I have to ask . . . why don't Germans seem to suffer from heart disease as much as Americans? Don't they eat meat at almost every meal? My brother-in-law says that his Mom served 3 kinds of sausage every morning at breakfast. Tina

On 14 Jun 2001, at 20:05, Tina McGarry wrote: > I have to ask . . . why don't Germans seem to suffer from heart > disease as much as Americans? Don't they eat meat at almost every > meal? My brother-in-law says that his Mom served 3 kinds of sausage > every morning at breakfast. Tina, ever hear of the Atkins diet? When we stick to it religiously and eat only sausages and ham and eggs and steak and anything but carbohydrates, we lose weight. My wife had been on high blood pressur medication for about 15 years and trying every diet in tarnation without losing weight. Since we think low carbs all the time, she's off the medication and her blood pressure is normal or even lower then normal. She's also lost 30 pounds. We now eat lots of pork and never did before. I know Germans don't skip the carbs but the point I'm making, it's not the sausages. I think we are basically carniverous and with proper excercise would not have a weight problem. It's all that processed food out of a can that does us in. Fred

Isn't all the protien hard on your kidneys? Chris Calgary, Ab ----- Original Message ----- From: "W. Fred Rump" <FredRump@earthlink.net> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German diet > On 14 Jun 2001, at 20:05, Tina McGarry wrote: > > > I have to ask . . . why don't Germans seem to suffer from heart > > disease as much as Americans? Don't they eat meat at almost every > > meal? My brother-in-law says that his Mom served 3 kinds of sausage > > every morning at breakfast. > > Tina, > ever hear of the Atkins diet? When we stick to it religiously and eat > only sausages and ham and eggs and steak and anything but > carbohydrates, we lose weight. My wife had been on high blood > pressur medication for about 15 years and trying every diet in > tarnation without losing weight. Since we think low carbs all the > time, she's off the medication and her blood pressure is normal or > even lower then normal. She's also lost 30 pounds. We now eat > lots of pork and never did before. > > I know Germans don't skip the carbs but the point I'm making, it's > not the sausages. I think we are basically carniverous and with > proper excercise would not have a weight problem. It's all that > processed food out of a can that does us in. > > Fred > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >