Matt Gruber said:
i may have butchered the article in my way too brief summary. :lol:
Oh! I see now, I'm sorry if I came off too curt
Kempner proved that very high sugar intake does NOT cause diabetes, it CURES diabetes (type 2)
That was quite a surprise in the 1940's when people thought if glucose was high, you needed to avoid sugar.
Stunning weight loss for obese people eating rice, and adding all the table sugar they wanted. i didn't even know there were obese people back then
Please quote the section of the article that you disagree with. I'm no expert, and you should not respond to my cavalier comments.
So what I'm seeing so far as a nurse with some dietary knowledge and family with a lot of dietary restrictions-
Kempner here made what is now, a variant of the
Low Inflammation Diet, the
Renal Diet, and some of the most aggressive cardiac diets. I wish the page went into more details, but essentially- All animal fats and proteins have a measure of oxidative stress, and "cracking" them for use in the body causes free radicals to form. Free radicals are just one component of many that pinball throughout the body causing systemic inflammation that most of us have in some form, and some people are sadly just more susceptible to it than others. There is some modern research that ties this inflammatory state with autoimmune diseases, but it's very hard with todays lifestyles to develop use cases- and also because, most people who eat diets that would give a good baseline also live in areas of the world where parasites are still common and thus don't get autoimmune disorders at all.
This image is pretty telling. Stupid-ass low protein on the kidneys and low inflammation means your glomeruli aren't swollen and allowing things like protein to leak through the space- stupid low sodium also means your blood pressure is low (since water follows salt) which removes even more strain and resistance. The Renal system is the major component of blood volume and pressure control, so it's
no question that these patient's had their pressures drop to frock-all; if they had enough iron in these diets they likely would have seen even slight improvements in blood hemoglobin and hematocrit! This is seen in that scanning of the diabetic's eye; their pressures were under so much better control the change in color could be a lack of chronic inflammation from the hypertension (though it is equally possible it is due to just poor printing/scanning).
Loss of animal fats also means these patients are consuming no cholesterol, or very little. That will allow the liver time to produce HDL to remove most of the LDL/VLDL from the bloodstream in typical filtration and processing for bile. We see this when patients with heart attacks go full vegan, it's one of the few "restorative" diets known because it allows the body to finally begin actively removing some plaques.
The
only real negatives to this, are the difficulties in maintaining it and how you add foods back into the diet or cover for lost things. It's very hard for anyone to make massive changes like this, and from reading the article it seems like the Doc was very close to keep cheering them on through the process and correcting when needed (being in the 30s-40s with their limitations also helps). For instance, I've successfully cut soda completely out of my diet and part of the only reason I could do that, was because growing up I never drank or had much at home in the first place.