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Comment by Cisco on November 10, 2011 at 6:09pm

A low carb diet is very, very difficult for kidney transplant patients to follow. Why? Because of the effect that protein has on one's kidneys. I have been given a couple of rules that I am supposed to follow: 1) No more than 25% of my calories are to come from protein. 2) I am able to have no more than 50 grams of protein in a meal or snack. That, coupled with the fact that fat is restricted to <27% ( if I wish to lose weight) makes low carb diet pretty tough, not that I care to go on a low carb diet to begin with. The TYPE of carbohydrates I eat is where I think I do well. They preach fiber, fiber, fiber. I get 50-90 grams of fiber per day.

Comment by Hostess Rise' on November 2, 2011 at 10:54pm

Comment by Hostess Rise' on November 2, 2011 at 10:33pm

Thank you John for sharing this review.

Comment by John Dawson on November 2, 2011 at 3:23pm

Just finished a great new book,Heart of Iron: My Journey from Transplant Patient to Ironman Triathlete by Kyle Garlett. Kyle was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 18, went through a radiation treatment. It cam back a year later, and he went through chemotherapy. It came back a third time and he went through an experimental treatment of intense chemo then transplant of his own bone marrow. The chemo treatments had side effects, giving him leukemia, and chemo induced cardiomyopathy. They beat the leukemia with another chemo series, and at age 35, 17 years after his first cancer diagnosis, he had a heart transplant. He ran his first triathlon 11 months after the transplant, and has competed in the Kona Ironman twice. Quite a story, and a great read. I bought the Kindle edition.

Heart of Iron: My Journey from Transplant Patient to Ironman Triathlete

Comment by John Dawson on October 11, 2011 at 12:31pm

I found the video a real eye-opener. I had bought into the often repeated statements that sugar was just empty calories, and it was not really very many calories for a serving. When you watch the video you'll see it's much worse than just "empty calories".  We've learned a lot about the chemistry of it in the past few years. Although I have a BA in chemistry, I never studied biochemistry, and worked as a chemist for only a few years, so the biochemistry section had a lot of unfamiliar content. But I enjoyed seeing the scientific basis for Lustig's conclusions.

Comment by Hostess Rise' on October 11, 2011 at 9:27am

I am a proud sugar eliminator! Just made up that term LOL

Comment by Tisha on October 10, 2011 at 10:57pm

Thanks John, I'm going to check it out... should I "be afraid, be very afraid"?

Comment by John Dawson on October 10, 2011 at 5:25am

Hi Tisha.  Carbs and especially sugar can definitely be addictive, hard to break the habit. Have you seen the Youtube video by Dr. Robert Lustig, Sugar: The Bitter Truth. Even though it's over an hour, and has a 25 minute biochemistry section, it has had over 1.7 million views. Highly recommended.

Comment by luoming on October 9, 2011 at 7:20pm

I keep run 3km in the morning and swimming 1km in the afternoon when i did retirement on 2007.

it is good for my heath , i do enjoy my live , next month i will celebrate my 8 years for my new life ,

 

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