Kobe Achilles Rehab - Really?

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http://thinksteroids.com/forum/nutrition-supplements-forum/kobe-byrant-goes-paleo-134334094.html

"It was a significant change. As an example, take center Dwight Howard, who Vitti reports was "eating the equivalent of something like 23 Hershey bars a day. A lot of that was fruit, which is supposed to be good." The problem: Too much sugar. Dwight would "have a lot of energy, then get these insulin spikes and crash really quick." Now that he's shifted to the diet advocated by Dr. Cate, he and the other players are enjoying renewed energy.

"We've turned the whole [dietary] pyramid upside down, that's what we've done," Vitti boasted. "I went 25 years without having whole milk or a stick of butter in my refrigerator. I didn't eat bacon. No fatty meat. We've flipped that upside down. Now 50% to 60% of our calories are coming from fat. It's the source of the fats that's important.""

http://www.examiner.com/article/los-angeles-lakers-and-kobe-bryant-get-a-charge-from-low-carb-paleo-diet

""We're finding out now that a higher level of LDL's, which we thought was bad, doesn't necessarily mean it's bad," he continued, "because within that category, there are good LDL's and bad LDL's. Even though you might have an elevated level of LDL's, it might be the right kind of LDL's."

For example, eating fats, when they're the right kind of fats, can be packed with nutrients.

"All this fat free stuff and all these things we've been doing has been the biggest proponent of it," Vitti said. "When they strip the fat, they strip all the nutrients with it. We don't necessarily want to stay away from fats, but it has to be the right kind of fat."

Vitti acknowledges they have created, not only for Bryant, but also all their players, food groups that are red, yellow and green. The traditional food pyramid is not what they're preaching to the players. In fact, it's the inverse.

"The current science reverses the pyramid," Vitti said. "The base of the pyramid is on the top. We're not telling them to just eat fat - it has to be the right kind of fat. Pasture-grazed beef and products from that; you can eat butter, but it has to be pasture-fed. Not pasteurized, pasture-fed. There's a big difference. Milk from a pasture-fed cow, cheese from a pasture-fed cow."

Altogether, the shift in dietary habits is one of the reasons why the five-time champion has performed at such an effective and efficient level this late into his career. No guard in NBA history has averaged over 15 points in his 17th season or later, but Bryant ranks second in the league in scoring at 29.2 points per game, while also shooting at a 46.5 percent clip.

"What I've done really is just train really hard and watch my diet," Bryant said. "I think that's the thing that catches guys most. They don't do self-assessing. They feel like they can go out there and do some of the things that they did when they were younger and eat some of the things that they've been (eating) and not accept the fact that what you put in has an impact.""


Note: I've been eating this way for a good 8 months. Dramatic difference, and then some.