Dr. Wolfgang Lutz, an Austrian gastroenterologist, was a proponent of carbohydrate restricted diets for a number of conditions. In this English version of his "Leben Ohne Brot," he describes the treatment of one or two patients (I forget) using carbohydrate restriction for them to add weight. Not much more than a couple of anecdotes, though.
Hi Nartchie - Congrats on the sobriety ! Your post reminds me of the title of an old low carb book, "Life Without Bread".
I didn't like bread and almost never ate it. So I wanted to find out if no bread is bad for you, and got the book "Life without Bread" by fellow Austrian Wolfgang Lutz who developed a low carb high fat diet in 1967. His focus was not weight loss but health, and his theory was that since humans were hunter-gatherer for a very long time they are not adjusted to high carb diets..
So basically in 1967 he discovered for himself most of what today is known as /r/paleo or /r/keto. He presents lots of statistics from his patients, of which he claims to have had 10,000.
That book made me research a bit, I found keto and paleo, and since then I'm doing it for health, not weight loss.
If you fuckers would think about anything more than loosing weight and read sometimes a book like link you would know that giving carbs to babies/infants equals digestive problems and sleepless nights for parents. Fruits aren't some magical foods full of health, fruits are mostly water plus sugar.
You may want to read life without bread. It's from an austrian doctor who explains he cured several crohn's and UC cases using a low-carb (<72g carbs a day) diet. Worked really well for my IBS. However, as with UC there is a lot of inflammation, you may need to hold on to the diet for a month or two before you see results.
got it
here is a rabbit hole for you. i found this book where the cover is so wrong. the only digital copy i could find was at internet archive with a 1 hour checkout.
i am sure it will interest you, it took me to cleave, burrick, stephanson, banting the undetaker, ludwig, jostlin
that mackarness started the search, also yellowlees
link to internet archive in pin
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/691372980307016533/
i found a random used copy in the UK, waiting for it Allan / Lutz
https://www.amazon.ca/Life-Without-Bread-Low-Carbohydrate-Diet/dp/0658001701
>it's not an issue of what I eat but how much
Sorry, but with heart disease, diabetes and obesity, often it's precisely an issue of what you're eating. Many think their diet is fine, but what most people consider "normal" food these days is in fact highly processed, abnormal and harmful. Conversely, foods that are actually good are often viewed as odd or even scary, even though a century and more ago they were considered perfectly normal.
Some book suggestions for you: Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life, Eat Fat, Lose Fat, Cholesterol and the French Paradox. Also check out the trailer of this excellent documentary: Food Matters.
When it comes to checking your risk of heart disease, the important tests to order are as follows. Note that the figures given are for the for the 45-65 age group, younger people should gererally have lower values. C-Reactive Protein (should be less than 1.1 mmol/L), homocysteine (should be less than 8 mmol/L), lipoprotein(a) (should be less than 0.30 mmol/L, blood pressure (120/80 to 140/90), resting heart rate (< 64 beats per minute). Your doctor may not order these particular tests, but should be happy to do so if asked. They really are of more use for detecting heart disease risk than the regularly requested cholesterol test: there are plenty of people with "perfect" cholesterol scores who drop dead from heart attacks. Cholesterol tests are really of the most use in convincing people to pay for statin drugs, which have a bunch of nasty side effects. (Source for these numbers is Cholesterol and the French Paradox).