Worth a read:-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/

BWB
on 8/26/13 1:27 pm, edited 8/27/13 12:32 pm

RNY on 09/01/11

http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/19/world-renown-heart-su rgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/

Maggie May
on 8/26/13 3:04 pm

RNY on 08/21/13

He basically just paraphrased the book Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis. I read Wheat Belly and followed the diet (wheat, gluten, grain, soy, and sugar free) for my med. supervised weight loss program for my insurance company and lost 35 lbs in 12 weeks and got off of two blood pressure medications as well as my thyroid med. My NUT was like wha what? I feel like the change pre-surgery set me up for an easier transition into surgery and life afterward although I'm struggling just a few days out, feeling pain and hunger. I'm hoping it's just my body adjusting and it will get better. I worked really hard to get here.

Maggie May

A_new_beginning
on 8/26/13 6:10 pm - MD

RNY on 08/29/13

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how surgery affects me. I, too, have lost weight pre-surgery. I still have a ways to go, but I feel like I've been eating high protein, low sugar, low carbs for so long now that it's become a good habit. I hope the surgery will just reinforce this.

Surgery date: August 29th, 2013

HW: 247 lbs. Height: 5' 2"

LW: 123 lbs!

BWB
on 8/26/13 11:15 pm

RNY on 09/01/11

This is good training for post op. It follows my pre op diet and I favor it over the protein shake/liquid approach. You have to start learning the right way to eat before surgery, it's common sense.

BWB
on 8/27/13 8:03 am

RNY on 09/01/11

Please tell me how to do that because I feel the same.

Citizen Kim
on 8/26/13 11:35 pm - Castle Rock, CO

RNY on 07/27/04

Can I make a suggestion? If you hotlink the article so we just have to click on it and post your opinion to start the discussion - many more of us will participate in the thread ...

I have made an exception this time, but personally, I NEVER clink on threads that are not done as above and I suspect a lot of people do the same! Some of us really do like to be spoonfed

Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist

Kim S.
on 8/26/13 11:48 pm - Helena, AL

RNY on 05/01/09

This Kim likes to be treated like a princess too!

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 8/27/13 3:37 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

So does Lora, LOL. Too much trouble to select and copy from this site on an iPad...

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

H.A.L.A B.
on 8/27/13 6:44 am

RNY on 05/14/08

http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/19/world-renown-heart-su rgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/

I can't - it is difficult to access the link from my tablet unless it is "hotlinked".

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

chulbert
on 8/27/13 12:41 am, edited 8/27/13 12:41 am - Rochester, NY

RNY on 01/21/13

The effects of inflammation are well-documented but the rest of the article is contrary to everything I've read.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16087988

"CONCLUSIONS: The study shows that in the present group of overweight subjects a high consumption of sugar-sweetened foods and drinks increased haptoglobin and transferrin but had, at best, only a limited influence on CRP."

Additionally, I believe the only diet documented to halt or reverse heart disease is a low-fat, whole-food, plat-based diet. Google the names Esselstyn, Ornish, Campbell, and McDougall.