. Alternative, complementary and holistic health care .

Choline-related supplements improve abnormal plasma methionine-
homocysteine metabolites and glutathione status in children with
cystic fibrosis.
Innis SM, Davidson AG, Melynk S, James SJ
Am J Clin Nutr 2007 Mar; 85(3):702-8.

BACKGROUND:
Liver triacylglycerol accumulation and oxidative stress are common in
cystic fibrosis (CF) and also occur in choline deficiency. Previously,
we showed an association between elevated plasma homocysteine, reduced
ratios of S-adenosylmethionine to S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAM:SAH) and
of phosphatidylcholine to phosphatidylethanolamine, and phospholipid
malabsorption in children with CF.
OBJECTIVE:
The objective was to address a possible relation between altered
methionine-homocysteine metabolism and choline metabolism in children
with CF.
DESIGN: Children with CF were assigned without bias to supplementation
with 2 g lecithin/d (n = 13), 2 g choline/d (n = 12), or 3 g betaine/d
(n = 10) for 14 d. Plasma concentrations of methionine, adenosine,
cysteine, cysteinyl-glycine, glutathione, glutathione disulfide
(GSSG), and fatty acids; SAM:SAH; and red blood cell phospholipids
were measured within each group of children with CF before and after
supplementation. Plasma from healthy children without CF (n = 15) was
analyzed to obtain reference data.
RESULTS:
Children with CF had higher plasma homocysteine, SAH, and adenosine
and lower methionine, SAM:SAH, and glutathione:GSSG than did children
without CF. Supplementation with lecithin, choline, or betaine
resulted in a significant increase in plasma methionine, SAM, SAM:SAH,
and glutathione:GSSG and a decrease in SAH (n = 35). Supplementation
with choline or betaine was associated with a significant decrease in
plasma SAH and an increase in SAM:SAH, methionine, and
glutathione:GSSG. Supplementation with lecithin or choline also
increased plasma methionine and SAM.
CONCLUSION:
We showed that dietary supplementation with choline-related compounds
improves the low SAM:SAH and glutathione redox balance in children
with CF.

The American journal of clinical nutrition [Am J Clin Nutr]
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Anyone get Bottom Line Health magazine? Like it? The ad I got in the mail
for it makes it sound interesting (of course!). Seems to include
alternative health techniques and products. But I’ve had problems
with Bottom Line sending me unordered books in the past so I’m not sure I
want to order from them.

But if the magazine is really good…

I currently get the Consumer Reports health magazine and I’m not overly
thrilled with it.

TIA

Ken

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Alice Faber wrote:
> convicted neighbor Susan <su…@nothanks.org> wrote:
> > High Miles wrote:

> > > That’s very encouraging.
> > > For some of us, it’s hard to decide whether or not giving up a lot of
> > > things
> > > we love is worth some  extra time being well.

> > In my case, I don’t care about the longevity issue so much as the QOL.
> > For as long as I live, I want to be able to do stuff and be independent.

> Agreed.

> Jennifer’s "test, test, test" advice came out after I was diagnosed and
> mostly had things under control. So what I did wasn’t quite that
> straightforward. But, it pretty much amounted to the same thing.

> When I first got lists of food broken down by nutritional content, I
> made a list of foods I liked that were relatively low in carbs. This is
> the avocado group. I ate as much of these as I wanted, regardless of fat
> content. Then I made a second list, of carby food that I considered
> non-negotiable. And I worked out ways to eat these. At the time I was
> diagnosed, there were two of these: tortilla chips and croutons in my
> salad. These I measured. In addition, I resolved never to eat carby food
> that I don’t like, which, pretty much, took potatoes off the menu. I
> quickly discovered that appropriate portion sizes of more
> take-it-or-leave-it carbs (rice and pasta) were small enough that, under
> most circumstances, it wasn’t worth the effort to prepare them.

> The croutons led me to a further refinement. Carb exchanges weren’t
> going to work for me. A reasonable portion of croutons in salad amounted
> to 4 grams of carb. So, was I going to count that in my menu as 4/15 or
> simply as 4? Integers won out. So, if I was going to have 2 carb
> exchanges for dinner, I had 15 g of carbs in the form of chips while I
> was cooking, and another 15 g in the form of croutons in salad, and
> flour for dredging fish.

> Now, it’s been at least 8 years since I’ve bought either chips or
> croutons, my two non-negotiables. I miss them, sometimes. But, tastes
> change (though I still eat a lot of avocados!). And there are a lot more
> commercial bread substitutes out there than there were 10 years ago,
> which helps with the need for an occasional quick meal when there are no
> leftovers for lunch.

> So, the short version is that you need to identify favorites that aren’t
> limited. For me, it was avocados. For others, it might be string cheese
> or calamata olives. Then you need to identify carb-rich foods that you
> think you can’t live without. And you work out how you can have these
> without mucking up your blood sugar; I stress "without mucking up your
> blood sugar". This might be through portion control; it might be through
> stealing a few bites from someone else’s plate; or it might be through
> developing lower-carb substitutes (crustless cheese cake). Once you have
> really good control, it might be through the "birthday exception".
> Whatever you do, you have to recognize that the carbs are still there,
> no matter how much you might want them not to be. And, you might
> discover that you can live without those carbs much more easily than you
> had originally thought.

Actually, the harm comes from excessive amounts of carbohydrates and
not the carbohydrates themselves.  The only way to reliably quantify
carbohydrates is by weighing food.  Truth is simple.

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convicted neighbor Susan wrote:

> Threads such as this (or dinner tonight) can be really helpful for
> newbies wondering what to eat.

Much more important is knowing the optimal amount to eat.

>  I’ll start:

> Breakfast:  coffee with half and half

If the quantity is excessive, this would be harmful.

A cupful could be 8 oz.

> Lunch:  Grilled porterhouse steak, leftover steamed broccoli with smoked
> salt

Altogether could weigh 20 oz.

> Snack:  braided string cheese, pistachio nuts

Altogether could weigh 3 oz.

> Dinner:  Takeout Chinese food sans rice, ordered with no corn starch,
> MSG or added sugar.  Had beef, chicken, shrimp mixed with snow pea pods,
> broccoli, water chestnuts, baby corn, in a brown sauce.  Tom had Hunan
> beef and broccoli, same order instructions, with no rice.

> Oh, we shared an appetizer order of barbecued spare ribs.  A little
> sweet, but not sticky and no duck sauce.

Altogether could be 32 oz.

Total could be 63 oz, which would be nearly 4 pounds of food for the
day.

This is excessive especially for a diabetic.

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