With the release of her new book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind , Dr Georgia Ede is hosting a livestream Q&A.

Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind: A Powerful Plan to Improve Mood, Overcome Anxiety, and Protect Memory for a Lifetime of Optimal Mental Health

Dr Georgia Ede’s gets an excerpt article on CNBC.

Harvard-trained nutrition expert: If I could only prioritize one food in my diet, it’d be this Spoiler, it's MEAT.

Between .6 to 1 gram per pound of ideal Body Weight!*

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/06/har...e-this-one.html

*From my diving into protein research, and over 3 years experience, if you are a senior and want to reach and maintain your ideal body weight, 1 gram per pound is a good goal.

I don’t post much here, but read the forum voraciously, as well as many books on the subject of health and low carbing.
I have to say that Dr Eades new book is the most comprehensive and clearcut explanation of how and why ketogenic diets work to our benefit that I have ever come across, and I am only 1/2 way done!
Yes, it is quite scientific in places (where Dr. Eades even mentions that it is alright to skip over), but my understanding of how insulin resistance develops and affects so many systems in our bodies has increased 10-fold.
Highly, highly recommend!

I think you might be confusing names. Dr. Georgia Ede is the author of the new book. Dr. Michael Eades and his wife, Dr. Mary Dan Eades, are the authors of quite a few low-carb books, like Protein Power.

Not confusing the people, just the spelling! Thanks : )

Thanks for the review, Ci!

Happens to me all the time!

For those who are interested, Dr Georgia Ede recently joined Dr Zoe Harcombe on her podcast:

And right on time, a counter-study:



But the "protein" they used is Boost. More sugar than protein!

The study was done on mice.

And the part that is protein is mostly soy protein, inflammatory and gas-producing in many.

And lower bioavailability. I think Diet Doctor had an article advising people they need to eat 30% more of plant protein sources to get the same amount of protein as animal sources.

Since they don't tell us the percentages, we don't know what the actual protein is in that carton. Except that it is less than what is on the label.

Which got me thinking about fast food. Maybe on paper they offer nutrition, but we don't know the percentages of each ingredient. A lot of finagling can go on under the ingredient order, I'm thinking.

This is true of all foods that have a label with a list of ingredients.

Flour has a small amount of protein in it, same with green vegetables, potatoes, and of course all kinds of beans - well pretty much all plant origin ingredients have at least a tiny amount of protein, even fruit.

About the only plant origin ingredients that don't contain proteins are oils.

The nutrition label accounts for all the tiny bits of protein from all the plant origin ingredients, without separating them from the animal origin protein.

About the only thing that gives you a clue as to how much of the protein in one of those Boost drinks is from dairy and how much is from soy would be the order of those ingredients on the label, since ingredients need to be listed in order by weight, which gives some idea of how much of the protein is from milk, and how much is from soy.

You can look up the ingredient lists from different types of Boost - here's the list from Chocolate Boost Plus:



In that list, the highest weight source of protein is from milk protein concentrate. They've been helpful with how much of the protein is coming from soy by listing it after the "less than 2%" section, so even though it's a protein isolate, there's far less soy protein isolate than there is of milk protein concentrate... at least by weight. But there is a difference in the protein content of a concentrate (as little as 25%, but could be as high as 89%) vs an isolate (90%). So that still doesn't tell us all that much. Could be that it really is mostly milk protein, could be evenly split between the 2, could be mostly soy.

Looks like we need to campaign to have the next generation of nutrition labels state how many grams of the total protein content are from plant sources. (Pretty sure that vegans would love for protein source to be expressed that way - and for us LC'ers it would be no different than calculating net carbs by subtracting fiber from total carbs)

We sure know how mice should take care of themselves

Apparently I've missed something in that article (despite reading it multiple times) - I'm not seeing where they mention Boost as the source of the protein. Can you quote the part where Boost is mentioned? The ads keep jumping around and I suspect the ads are blocking parts of the text.

I don't doubt that's what they used though since they mentioned "protein enriched meals" and the reference to hospital settings where protein enriched meals are used to help prevent muscle loss = because Boost is what they use in hospitals and nursing homes for that purpose - they figure sick people will drink a milkshake more readily than they'll eat a plate of food, especially if their illness ruins their appetite, or the drugs they're on interferes with their sense of taste.

In nursing homes, they know that the taste buds of the elderly tend to pick up sweet flavors much more readily than savory flavors, so they'll actually drink those things even if they won't eat anything. Not to mention that a lot of elderly nursing home residents can't chew very well, so even if they're eating, they only eat soft foods, which really limits the types of protein they can eat.