Insuline and fatty livers

Why do we go to the trouble of avoiding foods with high glycemic indices and loads? Well, this exerpt from a recent study explains it nicely:

On the high-glycemic index diet, mice ate a type of cornstarch that is digested quickly whereas on the low-glycemic index diet, mice ate a type of cornstarch that is digested slowly. The diets had equal amounts of total calories, fat, protein, and carbohydrate, and the mice were otherwise treated identically.

After six months, the mice weighed the same. However, mice on the low-glycemic index diet were lean, with normal amounts of fat in throughout their bodies. Mice on the high-glycemic index diet had twice the normal amount of fat in their bodies, blood and livers.

When sugar melts out of high-glycemic index food, Ludwig explains, it drives up production of insulin, which tells the body to make and store fat. Nowhere is this message felt more strongly than in the liver, because the pancreas, which makes insulin, dumps the hormone directly into the liver, where concentrations can be many times higher than in the rest of the body. Fat buildup in the liver, or fatty liver, is usually symptomless, but it increases the risk for liver inflammation, which can progress to hepatitis and, in some cases, liver failure.

Read the full article here.


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This is too easy

1 Chicken and salami (which is not entirely paleo-proof) with courgette, red onion, leaks and tomato paste and lots of pepper and chili.
2 Chicken, leaks, courgette, red cabbage and broccoli.
3 Self-explanatory.
4 Shrimp, red onion and Brussels sprouts. So easy...
5 Eggs and raw ham with black pepper and tomatoes.

1 Smoked salmon and rainbow trout with white cabbage.
2 Chicken with curry and pepper.
3 Lambchop with Brussels sprouts, red onion and garlic.
4 Sardines in tomato sauce.
5 Herring in tomato sauce.

Red Hot Chicken

1 Chicken with chili, curry, pepper and cinnamon.
2 Scrambled egg with yaki nori.
3 Chicken with garlic and pepper.

Sweet delight...

My meal yesterday evening was one of the best meals I've made for myself in some time.
It was a variation on something I made before, but this meal was even better, in my humble opinion.
I took pieces of chicken (300 grams), a pointy cabbage (spitskool), 250 grams of chestnut mushrooms, a yellow bellpepper (paprika) and two banana's. All cut to pieces of course.
I first stir fried the chicken and seasoned it with paprica powder, curry powder en some pepper, then added the mushrooms, follewed by the cabbage and the bellpepper. When the cabbage had shrunk in a bit I added some soy sauce and ginger extract to the sauce, then for the last two minutes or so I added the two banana's in slices.
I had half of this for my dinner, and it was excellent: nice, tasty, sweet. It warmed me inside, which is good as it is getting colder outside. Tonight I will have the other half.

I've decided to add some fish to my breakfasts more often. So this morning I had some smoked salmon with carrots, a kiwi and a peach (and a handfull of nuts). And for tomorrow and the day after I have canned tunafish with vegetables to go with the vegs and fruits.

Another combination I made some time ago, was with extra lean minced meat (extra mager rundergehakt), mushrooms, broccoli, sweet pointed bellpeppers and a can of green beans (sperziebonen) (as this is mostly the pods and not just the beans I think this is allowed for a paleolithic diet). This combination was allright, but not as outstanding as the sweet delight I had yesterday. But don't worry, we'll keep on experimenting with new tasts and new combinations. To boldly go where no one has gone before...