I decided to translate my blog to English and am now working on it.
Please be patient, all the texts will eventually be up. 
(So far most of the static pages are, so please feel free to click around them. )
Dina
UPDATE: all the static pages are translated and I’m working on the posts, about 1/3 of them are translated so far. Hopefully I’ll be able to speed it up a bit in the coming days (Christmas season = less students 
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(December 26, 2011)
… with donuts (that they start to sell two months before Hanukkah …) and latkes in every corner.
How do you manage?
I decided that if I want, I’ll eat one donut. By the way, I decided the same thing last year and epes didn’t get to it. So far I’ve only tasted two bites of donut that my bonus son (my husband’s son) prepared at his mother’s. But the holiday isn’t over yet and maybe I’ll eat one, and maybe not. It’s really not that urgent for me.
Instead I made some sweet deep-fried balls. I took the recipe from a regular cookbook and changed it to my liking: 38% cream instead of Eshel, coconut flour instead of regular flour, and of course a little Stevia for sweetness. Came out a blast! I just wish the coconut oil wouldn’t be so expensive so I could use it for deep frying …
And instead of traditional potato latkes, I made latkes from grated cabbage mixed with shredded cheese. Delicious and suites to eat with the same sour cream and cinnamon.
Happy holiday! :-)
(December 12, 2011)
Unbelievable how many things I do I never thought I’d do …
Last Saturday night I held a lecture for the first time to people I don’t know. For the first time in Hebrew. And for the first time on LCHF.
May they multiply!
Want me to come to you? Feel free to contact me:
bydinadavid@gmail.com
052-3947218
(December 7, 2011)
When I hear commercials on the radio like “Does your child have difficulties to concentrate in school? - Buy drug X!” or ”Do you want to give your family healthy food? – Buy organic ketchup!” …
When I read an article about wanting to give children statins* ”in order to not develop heart diseases in the future” …
Then I feel like crying … 
Health journalists! - I wish you started to read a little research yourself and not just repeat things you’ve been told. Ask: Is this an observational study and the results are only circumstantial or is this a randomized clinical research were they really only changed one variable?
Doctors! - I wish you could take a small look at the whole patient profile for the person you deal with, beyond the specific problem they came to you for. Ask: Does it makes sense that you need to give medication against side effects of other drugs? Is there a common denominator to all the problems?
Dietitians! Diabetes nurses! - I wish they would let you learn a little bit more on how the body works and what happens to the food inside the body. Ask: How were these problems dealt with in the past, without modern medicine? Is the patient in front of you really ”lazy” or does he/she have another problem and really can’t “move more”?
Am I asking too much …?
* It turns out that the patent of Lipitor and other statin drugs are expiring these days and new markets are explored in order to renew the patents …
(December 4, 2011)
The dear doctor, who wrote the book “Wheat Belly“, continues to experiment in the kitchen and share his recipes. In honour of Thanksgiving he made a flour and sugar free traditional pumpkin pie.
I’m not crazy about the American pumpkin pies, but since my husband is one (i.e. American) I decided to make him one pie for Shabbat. What can I say? It seems like even I could learn to like pumpkin pie!
To help us locals, I converted the recipe to more understandable measures …
Dr. Davis’ Pumpkin Pie
For the crust mix:
For the filling mix:
Some of my comments: (can’t without them )
(I personally don’t like nutmeg so much.)
(November 28, 2011)
Today there was an article on Ynet … And it’s talked about in all the news.
First I’d like to say that I think it’s very important that our ministers discuss the subject. Some of them would also benefit implementing a more healthy lifestyle.
I get the sense of “doomsday” because when they write “based on recommendations tested and proven effective in various countries” I, for whatever reason, feel that most of these recommendations are based on recommendations from the United States (more bread and fruit for diabetics) and Denmark (fat taxes), etc., i.e. an extension of the recommendations we’ve had for the past fifty years, and we can see how they haven’t worked but increased the problem. (If they’d base their recommendations on what’s happening for example in Sweden, there would’ve been bigger headlines – “eat butter and lose weight” for example … )
So what are the recommendations? Here’s a list from the article, with some comments from me (I couldn’t resist ):
“Local authorities: establish sports facilities”
I see parks with brand new fitness room machines for anyone’s use, but I don’t see anyone actually using them. I know I several times have wanted to go and try them out but just haven’t done it. So how are the authorities going to make people take advantage of them?
“Refreshments at work: fruits and vegetables”
Nice actually, about vegetables. But when will they understand that fruits are not equivalent to vegetables??? An occasional fruit can be possible just like with any other candy. Occasionally!
“Schools: no fattening food”
Hallelujah! Does that mean no more soft drinks and granola bars full of sugar in the vending machines? Or that it would be possible to get bread-crumbs-free schnitzel in the cafeterias?
“Prohibition to sell foods containing margarine”
Ah, here we go! “Encouraging the Israeli consumers to prefer purchasing food products with high nutritional value, such as whole wheat bread”. To eat more whole grains … (What does that do under a heading for margarine?) But to limit trans fats – I’m all for! And parve cakes can be made with coconut fat.
“Restaurants: will be required to state caloric value”
And why is that good? Would be better to state composition of carbohydrates, fat, and protein in the food. Much more efficient.
“Ministry of Agriculture: develop more healthy varieties”
Hmmmm … We saw what happened to wheat, just hope the same thing won’t happen for vegetables …
“Gym: no need for doctor’s permission”
What can I say … Not everyone can go to the gym … And it’s not recommended to everyone … I’m usually for that each one should take responsibility for him-/herself and his/her own health … But it will be interesting to see what will happen when the first poor guy who collapses in the gym because he wasn’t healthy enough, then sues the place …
In conclusion – I do wish I’m wrong and that the government and all the others who cooks the program really research and studies what happens in other countries and gets to the appropriate conclusions accordingly, and don’t just go like a herd after Big Agriculture and Big Pharma …
Posted in General
Tagged awarness, governmental recommendations, spinning in my head
(November 25, 2011)
The DietDoctor put some statistics from OECD on his site about the obesity rate in industrialized countries. Interesting!
Why don’t you come to hear more at the introductory lecture?
(November 23, 2011)
The date has changed - you can see all the details here.
And for those who can’t come north - there will be more later in other places.
Posted in General
(22 November 2011)
I received some complaints that I don’t write enough …
Well, I apologize!
To my defense I can say that I’m busy translating the blog to English (I got some comments that not everyone here in Israel reads Hebrew), and also preparing interesting material to an introductory lecture that I hope to give soon. (There will also be other times elsewhere in the country.)
So in the meantime so you won’t be bored …
Here are some links to interesting things:
A short report on the good of fat (!) broadcast last Sunday morning in the U.S. My only remark is that for some reason there always have to be the “politically correct” addition to bring someone from FDA or similar to tell the conventional sayings and warnings that have no basis …
An article on corn in Calcalist from a few days ago. Thanks to Mr.Kadmoni who referred me to it! Much to my delight I stopped eatingcorn as soon as I moved to LCHF, but if I’d then only keep eatingcorn as corn, in the summer, on the way home from the sea …
And at Dr. Davis’ they’re preparing for Thanksgiving with a pumpkin pie recipe with no wheat or sugar. I think I’ll make it for my American husband and even eat some myself. And perhaps I’ll try other fillings, too …
Happy watching and reading!
Posted in General
Tagged corn, fats, happens in the world, pumpkin, spinning in my head
(November 19, 2011)
I opened a Twitter account …
And what do I do with it?
I decided to forward other Twitter messages about LCHF, paleo, etc. from around the world, and of course announce about new postings and other things happening on the blog.
You can keep track of it on @lchf_israel
(November 16, 2011)
I finally finished translating [to Hebrew] and fixing up the folder “LCHF for Beginners“, a quick guide by Dr. Andreas Eenfeld.
The translating I finished quickly, but … – Unti-il I decided to give up on Photoshop and connect the text with the pictures in the simplest method and most unprofessional way there is … (I’m really not a graphic artist!)
So, voila! Enjoy and spread.
