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Re: lutz diet John Blank wrote: >I hope this is the right place to write you re this request: I >wonder if you could say exactly what Lutz's diet is (as opposed to the >general remarks you've made about it: low-carbo, like Gottschall's but >not as good -- how not as good? -- I think this was in one of the SCD >posts). > >Lutz's diet is interesting to me >because it's backed by years of clinical experience, which I think would >make it stronger than Elaine's (as she's not, I gather, a clinician), so >to me the fact that he allows "some bread" (again, from one of your SCD >posts) is interesting and significant. > >If you do develop some more detailed account of his actual diet in >English, I expect you'd want to post it on the SCD list. If you'd like >to reply to me personally, I am > >John Blank >103120.612@compuserve.com > >Thanks in advance -- JB + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Lutz writes: Chapter III, Outline of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet It is difficult to reflect the vast diversity of dietary habits in specific recipes or menues. Therefore, one has to inquire occasionally about the patient's diet and together with the patient recalculate the carbohydrate proportion in the patients average daily food intake. Chapter III, Outline of a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Principle: ======= Restriction of sugar and starch Permitted: ======== Fish, all sorts of meat, also canned, smoked, sausage, cold cuts, liver, cheese, eggs, sour cream, yoghurt, sour milk, all kinds of animal and plant fats and oils, also pork grease, butter and run butter (plant fats like oils and margarine are certainly not any healthier than animal fats), salads, leaves and stems of vegetables (aspargus, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, lettuce, cabbage), cucumbers and tomatoes in reasonable amounts. Furthermore, unsweetened and alcoholic beverages, salt, if not specifically restreicted, are permitted. These foods can be prepared according to preference (boiled, fried, baked, roasted, steamed) or consumed raw. Small amounts of crumbs and of flour for sauces and vegetables are free; larger amounts have to be included in the restricted amount. To sweeten one uses either sugar and calculates 12 g per unit or one uses artificial sweeteners. However, one quicly gets used to unsweetened foods and beverages. Restricted: ========= All carbohydrate-containing foods (starch, sugar) as listed in the following table of equivalency are permitted. Only 6 bread units (BU) of these foods are to be eaten per day. 1 BU is equivalent to a half bread roll or the following: 12 g sugar or starch 14 g honey 15 g flour, semolina, rice, oats, flakes, corn, potato flour, pudding powder, sago, grits, pasta, bread crumbs, peeled barley, soup or sauce powder, crispbread, bisquits 20 g white bread, chokolate 25 g dark bread 30 g Graham bread, whole-meal bread, Pumpernickel, peas, lentils, beans (dry weight) 40 g cocoa 60 g potatoes, bananas, nuts, viper's grass 80 g sweet fruit (pears, grapes, sweet apples) 90 g fresh green peas 100 g orange or apple juice 120 g sour fruit (oranges, sour apples, etc) and berries 120 g lemon juice 200 g vegetables roots, string beans, etc. 250 g (1/4 liter) beer, wine, etc. 330 g sweet milk (whole or skim) Example of a low-carbohydrate menu with 6 BU: Breakfast: 1 cup of coffee or tea without sugar 2 soft boiled eggs, half bread roll or 25 g of bread = 1 BU Morning snack: cheese with butter = 0 BU Lunch: meat or fish with vegetables, salad, spinach, aspargus, etc. 120 g of potatoes or 30 g of rice or noodles (dry weight), or small pastry containing no more than 15 g of flour and 12 g of sugar, or 250 g of fruit = 2 BU Afternoon: coffee or tea without sugar = 0 BU Dinner: cold cuts, cheese, eggs, etc. with 50 g of bread or 1 bread roll, 1/4 liter of wine or beer = 3 BU - - - - - Total amount : = 6 BU This page has had
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