Diagnosed with cancer in 2011 Hannah Bradley has undergone treatment to reduce her tumour.
This treatment has been very succesful and has lead to Hannah making lifestyle changes, including switching to a low carbohydrate diet with no sugar.
It turns out that strengthening bone to avoid fractures starts at a very young age.
Bones become more porous and brittle with age, because the cells responsible for building bone become less active and can no longer keep up with the cells that destroy and remove old bone cells. Physical activity can shift this balance toward maintaining a healthy amount of bone growth,
Physical activity, such as the exercise children get in school gym classes, is important for fighting obesity, but the latest research suggests it may help to keep bones strong as well
It’s a shame the good doctor wasn’t a little bit more specific. It’s actually heavy metals such as mercury, lead and other more exotic types and also the lighter metals such as aluminum that are the real cause of the problem.
Iron as you may well know is something that the body uses in fact you can become quite ill if your body doesn’t have enough iron and as for red meat having more iron though we need it – that in itself is a very foggy statement as the amount of iron each person needs varies not just from person to person but from day to day too and there are many in the natural health industry who will tell you that the official daily recommended amount for iron is possibly anything up to 500 times too low particularly for some people.
Fish and dairy may indeed be a problem if you’re not getting them from certified organic sources. That is simply because certain fish such as red snapper have been found to contain high levels of heavy metals particularly mercury.
Dairy of course can also have a very similar problem but that is only if it is from commercially produced herds. One of the reasons they have very high or higher levels of mercury is the fact that they’re given so many antibiotics and growth hormones and one of the preservatives that are used in both those products is, well you might have guesses it – mercury!
But frankly the amount of mercury contained in even the meat of commercially produced beef is nowhere near as worrying as the amount of hormones and other drugs that are passed through to us as we eat the meat.
That’s one of the reasons why I firmly believe it’s far better to make sure that you choose your meat and your fish from certified organic sources. In fact from a point of view of general health and well being, it’s best to try and get as much food as possible from certified organic sources. That way you won’t have any problems at all about eating any diet and particularly low carb
Hope that helps,
Mark
This is actually a response to a low carb foum post about Alzheimer’s disease
Here is the link to interview of Dr. Neal Barnard on The Dr. Oz show
Whenever I’m invited out I always let my host and hostess know about what I can eat well ahead of time. It saves embarrassment and many do pick it up as a challenge. It certainly provides something to talk about during the meal as many a host will actually look out for something that they’ve never cooked before and we eating low carb gives them just the excuse they need to try something new often getting out of their comfort zone.
If I’m going to the restaurant I’ve not been to before I found the best way of dealing with that is to either get hold of the menu to make sure there is something tasty and low carbly nutritious or following that ring up the restaurant and tell them that you will be coming and you have a low carb preference, can they do anything to help you.
I have yet to have a refusal for that as again there are very few restaurants who wish to turn down business. As far as going to something that revolves around the buffet, if the host or the hostess does not seem to be fruitful then I found the easiest way is to take a Tupperware box with food that I can eat and I eat it with everybody else I have to say. Again it does provide an exceptionally good topic of conversation as people not only ask what you’re eating but why are you eating it as well.
The bottom line is to take charge of any situation where you are eating with others. By taking charge of the situation you know you’re going to enjoy the food that you eat, you know that your host or hostess is not going to be embarrassed in front of others because they’ve had time to plan ahead and the net result is everybody feels good and enjoys their time together which is after all why we do come together to eat in the first place.
Hope that helps,
Mark
Here is a copy of the comment I made on a forum post about food preferences on social events
Another comment I made on a forum post about a study on how a vegetarian diet can cut the risk of a heart disease
Hi Helena,
Thank you for the super post!
It does bring out one of the most glaring admission by people who do studies like this.
The simple fact is that vegetarians have made a conscious decision to control what they eat which often goes hand in hand with deciding to look after their health. For them that obviously involves not eating meat to a greater or lesser extent. But because they’re doing it to look after their health, they are probably taking other measures as well.
Most of the vegetarians that I know have given up smoking, drink in moderation, many of them though not all take vitamin and mineral supplements but an even larger number try and eat organic which means they’re not getting the whole raft of poisons in the form of hormones, drugs, pest control chemicals and so on that people who don’t make the decision to do something with their health will continue to get.
I genuinely think this is one of those cases where the unmeasured factors that I have just mentioned probably play a far greater role in the improved health of the ones who decided to look after their health than many people think.
Cheers,
Mark
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Link to the Oxford Study
Below is a copy of the recent comment I made on a post at lowcarber about breakfast choices
Hi Thump,
When I was in the Middle East we often used to have cottage cheese for breakfast. That and a very tasty avocado and onion salad that was finely chopped and went down a treat especially with a good dash of lemon juice over the top and salt and pepper to taste.
Another thing you can have is fresh yogurt made with some raw milk. That will act as a nice base for all sorts of different things that you could put in it which if it’s a nice fresh one made with unpasteurized milk will charge up the bacteria for when you start eating solids later in the day.
Hope that helps,
Mark