lookin good David,
any ideas on where to get bulk amounts of dextrose, apart from 1kg bags from the super. Often I go to make a desert and I have to save that last bit of dextrose for coffees for the week.
Actually I googled dextrose powder and found the following company sells 1, 10 and 25kg bags.
508 Lygon Street, East Brunswick, Victoria 3057 Australia
Public Shop Hours: Thurs - Fri 10am till 5pm. Other times by appointment - please call to confirm
Trade Shop Hours: Mon - Wed by appointment
... that's a dextrose cupcake I'm scoffing down in the photo.
David,
You're quite right so far as it goes, but keep in mind that people get overweight for different reasons. Some people have a thing about high-fat foods and don't particularly have a sweet tooth. A very lowfat, very low-fructose diet should cause weightloss in just about everybody who tries it, although people may have to get used to less fat gradually, to reset their satiety mechanisms.
People who are overweight have a Thing about food, generally. And if they're trying to lose weight, they don't want to give up all their "treat foods". So they go for low-sugar OR low-fat but not both; and just one at a time doesn't necessarily work.
Sometimes just low-fructose will work, as it did for you.
Sometimes just low-fat works for people - I've heard from those people too, who've lost a lot of weight by cutting out the fat - while indulging in raisins etc.
The good news is that you can be low-fat AND low-fructose AND still have treats now and then - by using dextrose.
You promote that one thing, cutting out fructose, as the answer, because it worked for you. But it's not the answer for everybody.
Laura
Ever since the low fat message we have got fatter and fatter. I am feeling particularly vindicated at the moment and HAVE to spread this message. My husband has a terrible family history of heart disease. Our diet consists of full fat butter, cream, and raw milk. I cook using coconut milk, coconut oil, lard and ghee. NO vegetable oils except some seed oils in dressings. I save the fat that is rendered off the roast chook etc to cook with - I think you get the message. We have a low (without being obsessive) sugar diet (low sugar in general, fructose inparticular). I bake weekly. My teenage children and my husband and I are not overweight (my 18yr old daughter is a size 4 and I between 6-10 depending on the make) nor do we get sick. My husbands yearly blood tests just came back and his GP and cardiologist are speechless. We have been eating this way for about 5 years and his HDL gets higher and higher and triglycerides and LDL lower. (My husband is 55). All the cardiac tests have been ordered over the years and they can find NOTHING wrong. He has been told to keep doing whatever he is doing. All my clients who have adopted this way of eating have never looked back. I have a cousin who is a famous cardio thoracic surgeon.He wont have a bar of my philosophy, meanwhile his father ( a doctor) just had a massive heart attack on the golf course (his second) eating a low fat diet.
I will agree that there are different reasons for being overweight and there are also some people who cant tolerate high fat well (this can be dealt with). People must be assessed on an individual basis which is why blanket health categories like BMI's, calories/day, height/weight ratios etc arent the answer.
Please do yourself a favour. Re read Davids section on how flawed the research on the low fat philosophy is, re listen to Dr Lustigs evidence as well. This low fat nonsense has got to stop.
I agree Lani. I found it difficult over the last 10 yrs of putting on quite a lot of weight to maintain that I did not think the fat in my diet was causing the problem. After 19 days of being fructose free, I had a blood test to see if it was doing my insides any good. I can't remember a cholesterol reading in the last 30 yrs that was under 6 - usually 6.4 and even 6.8. Apart from my previous test about 4 months ago, my triglycerides were always too high (just under the maximum on that one) as of course were my LDLs. I was hopeful of better results being low fructose but thought it would take much longer - so imagine my delight at the numbers:
Total cholesterol down from 6.4 (previous reading) to 5.7
Triglycerides down from 1.3 to 0.8
LDLs still high but reduced from 4.7 to 4.3
All that time I continued to eat butter, cheese, full fat yoghurt, cream, eggs, lots of nuts and seeds and red meat pretty much every day.
I have been eating this way now for 5 weeks and have lost 5 kg and feel so good. Where before there seemed no way out of this dreadful cycle of weight gain without knowing what I was doing so wrong, I know without doubt that all will be well by simply reducing this one sugar in my diet.
I tell everyone - I think everyone needs to know. I think the low fat fad has had its day. You don't have to look too hard to see it clearly isn't working on a large scale long term basis.
I agree totally with Lani and Janet. My family have always eaten full fat milk, butter, cream, eggs and we have red meat 3 or 4 times a week. We are all of normal weight, with no health issues. However for me personally, I have found as I get older (I am 44) that if I eat too many grain based carbohydrates I will put on weight.
So for us the no fructose, vege laden, full fat diet is a winner!!
For years I drank skinny latte and I couldn't understand why my coffees would only taste average. Now guided by the sweetpoison ethos, I have switched back to full cream milk (and organic) and I have never been happier or slimmer. Life is too short to eat low fat, the tastes and flavours are not there.
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