Just be aware that those summer fruits will make you hungry for more.
The good news is that eating fruit in summer is when your Vitamin D levels are up. All the better to clear the inflammation that comes with that fructose load.
Be very wary of keeping up a high fruit load all year round.
More on the role of Vitamin D at http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/vitamin-d/
Vitamin D is generally derived from sun exposure, is greatest over Summer and plays a central role in inflammation.
Remember that our greatest dietary intake of Fructose is over Summer with fruit intake. That’s when we produce more inflammatory ‘bad’ cholesterol.
One of the roles of Vitamin D may be the suppression of the inflammatory reaction, before it overshoots the mark.
Uncontrolled, activated macrophages (white cells) can cause severe damage to tissue.
Vitamin D may the internal control mechanism that stops runaway inflammation.
Vitamin D deficient states allow the body to not control it’s own ‘cleaning and clearing’ mechanisms.
There is an increasing incidence of Vitamin D deficiency worldwide. This is worse as you move away from the Equator.
Most inflammatory diseases increase in the same distribution including Diabetes, Dementia, Autoimmune Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and some Cancers.
I think it is well worth testing for Vitamin D levels. Easily done by your doctor.
I had mine done a couple of years ago and found my levels low despite farming and gardening on the weekends – albeit with my hat on, long sleeve top and sunscreen. I have been on 2000 IU per day since.
I have just created a page on the No Fructose website and how it links back through the whole diet related inflammation issue.
http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/vitamin-d/
Thanks to a few people for sending me on this path including Raymund Edwards. An ongoing learning experience.
A lot of people take up a passive mentality in their own diabetes management. The current system generates that concept. How about taking back control yourself?
I received this letter this week from a lady who has taken control of her diabetes. It is her story and those like it that we have to share.
The medical profession, diabetes educators and dieticians are largely stuck with creating the ‘victim’ mentality. Management is passive in eat your food and carbs and just have more and more medication.
Remember that the more carbohydrate you eat, the more insulin you require and the fatter and more insulin resistant you become.
How about having less sugar and carbohydrate from the outset?
Pretty simple concept – seems to work ONLY for EVERY diabetic I know.
Here is the letter 🙂
Dear Gary,
You may not remember me, I am … daughter and you have been treating my mum for some time.
Last year around October I accompanied her to a visit with you and we discussed my trialing you diet for my Diabetes.
I have been following this form of lifestyle since that time and have finally been able to get my GP to give me my results
regarding my bloods…..something she has been very hesitant to do!
I am forwarding them to you because I think you should see the results…and I am very Happy! The Cholesterol and
Triglyceride did not go through the roof as my GP predicted , and I maintained very good Blood Glucose levels .
What is not showing in these results is that my Insulin dosage has been reduced from 36 units per day to 18 units and I no longer use Metformin.
I have also lost 7kg which is a great bonus!!
Another great thing to come out of this way of life is that I had
Shingles in my mouth some years ago I have suffered greatly with Ulcers and re-occurring Shingles … they are now a thing of the past.
I would like to thank you for giving me a freedom of life that no longer defines the Diabetic but a person who can make
decisions about my own well being even if the so called professionals have told me it will not and cannot work for me.
I hope these results are helpful to your research.
Kind Regards,
Now if that doesn’t motivate someone to consider the No Fructose concept, then nothing will.
Very low sugar and carbohydrate, high fat and cut out those polyunsaturated oils – worth a try to get some control back.
It takes a long time for society to pay attention to the obvious.
When will we wake up to the obvious.
Michael Moore (film producer) makes an obvious statement about deaths related to gun violence in the USA.
I am making an obvious statement about deaths related to OUR diet across the world.
If you eat by the Food Pyramid you will die by the Food Pyramid. Not like gun violence but a slower and more miserable pathway.
Simple as that.
We will start listening to our bodies sooner or later. We are the ones responsible. Look no further than that.
If you want to know how we are causing that health crisis and what you can do for yourself then it’s all explained at
http://www.nofructose.com/…/nutritional-model-of-modern-di…/
Michael Moore
“With due respect to those who are asking me to comment on last night’s tragic mass shooting at UCSB in Isla Vista, CA — I no longer have anything to say about what is now part of normal American life.
Everything I have to say about this, I said it 12 years ago: We are a people easily manipulated by fear which causes us to arm ourselves with a quarter BILLION guns in our homes that are often easily accessible to young people, burglars, the mentally ill and anyone who momentarily snaps.
We are a nation founded in violence, grew our borders through violence, and allow men in power to use violence around the world to further our so-called American (corporate) “interests.” The gun, not the eagle, is our true national symbol. While other countries have more violent pasts (Germany, Japan), more guns per capita in their homes (Canada [mostly hunting guns]), and the kids in most other countries watch the same violent movies and play the same violent video games that our kids play, no one even comes close to killing as many of its own citizens on a daily basis as we do — and yet we don’t seem to want to ask ourselves this simple question: “Why us? What is it about US?”
Nearly all of our mass shootings are by angry or disturbed white males. None of them are committed by the majority gender, women. Hmmm, why is that?
Even when 90% of the American public calls for stronger gun laws, Congress refuses — and then we the people refuse to remove them from office. So the onus is on us, all of us.
We won’t pass the necessary laws, but more importantly we won’t consider why this happens here all the time. When the NRA says, “Guns don’t kill people — people kill people,” they’ve got it half-right. Except I would amend it to this: “Guns don’t kill people — Americans kill people.”
Enjoy the rest of your day, and rest assured this will all happen again very soon.
‘The Men Who Made Us Fat’ BBC programme that is well worth watching.
Here are the links to the show.
There has been so much manipulation of our food for the several decades that we struggle to work out what is ‘natural’.
Unfortunately getting back to eating ‘real food – local and seasonal’ is not going to be achievable for most of the world’s population. That is the sad reality. But we can try.
Episode 1: ==> Jacques Peretti investigates the story of High-Fructose Corn Syrup; he also traces those responsible for revolutionizing our eating habits to find out how decisions made in the U.S. 40 years ago influence the way we eat now. http://youtu.be/E6nGlLUBkOQ
Episode 2: ==> Peretti investigates how the concept of “Super-Sizing” changed our eating habits forever. http://youtu.be/owekbSp7wU0
Episode 3: ==> Peretti examines assumptions about what is & is not healthy. He also looks at how product marketing can seduce consumers into buying supposed ‘healthy foods’ such as muesli and juices, both of which can be high in sugar. http://youtu.be/ZlQHXkOUjeI
Dr Malcolm Kendrick takes apart the criticism of the ABC Catalyst 2013 programme withdrawal.
By the end of the article you get a real sense of the corporate pharmaceutical control and manipulation of data.
Malcolm reveals emails and discussion regarding the statin controversy.
Dr Maryann Demasi will be relieved to see this article come out supporting her rigorous research into that show.
Recent articles show the increased risk of Diabetes and poorer Diabetic control with patients taking cholesterol  lowering drugs.
I am not a fan of statin drugs until people seriously look at their diet. Dietary and lifestyle changes are significantly better at lowering cardiovascular disease risk factors. The trouble is this requires effort from the patient and effort from the doctor. Surprise, surprise – as a society we take the cop out path.
3 articles here look at the link and increased risk of those statin drugs on Diabetes.
Liew’s article from last week in ‘Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome’ showed that statin users had HBA1c levels (a marker of Diabetes control) 29% higher than non-statin users.
If you were already Diabetic then you were also 20.8% more likely to have poorer control of your Diabetes if you were on a statin drug.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003286/
Yoon in 2013 describes the same phenomenon as does Sampson in 2012.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003286/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341610/
Two of the articles state that is still better to be on a statin but did not really qualify that.
My concern is that the poorer blood glucose control directly comes back to insulin resistance and inflammation – and that worries me more than any cholesterol lowering drug.
My concerns about inflammation are addressed at http://www.nofructose.com/introduction/nutritional-model-of-modern-disease-2/
Trying to get weight control. Cut your portion size down. You will hear this all the time.
What is a portion size? It just makes everything harder to understand.
Simple rule – Make a fist with your own hand. That is the maximum amount of food that you should take in at a single meal.
One fist sized ‘portion’ of good quality food which is low in sugar and carbohydrate, preferably higher in fat, will keep you going for hours.
The dinner plate of the 1950’s was the size of an entrée plate today. We tend to fill up our plates at meal time otherwise it feels that we are missing out.
So make your plate smaller, cut down the food volume to a fist size and you will not be missing out.
That’s what I make of ‘Portion Size’.
More ‘tricks’ at http://www.nofructose.com/food-ideas/food-tricks/
