Protein Sources 

Generally speaking, protein contains little if any carbohydrate or fibre load, that is unless it is derived from vegetables or legumes such as beans which contains both fibre and carbohydrate. Protein is our main source of amino acids, the building blocks necessary for healthy growth, repair and development in the body. You should include a serve of protein with every meal as this helps to reduce the sugar load of other carbohydrate foods. So here are some good sources of protein that you may like to include in your diet...

For Ultra Lite Weight Loss Clients:

 Dairy:

·         Eggs – A nutritionally balanced package on its own....Eat the whole egg, not just the white.  The yolk is actually the most nutrient dense portion of the egg, providing a ton of vitamins and minerals...a fantastic iron source. Egg yolks are one of the few foods naturally containing vitamin D. Eggs contain all the amino acids for healthy body function.. Recent research has also shown that consuming eggs does not lead to increase in serum cholesterol levels.

Meats:

Grass-fed Beef - Grass fed beef is rich in CLA, (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) a special fat that has actually been shown to result in fat LOSS.  Most of the CLA in beef is found in the fat component. Why grass fed beef? Its thier natural food but it’s higher in healthy fats and B vitamins than grain fed, the muscle is leaner and some say tastes far better. Grass fed beef will not result in aggravation for those who can’t consume wheat or gluten. Eat this shizzle...Grill it, braise & casserole it, cook it on the barbie, roast it, eat it cold and lean with salads, tastes great, great for your figure.

Kangaroo meat: High source of protein and vitamins, especially B vitamins and minerals, low in fat and good source of omega 3 essential. Kangaroo meat has valuable amounts of CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) when compared to other meats. Kangaroo meat can be purchased as steaks, minced or sausages – make sure sausages are free of hidden packers and fillers though.

Turkey  Super lean and great for chilli when ground.  Mmmmm chili.  The cholesterol content of turkey depends on the the darkness of the meat and whether it is skinless, best with the skin off! Turkey breast with salads, lean, nutritious with B vitamins, minerals and full of protein - Make some.  Eat some.  Enjoy some.

Pork - The "other" white meat, just as lean as chicken when you get the right cut.  Go for the boneless chops and trim the outer fatty edge.

Chicken Sausage - You probably won't notice the difference between chicken sausage and "regular" pork sausage, but it contains a much more moderate amount of fat...great for those protein and carb meals. Look for organic, real chicken meat as best if made using meat without the additional packers & fillers that result in hidden high carbohydrate and fats.

Seafood:
2.  Shrimp - Grill 'em up, or sautee them in some organic butter or extra virgin olive oil. Nothing beats garlic shrimps cooked on the barbie!  Mix with veggies and enjoy.

3.  Salmon - An awesome fatty fish containing loads of protein and a healthy dose of uber-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, is also a good source of calcium

For Maintenance Clients:

Vegetables & Legumes:
8.  Beans - Like black beans, kidney beans, red beans, navy beans, black eyed peas, lentils and the list goes on and on are actually the least expensive protein source in AMERICA (and probably every other part of the world as well).  Low glycemic, crazy high in fiber.  Add it to your turkey chili, or any other meal you want for that matter. Just remember to watch your carbohydrate intake with beans 100g of Kidney beans contains 9.1g Carbohydrate even though they are a low glycemic food!

Tofu:

Other Options:

Protein Powder - Super convenient and great for those between meal snacks.  Look for a brand that contains both slow and fast acting proteins like whey (fast) and casein (slow) for hours of protein feeding your muscles from a single shake. A formula high in protein and low in carbohydrate is best.

Vegans and vegetarians can also use pea protein or Sachi Inchi protein powder, derived from the Inca 5 fruit plant (common name is Inca peanut). The downside of these proteins is the high carbohydrate load so should be used sparingly. Remember, protein powders can be used to boost the diet, but we should not forget that we need to use our teeth too and chew real food!

How sugar can destroy your health

Why the Ultra Lite Weight and Health Management Program is so successful in Maintaining Long-term Weight Loss

What others are saying about it?

• Kim a Clients Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFNE9lWFa6A
• Lisa a Clients Testimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zXhSbJLiTc
• Paula a Naturopath Practitioners Testimony: {C}{C}{C}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzz2GQa-Otw {C}{C}

  Author Malcolm McLean 3/07/14 based on 15 years in the weight and health management industry.

  There are many things that we can do faster without hurting us, but eating isn’t one of them and it is vital to one’s health. It's important to not skip a meal and that we eat whole food that results in us having to chew, masticate and enjoy our food, and not just sip a liquid.

What is the Ketogenic Diet?

Posted by theketogenicdiet

Being in the weight loss and health management industry we may be more aware of latest research on weight loss, diseases associated with obesity and sugar overload and other interesting information that we feel substantiates our beliefs and philosophy.

In this section we will periodically update information that we find in various newspaper clippings, internet research, etc. in relation to the dangers of obesity and how many diseases, especially cancers that can be avoided just by maintaining a healthy weight.

We have all heard that there is a worsening problem in this country with obesity on the increase and this is forecast to worsen as childhood obesity is currently a problem today. It is even reported that children in the future will be dieing at earlier ages, before their parents, due to obesity related diseases and poor food choices.

If you’re not breaking a sweat, then let go of that Gatorade. Drinking sports drinks as a regular beverage at least once a week is associated with other not-so-healthy behaviors, like higher intake of added sugar from sodas and fruit juice, smoking, and more screen time, found new research from the University of Minnesota.

The study came from surveying the habits of nearly 2,800 adolescents—and more research is needed to understand why these habits are related—but the takeaway applies to all guys, says Jim White, RD, owner of Jim White Fitness and Nutrition Studios in Virginia Beach. The good news in the study was that children who drank sports drinks more often were also more active and more likely to play sports—which is exactly what beverages are designed for.

However, a "health halo" exists with sports drinks because they offer an extra dose of electrolytes, including potassium and sodium. Along with those benefits, they also pack a ton of sugar that added minerals can’t make up for. One 32 oz bottle of basic Gatorade contains 53 grams of sugar—that’s nearly 11 teaspoons of the white stuff. (Guys should only eat 9 added teaspoons a day, says the American Heart Association.)

So don’t mistake your sports drink for a health drink. If you’re downing it all day in lieu of water or chugging it during every workout to replace the calories you’ve burned, that may be why you’re not losing weight—or even gaining, says White.

Sports drinks do have a place in your diet—and that’s paired with long or sweaty workouts where you need the extra electrolytes. Here’s White’s advice: consume 4 to 8 oz of fluids every 15 minutes during exercise. If you’re exercising for less than 60 minutes, especially if it’s indoors or a moderate workout, stick to plain H2O. More than 60 minutes or in a hot, humid environment: sip on a sports drink to replenish your body.

If you’re trying to lose weight or struggle drinking water because you find the taste to be boring, a low-calorie sports drink like Gatorade G2 is a good option. A 12-oz serving contains 30 calories compared to 80 calories in a regular one. Or, go for coconut water, which packs electrolytes like potassium and magnesium, no added sugar, and saves on calories.

Ketosis & Diabetes

Carb rest Diabetes

Low Carb Vs Low Glycemic

Originally printed by The Alternative Research Foundation

It puzzles me why the simple concept "sugar feeds cancer" can be so dramatically overlooked as part of a comprehensive cancer treatment plan.

Of the 4 million cancer patients being treated in America today, hardly any are offered any scientifically guided nutrition therapy beyond being told to "just eat good foods." Most patients I work with arrive with a complete lack of nutritional advice.

I believe many cancer patients would have a major improvement in their outcome if they controlled the supply of cancer's preferred fuel, glucose.

By slowing the cancer's growth, patients allow their immune systems and medical debulking therapies -- chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to reduce the bulk of the tumor mass -- to catch up to the disease.

Controlling one's blood-glucose levels through diet, supplements, exercise, meditation and prescription drugs when necessary can be one of the most crucial components to a cancer recovery program. The sound bite -- sugar feeds cancer -- is simple. The explanation is a little more complex.

The 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells.

The crux of his Nobel thesis was that malignant tumors frequently exhibit an increase in anaerobic glycolysis -- a process whereby glucose is used as a fuel by cancer cells with lactic acid as an anaerobic byproduct -- compared to normal tissues.

The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then transported to the liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate generates a lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid buildup. Thus, larger tumors tend to exhibit a more acidic pH.

This inefficient pathway for energy metabolism yields only 2 moles of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) energy per mole of glucose, compared to 38 moles of ATP in the complete aerobic oxidation of glucose.

By extracting only about 5 percent (2 vs. 38 moles of ATP) of the available energy in the food supply and the body's calorie stores, the cancer is "wasting" energy, and the patient becomes tired and undernourished. This vicious cycle increases body wasting.

It is one reason why 40 percent of cancer patients die from malnutrition, or cachexia. Hence, cancer therapies should encompass regulating blood-glucose levels via diet, supplements, non-oral solutions for cachectic patients who lose their appetite, medication, exercise, gradual weight loss and stress reduction. Professional guidance and patient self-discipline are crucial at this point in the cancer process. The quest is not to eliminate sugars or carbohydrates from the diet but rather to control blood glucose within a narrow range to help starve the cancer and bolster immune function.

The glycemic index is a measure of how a given food affects blood-glucose levels, with each food assigned a numbered rating. The lower the rating, the slower the digestion and absorption process, which provides a healthier, more gradual infusion of sugars into the bloodstream.

Conversely, a high rating means blood-glucose levels are increased quickly, which stimulates the pancreas to secrete insulin to drop blood-sugar levels. This rapid fluctuation of blood-sugar levels is unhealthy because of the stress it places on the body

Sugar in the Body and Diet

Sugar is a generic term used to identify simple carbohydrates, which includes monosaccharides such as fructose, glucose and galactose; and disaccharides such as maltose and sucrose (white table sugar). Think of these sugars as different-shaped bricks in a wall.

When fructose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the glycemic index registers as healthier, since this simple sugar is slowly absorbed in the gut, then converted to glucose in the liver. This makes for "time-release foods," which offer a more gradual rise and fall in blood-glucose levels.

If glucose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the wall, the glycemic index will be higher and less healthy for the individual. As the brick wall is torn apart in digestion, the glucose is pumped across the intestinal wall directly into the bloodstream, rapidly raising blood-glucose levels.

In other words, there is a "window of efficacy" for glucose in the blood: levels too low make one feel lethargic and can create clinical hypoglycemia; levels too high start creating the rippling effect of diabetic health problems.

The 1997 American Diabetes Association blood-glucose standards consider 126 mg glucose/dL blood or greater to be diabetic; 111 to 125 mg/dL is impaired glucose tolerance and less than 110 mg/dL is considered normal.

Meanwhile, the Paleolithic diet of our ancestors, which consisted of lean meats, vegetables and small amounts of whole grains, nuts, seeds and fruits, is estimated to have generated blood glucose levels between 60 and 90 mg/dL.

Obviously, today's high-sugar diets are having unhealthy effects as far as blood-sugar is concerned. Excess blood glucose may initiate yeast overgrowth, blood vessel deterioration, heart disease and other health conditions.

Understanding and using the glycemic index is an important aspect of diet modification for cancer patients. However, there is also evidence that sugars may feed cancer more efficiently than starches (comprised of long chains of simple sugars), making the index slightly misleading. A study of rats fed diets with equal calories from sugars and starches, for example, found the animals on the high-sugar diet developed more cases of breast cancer.

The glycemic index is a useful tool in guiding the cancer patient toward a healthier diet, but it is not infallible. By using the glycemic index alone, one could be led to thinking a cup of white sugar is healthier than a baked potato.

This is because the glycemic index rating of a sugary food may be lower than that of a starchy food. To be safe, I recommend less fruit, more vegetables, and little to no refined sugars in the diet of cancer patients.

What the Literature Says

A mouse model of human breast cancer demonstrated that tumors are sensitive to blood-glucose levels. Sixty-eight mice were injected with an aggressive strain of breast cancer, then fed diets to induce either high blood-sugar (hyperglycemia), normoglycemia or low blood-sugar (hypoglycemia).

There was a dose-dependent response in which the lower the blood glucose, the greater the survival rate. After 70 days, 8 of 24 hyperglycemic mice survived compared to 16 of 24 normoglycemic and 19 of 20 hypoglycemic.

This suggests that regulating sugar intake is key to slowing breast tumor growth.

In a human study, 10 healthy people were assessed for fasting blood-glucose levels and the phagocytic index of neutrophils, which measures immune-cell ability to envelop and destroy invaders such as cancer. Eating 100 g carbohydrates from glucose, sucrose, honey and orange juice all significantly decreased the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria. Starch did not have this effect.

A four-year study at the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection in the Netherlands compared 111 biliary tract cancer patients with 480 controls. Cancer risk associated with the intake of sugars, independent of other energy sources, more than doubled for the cancer patients.

Furthermore, an epidemiological study in 21 modern countries that keep track of morbidity and mortality (Europe, North America, Japan and others) revealed that sugar intake is a strong risk factor that contributes to higher breast cancer rates, particularly in older women.

Limiting sugar consumption may not be the only line of defense. In fact, an interesting botanical extract from the avocado plant (Persea americana) is showing promise as a new cancer adjunct.

When a purified avocado extract called mannoheptulose was added to a number of tumor cell lines tested in vitro by researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University in Britain, they found it inhibited tumor cell glucose uptake by 25 to 75 percent, and it inhibited the enzyme glucokinase responsible for glycolysis. It also inhibited the growth rate of the cultured tumor cell lines.

The same researchers gave lab animals a 1.7 mg/g body weight dose of mannoheptulose for five days; it reduced tumors by 65 to 79 percent. Based on these studies, there is good reason to believe that avocado extract could help cancer patients by limiting glucose to the tumor cells.

Since cancer cells derive most of their energy from anaerobic glycolysis, Joseph Gold, M.D., director of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Cancer Research Institute and former U.S. Air Force research physician, surmised that a chemical called hydrazine sulfate, used in rocket fuel, could inhibit the excessive gluconeogenesis (making sugar from amino acids) that occurs in cachectic cancer patients.

Gold's work demonstrated hydrazine sulfate's ability to slow and reverse cachexia in advanced cancer patients. A placebo-controlled trial followed 101 cancer patients taking either 6 mg hydrazine sulfate three times/day or placebo. After one month, 83 percent of hydrazine sulfate patients increased their weight, compared to 53 percent on placebo.

A similar study by the same principal researchers, partly funded by the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., followed 65 patients. Those who took hydrazine sulfate and were in good physical condition before the study began lived an average of 17 weeks longer.

The medical establishment may be missing the connection between sugar and its role in tumorigenesis. Consider the million-dollar positive emission tomography device, or PET scan, regarded as one of the ultimate cancer-detection tools. PET scans use radioactively labeled glucose to detect sugar-hungry tumor cells. PET scans are used to plot the progress of cancer patients and to assess whether present protocols are effective.

In Europe, the "sugar feeds cancer" concept is so well accepted that oncologists, or cancer doctors, use the Systemic Cancer Multistep Therapy (SCMT) protocol. Conceived by Manfred von Ardenne in Germany in 1965, SCMT entails injecting patients with glucose to increase blood-glucose concentrations.

This lowers pH values in cancer tissues via lactic acid formation. In turn, this intensifies the thermal sensitivity of the malignant tumors and also induces rapid growth of the cancer. Patients are then given whole-body hyperthermia (42 C core temperature) to further stress the cancer cells, followed by chemotherapy or radiation.

SCMT was tested on 103 patients with metastasized cancer or recurrent primary tumors in a clinical phase-I study at the Von Ardenne Institute of Applied Medical Research in Dresden, Germany. Five-year survival rates in SCMT-treated patients increased by 25 to 50 percent, and the complete rate of tumor regression increased by 30 to 50 percent.

The protocol induces rapid growth of the cancer, then treats the tumor with toxic therapies for a dramatic improvement in outcome.

The irrefutable role of glucose in the growth and metastasis of cancer cells can enhance many therapies. Some of these include diets designed with the glycemic index in mind to regulate increases in blood glucose, hence selectively starving the cancer cells; low-glucose TPN solutions; avocado extract to inhibit glucose uptake in cancer cells; hydrazine sulfate to inhibit gluconeogenesis in cancer cells; and SCMT.

A female patient in her 50s, with lung cancer, came to our clinic, having been given a death sentence by her Florida oncologist. She was cooperative and understood the connection between nutrition and cancer. She changed her diet considerably, leaving out 90 percent of the sugar she used to eat.

She found that wheat bread and oat cereal now had their own wild sweetness, even without added sugar.

With appropriately restrained medical therapy -- including high-dose radiation targeted to tumor sites and fractionated chemotherapy, a technique that distributes the normal one large weekly chemo dose into a 60-hour infusion lasting days -- a good attitude and an optimal nutrition program which included Sam's formula nine times/day, she beat her terminal lung cancer.

I saw her last month, five years later and still disease-free, probably looking better than the doctor who told her there was no hope.

For those seeking to give up sugar and reclaim their health check the Ultra Lite Ketogenic Weight and Health Management solution on www.ultralite.com.au