JindiLicious Low Carb Healthy Fat - Real Food

11/05/2019

Happy Mother’s Day! My kids have given up trying to make low carb pancakes, so this morning it was my turn and I tried something different! 1/4 cup almond meal, 50 grams softened cream cheese, 1 egg, 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Beat together and pour into a small (7 inch or 18 cm) ovenproof frypan which is warm and has a tablespoon of butter melted into it. Turn on the oven, heat to 220 degrees, and turn on the grill if you have one. When the base is set, place into the oven and cook until golden brown on top. Serve with more butter and whatever you like (nut butter, cream & raspberries, low carb maple syrup). Eat from the pan (careful the handle is hot!). Delicious!!!

30/04/2019

Jilian Michaels slams the keto diet again: "It attacks the s**t out of your liver"

After a "huge public outcry" after Jillian slammed the keto diet previously, she is not backing down. Here are her statements about keto and my response as a nutritionist...

"People can criticize me all they want, but the bottom line is, it is science and the science is there, and it is bad for your overall health and wellness."

Me: No actual science was mentioned here.

“Ketosis is a state of medical emergency...So, when the body becomes what is called ketotic your cells cannot function — your cells function optimally in a very specific pH. Any endocrinologist will explain this to you. It’s science.”

Me: Where is the science that states that ketosis is a state of medical emergency? Answer: There isn't any. Most of our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have been in a ketogenic state (there were not enough carbohydrates available to live any other way). The Inuit ate fish, meat and fat, the Masai ate meat and milk. If ketosis was a state of medical emergency, the human race would not have been able to sustain itself for so long pre-agriculture.

“It attacks the s**t out of your liver, your thyroid. It shortens your telomeres, it’s bad for your macromolecules. I mean, it makes you stink — we can table that one!”

Me: Again no evidence is cited here, in fact, as a nutritionist, I so often see massive improvements in liver markers following keto. The same goes for the thyroid. In fact, the majority of women I see have some sort of underactive thyroid when I first see them because the thing that really does a number on the thyroid is years on a low-fat diet. Again, I often see huge improvements in thyroid markers following keto.

As for shortening telomeres, where is the evidence? If this were true, after almost 18 years of being in a ketogenic state, I would be suffering from severe premature ageing by now. But again, I find that the low-fat diet is the one that ages us prematurely.

What about it making us stink? Actually, I think WE can table that one. Absolute nonsense. Some people experience short term keto breath when they are getting into ketosis. That's it; it is temporary, and it has a bit of a sweet smell (if it is foul, there is something else going on such as an imbalance of gut bacteria). And the other nonsense circulating about making us smell in other areas is just someone fighting back, probably because keto works and it is damaging the diet industry.

bit.do/jillianmichaelsslamsketoagain

18/04/2019

https://medium.com//bacon-is-not-the-enemy-bd861c2adac9

Why you shouldn’t worry too much about processed meat and cancer

12/04/2019

A long read but worthwhile....are all calories equal? Should we be counting them?

For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure

08/04/2019

More science about healthy fats.

Several epidemiological studies have investigated the association between dietary fat intake and cardiovascular disease. However, dietary recommendations based on systematic review and meta-analysis might be more credible. Pubmed, Embase and Cochrane library were searched up to July 1st 2018 for coh...

26/03/2019

https://blog.virtahealth.com/why-dont-need-dietary-carbohydrates/?fbclid=IwAR3HszAUhVQFG80ElX8qwPq7vOhpavBJaRz7B-I-TTaeUVtIgb2olm-pmFg

Learn why the brain and body can function well on a diet with little or no dietary carbohydrate.

10/02/2019

Eggs. What more is there to say? They are a perfect food anytime. Frittata for lunch today with broccoli and pumpkin. Yum!

23/01/2019

What is the common currency in our bodies?

https://www.facebook.com/116784821733116/posts/2007523589325887/

Currency (money) is useful because it represents mutually agreed upon means of measurement and exchange. That is, if we all accept American dollars as our currency of exchange, then items as disparate as a bus or an onion can be all measured in the same units.