Low-Carb Pregnancies Can Lead To More Stressed Babies

High-meat intake issue is disingenuous and misleading

An interesting study, however it is very disingenuous in repeating the tiresome misconception suggesting that any low, reduced, or controlled-carb diet must necessarily by "high in meat" intake, when this is by no means the case. Dietary protein may be obtained from many sources other than meat, and controlled-carb plans make no such requirements or restrictions as to sources of protein. The excess cortisol comes from the enforced and unnecessary meat intake of this study which has no relation whatsoever to the simple reduction of excess dietary carbohydrate.

This consistent misconception and misrepresentation of controlled-carb dieting reflects an invincible and perhaps willful ignorance on the part of the US and European medical establishment, which serves ultimately to conceal their very real and shameful ignorance of the most fundamental chemical dynamics underlying nutrition and metabolism.

Excess bodily fat and cholesterol are directly produced by excess dietary sugar and starch rather than dietary fat. Until they grasp this simple dynamic, the medical establishment will have no success in combatting the current metabolic epidemics of our society. Pregnant women and other dieters on a high-carb regimen will have far greater adverse effects from excess glucose intake and the resultant systemic insulin resistance than any minor reduction in cortisol could justify.

For a review of the current scientific research strongly supporting dietary sugar as cause of metabolic illness, see the April 12th post of the following website: "Level One Evidence for Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome Largely Ignored" at "http://www.weightoftheevidence.com" by Regina Wilshire.

Also see this excellent report on the profoundly influential role of insulin on metabolism: "http://www.lowcarb.ca/articles/article149.html".

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