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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been eating so well for a month.

Tons of nuts
Sardines and other oily fish
No red meats, pasta, rice, bread or booze
Tons of fruits and veggies
Natto 
High quality matcha

BP is down 8 to 10 points already and I’m feeling a lot less bloated overall.  
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Good for you. Come back in six months though.[/quote]

I started six months ago following a similar clean diet. I do eat whole grain rice and pasta, though.

I'm down 20 lbs and lowered my total cholesterol 30 points while improving the ratios. I'm sleeping much better and my skins glows - and I cannot remember the last time I had a blemish. The food noise is largely gone, because a healthy gut fed a high fiber, nutrient rich healthy fats diet regulates serotonin (95% is produced in the gut, not the brain) and stimulates natural production of the glp-1s people pay thousands to get in an injection.

I have had many cheat days - too many, I am working on it. But with a very healthy gut that is routinely fed a nutrient rich, high fiber diet, occasional cheat foods are tolerated without the cascade of ill health effects. Once the palate changes by consuming a clean diet, cheat foods become somewhat distasteful and cravings for them become purely psychological and manageable by a variety of healthy techniques - my cheats are become fewer and further between.

I have been changing my lifestyle from largely sedentary to fairly active - I'm not athlete, but changed jobs to move my body more and am moving it more in leisure as well.

It really does work. We all know it works. But life is damned hard and many of us go through periods of our lives where we just can't do it. I am empathetic, I spent a lot of time there myself. But of course it works.[/quote]

Diet changes do work.  Unfortunately, most western doctors are not in touch with that fact.  They take a single "nutrition course" in the first year of med school and that is all. 
They also know most Americans will not put in the work to do dietary changes---they want quick fixes (medications) so doctors prescribe it.

But you can reverse diabetes (type 2) with diet.  You can lower cholesterol and BP with diet.  Simply switching to a clean diet with more Whole Foods, more vegetables and leaner meats/fish and whole grains (or for me cutting the grains and getting carbs from starchy vegetables is better).  I personally feel my best on a lower carb/diabetic diet where my carbs come from sweet potatoes and blueberries/raspberries/blackberries---carbs that have a ton of nutrients.   You also loose weight when eating that way.  Fill your plate with 2/3 low carb veggies and you will definately loose weight.  And cut out sweets.  Once you start eating that way you will crave less and less.

But it always amazes me that doctors don't send people for nutritional counseling or at least not long term to solve problems.  Diet is a huge contributor to health issues. Fix it and you fix a lot of other stuff[/quote]

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