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A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 18:2

Source: Selected Sunday Scriptures- #113 | Donal Graeme

“The more one can place the person who demands violence outside of the field of violence the more violence they will demand. There was rarely a group of people more against their sons going to war than veterans of the U.S. Pacific War of the 1940s, who generally told the younger men of their families not to go to Vietnam, with some even offering to front money for a trip to Canada.”

Source: JL: ‘The Hand that Rocks the Cradle’

Overall, energy restriction is the primary factor producing weight loss, and it is increasingly understood that distinct macronutrients may vary in energy yield and effects on satiety, also based on individuals’ phenotype and genotype. Although an overall healthy diet, either Mediterranean or a low-fat, high-complex CHO diet may be effective in diabetes and cardiovascular prevention, insight is increasing that dietary prevention or treatment may require more personalized approaches to become most effective.

     —E.E. Blaak, in a review of effects of dietary carbohydrate in body weight control, glucose homeostasis and cardiovascular risk

In plain English, Blaak is saying:

• weight loss depends on calorie restriction
• proteins, fats, and carbs provide different amounts of energy and have different effects on hunger
• your response to proteins, fats, and carbs depends on your genes and how you look
• the healthiest diet for you probably isn’t the best for everyone else

This is why my Advanced Mediterranean Diet book offers two different eating plans: 1) reduced-calorie Mediterranean, and 2) l0w-carb Mediterranean. It also provides tips for deciding which method will work best for you.

Steve Parker, M.D.

Two diet books in one