Jopie wrote:

| Enjoy your weekend, I started mine this morning with a grapefruit and
| 1/2 hour later a nice slice of homemade wholewheat toast, dry,
| delicious!
|
| Jopie

Thanks; I'm enjoying mine! I started my morning with a nice 3-egg ham and
cheese omelet with fresh strawberries and cream on the side, a tall glass of
Hood's Carb Countdown chocolate milk, and a mug of decaf coffee brewed with
cinnamon. (I can't imagine going back to the bland grapefruit/toast low-fat
thing)! I've lost 56 pounds since 12/15/03 and am in the best health I've
experienced in years -- completely documented by before-and-after medical
tests for CV function, kidney/liver function, blood lipids and blood glucose
levels. And I'm not hungry all that time as are many low-fat dieters.

What you perceive as "healthy" isn't necessarily true for anyone with
insulin abnormalities; exactly the opposite in fact. If I ate a grapefruit
and a slice of toast my blood glucose would spike and an hour later I'd be
so sleepy I wouldn't be able to function. More beta cells killed off. On my
(now lifelong) Atkins plan I don't have to worry about the highs and lows;
my body provides a steady source of energy.

If you choose the low-fat diet over a low-carb way of eating, that's fine
and I'm not going to knock it -- it's an "either-or" thing. The fat without
the carbs and visa-versa is ok; it's the combination of fats and carbs that
are deadly. The big difference IMO is that because if the rapid metabolism
of carbohydrates, people on the low-fat diets get hungry more often because
of those insulin spikes and dips that are a part of eating high-carb foods.

Good luck to you.

Peter
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