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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:59:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] OT: Standard American Diet
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That being said - the science is clear - ALL fats are unhealthy. Basically
they
stop your blood vessles from dilating for hours after you eat any fat. It
dammages the walls, makes the platlets more sticky. Know anyone with a
heart
bypass yet? Truth is all of their arteries are clogged. The Vietnam
soldiers
who died in their early 20's all had signs of arteries clogging. Based upon
that you can assume that everyone living a western diet has clogged arteries
and should be on a no-added-fat diet.
Not entirely - you need some fats (fatty acids are essential for brain
function) - even a little bit of cholesterol.
For anyone with thyriod problems you really need to read what Dr. John
McDougall
has found in research. Slightly elevated thyroid hormone results in
increased
cholesterol and risk of strokes and heart attacks. You should treat before
you are offically hypothyroid. Don't believe that soy & brassica and other
things (sea weed) have anything to do with it - there is no science behind
that;
not unless you are deficient in iodine and with the amount of (iodized) salt
we
get in our diet that ain't a possible.
Interesting about the soy and brassica thing - I'd never heard that before.
I
read to avoid red meat and peanuts when I was first diagnosed. Yes, I am
another one with autoimmune hypothyroidism. I developed it as an exceedingly
healthy and essentially vegetarian 23 yr old. There is a genetic component,
but not
in my family. I acquired it in another common way to get autoimmune
disorders, which is to have the 'flu. The immune system overreacts and
starts
thinking parts of you look tasty. This is more likely in people who were not
ill
much as children apparently - the immune system doesn't have a chance to
calibrate its response appropriately. I was a classic case of this. I was
hardly ever
ill as a child, and when I was, I had the mildest possible case of whatever
it was (in
fact I'm still like this to a certain extent).
This is so off topic, but since there are a few people out there with
thyroid
problems, what do you do about collars? I have always been one of those
people who hate something close around their neck, and now I have a mild
goiter from time to time, it is worse.
Claire
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