I’ve been reading the much-anticipated book “The 4-Hour Body” by Tim Ferriss and I ran across an interesting article about Alloxan and links to diabetes.
For those who don’t know, I have been following a primal/paleo-diet for the past several months, using the 80/20 rule to keep track of what I eat. Six out of seven days I’m very paleo, minus milk products. I don’t eat refined grains (corn is a GRAIN, people) and very few starches. I get most of my calories from protein, leafy vegetables and fats. Conventional wisdom alludes that saturated fats cause heart disease but there’s no study that proves it. Saturated fats have been a staple of the human diet for hundreds of thousands of years. Grains, barely 10,000 years. I’m going to bet that my genetic heritage is geared towards digestion of fat.
Would you believe that eating primarily fat as my source of energy, an adequate amount of protein, say .4g per pound of lean muscle mass, and keeping carbohydrates under 50g per day, with green vegetables, has not only improved my cholesterol, but i’ve also lost inches on the waist, gut, hips and thighs while at the same time maintaining (and increasing) muscle mass?
Anyways, I digress.
Unbeknown to me, “enriched” products, like flour are treated with Chlorine Dioxide which, when introduced to protein chains, creates alloxan. Alloxan is used in rats to create Type I diabetes, or Diabetes Mellitus.
There have been studies perform to monitor the effect of Alloxan in humans and none are conclusive. I’d rather not chance it. Which works out for me since I don’t eat grains, including flour.
You should check out “The 4-Hour Body” for more additional information.
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
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I just ate a sandwich….super….It was a mozzerella and mustard sandwich, but it still had bread. Dirty, dirty, polluted bread. My problem with going fully primal is that I really enjoy sandwiches. And french fries. And potatoes in general. Why does so much bad stuff have to be so tasty?
They once tasted good but no more, once I kicked the carb habit, breads no longer had a delicious taste – at all. Feeling healthy is so much sexier and better than a cheap roll in the mouth.