Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: My program

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Re: [fast5] Re: My program

The best overall summary of the research is in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1587360519/ref=wms_ohs_product

It's a "research book" though, more like a summary of all the papers
(there are as many citations, page wise, as there is text!). The other
decent one is similar: pretty geeky:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823363/ref=wms_ohs_product

On my blog I have links to some online information (Google
"OffTheFoodGrid Iron").

Basically it looks like high iron levels lead to blood glucose
problems, and reducing iron helps cure the blood glucose problems.
Donating blood, for instance, if a person can do that. Once your blood
glucose is problematic, then eating carbs is an issue, and yeah, rice
won't work. But a meat-based diet, as some people are recommending,
will increase iron levels further *if* in fact this theory is true.

I think Fast-5 helps in handling iron levels, for this reason: a lot
of foods are iron blockers. Vegies, whole grains, nuts, chilis, some
spices, calcium. When these foods are eaten in the same meal as meat
or high-iron foods, the iron is blocked from getting digested. Since
Fast-5 encourages all the food of the day to be eaten at about the
same time, the iron is a lot less likely to be absorbed I think.

But the average kind of snack people eat: iron-fortified crackers or
potato chips with cola, say, would be a high-iron absorption kind of
meal. The gut is supposed to protect people from overload, but in the
US, high ferritin levels are nonetheless common, so *something* is
going on. The author of the first book believes the issue is our
choices for beverages: juice, pop and beer encourage overload, while
tea and wine decrease it. He doesn't address our "snack habit", but I
think it's a big issue too.

For me, probably one of the issues was another choice of beverage: our
well water, which is high in iron (and also my daily beer, which was
made with molasses). Um, and probably eating beef as our main meat ...

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Lisa W <coralskies@ymail.com> wrote:
> Hi Heather,
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> That sounds like a scrumptious diet...and you're still losing weight with the rice which I wish I could do. My metabolism is not functioning well enough to handle much in the way of carbs. I'd love to read the research about ferritin. My levels were not high the last time I checked however my blood glucose has been moderately high for quite some time. I bought a glucometer and have successfully gotten BG back down to normal ranges, but only if I stay away from heavy carbs.
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> Lisa W
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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>> I went to the Japanese Diet approach: my main meal consists of fish (little
>> fatty fish: not big seagoing fish with mercury), stir-fried vegies, and Asian
>> rice (not American rice, which is iron-enriched). With hot sauce and ginger,
>> and most of all, TEA with the meal. No fruits or Vit C with the meal. I eat
>> eggs too, and sometimes chicken. I fry the fish and vegies in coconut
>> oil or bacon grease.
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>> It has worked really well: my BP is down, my joints are more flexible, and
>> oddly, my eyesight is better. And I'm skinnier.
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>> My theory (backed by a lot of research) is that high ferritin levels lead
>> to mismanagement of insulin and most of the signs of aging. There
>> are a number of researchers who agree on this. At least it's worth a
>> good experiment.
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