Whole 30 Diet recommendations

This post has it exactly right based on our experience. This was a disappointing revelation but all of those other gateway low-carb foods (peanut butter, protein bars, various low-carb proxies for 'normal foods') although probably relatively harmless, don't help as far as fully adapting and reaping the energy benefits of this nutritional approach.

The Whole30, Version 4.0 | Whole9 | Let us change your life.: "Our Whole30 program, as outlined.

Eat real food – meat, fish, eggs, tons of vegetables, some fruit, and plenty of good fats. Eat foods with very few ingredients, all pronounceable ingredients, or better yet, no ingredients listed at all because they’re totally natural and unprocessed. Don’t worry… these guidelines are outlined in extensive detail in our Shopping Guide."

More importantly, here’s what NOT to eat during the duration of your Whole30 program. Omitting all of these foods and beverages will help you regain your healthy metabolism, reduce systemic inflammation, and help you discover how these foods are truly impacting your health, fitness and quality of life.

1. Do not consume added sugar of any kind, real or artificial. No maple syrup, honey, agave nectar, Splenda, Equal, Nutrasweet, xylitol, stevia, etc. Read your labels (and your Success Guide FAQ), because companies sneak sugar into products in ways you might not recognize.
2. Do not eat processed foods. This includes protein shakes, pre-packaged snacks or meals, protein bars, milk substitutes, etc.
3. Do not consume alcohol, in any form. (NEW! And it should go without saying, but no tobacco productsof any sort, either.)
4. Do not eat grains. This includes (but is not limited to) wheat, rye, barley, millet, oats, corn, rice, sprouted grains and all of those gluten-free pseudo-grains like quinoa. Yes, we said corn… for the purposes of this program, corn is a grain! This also includes all the ways we add wheat, corn and rice into our foods in the form of bran, germ, starch and so on. Again, read your labels.
5. Do not eat legumes. This includes beans of all kinds (black, kidney, lima, etc.), peas, lentils, and peanuts. No peanut butter, either. This also includes all forms of soy – soy sauce, miso, tofu, tempeh, edamame, tamari and all the ways we sneak soy into foods (like lecithin).
6. Do not eat dairy. This includes all cow, goat or sheep’s milk, cream, butter, cheese (hard or soft), kefir, yogurt (even Greek), and sour cream.
7. Do not eat white potatoes. It’s somewhat arbitrary, but they are carbohydrate-dense and nutrient poor, and also a nightshade (refer to your Success Guide FAQ for details).
8. Most importantly… do not try to shove your old, unhealthy diet into a shiny new Whole30 mold. This means no “Paleo-fying” less-than-healthy recipes – no Paleo pancakes, Paleo pizza, Paleo fudge or Paleo”ice cream. Don’t mimic poor food choices during your Whole30 program! Those kinds of food miss the point of the program entirely.

Exceptional rise in butter consumption... in Finland

In Finland at least...

Exceptional rise in butter consumption | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi: "Exceptional rise in butter consumption
published yesterday 07:48 PM, updated today 05:46 AM

Image: YLE Helsinki / Simo Pitkänen


The forty-year decline in butter consumption is over. These days, the young and the old are eating butter again—either because they are on a low-carb diet, or because they are opting for natural food, or else because butter has been just that well marketed."

BREAD=SUGAR

The official blog for the Track Your Plaque program for heart disease prevention and reversal: "Bread equals sugar
by DR. WILLIAM DAVIS on JUNE 22, 2011 · 35 COMMENTS
in LOW-CARB DIETS,WHEAT
Bread, gluten-free or gluten-containing, in terms of carbohydrate content, is equivalent to sugar.

Two slices of store-bought whole grain bread, such as the gluten-free bread I discussed in my last post, equals 5- 6 teaspoons of table sugar:"

Changes to Thought-Fuel Company Website and Store

As mentioned yesterday, we have now updated the blog platform to blogger blog.thought-fuel.com.  We have also redesigned quite a lot of the website, it is a little less cluttered and now prepared to accept more content.
Please update your feeds as well to point to blog.thought-fuel.com/feeds/posts/default .

Today we have also changed our webstore to be hosted by shopify which is a more cost-effective and flexible solution in a number of ways.  It also allows easier integration with google checkout, google merchant center, adwords, adsense etc which are quite useful. And it looks better.  Please take a look at shop.thought-fuel.com and you can see our products which are now in stock.

In addition to Why We Get Fat and Good Calories Bad Calories, we have added the book The Invisible Gorilla and several recommended CDs.  All of these are available in large quantities and great prices!

New products are coming soon including more books and CD titles, and even Avocado oil.

Cut down on 'carbs' to reduce body fat, study authors say

Cut down on 'carbs' to reduce body fat, study authors say: "Cut Down On 'Carbs' to Reduce Body Fat, Study Authors Say
ScienceDaily (June 24, 2011) — A modest reduction in consumption of carbohydrate foods may promote loss of deep belly fat, even with little or no change in weight, a new study finds."

From Dr Eades: Tips & tricks for starting (or restarting) low-carb Pt II

Surplus protein in the absence of fat can be a problem.

The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. » Tips & tricks for starting (or restarting) low-carb Pt II

LCHF-breakfast in the summer | Dietdoctor.com

LCHF-breakfast in the summer | Dietdoctor.com

As usual in low-carb, high-fat, very technically challenging. Nathan Myhrvold may need to design some new culinary apparatus in response to this.

New Thought-Fuel Company Blog setup

We have just switched over to a blogger website for additional flexibility.  Sorry to change yet again, but this should be stable for awhile.  Design will evolve through time, of course.