On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:35:11 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> LC... >> Maybe nitrogen detox symptoms for (slightly(?) kidney diseased. > >This requires a liberal amount of protein, yes, but by no means a >toxic amount. The 500 or so kcal from protein are way below the toxic amount, but for kidney diseased it could be a problem. Some kidney diseases are treated by a ultra-low protein diet, with protein combinations as ideal as possible to keep protein-burning low. >Indeed. Pesticide accumulation is probably greater in plants, >since they don't have livers. I don't want to minimize this, >since these poisons corrupt the entire food chain. Hormone >accumulation is, in my opinion, an overblown theory. What synthetic animal hormones (like DES) cause, i don't dare to imagine. Pesticides or other agro-poisons are found directly on non-organic plants (but not all are treated). However many break down slowly ("atrazin") and subsequently accumulate in persons and , of course in animals. Farmed animals (particularly livers and fat tissue) are likely to accumulate agricultiral toxins. >Yes, although I know plenty of more whole-food oriented >vegetarian types, some of whom have serious weight and other >chronic health problems (Of course I also know some who appear to >be in excellent health; I don't want to overstate the matter). I know very few (actually no) vegetarian overweights - but here on the list I've heared about. I tend to attribute this to health dangers which are more likely to hit them - food toxin dangers by unfermented or sprouted grains (esp.phytin) - problems by trans fats (more likely in unconcious veg.fat consumers) - w-3 and w-6 imbalances (also due to widespread w-6-only fats) I consider it a personal duty now to inform them (as my fellows). I'm working on a text and look for a medium (probably internet amadeuss.de). >> It should have been a very common disease, for a populaten with > 90% >> of food of grain or legume. But i looks like it was rare. > >Well, the vast majority of cases now recognized as diabetes would >have gone undiagnosed in the ancient world, since their methods >only picked up the most severe cases, in the near-death stage. Diabetes has some implications which should show up, like "need to eat" (hypoglycemie) sugar cravings, loss of feet etc. after injuries, not healing wounds. I can't imagine hector or odysseus to stop for a cake at "skylla's". > >> So 3 weeks of added brewers yeast should be able to cure insulin resistance. >Go for it. If you are right it will be an important discovery. Any volunteers? Do you know where the high carb list is? Maybe i can find a glucose intolerant, willing to try it. >I'm pretty sure it was restored prostaglandin function and >balance. The subsiding of chronic inflammation seems to me to be >an excellent sign of this. And I'm sure the vitamin C helped, >but I had used C alone before without success. Interesting, that C alone didn't work. Emphasising the prostaglandin chapter. >But fasting insulin levels do vary considerably, and are in fact >an important independent cardiovascular risk factor. It's >insulin levels that would most directly affect desaturase enzyme >activities. Does fasting insulin exist anyway? At least 3 hours after a meal glucose should go down and insulin with it. This is glucagon time. Insulin works totally opposite of glucagon how could they coexist? Strange to me. I haven't read about fasting insulin yet. Erasmus mentiones vitamin c as a strong arteries protecting factor. > >> .... competing fatty acids. > >Yes, but I wonder if this analysis controls for insulin levels. >Probably not. Insulin decreases d6d activity. Would you postulate insulin to disable d6d delectively differently for 18:0 (SFA) amd 18:3 (EFA) fatty acids? ...beef fat.. >But the point is that these are the fats used in modern LC >approaches. Yes, this questions "modern" LC approaches and "modern" paleo-inuit-reconstructing diets. .. health dangers by nutrition.. > I would add artery damage caused by >hypertension. And hypertension is modulated by ... working of prostaglandins. Or excess salt? Series-2 prostaglandins increase salt retention. Salt increases water retention. Have a nice weekend all Now, after almost whole July raining the first sunny weekend is approaching :-) I'd have loved to give some rain away to US forest fires. Amadeus S.