"I've cut down the sugar and tried less successfully to cut out grains"
Ditto. It's not easy is it. And even avoiding obvious sugar such as desserts, sugar in tea/coffee, etc. leaves a lot of hidden sugar added to many foods. I figure this is a large part of the observed poorer dental health, although I am vaguley aware of another hypothesis that links grains with poor health - something to do with immune response I think. Linus Pauling believed sugar was also the primamry factor in the rise of atherosclerosis rates - the digestion of sucrose yields glucose and fructose, that latter of which is converted into acetate in the liver which is a precursor for cholesterol synthesis. A 'traditional' diet would have contained only small amounts of sugars from e.g. berries - just enough for the amount of cholesterol required. It's one of those theories (and there were studies done) that seems to have become strangely ignored.
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krja
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Date: 2009-07-03 10:28 pm (UTC)Ditto. It's not easy is it. And even avoiding obvious sugar such as desserts, sugar in tea/coffee, etc. leaves a lot of hidden sugar added to many foods. I figure this is a large part of the observed poorer dental health, although I am vaguley aware of another hypothesis that links grains with poor health - something to do with immune response I think. Linus Pauling believed sugar was also the primamry factor in the rise of atherosclerosis rates - the digestion of sucrose yields glucose and fructose, that latter of which is converted into acetate in the liver which is a precursor for cholesterol synthesis. A 'traditional' diet would have contained only small amounts of sugars from e.g. berries - just enough for the amount of cholesterol required. It's one of those theories (and there were studies done) that seems to have become strangely ignored.