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Oh, and Ed, your journal citation regarding rice and pasta makes no distinction between whole grains and refined carbs. The Pritikin diet stresses brown rice and whole wheat pasta. Also, your reference doesn't take into account other dietary parameters, such as total fat consumption. Moreover, higher insulin levels from carbohydrate consumption only occurs on higher fat diets. On very low-fat diets, like the Pritikin, insulin sensitivity is greatly enhanced, so that very little insulin is required to metabolize the carbohydrates, and blood glucose does not rise as much as it would in response to a glucose challenge as it does on higher fat diets. I know one diabetic who was able to go off insulin entirely when she went on the Pritikin diet. In any case, Pritikin prohibits sugar of all kinds, white, brown, honey, molasses, you name it. He even limits dried fruit, and advises limited fruit consumption in general.
As for Alzheimers, the correlation between AD, high serum cholesterol and heart disease is well documented. The Pritikin diet is the best insurance against higher cholesterol and heart disease, and therefore one's best insurance against Alzheimers, assuming that one is genetically at risk for it.
Ed, you are so misguided in your dietary advice, it isn't even funny! I'm 66 years old. How old are you? 38? I'll make a bet with you that my serum cholesterol is lower, my fasting glucose is lower, my insulin levels are lower, my blood pressure is lower, my body-mass index is lower than yours is. If that doesn't tell you something about the relative value of our respective diets, I don't know what would. And it wasn't always thus. When I was 30, my serum cholesterol was 250. Now it's 150. When I was 45, my blood pressure was 134/90. Now it's 100/60. Today, at 66, I weigh 25 pounds less than I did at the age of 18.
I may be going out on a limb, but I'll wager that you can't touch me, when it comes to overall health and fitness, and I'm almost 30 years your senior. So, don't tell me about the so-called "health hazards" of the Pritikin diet. I've been on it for the past 25 years, and I know what it's effects are.
So there! :-)
- Bill
(Edited by William Dwyer
on 5/23, 9:17am)
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