The Metabolic Typing Diet supporters on this thread have one strange thing in common. They tested "protein type" but are encouraging others to eat the high-carb diet if they test that way. They are missing the major benefit for the low-carb lifestyle --- better health. Low-carb is not just about weight loss. My wife had Crohn's disease (intestinal disease) and dropped to 92 pounds at 5'-3". She was always a very high-carb eater. She hated meat, especially red meat. I had a most difficult time getting her to eat low-carb. She thought her weight would drop even more. No so. She gained 14 pounds to 106 and must now be careful she doesn't gain more. It cured her Crohn's disease which renown organizations like the Mayo Clinic say is incurable. So, I put the program I developed to heal her on a web page. Low-carb is the best diet for everyone, even skinny people.



Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, IBD, IBS, Crohn's, Ulcerative Colitis & Candida.

Ok, Ok. We should all agree that marathon runner James F. Fixx was a fast burner and most certainly would have tested carb type. He thought so. It killed him early in life just like it did marathon runner Brian Maxwell, developer of the PowerBar. See post above.

James F. Fixx wrote two books on the health benefits of exercise and running, but he died in 1984 from a heart attack at a young age of 52 in his running shoes on a daily run. Many try to cover the facts by blaming it on his heredity or smoking which he quit nine years earlier, but Fixx developed severe coronary artery disease during his running years. He had near total occlusion by atherosclerosis of one coronary artery and 80% occlusion of another. There was also evidence of a recent heart attack. In addition, the heart was somewhat large suggesting the possibility of concurrent hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Exercise and low-weight certainly helped him, but that could not overcome the disastrous effects of his diet. Fixx bought into the myth that fat in the diet is unhealthy when in fact it is essential to life. He also became a vegetarian and refrained from eating meat. Fixx bought into the new philosophy that runners needed high levels of carbohydrates in their diets. He ate a very low-calorie diet in order to keep from gaining weight on the excessive level of carbohydrates. He failed to take any vitamins, minerals or other supplements on the false premise that his vegetarian diet could provide them. He undoubtedly suffered from an amino acid deficiency compounded by an essential fatty acid deficiency and further compounded by a refusal to supplement with vitamins and minerals. Amino acids from protein are the building blocks of life, and it is difficult to obtain all of the amino acids required by one's diet without eating meat, fish and fowl. The effects of these deficiencies take many years to manifest themselves, and the resultant disease can be just about anything in the book. This makes it extremely difficult to pinpoint the cause and effect of a low-fat, low-protein diet on one's health. People fail to understand that the minimum requirement for carbohydrates in the diet is zero - none.

Kent