Article Originally Submitted 2004 Running LCUK and the associated Yahoo! Groups, I have come across this 4 letter abbreviation quite a bit in people’s e-mail. I learned much about the condition, even have a close friend that has it, but until very recently, my interest in PCOS was purely academic. Then, I discovered, almost by […]
Article Originally Submitted 2004 PCOS stands for “Polycystic Ovary Syndrome” It is also known as: “Polycystic ovaries”; “Sclerocystic Ovarian Disease”; “Polycystic Ovarian Disease” or “PCOD” and “Stein-Leventhal Syndrome”. The latter is the original name for the condition when Michael Leo Leventhal and Irving Freiler Stein when they discovered that women having erratic Periods and infertility
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Article Originally Submitted 2003 For most Low-carbers, the answer to the above question is “Oh golly gosh yes!” Me, I never was a “fruit fan”, so when I started LCing in 1999, it was one thing I never missed. However, over 3 1/2 years on, and my taste buds have adapted to my lowered sweetness
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Article Originally Submitted 2003 Your Liver: The one organ in the body that is actually metabolising the fats, carbs and proteins that you are putting into your body. It is your Liver that makes you burn fat, nothing else. What’s that I hear you all cry? I thought that in a low-carb situation, the body
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Article Originally Submitted 2003 Having been in a stall for around a year, last December, I thought I would try and shake things up a little, so, having been pointed at this plan by various of my list-mates, I bought the book, and gave it a whirl! The Plan originally took shape as a 2-week
Article Originally Submitted 2004 When you choose to follow a Vegetarian LC diet, you have to make sure that you are getting enough “Complete Proteins”. Even if your morality says that killing things to eat them is wrong, this does not negate your body’s need for the spectrum of Amino Acids from complete protein sources
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Article Originally Submitted 2003 Carrying on from last time, here is the converse recipe for a really fresh beef roast. This garnish is taken straight from “The Accomplisht Cooke” by Robert May, a book that was First Published in 1660. I have a faximile copy of it, and it is full of good, wholesome “receipts”.
Article Originally Submitted 2003 In “Days of Yore” when meat was not kept in such refrigerated conditions as now, Spices were used to disguise the taste of the more “mature” joints. One of my hobbies is Historical re-enactment, of the English Civil War period, 1642-1649. At that stage in English Culinary History, Chilli had not
Article Originally Submitted 2003 As this issue is about fitness, I thought that I would write a little some thing about Yoga. Now, I am the world’s worst person to ask about any form of exercise, as I don’t do any on a regular basis… I am lazy, and spend far too much time on