The Banting/LCHF Thread

FlashSA said:
They calling a GI of 53 low! Definitely not suitable for a low carb lifestyle.
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As far as I understand low GI, it doesn't mean it's low in carbs, just slow in releasing glucose into the blood stream, so that insulin levels don't spike.

I might be completely wrong though...
 
faniedry said:
As far as I understand low GI, it doesn't mean it's low in carbs, just slow in releasing glucose into the blood stream, so that insulin levels don't spike.

I might be completely wrong though...
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You're right.

Sugar has a GI of 58 - now this potato is supposed to be LOW GI @ 53. #FAIL
 
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faniedry said:
As far as I understand low GI, it doesn't mean it's low in carbs, just slow in releasing glucose into the blood stream, so that insulin levels don't spike.

I might be completely wrong though...
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Correct, in fact anything with an index below 55 is low. This potato is on par with butternut.
 
11 months of LCHF for me today. What do you guys struggle with avoiding the most?

For me it's crisps and anything with puff / phyllo pastry. Pies & baked cheese wheels, nomnom. I eat a little of these every now and then. :D
 
FuLL_MeT4L said:
11 months of LCHF for me today. What do you guys struggle with avoiding the most?

For me it's crisps and anything with puff / phyllo pastry. Pies & baked cheese wheels, nomnom. I eat a little of these every now and then. :D
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Beer. Beer. Beer.
 
Beer, bread and bunny chows. But I've gotten over the bread, and cut out alcohol til April. Still crave a bunny now and then.
 
Croissants, beer, burgers.


And pizza - tried all the substitutes, but nothing comes close.
 
what do you guys eat in the evening?

had breakfast this morning, eggs, wors, bacon, tomatoes
lunch at around 13h30 was lamb and plenty veggies

now i'm hungry....it's 19h10...wtf would you eat?
 
Replay said:
what do you guys eat in the evening?

had breakfast this morning, eggs, wors, bacon, tomatoes
lunch at around 13h30 was lamb and plenty veggies

now i'm hungry....it's 19h10...wtf would you eat?
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Sounds like chicken time. Parmesan schnitzel?
 
Tim Noakes: who’s the REAL danger to public health? Spoiler: it’s not Banting!

Pour yourself a cup coffee with cream, no sugar, or a glass of your favourite red wine if you’re not yet ‘Banting’, and settle down for a long and fascinating read. In his final lecture to a packed audience at the close of the first international low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) summit in Cape Town on February 22, sports scientist Prof Tim Noakes takes you on a remarkable journey. On it, you’ll learn how to tell good nutrition science from bad, about causation, hazard ratios, black swans, and whether he really is Public Health Enemy Number 1 after a spectacular about-turn on carbs in the diet four years ago.

Noakes gives all the evidence for and against ‘Banting’, as LCHF eating and the popular diet he has developed are known. Not surprisingly, Banting wins hands down, but not just thanks to Noakes. The summit gathered together 16 top medical doctors, scientists, authors and researchers from around the globe, all specialists in various aspects of obesity and diabetes-related illness. They disagreed on some finer details of LCHF diets, but in a consensus statement they all agreed on the important points: the diet-heart hypothesis (that saturated fat causes heart disease) is unscientific dogma, and current dietary guidelines on low-fat, high-carb intake are terminally ill.

Here is an edited version I compiled of Noakes’s presentation – The Way Forward – to the summit in which he posits a very different direction for nutrition science to take in future. – MS
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From Timothy Noakes

Prof Tim NoakesMy critics have called me deluded and dangerous. In the South African Medical Journal in 2013, they said I have cherry picked, misinterpreted data, I don’t understand the science, I’ve lost my way, flouted the Hippocratic Oath, and I’m harming patients and the population.

Last year, for the first time in the history of the University of Cape Town, no senior academic has ever been criticised as publicly as I was. Senior colleagues, including the Dean of the Medical Faculty at UCT (who has since moved upwards and onwards – a reward for his bravery perhaps) sent a letter to the Dean of all South African medical schools and to the press, saying:

“There is good reason for concern that this diet may rather result in nutritional deficiencies, increased risk for heart disease, diabetes mellitus, kidney problems, constipation, certain cancers and excessive iron stores in some individuals in the long term.”

They said I was “making outrageous unproven claims about disease prevention, and maligning the integrity and credibility of peers who criticise his diet for being evidence-deficient and not conforming to the tenets of good and responsible science. This goes against the University of Cape Town’s commitment to academic freedom as the prerequisite to fostering responsible and respectful intellectual debate and free enquiry.”
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The rest of the article at this sauce: http://www.biznews.com/lchf-health-...ger-to-public-health-spoiler-its-not-banting/
 
Re all the beer comments, what's about castle light? 6 and a bit grams of carbs isn't much! :D
 
FuLL_MeT4L said:
Re all the beer comments, what's about castle light? 6 and a bit grams of carbs isn't much! :D
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That's what I usually drink, but I'm cutting it off completely for a while. The alcohol takes precedence so there's less fat loss, and drinking makes me want to eat things I shouldn't.
 
So another week and nothing lost. :(

Been on it for a month now. First 2 weeks some weight loss (4.3kg) but last 2 weeks nothing.
 
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