On 8 May 2008, at 08:13, Ron Hoggan wrote:

> My problem is that I react quite violently to even very small amounts
> of gluten or dairy (except butter)

Ok, I only react to dairy so I don't have to worry about traces of  
grains in food.  I guess I'm lucky in that sense.


> Actually, fruit and most salad ingredients would not be compatible  
> with
> a ketogenic diet.

Sorry I realised after I sent it that I wasn't very clear.  I never  
thought that fruit could be part of a low carb diet :)  I was just  
saying that my taste changes more towards fruit in summer.

But salad?  Salad is virtually all water and fibre.  I'm sure most  
salad is less than 1% digestible carbs.  How much plant food do you  
have to eliminate on a ketogenic diet?


> I do. I want fewer fats and more carbs. In the winter that reverses.

That's strange, I'm the other way round.


> Well, the diet won't kill the tumour. It only slows growth to the  
> point
> where the immune system may (or may not) be able to keep up. In the
> human and animal cases I've read about the growth was slowed in some,
> stopped in others, and complete remission occurred in others. The  
> remissions
> may have been the immune system's work, but if so, why did the  
> immune system
> fail to catch and destroy the cancer cells before they had developed  
> into a
> tumour?

Possibly it's just the cells naturally dying off as they lack food to  
reproduce?  Maybe the immune system is not involved.  I'd love to know  
the answer.

Ashley