I'd keep the animal fats and avoid most of the vegetable fats. Animal and
especially fish oils have more Omega 3s which you want, vegetable oils have
more Omega 6s which you don't want as much of. Fat will help with the
hunger, especially combined with protein. He's definitely on the right
track avoiding grains.

Doug Freyburger wrote:
|
| I don't know what "fatas are a bit high means". Triglycerides are the
| body's fat transportation mechanism so if they are low then fat in the
| blood is low. If you mean dietary fat is a high percentage yes
| that's a deliberate part of the plan so work on deleting the false
| propaganda against all fat any fat int he diet.
|
|
| There's certainly no downside to replacing pasta with broccoli.
|
|
| Done according to the directions low carbers generally experience very
| little hunger. Of course it doesn't work for everyone but it does
| work for a higher percentage of the population than folks who
| experience no hunger while on low fat plans. Lack of hunger for most
| is probably the single greatest advantage low carbing has.
|
|| He still hasn't talked to a dietitian,
|| but his Dr told him to cut back on saturated fats due to a heart
|| blockage that was taken care of with stents and he has to watch
|| sugars because of prediabetes.
|
| There's very little down side to draining off animal fat and replacing
| it with various types of plant oils that are low in saturates and high
| in polyunsaturates and monounsaturates. If both of you are in the
| majority that does not detect any flavor from canola oil consider a
| 50-50 mix of canola and olive oils. Cook to drain off the animal fat
| and replace with roughly that much plant oil. Calorie for calorie the
| result will be lower protein, higher fat, and thus keep hunger from
| coming back longer. Cutting saturates does not equal lowering total
| fat calories.
|
|| I'd like him to eat brown rice and whole
|| wheat products but he's avoiding rice, corn and wheat except for a
|| couple of slices of w/w bread per day for a sandwich at lunch.
|
| There's certainly no downside to replacing pasta with broccoli.
|
|| BTW: he's not overweight and weight loss isn't a goal - but low carb
|| seems to be doing good things for his numbers. Do you have any
|| insights for me about controlling hunger?
|
| What low carb plan are you using? I take it one of the mild ones like
| Carbohydrate Addicts Diet. The advantage of the popular plans is
| simple. Their authors spent at least a decade developing them to
| include parts that are not obvious so they can't be either matched or
| beat by rolling your own plan that does the obvious.