Swarzbein Book

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Hi ,

Congratulations on your husband's success with the Swarzbein diet. What did

your doctor have to say about it ?

I am thoroughly convinced that the food pyramid was put together to benefit

the food and drug companies. The food companies because they make the junk

people eat, and the drug companies because they push the drugs doctors

prescribe when people get sick from eating the junk.

It has been beyond my comprehension from the time the low-fat diet started

how anyone can believe that manufactured phony phood can be of benefit to

anyone.

(Sorry, that's one of my soapboxes.)

Dr. Swarzbein is very good at explaining how the body works. She explains

things the other low-carb authors don't.

She does not take away all carbs. She makes it very plain that her patients

MUST have 50 to 60 grams of carbs a day because she does not want them in

ketosis. Not even the benign dietary ketosis of a low-carb diet.

It is my opinion that she is confusing BDK with the ketoacidosis of a

diabetic out of control. Children with seizures that cannot be handled any

other way are put on severe carbohydrate restriction with no adverse

affects. If BDK were dangerous it would not be practical to put children on

such a diet.

I like the way she stresses whole foods. Eliminating entirely all processed

foods.

It's a great book.

Judith Alta Kidder

Mission Possible

Southwest Michigan

jaltak@...

-----Original Message-----

There's an excellent book regarding diabetes called " The Schwarzbein

Principle " by Dr. Schwarzbein. She takes patients that have severe

diabetes and reverses it with diet. She cuts all carbohydrates out of their

diet, increases fat and meat consumption. Also, alters individuals with

heart disease as well. Her philosophy is the food " square " rather than the

pyramid. Initially cut out all carbs until you have your health back then

go

to a balanced diet. For instance, if you were to take a dinner plate and

divide it into fourths at each meal you would eat 1/4 protein (red meat is

fine), 1/4 non-starchy vegies, 1/4 carbs, and 1/4 fat I think it is. Sorry,

I loaned my book out for a couple days so I winging it here. We started the

balance philosophy this past spring. My husband had a VERY VERY high

cholesterol level. For years he was on a fat free diet and his cholesterol

seemed to keep going higher. At one time it tested at 468...YIKES!!! We

removed most carbs from his diet for a couple weeks and his cholesterol

tested at 238. That was enough to convince me that the food pyramid is the

wrong way to eat.