New Study out on Low Carb Diets

[Shark01]

The increase in obesity, believe it or not, has been caused by replacing dietary fat with sugary carbohydrates. In the past 20+ years, we have reduced fat intake 30% and gotten 35% fatter. I mean have you ever looked at the nutritional information on those fat-free products

I have lost almost 120 lbs doing primarily low carb dieting. It just works better for me. I would much rather have bacon for breakfast and steak for dinner than the low fat alternatives.

But every diet that works must follow the energy equation:

Energy in (calories) < energy out = losing weight

Oh and RIP Dr Atkins.......I must have taken real guts to have such an unpopular stance all these years, just to see how visionary it looks now

 

[poantrex]

I have a very large file of research dating back as far as 1977 that clearly shows there is no metabolic advantage to very low carb/high fat diets for fat loss. It is true whether you're male or female, obese or diabetic, and whether you 'count' calories or not. They even put folks in whole body calorimeters to see if there is any metabolic difference, and found none. All the evidence (not just that study that started this thread) indicates that very low carb diets work merely because they kill appetite, thus resulting in reduced calories like any other hypocaloric diet. I don't see how any clear-thinking person could believe otherwise. However, if fats are your preference or you find a low carb diet easier to stick to, then that is the diet you should use. No need to infer any magical metabolic advantage.

Babyfaced: someone should tell your cousin's doc about soy protein for folks with kidney problems.

Uh. They work because your pancreas will secrete much less insulin than it would with the classic high carbohydrate diet. Fat burning is impaired when insulin is present...hence why low carb diets work.