I'll have a couple of Twins, oh, and a side of Diabetes

Dr. Perlutter created a mini-firestorm when, right before his book launch, he stated that Alzheimer's disease is a choice.

So, he's the guy who wrote Grain Brain, and is running all over the place with his interviews and videos.  I guess the book is doing well, though I haven't read it yet.

By now, most readers of this here blog have heard of Alzheimer's disease characterized as "type 3 diabetes".  Perlmutter would have you believing that if you eat bread, you are choosing to raise your blood sugar, and that raise will cause diabetes, and also the 3rd kind.

Trouble is, though we have a few ideas as to what can minimize the effects or symptoms of types 1 and 2 diabetes, and now Perlmutter says also type 3, we really don't know what causes diabetes.  So, how can it really be a choice?

I know several women who ate "healthy" diets before and through pregnancy and then, BAM!, gestational diabetes.  Yep, they chose that.  Right back when Eve ate the apple.  Women have been paying for that with gestional diabetes ever since.  These women chose to be mothers, not choosing diabetes or Alzheimers.  Sorry Dr. Perlmutter.

I did try an experiment or two with progesterone cream.  The really weird thing about the cream is that after a dab or two, I had a seemingly normal response to carbs.  I could handle exercise without exhaustion.  I could handle heat without wilting.  I slept!!!  When I ate carbs, I acted like a normal person.  Like, I ate them, and then I got full and I didn't want to eat anymore.  (I know, in what universe has THAT happened before???)  It even reminded me during my early 40's when things were starting to get out of whack for me hormonally.  I would go pretty crazy during the high-progesterone days, until I realized that I had boundless energy and capacity for exercise.  I crammed lots of exercise in during those days, and got fast times, long endurance, and felt better.  I had a good weight and good glucose control, too.

And I thought, "Hey, this Woo-person is soooo wrong!"  A couple of weeks on higher levels of progesterone and I thought to myself, hey not so fast!  I had settled into eating more carbs regularly, and soon had weight gain, zits and more skin tags.  Now I am even more careful with progesterone.  If I am eating more carbs than usual, or even planning to, I stay off the cream.

Here's an interesting paper.   Perhaps there is another use for the morning after pill?

I was waiting for Perlmutter to clarify his incendiary statement, but he never did.   Perhaps after a pregnancy or when he finishes menopause, he will reconsider.

My Answer to Woo - Part 2

Woo says that no one is making the low carb faddists declare their reasons for going low carb.  I disagree.

Way back a long time ago, when the paleo pool was a bit clearer and not as much of a cesspool, people were free to eat what they wanted, as long as it was meat and veggies and they were both old.  Then some of the over-exercizers got tired of the lower carb thing, and in order to maintain their over-exercise-routines, began adding carbs.  Sisson came up with the nifty carb graph.  People seemed happy with all this for a time.

Even before AHS11, the carb wars intensified.

It used to be that low-er carb was the paleo standard, and that if people wanted taters, they had to give themselves permission to do some neolithic cheating.  Either from their exercise or diet guru, or by reading the tea leaves of their n=1.

Gradually, this situation changed into a plan where people were free to consume as much glucose-producing carbage as they wanted, as long as they could "cover it with exercise".

Gradually, some paleo luminaries changed this situation into a plan where carbs were again considered an essential nutrient, and people were required to consume a bit of glucose-producing carbage in order to counteract a carb deficiency.  Their brownshirt followers went all over the paleosphere enforcing this new rule.

Eventually, people like me were required to show a note from the doctor in order to continue eating a low-carb diet without constant ridicule.

Eventually, this turned into a carbbist-inspired krystalnacht event within the paleo cesspool, even worse than usual.  Folks casually mentioning to each other on a forum or two that they can't wait until the low carb people leave for good.

Problem with paleo popularity leveling off?  Blame it on those fat low carb people.
Problem with people thinking that paleo thing is just a fad?  Blame it on those red-faced low carb people.
Problem with eating disorders?  Blame it on the Low Carb scene.
Nope.  It's not the Jews, it's not the feminists, it is the LOW CARB people, its JIMMY!!!!!

Now, we are being told that we have eating disorders.  Eliminating. Entire. Food. Groups.  EEFG, set to appear in your next DSM.  What's next, a letter on our sleeve?  Or, maybe another comment like this: 

"From my nutrition training, it was well-known that those with eating disorders would hide behind the likes of vegetarianism or veganism in order to legitimise their food avoidance... it is an easy way to eliminate a boat-load of energy in one "legitimate" hit. "I don't eat meat".

There has been much talk behind the scenes about similar things occuring within the paleo community, especially with its increasing popularity and (unfortunately) links to the LC community (you just want to Hulk-smash those links, don't ya?)."

So, Paleo Guy, you are that much into hulk-smashing?  Tell me Paleo Guy, who says stuff like that?  No need for people like me to be afraid of a potato, when we have some hulk-smashing tater tots on board.

Rewarding Food Friday!!!!!

Announcing:  Several Extremely Disrespectful Low-Carb Zealots are staging a virtual internet progressive dinner.  How rewarding is that?

Check out Tess's decluttering series.
Then head on over to the pizza party at Woo's place.
Who wouldn't want to follow up all that goodness with this?

I am getting in some afternoon reading before an evening trip to the theater.  I don't have lots of time to cook, so I sliced off a chunk of turduken.  For the uninitiated, it contains pork sausage stuffed in chicken and duck, and stuffed in a turkey breast.

It was a bit dry so I served it over a bed of wilted......BACON!!!!

So, what is it?  A Paula-inspired bacon-wrapped turduken?  A turporky  baconducken?  A nutritional nightmare?  At least it doesn't contain horsemeat, or even DOG meat.  Oh well, you decide.

My Answer to Woo - Part One

I commented on this blog post, but now want to comment additionally.  I'll do it over here, since it is long, something I had wanted to say for awhile, and BECAUSE I WANT TO LEVERAGE WOO'S POPULARITY AND DRIVE TRAFFIC TO MY BLOG!!!!  (Guess at least n=2 on that plan, judging by the other visitors there.)

First a little note about Dr. K and his battle against IF.  I have read him since the beginning, and even though it wasn't 5 years ago, he has always warned people about IF.  He says that people who are leptin resistant shouldnt IF.  He is the only person in the whole paleo cesspool who ever gave any kind of explanation for this, and then later Stephanie Ruper did a post where she outlined some of the problems with women doing IF.  Her explanations were insufficient (and she might reconsider renaming her blog to Paleo for young women).

MY blogpost about it is here, of course with confounding factors.  My take-home clif-note version for my own situation is that I used to do IF and it worked, and then after menopause, along with a typical calorie-reduction plan recommended by [redacted]people, IF was a disaster.

This came up a few times on Paleohacks, with first a tepid response, and then a full-scale, jihhadist, lemming-like, mass-downvoting extravaganza by all the Wolf-pack and their extremely disrespectful zealot brofriend WOD-podners.  ("Oh, we can't let her get away with posting that HERE, now that the top dog in the Wolf-pack even put IF in the TITLE OF HIS BLOG!!")

Maybe Dr. K's explanation is wrong, too, but he was the only one at the time honoring the anecdote.  And, despite his posing, his revisionism, and his insane current marketing plan, I have never seen him waver on the IF prescription.   And that is, "NEVER NEVER NEVER until leptin sensitive."  BTW, you do not have to purchase any supplements or webinars to get the information about Kruse's leptin reset. 

At good time to add, I guess, that Dr. Rosedale also has a plan for making one leptin sensitive again.  And, despite what many tater-eatin' carbbists say, you do not have to eat any expensive supplements in order to do it.  In his book, he clearly explains uses of the supplements, and how to do it on a budget.  None are essential.  I got his book for free at the library.