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Some studies have found that hibiscus tea may lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure. However, to prevent an interaction, it should not be taken in combination with blood pressure medications.
Animal studies have found that hibiscus extract has antioxidant properties. Additional studies are needed to determine how this may translate to humans.
Some studies have shown that hibiscus tea may reduce blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels in those with diabetes and metabolic syndrome. However, other studies have produced conflicting results. More research is needed in the general population
During national nutrition month, posting actual nutrition....
Grass-finished ribeye steak, cooked using sous-vide technique
ODC - Food
Low-carbohydrate, healthy fat chocolate chip cookies - no refined grains, no added sugar, no industrial vegetable oils
During national nutrition month, posting actual nutrition....
Grass-finished ribeye steak, cooked using sous-vide technique
"Similar to a ribeye steak, but at a more economical price. Richly marbled and flavorful."
Meat is a nutrient-dense food, part of a heatlhy diet, and contributes to overall metabolic health, especially compared to ultra-processed foods typically consumed in the Standard American Diet (SAD).
Red meat is a part of a healthy diet.
A recent JACC state-of-the-art review concluded that saturated fat consumed in unprocessed meat is not associated with CVD or diabetes, the end.
Myth: Meat is an environmental disaster
Reality: Diabetes and heart disease are enivornmental armaggedons
To combat climate change, we need to reduce or eliminate fossil fuel use and source our food ethically and sustainably. Healthy people and healthy planet, not one or the other.
Why wear a continuous glucose monitor?
Too much glucose in your bloodstream is toxic, too little is fatal. Our bodies prioritize by keeping us sick and alive (with obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes) in the former condition, and manufacturing glucose in the latter. Because of this, too much blood glucose is common, too little blood glucose is rare.
A continuous glucose monitor is another - provides minute by minute information about how the body handles this tightly controlled metabolite. Currently, these are used for people with diabetes (unfortunately a greater % of the population), eventually, as is being discussed, this technology may be embedded in the Apple Watch.
In terms of the product, I am fascinated by the color combinations chosen - the blue and yellow are clearly a complementary pair, making the device itself a color harmony.
Low-carbohydrate, healthy fat pumpkin cheesecake bites, with real whipped cream.
NO added sugar
NO grains, refined or whole
NO industrial vegetable oils
Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat, cookie dough. This recipe contains no added sugar, no vegetable oils, no grains (refined or whole), and no nuts.
ODC - Earth Day - Besides the mitigation that comes from not using almond flour (it takes a gallon of water to produce a single almond), we have to think holistically about the impact of diet on human chronic illness - diabetes affects almost 500 million people worldwide and the pharmaceuticals used to control it generate more carbon than the auto industry. We now know diabetes can be reversed with diet and with it, medications tapered. Whole foods- animal and plant sourced are part of the solution.
Low Carbohydrate Healthy Fat Banana Muffins - no added sugar, no refined grains, no industrial bean/seed/vegetable oils. For a relaxed pancreas and less insulin.
Low Carbohydrate Chocolate Chip Cookies - No added sugar, no added vegetable oils, healthy fats only
Trends of interstitial continuous glucose monitoring in a physician without diabetes or pre-diabetes on a plant-free diet.
My disclosures:
I have no ties to, nor have I received any gifts, honoraria, meals, from any food, pharmaceutical, device, or diagnostics manufacturers. No product endorsement is implied. #ConflictFree #NoDollarsforThisDoc
I am not an advocate or activist for specific diets for individuals.
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Low-carbohydrate, healthy fat pumpkin cheesecake bites, with real whipped cream.
NO added sugar
NO grains, refined or whole
NO industrial vegetable oils
Why wear a continuous glucose monitor?
Too much glucose in your bloodstream is toxic, too little is fatal. Our bodies prioritize by keeping us sick and alive (with obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes) in the former condition, and manufacturing glucose in the latter. Because of this, too much blood glucose is common, too little blood glucose is rare.
A continuous glucose monitor is another - provides minute by minute information about how the body handles this tightly controlled metabolite. Currently, these are used for people with diabetes (unfortunately a greater % of the population), eventually, as is being discussed, this technology may be embedded in the Apple Watch.
In terms of the product, I am fascinated by the color combinations chosen - the blue and yellow are clearly a complementary pair, making the device itself a color harmony.
Grass Fed Rib Eye Steak cooked using Sous-Vide method.
100 grams of Rib Eye has 11 grams of monounsaturated fat, about the same amount of monounsaturated fat as there is in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. 1 tablespoon of olive oil has 1.4 grams of saturated fat, a little more than in 1 slice of bacon (1.1 grams saturated fat). There is no food that has only one kind of fat. Rib Eye is a fattier cut of meat; a sirloin cut has 4.8 grams of saturated fat, or 3 tablespoons of olive oil’s worth.
We also now know there is no evidence that replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates is better for human health, probably the opposite is the case.
And, as expected, ingestion of the stake resulted in no rise in blood glucose, as tested with a continuous glucose monitor (glycemic index of steak =0 )
Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat pumpkin pie, containing NO grains (refined or whole), NO sugar, NO vegetable oils.
Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Hush Puppies, to help friends celebrate life events with a relaxed pancreas.
No added sugar, no vegetable oils, no grains (refined or whole), only real fat
Catching up on posting recipies - I'll link from recipes.tedeytan.com
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Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Hush Puppies, to help friends celebrate life events with a relaxed pancreas.
No added sugar, no vegetable oils, no grains (refined or whole), only real fat
Catching up on posting recipies - I'll link from recipes.tedeytan.com
#RealFood #LCHF #LCHFdiet #KetogenicDiet #MetabolicHealth #DiabetesReversal #DiabetesPrevention #DontFearFat #ContinuousGlucoseMonitor #DataOverDogma #Food #FoodPhotography #SonyA6500 #SonyMirrorless #DC #instaDC #DCStatehood #GayHushPuppies #instaGay #GaysWhoBake #EmbraceCuriosity #FutureStartsHere #ThisCenturyBestCentury #No1Experiment #Geek #Cookies
Why wear a continuous glucose monitor?
Too much glucose in your bloodstream is toxic, too little is fatal. Our bodies prioritize by keeping us sick and alive (with obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes) in the former condition, and manufacturing glucose in the latter. Because of this, too much blood glucose is common, too little blood glucose is rare.
A continuous glucose monitor is another - provides minute by minute information about how the body handles this tightly controlled metabolite. Currently, these are used for people with diabetes (unfortunately a greater % of the population), eventually, as is being discussed, this technology may be embedded in the Apple Watch.
In terms of the product, I am fascinated by the color combinations chosen - the blue and yellow are clearly a complementary pair, making the device itself a color harmony.
This research article, purporting to show an association (not causation) between intake of meat products and disease, (a) demonstrated that the significant association is with BMI and (b) did not control for items eaten with meat products, like, for example, french fries, buns, sodas etc. There are numerous other methodological problems with this study that make its findings unreliable/unusable for guiding health decisions.
Source: Papier, Keren, Georgina K. Fensom, Anika Knuppel, Paul N. Appleby, Tammy Y. N. Tong, Julie A. Schmidt, Ruth C. Travis, Timothy J. Key, and Aurora Perez-Cornago. “Meat Consumption and Risk of 25 Common Conditions: Outcome-Wide Analyses in 475,000 Men and Women in the UK Biobank Study.” BMC Medicine 19, no. 1 (December 2, 2021): 53. doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01922-9.
In this example (modeled on the actual chart, but not copied, for fair use) study sent to me by a fellow physician, the conclusion of the paper, that higher intake of meat saturated fat is associated with higher CVD risk is not supported by the data.
The graphic modeled above shows how the non-significance is presented in a misleading way, with the data points for meat appearing to be significantly above 1, however, the confidence intervals cross this line, indicating that these numbers could be due to random chance. The authors attempt to make this appear significant by using the term “p-trend” which is meaningless in terms of statistical significance.
The rest of the study has significant methodological issues as well as significant financial conflicts of interest by the authors (Unilever and other food manufacturers) making it unreliable for any conclusions about meat intake and health.
Adapted from: Oliveira Otto, Marcia C de, Dariush Mozaffarian, Daan Kromhout, Alain G Bertoni, Christopher T Sibley, David R Jacobs, and Jennifer A Nettleton. “Dietary Intake of Saturated Fat by Food Source and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 96, no. 2 (August 1, 2012): 397–404. doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.112.037770.
Recipe time - coincidentally on National Pretzel Day (April 26)!
These are delicious low carbohydrate, healthy fat pretzels which I made as an alternative to the tasty ones served at our favorite local beer garden in Washington, DC.
They have the magical property of not raising blood sugar, because they have no grains (refined or whole) and no industrial vegetable/bean/seed oils.
Actually, no magic involved, it’s the science we learned in medical school, we are just now applying it :). Enjoy in good metabolic health.
Recipe will be posted soon recipes.tedeytan.com
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Low carbohydrate, healthy fat strawberry thumbprint cookies. No added sugar, no refined grains or industrial bean/seed/vegetable oils. Still working to understand food lighting ✌️, will post recipe at recipes.tedeytan.com , as well continuous glucose monitor readings after ingestion 😀
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Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat Hush Puppies, to help friends celebrate life events with a relaxed pancreas.
No added sugar, no vegetable oils, no grains (refined or whole), only real fat
Catching up on posting recipies - I'll link from recipes.tedeytan.com
#RealFood #LCHF #LCHFdiet #KetogenicDiet #MetabolicHealth #DiabetesReversal #DiabetesPrevention #DontFearFat #ContinuousGlucoseMonitor #DataOverDogma #Food #FoodPhotography #SonyA6500 #SonyMirrorless #DC #instaDC #DCStatehood #GayHushPuppies #instaGay #GaysWhoBake #EmbraceCuriosity #FutureStartsHere #ThisCenturyBestCentury #No1Experiment #Geek #Cookies
Grass Fed Ribeye Steak cooked using Sous-Vide method.
One steak (291 grams) has 28 grams of saturated fat, the same amount of saturated fat as there is in 2 tablespoons of olive oil, and more monounsaturateed fat (31 vs 20 grams). There is no food that has only one kind of fat.
We also now know there is no evidence that replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates is better for human health, probably the opposite is the case.
And, as expected, ingestion of the stake resulted in no rise in blood glucose, as tested with a continuous glucose monitor (glycemic index of steak =0)
Example showing how multiple transformations performed on original literature favors a specific interpretation. Original figure on the left (PNAS), transformed version on the right (The Economist)
Most significantly - Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) are removed from the Economist version, a data point in the original calling the analysis into question (source of cognitive dissonance)
Y axis scale is modified from log to linear by The Economist, which creates more visual space between the designated “good” foods and “bad” foods in the article
X axis is shifted by The Economist, again creating more visual space between “good” and “bad”
Also
Relative risk magnifies perceived harm and is suboptimal for communication compared to absolute risk
Not clear if referenced studies controlled for healthy user bias - paper says “age, body mass index, gender, and smoking” only
Dietary impact on GHG emissions is not discussed in the context of much greater discretionary sources, such as transportation and fossil fuel use
Sources: Clark MA, Springmann M, Hill J, Tilman D. Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods. Proc Natl Acad Sci [Internet]. 2019 Oct 28;201906908. Available from: www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1906908116 ; How much would giving up meat help the environment? - Daily chart [Internet]. The Economist. 2019 [cited 2019 Nov 17]. Available from: www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/15/how-much-woul...
Grass Fed Rib Eye Steak cooked using Sous-Vide method.
100 grams of Rib Eye has 11 grams of monounsaturated fat, about the same amount of monounsaturated fat as there is in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. 1 tablespoon of olive oil has 1.4 grams of saturated fat, a little more than in 1 slice of bacon (1.1 grams saturated fat). There is no food that has only one kind of fat. Rib Eye is a fattier cut of meat; a sirloin cut has 4.8 grams of saturated fat, or 3 tablespoons of olive oil’s worth.
We also now know there is no evidence that replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates is better for human health, probably the opposite is the case.
And, as expected, ingestion of the stake resulted in no rise in blood glucose, as tested with a continuous glucose monitor (glycemic index of steak =0 )
(The bacon and cheese would be Group 3: Processed foods)
NOVA Food Classification Group 1: Unprocessed or minimally processed foods: “Minimally processed foods are natural foods altered by processes such as removal of inedible or unwanted parts, drying, crushing, grinding, fractioning, filtering, roasting, boiling, pasteurisation, refrigeration, freezing, placing in containers, vacuum packaging, or non-alcoholic fermentation. None of these processes adds substances such as salt, sugar, oils or fats to the original food.”
NOVA Food Classification Group 4: Ultra-Processed Foods“industrial formulations made entirely or mostly from substances extracted from foods (oils, fats, sugar, starch, and proteins), derived from food constituents (hydrogenated fats and modified starch), or synthesized in laboratories from food substrates or other organic sources (flavor enhancers, colors, and several food additives used to make the product hyper-palatable). Manufacturing techniques include extrusion, moulding, and preprocessing by means of frying.”
Sources: Sources: Monteiro CA, Cannon G, Levy RB et al. NOVA. The star shines bright.[Food classification. Public health] World Nutrition January-March 2016, 7, 1-3, 28-38 l ;https://www.flickr.com/photos/taedc/48514996651/ ; www.flickr.com/photos/taedc/48574958831/
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard on December 20, 2018. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law, passed by Congress in July of 2016, directed USDA to establish this national mandatory standard for disclosing foods that are or may be bioengineered.
The Standard requires food manufacturers, importers, and certain retailers to ensure bioengineered foods are appropriately disclosed.
Low-Carbohydrate, healthy fat, coconut cream pie. Recipe available at recipes.tedeytan.com
This pie contains no grains (refined or whole), vegetable oils, or added sugar. It's the perfect complement to a COVID-19 vaccination, as a reminder that the best health to be in is the kind that puts a person at the back of the vaccine line.
Low-Carbohydrate, healthy fat, coconut cream pie. Recipe available at recipes.tedeytan.com
This pie contains no grains (refined or whole), vegetable oils, or added sugar. It's the perfect complement to a COVID-19 vaccination, as a reminder that the best health to be in is the kind that puts a person at the back of the vaccine line.