Diet and Nutrition

[ASRG]

Good to see all you guys living a healthy lifestyle. It might buy you another 5 years in the old folks home!

[cottonpicken]

What i find interesting is the science behind it all.

My wife was dieting a month before me and had been
exercising her ass off with no results.

When i figured out what was going on i added up a
typical meal for her for a day and it was over
200grams of carbs-no wonder.

One week on this and she is down 4 pounds.

I really think this could be a game changer for
farmers,the stuff jeff voleck has done is amazing.

In a nut shell if your body is keto adapted you have a
constant source of energy,your body fat(an athlete
with 3% body fat has an 110,000kcal energy
reserve),but if your running on carbs you constantly
need to fuel up,many athletes are switching to this.

Your whole metabolic structure changes and all the
studies done show major health improvements,to
many to go into here.

[AllisWD45]

Can't believe an Ag site with a commodity marketing
forum is talking about this kind of thing. To me thats
great.. ASRG I don't worry about the old folks home
much. I follow the motto "live long drop dead". At the
risk of opening a whole new can of worms i have no
intention of going into "the old folks home" system as
it is now and if i do i hope i have no idea i am in there.

[cottonpicken]

Should explain "changer for farmers"-at harvest and
seeding you would have much more energy.

[cottonpicken]

Hopper;you can drink hard alcohol,no carbs,wine a
few carbs,beer sadly no.

[wd9]

Cotton, since you're now a nutrionista,
how is it that hard alcohol contains no
carbs yet if you burn it can expend
tremendous energy?

Athletes are NOT switching to low carb.
They simply have no energy:

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_1/
the-truth-behind-the-atki.shtml

One of the major symptoms of a low carb
diet is the poor function of a carb
starved brain.

[burnt]

I wonder if we might have a misunderstanding on how many carbs we need. If I were to eat the amount of bread/muffins/toast/donuts that I did when I was 30 year younger I'd be like the Michelin Man.

So there are likely two things in play here - one being sudden weight loss and the other being matching what we eat to what we need at this later stage in life.

The sudden weight loss was my initial objective, but now I am trying to move into the second phase, walking, rather than rolling into old age!

[cottonpicken]

Alcohol is the first thing a body uses as an energy
source.

If you take in to many carbs insulin turns those carbs
to body fat.

Not a nutrinista,just relaying the message.

[fjlip]

On Dr Oz today he suggested that we need a certain amount of insulin. Too high and too low are not healthy.
Too low and the body goes into starvation mode using up fat and muscle.

Quote..,"Carbohydrates stored in the body are known as glycogen. The majority of glycogen is stored in your liver, but some is stored in your muscle and a minimal amount is found in your blood.

Muscle glycogen is vital for physical activity because it affects both the length of time you can exercise and the intensity level of that exercise. Low levels of muscle glycogen decrease the time you are able to exercise at your maximum potential, thereby negatively affecting your overall performance and energy.Research conducted on soccer players found that players with low levels of muscle glycogen covered 24 percent less distance, 50 percent of which was covered by walking, when compared to soccer players with adequate muscle glycogen stores. Without sufficient muscle glycogen, exercise is fueled by fat and protein (which are inefficient energy sources) and the intensity of that exercise is typically less than 50 percent of your ability.
Unlike muscle glycogen stores, liver glycogen stores are required for “brain food.” Liver glycogen is converted to glucose (energy) in the liver and released into the bloodstream to maintain a normal blood sugar level.

[wd9]

And in a diabetic who has gone low you
inject glucagon to counteract that low
blood sugar. Its like anti insulin and
keeps a type 1 diabetic from their brain
shutting down, pass out, and die.

Interesting thing about alcohol and a
diabetic, you can actually go low (low
blood sugar below 3.5) even though you
have eaten enough carbs because yes
cotton, all food absorption stops until
the alcohol is metabolized. If you are
taking insulin, alcohol is not your
friend in any amount.

Fjlip, yup!

Cotton, do you plan on staying in state
of ketoacidosis? or just to lose weight
briefly and then return to a healthy
state?

[toe]

Trust me, you need to keep your pancreas secreting insulin.

You're messing with biochemical pathways that even experts could not explain as concisely as the opinions stated in this column.

Be careful to not take everything as the "gospel" truth.

[cottonpicken]

Lol,im not in acidosis and losing weight now is only
the fourth,yes fourth reason,behind,constant stable
energy,mental balance and improved
metabolics(which is hard to quantify).

I can't say for 100% certain what i will do in the
future,probably experiment with slowly increasing the
carbs and see what happens,the thought of eating a
big mac makes me want to puke but i sure would like
toast with my eggs,lol.