Fourth day of fasting - 8 days of alternate day fasting

I just want to say how much I appreciate those professionally fighting this fight.  Being so passionate but keeping their cool, their professionalism prevails!  Amazing!
But me, having a bit of a temper and being what people used to call tactless... now I've graduated to "Lacks polish".  Yay me!
I really get angry and passionate about things.  In fact, this blog, Vituperous Rant, was really supposed to be an outlet for all the things that make me crazy!  Like political correctness and race baiters.   Of course soon after I created this blog I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and soon figured out that I would have enough fodder for my vituperous rants on that subject alone!

Food lobbyists have made more people sick and dead than WAR.
Big Pharma has funded and morphed the outcome of health studies since the beginning of health studies!  Why do we listen to our Government guidelines?  They are all a bunch of liars lining their pockets with the bottomless funds of the food and pharma lobbyists, like meth pushers at the Junior High School!  The ADA is full of crap as well although some folks believe they are coming around.  We'll see...time will tell.
When they start telling people they should be eating as few carbohydrates as possible and to up their fats and consume only moderate protein, then maybe I'll believe...but now, they tell us to eat 30-45 grams of carbohydrate per MEAL and 15 grams per snack for a whopping total of 210 grams of carbohydrate per day! It takes me about 3 weeks to eat that many carbs now.
The recommendation to eat 210 carbs a day was told to me by my Diabetes educator!  She was about 5'5" weighed about 265 and had type 2 diabetes herself!  Well wasn't she the perfect example of  health that can be achieved by following the ADA guidelines?
Good luck with that coronary sister!
Maybe they don't know they are liars, maybe they think what they are saying is really true.
They are after all drinking the Ansel Keys kool-aid after all!
A little bit of biochemistry research on their part and they would know better but for them ignorance is not only bliss, its profitable!

...but this was supposed to be an update on my New Year's therapy not a diatribe on the evil's of big food and big pharma!  I'm a capitalist.  I think they should have the right to make a profit on their poisons, but they shouldn't be pushing their poisons under the guise of "Healthy" to ignorant consumers.  They should have to put labels on processed food:
Surgeon Generals Warning:
Consuming this healthy Special K Cereal bar may lead to insulin resistance, Diabetes, Coronary Heart disease, Obesity, Death .......etc etc until they run out of space....

Oxymoron:  Healthy Whole Grains

So...day 4 of fasting.  My fasting blood sugar after eating yesterday was 114 which I've only seen typically after fasting days.  So that's progress.

I think I mentioned Professor Noakes in a previous blog but he's so brilliant and I was listening to his lecture at the Low Carb Down Under conference again today and I thought I would post some notes from that talk about the Diabetes, the liver and insulin resistance that I think are important and noteworthy.

Notes and Quotes:
The key abnormality of insulin resistance and Diabetes is a liver that over-produces glucose, and then dumps it into your system. Glucose cannot be taken up and stored properly because your liver and muscles don't work properly.  This causes you to hyper-secrete insulin which raises triglycerides and VLDL.   Insulin works in the liver to convert excess glucose into fat, causing fatty liver.
Carbohydrate drives hunger and Insulin is the driver of obesity.

 
OK  Hope to see you soon!