Dear FH,
I briefly share my personal experience: after 4 years of visiting the “best doctors” in town and in Houston and seeing no results at all I tried the raw vegan diet with skepticism. I used to have terrible vomiting cycles once every week in average; this was the reason I started taking the Cymbalta 2 years ago, I was feeling very depressed and suicidal. I tried to get well in so many ways, visited even “shamans”, made research about all the strangest diseases you can imagine.
Nature cured me not “science” Don’t trust doctors, remember their business is illness, trust Mother Nature.
About this that you mention: “Unluckily I have hypertriglyceridemia. Recommended levels are less than 200 and mine use to run around 2000… As triglyceride formation is based on conversion of sugars, starches and other carbohydrates my intake of those is fairly limited.”
I believe this part of the 80 10 10 diet can help you, I trust it simply because it healed me:
The mistaken notion that eating fruit causes blood-sugar problems underlies most admonitions to steer clear of fruit, especially sweet fruit. Granted, high blood sugar does lead to Candida outbreaks, chronic fatigue, hyper- and hypoglycemia, diabetes, and a host of other conditions and diseases, even cancer. Too much sugar indeed is bad for you, though it is almost impossible to get too much sugar from the consumption of fresh fruit. Eating fruit is not the cause of blood sugar problems it's just not that simple.
I know what I am saying sounds counterintuitive. It is something like telling people that osteoporosis is not a calcium problem (see "The Dangers of Eating More Than 10% Protein" on page 106) Nevertheless, both are true: taking in more calcium cannot alone shore up brittle, osteoporotic bones… and fruit sugar alone does not cause high blood sugar. Stick with me, if you will, while I explain the real cause. Eating a diet of mostly fruit, including generous amounts of fresh sweet fruit, does not create high blood sugar not when you are eating a diet, that is. When the system is not gummed up with excess fat, the sugar from even fruit moves easily in and then out of the blood.
… You see, excess fat in the blood is what causes havoc in the system when good sources of sugar such as fruits are ingested.
Please buy and read the books, the medical establishment will only get you sicker and suck your money and life. Haven’t we learned the lesson with psychiatry??