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Sean Carney

Saturday, 07 January 2017

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The social media web site at https://www.Starch-Smart.com/ is being merged into a newly redesigned site at https://www.drcarney.com. You can now register there for an account at https://www.drcarney.com/club All of the content (at least as much as we can possibly move) from Starch-Smart.com will be moved to the new DrCarney.com beginning this week. We will be moving all of the blogs, discussions and health science research summaries there. We will also move all of the users there who have created content in the form of blogs and discussions. The rest of the users are being invited and requested to create a new account there at https://www.DrCarney.com/club We feel that this is actu...

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Spud Fit!

Ken Thomas

Thursday, 05 January 2017

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Andrew Taylor has done an amazing thing. Through research and taking matters into his own hands, he found a win, win ... win way to break food addiction. And, he has even created the Spud Fit website to share his multiple wins with everyone. I am very impressed with his clear, logical thinking that took him on a one year potato only adventure to cure food addiction! His success, however, far exceeded his original goal. Andrew's December 2016 blog strongly resonates with my personal experience. I feel a connection between his blog and the "Shangri-La" that I wrote about in an August 2014 blog. Andrew types, "The 'experts' also don't seem to understand - or bother...

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Counting Calories

Ken Thomas

Tuesday, 03 January 2017

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I used to believe that one's weight was a simple matter of calories in verses calories out and that calories are calories regardless of source. However, over the years of Type-1 diabetes testing, logging and analyzing, I have learned that it is not that simple. A major lesson learned is that carbohydrate calories and fat calories are processed and used differently: Fat is storage, Carbohydrates are fuel. It is indeed true that calories are calories and energy is energy, however, the form of energy dictates what is done with it. Fat contains the highest energy density by a very large margin. That would suggest that fat should provide more energy than carbohydrates, how...

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Believe

Ken Thomas

Saturday, 12 November 2016

Faith Considerations Miscellaneous Issues

Relatively early in my Type-1 diabetes adventure I discovered that a low-fat plant based diet was key to full health. This discovery was due to a frantic effort in blood-sugar control for fear of all the debilitating complications that I had witnessed in other diabetics. After discovering the elevated level of health provided by a low-fat whole food plant based diet, I expressed what I had learned to others. However, no one accepted that such a diet would be good for them. I explained the benefits of insulin sensitivity and how any fat calories over 10% and any animal products at all degrades it. A few watched the Forks Over Knives documentary, but their reactio...

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Blood-Sugar Simplified

Ken Thomas

Monday, 17 October 2016

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While the biological mechanisms of blood-sugar control are indeed complicated, the basics are quite simple: blood-sugar is an equilibrium between supply and consumption. Sugar, specifically glucose, is biology's primary fuel. The drawing above illustrates how blood-sugar is a simple balance between sugar intake and the "burning" of it as a fuel. Consuming foods from which sugar is extracted or synthesized is the fuel supply - represented in the left-hand scale pan. The right-hand energy pan represents the sugar flowing in the blood stream ready for "burning" or conversion to energy. As the sugar is burned, blood-sugar becomes lower. Just as the fuel in you...

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Don't Worry... Be Healthy!

Ken Thomas

Friday, 16 September 2016

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Do you consider yourself health conscious? Do you ever worry about getting enough nutrients? It seems common for the health conscious to seek out foods with the best and most nutrients. In the beginning of my Type-1 diabetes journey, I was completely clueless about nutrition. I knew of the words "protein" and "vitamins", but didn't really know anything about them. I just knew what most everyone in my community believed - that meat was vital. I didn't know an amino acid from an enzyme or a flavonoid from a protein, but I did find what foods made my blood-sugar control the hardest and which foods that made it the easiest. Yes, I was (and still am) obsessed w...

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Callie's Cancer

Ken Thomas

Monday, 22 August 2016

Animal Concerns Condition Related Miscellaneous Issues

Callie is a very dear member of our family. She is a person who just happens to be a 14-year-old cat. She plays a very prominent role in the family. She supervises household work. She loves (demands) loving time which includes being carried around the house lying on her back in my arms like a baby while petting my face with her paw. She assumes the responsibility of alpha cat, keeping the boys; BJ and Blue-Eyes (also cats) in line with nothing more than a look. Nothing more is needed, however, as she has everyone's unfailing respect. On June 6, 2016, we took Callie to an internal medicine specialist due to a steep decline in health. Over the previous...

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Fad Diets Part 3

Ken Thomas

Friday, 05 August 2016

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This is part 3 in the Fad Diets series. Please also see Part 1 and Part 2. During the 1970's I worked as a repair technician at a high-end audiophile shop. I loved working with that equipment. It was all handcrafted works of art composed from the heart of its designer. The design goal was perfectly faithful music reproduction. Ease of manufacture was of little concern. There was only a hand-full of companies making such equipment, yet competition was more supportive than competitive; each regarding the other in high esteem. Planned obsolescence was yet an unknown concept. It was an era of innocence. In the 80's, new companies began to emerge th...

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I'm Doing Just Fine

Ken Thomas

Monday, 27 June 2016

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So, how are you doing (health-wise) Do you feel good? Unfortunately, that is a hard question to answer, because "feel-good" is relative - and the reference, itself, is variable. This makes the perception of "feel-good" very nebulous. This realization became profoundly evident to me in the early stages of my Type-1 diabetes journey. Even though the onset would be considered abrupt, less than two months from the first hint to near death, the perception of feel-good followed my own reference. Over those two months I became weaker and weaker. After about three weeks I was so weak that getting in or out of a car was exhausting, but I still thought I was O...

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Alternative Medicine: Part 3

Ken Thomas

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

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This blog post is Part 3. For a better understanding, please pre-read parts 1 and 2. Webster's definition of Alternative Medicine: any of various systems of healing or treating disease that is not included in the traditional medical curricula of the United States and Britain. I feel certain that there are at least two deeply rooted errors in the traditional medical curricula of the Unit States and Britain that directly affects my life (actually, everyone's life). In 1988, I started my Type-1 diabetes journey. Traditionally, a Type-1 diabetic's control is managed by their doctor. Very fortunately for me, the management provided by my doctor was a horrifying disas...

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