----- "Lynnet Bannion" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> It's pretty hard to summarize a book so chock-full of ideas. He 
> self-published to avoid editorial evisceration of his ideas. I'd 
> strongly recommend his book. "Natural Hormonal Enhancement" 
> 
> Saturated Fat: 
> He considers saturated fat healthy IF you are not out-of-kilter 
> with your insulin-glucagon balance. In other words, if you're insulin 
> resistant and eating loads of carbs, he considers saturated fat 
> harmful. In fact, he calls the high-carb high-fat meal a 
> "fat conveyor belt" taking that fat directly to storage because 
> insulin is high. 
> 
> He considers monosaturated and omega 3 fats healthful for 
> everyone, and considers low-fat dieting harmful for 
> everyone. (He's also against calorie-counting 
> semi-starvation diets.) 
> 
> Food Choices: 
> He favors the paleo approach in his chapter "You Can Learn 
> A Lot From An Ancient Warrior". 
> 
> Carb Cycling: 
> Down-cycle (low-carb) days: 
> 15-50 gr protein per meal (depending on body size, activity level, etc.) 
> "moderate" fat, both monosaturated and saturated 
> 30-60 gr carbs per day, not more than 25 gr in any meal, and avoid 
> sugars in favor of starches and some high-fiber high-water-content 
> fruits (HIFWAC) such as apples, berries, peaches, etc. 
> 
> Carb-load days: 
> Before the carb-load meal, which is always the last meal of the day: 
> 15-50 gr protein per meal 
> "moderate" fat both monosaturated and saturated 
> < 30 gr carbs 
> 
> The carb-load meal itself: 
> < 20 gr protein 
> < 20 gr fat 
> > 60 gr carbs (men), > 40 gr carbs (women); you can have more as you wish. 
> Carbs should be at least 70% starches, the rest as HIFWAC fruits, avoiding 
> sugars. 
> 
> For body builders, the change is that their down-cycle days are a max of 
> 30 gr carbs, and their carb loads are in excess of 100 grams. Body 
> builders can use the last two meals of the day if necessary to get enough 
> carbs in. 
> 
> Cycling: 
> The carb-load meals should come on days 3 and 7, i.e. 3 days, then 4 days 
> between. Carb-load is NOT a license to eat whatever you like: i.e. not 
> ice cream, not pizza, not cookies, which are all high-carb and high-fat, in 
> other words the "fat conveyor belt". Carb-load is a careful meal, high in 
> carbs, low in fat and protein. If you're in the habit of buttering all 
> your starchy carbs, you need to watch out. 
> 
> People who are "sugar-burners" (whose diet is high in carbs, high insulin, 
> etc.) should go through an induction week of very low carbs, then start 
> the cycling. Meat, fat, non-starchy veggies only. You'll feel like...., 
> well, you know if you've done it. But it passes in a few days, and 
> you are converting to being a "fat-burner". Being a "sugar-burner 
> deprived of sugar" is a very uncomfortable state, and you want to get 
> past that as quickly as possible. 
> 
> If you fall off the wagon and eat carbs day after day after day, then 
> you may need to go through the induction phase again to get back to 
> being a fat-burner. 
> 
> He's got another book on exercise: "Hormonally Intellingent Exercise". 
> 
> This is just the barest introduction to his ideas. I hope I have 
> represented them fairly. 
> 
> Lynnet 

Thanks, that's very helpful, and very interesting. 

I think I'll buy the book. 

Todd Moody