Ahh, very good you're starting to investigate..
89826 wrote:That also explains your diabetes or near-diabetes, whatever you want to call it. My puzzlement has turned into further supporting evidence.
Just to clarify again, when I started my path to health and measuring blood markers, to my surprise my average (measured for a whole month) fasting blood glucose came back at 124 mg/dl (100-125 is considered pre-diabetic). However, beside some very high spikes (for example after meals with grains), postprandial blood glucose spikes (measured 1 hour after the meal) never averaged higher than 147 mg/dl. Which quickly improved by becoming more strict with grain avoidance. For the last 3 years it now has been 93 for fasting and 123 mg/dl postprandial, therefore no more prediabetic at all.
89826 wrote:Just above here in this thread, you quote yourself as eating a plant-based diet since the age of 10.
Those two diets are not nearly the same. Milk products are not plant foods.
Good point. Though I shunned everything fatty like cream, butter or oils, but did have long times with cheeses and milk. Therefore, you're right that my experience does more speak about how being lacto-vegetarian was one of many factors leading to PAD. And not about the vegan lifestyle.
But
how by adding fatty butter, eggs, healthy oils and fatty fish back in my diet (up to 70% of calories from fats), along with comprehensive supplementation, did not prevent from recovering from my most debilitating claudatio intermittent pains at all. Only to the contrary
Something all my cardiologist thought impossible, unless I would surgically replace my whole Y-shaped abdominal aorta with a goretex kind of tube.
That's what's good enough for me. Having experimentally experienced the benefit of a particular life-style intervention (ie. eating according to postprandial blood glucose readings) of no more debilitating pains and being able to really walk in nature again (my passion before all this started).
I never said you're wrong in placing your faith in a particular life-style intervention. But after some time, if you don't experience any tangible benefits from it, you're really cheating yourself.
Therefore, keep experimenting and learning along the way. However, whenever you generally recommend low-fat without any personal experience - and since you're not unterstanding real science about hard endpoints such as increased mortality on low-fat diets - I will continue to relate my existing experience to give a different valid perspective. So that newbies don't get lost in ideology, but instead start to measure their particular approach and benefits too.
Pam, I am going to be charitable here and call you only confused and misguided.
You will have to let each reader decide for them self - how your categorical refusal to accept highly powered science, moreover to mention any improvement in your own life on your recommended protocol, along with derogatory remarks - might come across.
For my part we are not meeting here to beat each other up because of different faiths, but to learn from another for better health and happiness for each of us, no matter how different we consider us to be.
Your refusal to share your personal experience of improval makes it difficult to learn from you, other than giving the impression of you being too defensive and not open to sharing with others.