Re: Followup - huge uptick in cholesterol

From: Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (andrew_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:48:09 -0400

Preston Crawford wrote:
>
> On 2004-06-24, Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD <andrew@heartmdphd.com> wrote:
> > Preston Crawford wrote:
> >
> >> On 2004-06-24, Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD <andrew@heartmdphd.com> wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >> > How did you lose the weight?
> >>
> >> Changed my diet dramatically and started exercising. Eventually worked my
> >> way up to 25-30 miles a day and I was eating tons of fruits and vegetables
> >> and whole grains and beans.
> >
> > Uh-oh. Don't like the "eating tons."
>
> That's obviously a phrase, not a literal truth. I meant my diet consisted
> mostly of whole grains, fruits and vegetables.

That phrase reveals a disregard for quantity.

> >> No meat, rarely any dairy, no soda or candy or
> >> sugar. So I know I've "let things go" in the sense that I've loosened up
> >> and started eating certain things again.
> >
> > That's what invariably happens when you change "what" you are eating and are still
> > "eating tons."
> >
> >> Mostly as a result of the high
> >> anxiety and stress as work.
> >
> > Such will increase hunger.
>
> True.

Truth is simple.
 
> >> As well as, in some cases, a way to keep
> >> myself awake when I was tired. For like a year there work was so
> >> stressful, the hours so long and my exercise schedule (exercise helps me
> >> sleep, keeps my anxiety in check, helps me wake up in the morning, etc.)
> >> so out of whack that I was "needing" to eat sugar at various times of the
> >> day to keep myself awake.
> >
> > This might be more the caffeine rather than the accompanying sugar water.
>
> Actually, because of my apnea, I haven't drank caffinated drinks or
> alcohol for over 4 years.

Folks with sleep apnea tend to be more "anaerobic" thereby
physiologically using (and needing) more sugar.
 
> >> I know "need" is not necessarily true, but when
> >> you have a job you have to keep on pain of losing your house then you do
> >> what you have to do. Eventually I lost the job anyway to layoffs and we
> >> sold the house. Probably never should have bought the house. Anyway, I'm
> >> off track. Need to get back on track.
> >>
> >
> > The 2PD approach should help you. Would suggest you ask your doctor about it.
>
> Thanks.

You are welcome, Preston.

A few words to the wise:

If a "diet" comes with promises of "no hunger," requires the purchase of
a book, and comes with recipes...

... run the other way and save your money, time, and health.

In contrast, the 2PD approach (http://www.heartmdphd.com/wtloss.asp):

(1) You will lose weight.
(2) You will be a little hungrier more of the time.
(3) There is no book with recipes to buy.
(4) Developed by a real board-certified practicing cardiologist who also
happens to be a Christian that is internet savvy with a PhD degree in
human mitochondrial genetics.
(5) Because it *always* works, and there may be a need to "dovetail"
this weight-loss approach with other diets to address other medical
conditions, doctor supervision is required.
 
Servant to the humblest person in the universe,

Andrew 

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