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Old September 27th, 2012, 11:49 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Dogman
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Default Weight loss is just the start!

On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:36:38 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

Dogman quoted:

http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/0...ust-the-start/

"In the month since I started, I’ve lost twelve pounds so far. The
most remarkable thing for me, though–-and I wasn’t really expecting
it–-is that after the first week of being completely grain-free, I
have not had a single headache of any kind, and I have been a migraine
sufferer since my teens. For the first time in years, I did not refill
my prescription for Imitrex.


I started Atkins in 1999 using the yellow cover 1993 edition just before
the blue cover 1999 edition came out. In it I read his claims that low
carbing stops migraines.


It certainly can. But so can a lot of things:

How Patrick Vlaskovits Discovered His Migraines Were Due to Wheat
http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/08/...-due-to-wheat/

Which is why n=1 experiments are capable of winnowing out the culprit.

Be it wheat, low-carb, or:

"The commonest foods causing [migraines] were wheat (78%), orange
(65%), eggs (45%), tea and coffee (40% each), chocolate and milk (37%)
each), beef (35%), and corn, cane sugar, and yeast (33% each)."

Even low levels of magnesium can cause migraines. And, of course,
there are probably many other triggers, too.

The best known way to reduce
arthritis pains is paleo that combines wheat free with mildly low carb.

[...]

Low-carb paleo, in my opinion, is exactly the way to eat, if overall
health is as important to you as weight loss, weight maintenance, etc.


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Dogman

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