Mon, May-07-07, 18:51
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Posts: 702
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Plan: PP/PPLP
Stats: 150/140/140
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: Northern Virginia
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Originally Posted by RainboZ
Question - I love having the flaxseed/protein powder cereal in the am once in a while. The Eades don't seems to care much for flax - do I need to cut it from my diet???
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In Protein Power Lifeplan The Drs. Eades have a pair of paragraphs on flax oil.
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Flax seed oil is a rich source of ALA. If all the desaturation and elongation enzymes are working in top order, the body converts the ALA in flax seed oil to EPA and DHA just fine. If, on the other hand, these enzymes aren't working up to snuff, then there can be problems. Most of our patients have disorders that interfere with the proper function of these enzymes and, therefore, don't respond particularly well to flax seed oil because it's not the flax seed oil itself that they need. It is the EPA and DHA end products of flax seed-oil conversion. We have much better results with our patients when we give them the actual EPA and DHA directly. For these reasons, we wrote in Protein Power that we didn't like flax seed oil and didn't recommend it. And we got more criticism from more people for that one little section than we got for the rest of the book in its entirety.
We have reevaluated our position on the flax seed-oil controversy that we unwittingly started. If people are reasonably healthy, we don't have a problem giving them flax seed oil. We actually take it ourselves sometimes. But, we still think it is preferable to take the end products EPA and DHA, which we actually need, than to take the parent fat, ALA, in the form of flax seed oil and let our bodies do the conversion. Some people refuse to take the EPA and/or the DHA because they can't stand the taste or they are vegans and refuse to eat food of animal origin. For these folks, flax seed oil is great. It gives them a good source of omega-3 fats that they otherwise wouldn't get. But taking flax seed oil is kind of like buying crude oil and running it through your home distillery to make gasoline for your car. If that's the only way you can get gasoline, then that's what you have to do. If you can buy the gasoline already distilled, however, it's much more efficient to do that and avoid all the hassle of the home-distillation process.
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I hope that will clear it up for you.
You really, REALLY, need to get PPLP and read it. While PP is a good book to start with, which I did, it really is just HALF the PP story. PP is the practical, do this, book with some of the science added at the end. PPLP turns the sequence around, explains WHY your body needs the nutrients it does. I think that PPLP does a MUCH better explanation of the science and is very readable for even the average person. PPLP then goes into how to use the information in a practical way. Knowing the science basics should give you the ability to “tweak” the way you use the diet for your own best results.
I did a quick check of Amazon.com and found lots of used paperback copies at around $6 including shipping. Actually a used hardcopy is cheaper starting at $4 or so including shipping. I bought the hardcopy new at FULL price - and GLAD I did! I have read it three times and marked it ALL up with notes stuck in it lots of places too. Very good reference book
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Originally Posted by RainboZ
I just got the PP book and read it over the weekend. I plan to modify my Atkins diet with the minimum protein req (I think I was eating too much) and spread out my carbs. Like many people, I seem to like parts of one and parts of the other. Hopefully as long as I stay with good carbs and the proper amount, I should be fine. I am nursing, so I will add fats until I only lose 1 lb a week (safe per my doctor).
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One more reason for getting PPLP are the chapters The Fat of the Land and Calisthenics for the Brain . The paragraphs above came from the first and in the second the first section after the introduction is called “You’re a Fathead” which points out that the brain has a LOT of fat in it. Fat is VERY important for the growth of the brain. So you need to be eating a lot of good fat to feed your little one. Be sure you get enough omega 3 fats to balance out the excessive omega 6 in most of the food we can buy at the supermarket. If you are eating range feed beef, etc. the added omega 3 is not as important.
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