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1. If it is advertised on television, don't buy it.
2. If it has labels that brag about the (perceived) "healthiness" of the food ("low calorie!", "low fat!", "lots of vitamin X",...), actively avoid it. It is quite probably pure poison from a chemistry plant that has been sneakily relabeled as a food plant.
3. If the list of ingredients includes chemical compounds that are unfamiliar to A-level chemistry students, avoid it.
   (Don't worry too much about the "E" numbers: most of them are less harmful than you think. Look them up on the net, the lists are public.)
4. If the list of ingredients is longer than three items, really think about the contents and the way it was processed.

1. The list of ingredients is one item long AND
2. you could produce the foodstuff with your bare hands without serious hassles, either by gathering or hunting.
3. If it's meat or dairy, the animals were living nicely on grassland.
4. If it's plant, the plants were not genetically fucked-up in the past ten-thousand years by overbreeding or chemical or radiation mutagenesis.

• 11. Mai 2012, 16:24: Mein Text wird Teil des IMPP-Artikels.
• 23. Mai 2012, 09:53: Ein anonymer Benutzer macht meine Änderung rückgängig.
• 23. Mai 2012, 09:57: Ein Wikipedia-Administrator identifiziert die letzte Änderung als Vandalismus und revertiert auf meine Version des Artikels.
• 23. Mai 2012, 10:33: Der gleiche anonyme Benutzer revertiert die Reversion, d.h. der kritische Text ist wieder gelöscht.
• 23. Mai 2012, 10:38: Ein anderer Wikipedia-Administrator identifiziert den Vandalismus und revertiert die Reversion der Reversion, meine Version ist damit wieder aktuell.
• 23. Mai 2012, 10:58: Der anonyme Benutzer meldet sich auf der Diskussionsseite mit dem Hinweis, die Kritik sei nicht mehr aktuell.
• 23. Mai 2012, 12:23: Wikipedia-Administrator 1 ändert den Artikel so, dass der Eindruck entstünde, die damalige Kritik von Kuni wäre inzwischen irrelevant.
• 23. Mai 2012, 16:27: Ich revertiere den Artikel auf meine ursprüngliche Version.
• 23. Mai 2012, 16:53: Ein Benutzer "instmpp" ändert den Artikel auf eine allseits akzeptable Version.
• 23. Mai 2012, 17:20: Der Benutzer "instmpp" meldet sich auf der Diskussionsseite mit fragwürdigen Argumenten.
• 27. Mai 2012, 13:22: Ich antworte auf den Diskussionsbeitrag von "instmpp". Bis heute keine Replik.

how to think like an emergency physician from reuben strayer on Vimeo.

(sound is scratchy in the first 90 seconds and somewhere at the end, just ignore it)

1. First of all, make sure you are actually overweight. The BMI is not the be-all, end-all of all measures. Also think about your waist-to-hip ratio, your appearance to others etc. Maybe being a little chubby runs in your family without negative impact for your health. Being overweight and being sick don't have an "equal sign" in between!
2. For women, especially postmenopausal, low-carbing seems to work differently, with weight loss occuring much later than in men. It is said that at first, low-carb nutrition stabilizes your mood, makes your skin clearer and works positively on your digestive tract. If you are female and have observed positive overall effects of a low-carb diet, don't give up (yet). Get your bloodwork done by some doctor who knows how to interpret basal insulin levels and knows the difference between LDL mass concentration and LDL particle concentration.
3. There are still hidden carbs somewhere in your foods. This can usually be avoided by preparing the meals from entirely unprocessed food.
4. Some people seem to react unfavorably to milk products. Even small amounts of lactose and casein stall their weight loss.
5. You overfeed on protein. A low-carb diet only works great if you exchange carbs for fat. When you exchange carbs for protein, this will still lead to an insulin response (cf. an age-old research article) and stall weight loss.
6. Thyroid problems can entertain metabolic dysregulation, so make sure fT3 and fT4 get tested, not just TSH; if the values are borderline, consider hormone stimulation or suppression testing.
7. If you do sports on a low-carb diet, maybe you change your body composition without losing weight.
8. If you are sincerely inclined to nutrition as your personal "way to getting healthy / getting less sick", consider reducing carbohydrate below 20-30 grams a day, where you enter a state called nutritional ketosis. This is really tough and you need to be knowledgeable how to handle this.
9. Stop eating shit and eat real food. Real food specifially excludes most plant oils, margarine, modern grains, pre-packaged industrial meals and refined sugar.
10. You have trans-fats, phytate or any other harmful agent in your food.
11. You have medication that blocks weight loss, i.e. beta blockers.
12. There are occasional reports of people who have to control carbohydrate intake and calorie intake to lose weight, for unknown reasons.
13. You need to restore your gut flora. (I thought many years that this whole gut flora thing is esoteric nonsense, but there's a lot to it, i.e. the people over at Bechterew Alternative brought their ankylosing spondylitis to a standstill with a presumably Klebsiella- and Proteus-kicking diet)

• Write a detailled journal with all measurements and a food log. (You are the scientist of your body. Greetings from the Quantified Self community.)
• Get a real body analysis scale. I remember that there is one from Omron that can measure (not guess or interpolate, but measure) subcutaneous and visceral fat seperately. Reducing visceral fat is paramount in disease prevention!
• In addition to your blood sugar, if you go fully ketotic, measure your ketones with a blood ketometer. Quite costly, yet it is a good quantitative test.
• Get a full lab on hormones and vitamins. This is a rather shotgun-like approach, so consider this as a rather last (and expensive) option.

• blog entry by Dr. Davis
• blog entry part 2 by Dr. Davis
• there is a leptin reset protocol by Dr. Jack Kruse (though I find his approaches quite esoteric)
• an article from the Atkins center

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