montmorency
Member
I posted about this in another thread, but I think it merits its own thread.
Not because I agree with it - in fact it challenges a lot of things I thought I knew - but it raises some questions I can't quite ignore.
Diet, Drugs and Diabetes - One Hundred Years of Missed Opportunities
John McDougall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iosoXlr3ZVI
I have some possibly minor quibbles with what he says:
1. One of his successes is shown, along with a data list, showing blood pressure with quite a hypertensive systolic pressure (diastolic is only slightly above normal). That could be a mistake, or his "before" blood pressure.
2. At one point he says there can be fat vegans, but what he proposes seems to be a vegan diet (it's high starch and low or no fat, or no added fat at least). He never really explains why some vegans get fat, even though his vegan diet is apparently good for weight loss (and type 2 diabetes).
3. He admits to about 17 failures out of about 200, but doesn't talk about the nature of the failure. For all we know, they could have keeled over with heart disease or something.
The interesting thing, and what made me take it more seriously than I otherwise might have, was his claim that there was research to show that fat, whether animal or vegetable (though vegetable was worse) reduced blood circulation, and for quite a long time.
I need to view that part again to get down exactly what he was saying, but I didn't make a note of where it was in the video.
Anyway, see what you think.
Some of what he says is compatible with Peat, i.e. that sugar is good for diabetes. He also says that fat tends to make us insulin resistant.
Not because I agree with it - in fact it challenges a lot of things I thought I knew - but it raises some questions I can't quite ignore.
Diet, Drugs and Diabetes - One Hundred Years of Missed Opportunities
John McDougall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iosoXlr3ZVI
I have some possibly minor quibbles with what he says:
1. One of his successes is shown, along with a data list, showing blood pressure with quite a hypertensive systolic pressure (diastolic is only slightly above normal). That could be a mistake, or his "before" blood pressure.
2. At one point he says there can be fat vegans, but what he proposes seems to be a vegan diet (it's high starch and low or no fat, or no added fat at least). He never really explains why some vegans get fat, even though his vegan diet is apparently good for weight loss (and type 2 diabetes).
3. He admits to about 17 failures out of about 200, but doesn't talk about the nature of the failure. For all we know, they could have keeled over with heart disease or something.
The interesting thing, and what made me take it more seriously than I otherwise might have, was his claim that there was research to show that fat, whether animal or vegetable (though vegetable was worse) reduced blood circulation, and for quite a long time.
I need to view that part again to get down exactly what he was saying, but I didn't make a note of where it was in the video.
Anyway, see what you think.
Some of what he says is compatible with Peat, i.e. that sugar is good for diabetes. He also says that fat tends to make us insulin resistant.