{"id":1556,"date":"2013-01-23T06:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2013-01-23T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:24:51","slug":"trying-not-to-be-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/trying-not-to-be-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying not to be boring&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and what&#8217;s a bigger turn-off that people talking about their diets?\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve been trying to be quiet about my current campaign to lose about 40 pounds (3\/4s of the way there).<\/p>\n<p>But I did want to note this column by Peter Ballerstedt in Kit Pharo&#8217;s weekly newsletter.\u00a0 Ballerstedt makes the point that, even if you don&#8217;t lose weight, a low carb, high fat diet is good for you.\u00a0 For the science, be sure to click on his link.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you (or someone you love) have three of following conditions?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Abdominal obesity: a waist circumference over 40 inches in men and over 35 inches in women.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Serum triglycerides 150 mg\/dl or above.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>HDL cholesterol 40mg\/dl or lower in men and 50mg\/dl or lower in women.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Blood pressure of 130\/85 or more.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Fasting blood glucose of 110 mg\/dl or above. (Some groups say 100mg\/dl)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>If so, you likely have Metabolic Syndrome.\u00a0 A low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet is very effective at correcting that condition (here\u2019s a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutritionandmetabolism.com\/content\/pdf\/1743-7075-2-31.pdf\">paper<\/a> on this).\u00a0 Even if you\u2019ve only got one or two of these conditions, a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet will treat those conditions.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t what we\u2019ve been told by the so-called \u201cexperts.\u201d\u00a0 Once folks have this experience, they\u2019ll begin to question a lot of other \u201cexpert\u201d advice.\u00a0 Once you look outside the box, you begin to see how many other boxes there are.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.and what&#8217;s a bigger turn-off that people talking about their diets?\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve been trying to be quiet about my current campaign to lose about 40 pounds (3\/4s of the way there). But I did want to note this column by Peter Ballerstedt in Kit Pharo&#8217;s weekly newsletter.\u00a0 Ballerstedt makes the point that, even if you don&#8217;t lose weight, a low carb, high fat diet is good for you.\u00a0 For the science, be sure to click on his link. Do you (or someone you love) have three of following conditions?\u00a0 Abdominal obesity: a waist circumference over 40 inches in men and over 35 inches in women. Serum triglycerides 150 mg\/dl or above. HDL cholesterol 40mg\/dl or lower in men and 50mg\/dl or lower in women. Blood pressure of 130\/85 or more. Fasting blood glucose of 110 mg\/dl or above. (Some groups say 100mg\/dl)\u00a0 If so, you likely have Metabolic Syndrome.\u00a0 A low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet is very effective at correcting that condition (here\u2019s a good paper on this).\u00a0 Even if you\u2019ve only got one or two of these conditions, a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet will treat those conditions.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t what we\u2019ve been told by the so-called \u201cexperts.\u201d\u00a0 Once folks have this experience, they\u2019ll begin to question a lot of other \u201cexpert\u201d advice.\u00a0 Once you look outside the box, you begin to see how many other boxes there are. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-health","category-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}