Podcast 20: Don’t Go Nuts on Nuts
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What do you find at the crossroads of medicine, theory and practice?
The Relentless Roger and the Caveman Doctor (RRCD) Podcast: Simplifying complex issues for healthy living
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In Episode #20 Roger and Dr. Champ Discuss:
- Ask Dean Ornish why he didn’t cite the RANDOMIZED data revealing the inferiority of his diet plan to low-carb/high-fat
- Answer a reader question about cooking with olive oil by returning to Dr. Champ’s article on cooking with fat
- Why we should limit nuts, responding to a reader question and ask whether we should limit bacon
- More on Type 3 Diabetes aka Alzheimer’s
- Mark Sisson presents some specifics on Dean Ornish’s absurdly flawed “study”
- An interesting take on saturated fat and heart disease
- Dr. Champ calls it that the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to beat the Eagles
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Dr. Champ,
This link is for a radiation oncologist position in Alma, Michigan. There is a private liberal arts college there, an enormous retirement complex for Masons, and a renowned Scottish festival (Highland festival). It is 15 minutes from Mt. Pleasant , which is the home of Central Michigan University (starting a med school in the fall) and Soaring Eagle resort & Casino. Close to Midland, Bay City, Saginaw, & Lansing (museums, theatres, etc.). Mostly rural between Alma & other cities.
http://www.simplyhired.com/job-id/xvnig4xhuq/radiology-radiation-jobs/
Good luck with the hunt!
Thanks LP!
I am looking at all academic practices. Thanks you so much for thinking about me, I really appreciate it.
Take care!
CC
Very nice job, guys! I think John McDougall should be next on your hit list. He’s so malicious and mean spirited against Paleo and low carbers that he almost deserves it harsher than Ornish.
I will make it a point to be mindful about eating nuts. I can really put them away, especially sprouted Almonds from Whole Foods, so I stopped buying them. I only keep Walnuts and Macs in the house because they are not my faves.
I always thought Walnuts had higher Omega 3, hmm..thanks for the info that they were highest in Omega 6. I may cut back on those too.
I think coconut butter is much better as a dessert or when you need to feel more filled up. I’ve been using Artisana and love it. The only part I hate is the stirring (big pain in the butt).
I found some info that may interest you on bacon and nitrates.
http://caltonnutrition.com/blog.aspx
Chris Kresser also did a piece on this too.
http://chriskresser.com/the-nitrate-and-nitrite-myth-another-reason-not-to-fear-bacon
I’m about to order some local bacon from a farmer here and they do use nitrates, but the pigs are fed well.
I will only do bacon about once a week or longer as I’m still on the fence about processed meats.
Thanks Sharon!
I am still torn on the nitrates. The bacon I like is nitrate free so I don’t see myself changing anytime soon.
Thanks!
Colin
Thanks for addressing the issue of nuts head-on, especially the issue of being a trigger food due to the salty-fatty-carby combo. You left out two points I make when people ask me about this:
– Protein digestion problems, aka trypsin inhibitors. You have to soak nuts overnight to deactivate them, then dry them out again. Major pain.
– Phytates in the skin. You can’t use the magnesium in an almond when it’s bound up in phytates.
Thanks Jake,
Great points and I appreciate the comments.
Take care,
CC
Regarding Alzheimer’s as Type 3 diabetes, that call is premature. As many commenters noted in the NYT piece, the lone study asserting this was published in a fourth-tier journal, and the columnist didn’t consult a single expert researcher in the Alzheimer’s field for a critical assessment of this idea. As another commenter asked, if Alzheimers were “Type 3 ” diabetes, wouldn’t we see much greater rates and earlier disease in juvenile diabetics as compared to other diabetics?
Science clearly isn’t Mark Bittman’s strong suit, but it should be Dr. Champ’s.
Jake,
I agree about Bittman. However, more and more data is building up and there are quite a few studies linking excess glucose with cerebral toxicity and damage and Alzheimer’s. He may not have picked the best one, but many exist. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out.
Take care,
CC
Hi CC,
That’s good to know. How would I phrase a pubmed search to find such studies?
Cheers,
jake3_14
I would use Google scholar and search alzheimer’s, glucose intolerance, neuron and things like that.
Good luck
Emily Deans, a psychiatrist that follows evolutionary medicine, did a great review of of the research of Alzheimer’s and blood sugar that I think you’d find useful.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/201109/alzheimers-and-high-blood-sugar
Thanks Janet. Emily’s sight is great and definitely worth checking out for the readers out there.