Showing posts with label paleo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paleo. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 October 2012

Chronic Dieting Causes Low Thyroid and Depression


Are you kidding me?!
I love my RSS feed. It’s so entertaining, and educational. For instance, did you know that if you have hypothyroidism, your disease and the symptoms of depression you suffer from are caused by chronic calorie depletion? According to Kevin Cann on Robb Wolf's blog it's true!
As a woman who has been dealing with hypothyroidism for 20 years, I can tell you this: CHRONIC CALORIE DEPLETION CANNOT CAUSE  HYPOTHYROIDISM! As a friend of mine likes to say, "That's like putting DesCartes before the horse". 

Follow me here: 
  1. Trigger: Stress, Environment (cigarette smoke), Cancer, Genetics etc.
  2. Then comes the hypothyroidism, undiagnosed, 
  3. Then comes the weight/depression, bad enough to force you to see the doctor,
  4. Then comes the diet! 
Does that sound like calorie depletion causes low thyroid and depression to you? It doesn't to me. The trigger always comes first.
Where do these people find this stuff? When you are hypothyroid, food does not fill you up. That switch in your brain that tells you you're full is not working. It's gone. It's almost impossible to eat sensibly when your satiety centre is shut down. All those diets that tell you that you don't have to watch your portions, just eat until you're full? They don't work when you're hypothyroid. 

The worst thing about being hypothyroid is having people tell you there is nothing wrong with you. Or better yet, your dieting is causing your condition.

Don't you just love it when someone tells you how you are? Especially when they know nothing about you?
I sure do... NOT!

Check out Mary Shomon for more info on Hypothyroidism and triggers.

Thursday, 18 October 2012

I'm bringing back the Drama Llama!

This morning I was going through my reader feed, and what do I see? More internet drama! Quelle surprise!

I used to see a lot of this in the vegetarian/vegan webboards. Heck! VeggiesUnite (now VegWeb) shut down and implemented a user screening  before they would allow you to have an account, so you could post a comment or recipe, or whatever. What a pain in the butt when you're just looking for a recipe.

Those Internet vegetarians/vegans are not the peace loving, animal saving innocents PETA would have you believe. Nope. There's a lot of intolerance in those Internet veggies.

At this time, I'd like to point out that internet vegetarians are not the same as vegetarians in real life. Real life vegetarians are pretty compassionate people. There are exceptions, of course, but you are not going to find a lot of real life vegetarians on the vegetarian Internet websites. Real life vegetarians have more sense.

Given my experience with the veggie webboards of the 1990's & early 2000's, why am I surprised to see the same type of bad behaviour at Paleo Diet blog, Free The Animal. Check out the comments section for the ultimate in drama.


Richard Nikoley, you are the first mention in my blog, and the winner of this week's Drama Llama. Congratulations! Keep up the good work!