may also be of interest...........

The question of diet is indeed a "toughie" and where any successful resolution of Hypothyroidism and Hyperglycemia can be achieved by "a Hygienic lifestyle" in correcting the metabolic processes and achieving the same with an optimum nutritional status.

It has been the successful experience of Hygienists that Hypothyroidism or Myxedema: the condition resulting from deficient function of the thyroid and which is a symptom-complex attributed to a lack of thyroid secretion and characterized by brawny thickening of the subcutaneous tissues, loss of energy and mental deterioration, has been successfully resolved by removing the primary cause: enervation and toxemia.

SHELTON.
"There is no cure for glandular insufficiency, except to correct the habits of life that are responsible for the enervation which has ended in secretory block. The use of gland extracts in these cases is a failure. The failure of insulin in diabetes is typical of the failure of all other gland extracts. Gland extracts may be used as a crutch by those whose glandular impairment, is too great for vital redemption or for compensation. All others should know that these extracts produce their own damages in the body and also that their use leads to an ignoring of cause".

I am not trying to preach to the choir (really) but just to clarify things in my own mind and to offer an alternative and very successful viewpoint................

Hyperthyroidism: a term applied to the physiologic status that is obtained when there is an excess of thyroxin in the body.....................

Dr H SHELTON, Dr G WEGER MD., Dr J TILDEN MD...............

"Hyperthyroidism (goiter) results from toxemia, the essential and ever-present first cause of over activity of the thyroid. To us, all goiters are toxic goiters. Supersaturation of the body with toxins from checked elimination, excessive eating of proteins, starches, pies, puddings, etc., and neglect of raw vegetables and fruits, and from various poison habits and the pyramiding of the effects of bad habits, is the cause of goiter.
The secretion of thyroxin seems to depend on an adequate supply of Iodine and this has led to the belief that goiter is due to IODINE-deficiency. As goiter is usually associated with excessive secretion of thyroxin, and as lack of Iodine should result in a deficiency of thyroxin, this theory of the cause of goiter would seem to be unsound. Certainly the practice built on this theory of cause has failed; failed both as a preventive and as a cure.
It has been shown experimentally that the thyroid gland may be stimulated into activity by sympathetic impulses and Cannon and others say that a continuation of such impulses over a considerable period of time produces a condition in animals like exophthalmic goiter in man. Clinical observations indicate that in men and women this condition may result from prolonged nervous strain or even that it may follow a single violent emotional disturbance.
Domestic and social discord, worry, irritation, etc., may easily produce enough sympathetic stimulation of the thyroid to result in exophthalmic goiter. Overwork, the various poison habits — coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, etc., habits — too frequent childbearing, or other drains upon the organism, and the various indulgences common to modern living are factors in the production of goiter. We consider it very significant that among animals in captivity only carnivores suffer from goiter. Vegetarian and fruitarian animals are not so affected.
The thyroid gland is very closely linked with the sex glands. Apparently there is a more fundamental relationship between the female sex organism and the thyroid than between it and the male sex organism. At least disturbances of the sex functions in females have a more profoundly disturbing effect upon the thyroid than do disturbances of the male sex functions.
The sex factor in the development of goiter has not received sufficient consideration. Dr. Weger says that in practically all female goiter patients who have reached maturity and also frequently in girls who have just past puberty there is an intimate association and pathological involvement of the ovaries or uterus or both. "In the majority of cases there exists a small uterine fibroid. In many cases the uterine tissues are themselves in a state of fibrous induration and enlargement. Almost invariably there is found a complicating chronic endometritis or endocervicitis with retained secretions."
Tilden says, "thyroid enlargement is secondary to uterine and ovarian perversion in the female, and gonadal perversion in the male, and the perversion of these reproductive functions is super-induced by over-indulged appetite and passion for the most part by suppressed lasciviousness and salaciousness." Again: "I have never seen a case of goiter in women who have not been troubled with toxemia and who have not been suffering with gastro-intestinal catarrh and a catarrhal state of the womb. I have found drainage from the womb invariably imperfect."
"The thyroid and mammary glands are auxiliary to the reproductive system and anything that perverts the functions of the reproductive organs causes abnormalities of the thyroid and breasts." "Lumps in the breasts," so generally scare-headed into cancer, are invariably associated with the same kind of pelvic derangements as is goiter.
In goiter, the breasts of the female are often enlarged and the glands hard and sensitive. The womb is often enlarged and sensitive with catarrh and even ulceration of the neck or the body of the womb. The imperfectly drained (retained) secretions of the womb undergo decomposition and are highly toxic.

Prognosis: Dr. Weger says "most hypertrophic goiters can be made to absorb. Absorption of a cystic goiter is a very rare occurrence." Dr. Tilden says: "exophthalmic goiter can be cured just as easily as a fibroid tumor of the uterus can be cured. Indeed, these diseases can be cured even after many of the heads of the surgical profession of our leading cities declare that they cannot be cured without an operation."

Care of the Patient: Complete and ultimately successful recovery can occur only, as Dr. Weger says, if "the patient is put to bed in an environment that will insure absolute physical and mental rest — away from friends and even relatives. The reasons for this are only obvious to those who have had experience in getting nervous patients under control. Outside influence and interference are sometimes insurmountable obstacles and always decided handicaps."
We emphasized above the office of nervous irritation, domestic difficulties, etc., in overstimulating the thyroid. It should be obvious to anyone how necessary it is to get away from the sources of these disturbing factors. Proper rest of the nervous system is not possible so long as they exist. Physical and mental rest are vitally important in goiter cases.
Toxin elimination is best secured by fasting — physiological rest. This will also hasten the absorption of the enlargement. Indeed it often results in a rapid reduction and disappearance of the thyroid enlargement and hardening in the breasts and womb or ovaries. Dr. Weger adds: "Physiological rest can best be obtained by a complete fast. All foods must be withheld and nothing but water given until the pulse is normal and all active symptoms have subsided."

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In Hyperglycemia, we have to look at the root causes in the increase in plasma glucose levels and the causes of Diabetes or pre-Diabetes, and in many many cases lies at the door of obesity.
I maintain that raised plasma-glucose levels are the body's inability for the glucose to enter the cells via insulin, as part of the energy cycle, which can be completely resolved via diet and the loss of the excess fat which inhibits this, and which then allows the capacity of the Pancreas to restore itself into full functioning power. ...........
http://www.all-creatures.org/mfz/health-diabetes-rev.html



Food for thought perhaps?

Have a nice day

Chrisb1.
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