Healthy Diet at Home

This afternoon, Jimmy Moore popped up in my Facebook feed. Since he follows a Nutritional Ketosis program rather than the Atkins Diet, I rarely read his blog any more, but I do read his Facebook posts when I'm there. In this particular Facebook post, Jimmy was quite upset. Apparently, a couple of twin doctors in Europe (Alexander and Chris Van Tolleken) decided to do a 30-day experiment to discover for themselves which was worse for a dieter: eating sugar or fat. I could tell by Jimmy's Facebook comments that the low-carb diet the article's author had decided to follow didn't turn out very well. He took offense at the doctor's personal experience of being "thick headed" during those 30 days, and argued that the doctor wasn't following a Nutritional Ketosis diet, so he might not have really been in Ketosis. Plus, 30 days is not long enough to become keto-adapted. In Jimmy's opinion, anything other than the Nutritional Ketosis parameters he follow...

The Radioactive Iodine Uptake test was no picnic. Although the nuclear medicine technician who gave me the iodine capsules assured me that the capsules didn't have enough iodine to produce any side effects, it definitely increased my hyperthyroid symptoms -- drastically. I'm guessing that one might not notice the upswing if one wasn't looking for it, because it would just be more of the same. Especially in those people whose thyroid is putting out a whopping amount of thyroid hormones already. In my case, the test was quite uncomfortable. I had to try to hold still for 20 minutes, and then again for 4 minutes, as the technicians measured the amount of radiation my thyroid was putting out and the amount of iodine my thyroid had taken up. I also had to go back again the following morning for another iodine reading at exactly 24 hours. With thyroid nodules, what they are initially looking at is whether or not the nodules are making thyroid hormone independently from the thyroi...