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Dr. Steve Parker and Paolo Costa are our guests today on The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
First we have returning podcast guest Dr. Steve Parker, author of Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet joins us today to talk about adapting the Mediterranean Diet to conform to a healthy low-carb dietary approach.
Then, we hear from a Jimmy fan named Paolo Costa who shares his real-world experience living in the Mediterranean area and how in his lifetime pasta and pizza have shifted from regional popularity to overtake the whole of Italy, why the scientific method is not a good match for nutrition, and what happens when doctors go on strike.
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– Dr. Steve Parker bio
– Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet
– DiabeticMediterraneanDiet.com
– RELATED PODCAST: Dr. Steve Parker Explains How To Low-Carb The Mediterranean Way! (Episode 254)
– Paolo Costa on Facebook
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Very interesting interviews. Thank you Jimmy, Steve, and Costa. A funny comment in the British Medical Journal said, Lets put every drug known to man in the water supply. Then we will all live happily ever after. Good wishes. Jill
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That’s what they think.
Jimmy,
These were two great interviews. Dr. Steve Parker’s approach of mixing some principles of the Mediterranean Diet, with carbohydrate restriction, is a great way to get people, who have been indoctrinated by those who advocate the health benefits of the Mediterranean Diet, to try low carbohydrate living. People who promote the Mediterranean diet generally fall into the camp that rejects the efficacy and safety of carbohydrate restrictive diets like the Atkins diet, because of the unjustified phobia of meat and fat consumption. Given that the Mediterranean diet has good fat sources from nuts, yogurt, fish and olive oil, which are low carb foods, people can still reap the benefits of low carbohydrate diets without the feeling that they are completely abandoning the principles they have been indoctrinated with. Unfortunately, radical changes, such as switching from your standard high carb Mediterranean Diet to an Atkins style low carb living may seem, conceptually, too difficult for people to accept. Hence, it is easier to make this shift gradually, and Dr. Parker’s halfway approach is a great way to create bridge between competing dietary theories.
The Paola Costa interview was really an eye opener. After hearing men like Gary Taubes or Tom Naughton talk about how fallacious Ancel Keys’ conclusions were, I thought I heard everything I needed to know about how misguided Ancel Keys was. Little did I know that Ancel Keys conclusions, about the typical Mediterranean diet, were NOT in fact an accurate reflection of what Italians ate when they had all options available to them, and were not encumbered by poverty. So it turns out that the Mediterranean Diet, according to Costa, was merely the diet of impoverished Italians, who had to get cheap food as a result of war, and this was not the reason why Italians lived such long and healthy lives, but in fact it may have been the long tradition of less carbohydrates which allowed Italians to have great longevity rates. I really need to do research on this, because people always use the Italians as one of their examples when defending carb rich diets. It just goes to show how epidemiological studies, which constitute a large portion of what informs our dietary “wisdom”, can be fraught with erroneous associations. Thank you Jimmy for bringing on such a thought provoking guest.
-Lawrence
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Happy to share these kind of guests. 🙂
I loved both interviews….I learned a lot. I wish Paolo would create a blog, it seems like he has a lot to say and I’d love to hear more!
I think he will, Donna. 🙂
Jimmy,
Interesting interviews. It is good to see Dr Parker seeing light and advocate low-carb eating. Maybe more doctors will come around.
Paulo’s interview – now that was something. Isn’t it amazing that patients seem to know more about their illnesses than the doctors who treat them? For two decades I too went on a quest for better health and cutout all fat, eggs and ate whole-grains while my health went slowly downhill. My doctor was unhappy about my HDL (23!). Just as Dr Parker and Paolo stumbled across some information, I came across some blogs where people were eating multiple eggs in a single day. When I asked about it, somebody was kind enough to point me to GCBC and my eyes were opened. My HDL is now 53 and my doctor is really pleased. Of course I don’t repeat my mistake of telling him that I eat six eggs a day. I don’t know why doctors don’t know that HDL is basically a surrogate for saturated fat consumption.
It’s quite an exciting thing to listen to ordinary people like yourself and Paolo talk so much sense. The idea of testing the effect of food on your body (especially for glucose) is really telling and shakes up your whole belief in the medical establishment. The real pity is the majority of doctors and nutritionists still dishing out advice that is downright injurious. Despite the optimism I feel at these talks, I doubt if the sad state of things will be turned around anytime soon. Maybe a class action suite against USDA is needed here. Any lawyers reading my comment? LOL
I’ve said for years that the reason this stuff we talk about doesn’t become more widely accepted is because of the fear of lawsuits. If somehow we could let the conventional wisdom pushers off the hook for litigation, then maybe they’d recognize saturated fat is healthy and the carbohydrates are what most people need to be significantly decreasing their consumption of.