Defeating Gallstones with Diet

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Defeating Gallstones with Diet

 

Quick Weight Loss Dangers

 

Obviously, if carrying excess fat promotes gallstones, the logical

solution is to lose weight. But there is a paradox.

One of the surest ways to bring on gallstones is to lose weight

rapidly.

Those who are heaviest and lose the most pounds quickest are at a

highest risk.

 

Furthermore, says Dr. C. Wayne Callaway of George Washington

University, dieters often have gallstones but never experience

symptoms until they get off a drastic weight-loss diet and then try

to eat normally.

 

But you may be able to overcome some of the hazards by including at

least five to ten grams of good fats in one meal each day, according

to Steven Heymsfield, M.D., of the Obesity Research Center at St.

Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

For example: You can add a couple of tablespoons of Extra Virgin

Olive Oil each day.

This fat is necessary to stimulate the gallbladder to empty bile

completely at least once a day, retarding gallstones.

 

When you drastically cut fat intake, the gallbladder does not

contract as

often to expel bile into the intestine, says Dr. Heymsfield.

Thus, bile builds up and can trigger formation of gallstones.

Many experts think it is unsafe to lose more than one half to one

pound a week.

 

Fat misunderstandings--

 

Will eating less fat save you from gallstones?

 

Eating too much fat can make you fat, and therefore more vulnerable

to gallstones. And overindulging in saturated animal fat and

cholesterol may aid the formation of gallstones.

 

Greek researchers recently documented that people who ate lots of

animal fat, such as fatty meats and butter, were more apt to develop

gallstones.

Interestingly, they found that a high consumption of Extra Virgin

Olive Oil actually discouraged 'formation' of gallstones.

 

 

In testing, fifteen subjects on four separate days ate either a

breakfast with less than fifteen grams of fat, more than thirty

grams of fat or no fat at all.

Using ultrasound, the researchers measured the gallbladder

contractions every fifteen minutes for an hour.

 

Surprisingly, contractions occurred as often after a fat-free meal

as after a high-fat one.The Georgetown investigators contended that

a low-fat diet specifically to fend off gallbladder attacks is

generally not warranted, although a low-fat diet is good for health

in general.

 

 

What to eat to prevent gallstones:

Eat lots of vegetables, especially legumes, lentils and beans.

Eliminate refined sugars and fried foods.

Do not fast for long periods and be sure to eat breakfast.

Lose excess weight slowly. Quick weight loss can bring on

gallstones. Eat some avocadoes and olive oil every day.

 

Taken from-

 

" Food, your Miracle Medicine, " by Jean Carper

*How food can prevent and cure over 100 Symptoms and Problems*

Bestselling author of " The Food Pharmacy " --Based on more than

10,000 Scientific Studies

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