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Re: Friday, June 15, 2007 - Fatlining.
Let me add a little to what Ed says. An inexpensive book, "The Rosedale Diet", does a pretty good job of explaining what is wrong with the diet most doctors/nutritionist recommend today. Atkins' suggestions are somewhat similar to the approach Rosedale describes, but I think Atkins didn't understand the biology behind it. Basically, concentrated carbohydrates (grains and sugars) drive up your insulin, which is a potent hormone that does MUCH more than just tell your cells to take in glucose. If you have only an occasional meal of them, that isn't very bad, but a diet rich in either or both leads to chronicly high insulin, which knocks lots of other things in your endocrine system out of whack. And that leads to various chronic problems, such as diabetes, artery/heart disease, and more. The heart of the Rosedale approach is to get most of your calories from healthy oils/fats (fish oil, and certain vegetable oils), eat just enough protein to meet your body's repair/growth needs, and include plenty of high-fiber vegetables, but not things high in carbohydrates. This is a diet for life, not for a little while. There seems to be a lot of evidence, from multiple sources, that supports what Rosedale says (though it doesn't rise to the level of a controlled clinical study). Rosedale himself is a researcher studying geriatric problems and sort of stumbled on some of the approaches, then dug in to understand the biochemistry behind them. Some of the evidence is described at various places around the web. I don't have a list of links handy to me at the moment. If you should want to look into it further, I could dig up my list when I'm back home. But the Rosedale book probably is the best place to start.
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