Comments on: Weekend Special: Human Foie Gras

By: Mara @ What's For Dinner?

Mara @ What's For Dinner? — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:41:40 +0000

Very interesting stuff here… thanks!

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:34:50 +0000

How does one know if they have a fatty liver?

By: Marc Feel Good Eating

Marc Feel Good Eating — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:34:25 +0000

Human foie gras….;-)

My next mental image was a human gavage full of twinkies

Thanks for sharing Mark.

By: Jhon

Jhon — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:50:35 +0000

I used to drink alcohol everyday because of my job as a Brewer and my diet is high in carbohydrates.I also have a persistent abdominal pain but the doctors didn’t find anything and my SGPT and SGOT were normal. But I suspect it was my liver. So when I quit my job, I stop drinking alcohol and shift my diet to low carb (my carbs are mostly from vegetables and fruits). After 5 months, my weight dropped from 67.5 kg to 57 kg and I became so lean that my body now is better than when I was in Universtiy. In addition, the occasional abdominal pain was gone. The only drawback is people started thinking that I’m a fool since I don’t eat rice (and processed food) anymore. Oh by the way, I also exercised 5-6 days a week at 30-45 minutes. I don’t do long cardio since I’m so busy with my work. I only do 15-20 minutes resistance training (full body) and 10-15 HIIT(my Korean friends always say I’m crazy when they see me doing this…). I hope they do more studies about this to educate the mainstream.

By: South Beach Steve

South Beach Steve — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:05:50 +0000

I thought the article was written in a very misleading way. In fact, I had to read it several times because I felt like it was contradicting, with positive and negative sounding parts. In the end, I realized it was just poor wording with a message a lot of people need to hear. Thanks for sharing.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:49:14 +0000

Interesting. A few years ago I had a body scan done. I was obese at the time. The only comment that bothered me in the notes about it was that I had a moderately severe fatty liver. A severly fatty liver! That was a shock even though it probably shouldn’t have been.

In November of 2007 I started a low carb diet and have stuck to it with gusto. I love eating this way. My BMI is 27 right now. In December of 2008 I had another body scan done and the comment on the liver was that it was normal. It’s just one more personal experience that follows along with much of the research that comes with low carb lifestyle.

By: Starting over « No Magic Pill

Starting over « No Magic Pill — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:45:40 +0000

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By: Trinkwasser

Trinkwasser — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:19:07 +0000

We don’t get much HFCS here in the UK but they do love to push wheat starch into all kinds of things to make them Healthy Low Fat (I think it was last year they opened a new starch factory)

As this campaign

http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/default.aspx

is ramped up expect to see *further* increases in obesity diabetes cardiovascular disease etc. and MORE blame to the patients

As you say the results aren’t surprising but the fact they have been published is yet another brick in the wall

Personally I know a couple of people who reversed NAFLD with low carb and close BG control

http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/NewlyDiagnosed.htm

which surprised their doctors

By: Tom Parker - Free Fitness Tips

Tom Parker - Free Fitness Tips — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:42:44 +0000

Good to see there are studies like this. I still eat carbs but I do eat a lot less than I used to. I think there are quite a few people who could do with cutting down their carb intake and studies like these can highlight this.

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:45:15 +0000

And what causes a liver to put on fat? Concentrated fructose, one of the most common ingredients in supermarket foods.

We now find HFCS in sodas, catsup, “100% fruit juice”, and just about every other packaged food one can pick up at a supermarket. Even honey (probably the only naturally high fructose source Grok had access to) is a huge dose of concentrated fructose, so watch the honey intake. Fresh fruit has far less fructose than one might imagine, so if eating fresh unprocessed fruit in reasonable quantities, that source of fructose is less of an issue (fructose is named for fruit only because it was first discovered in fruit).

And watch out for “natural, raw, low-glycemic” agave syrup, touted as a great new “safe” sweetener for “healthy” eaters and diabetics. Agave syrup is a common sweetener in “natural” and “organic” processed foods at the “health food” stores. Depending on brand, agave syrup/nectar has as much as 92% of its sugars as fructose. That’s far higher than the 55% or so that HFCS has! And high intake of fructose is especially damaging to diabetics resulting in increased AGEs and A1c.

Human “foie gras” indeed! Take care of your liver, it’s a very, very important organ.