Posted on 11/08/2015 4:55:19 PM PST by WhiskeyX
Jeff Volek, professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University, talks about why a diet that is low in carbohydrates and low in calories is good for you. He also talks about why saturated fats are not necessarily bad.
For the purposes of this discussion, a carb is a carb. They all end up at the same level of the Krebs cycle as 6 carbon fragments. Like it always has been, the total amount of carbs in your diet is important because it's the total amount of calories in your diet that matters most.
When it comes to your health, you should only be concerned with the source of the carbs if you are unhealthy. If you are already healthy, it generally doesn’t matter. For a healthy body, total calories consumed vs. total calories burned is what really matters. Same as it ever was.
I have just watched the first 5 videos and am excited to find a lifestyle that I can possibly adhere to. The low calorie low fat diets I have been on before were nothing I could stick with.
The Roman army and farm families did plenty of hard physical labor, so they needed lots of calories.
When I went through Airborne training in the mid-70s, I ate at least 7,500 calories a day, was in top physical condition, and certainly did not put on any weight.
For most people, a low carb diet works best, if you need to lose or maintain a desireable weight.
I didn't say that. I just said we don't know, because they didn't know what it was.
The suggestion that we eat more carbs today than we did in the past, and that we're ruining our health because of it, is not borne out by the increasing lifespan of people throughout the world.
Actually that was part of my point. How many people don't develop Type II diabetes until they are in the 50s or later? Far more people died earlier then, so they never became diabetic.
Combine a sedentary lifestyle with cheaper and more abundant food, and you have your answer.
I don't disagree that lifestyle is a big part of developing diabetes. I remember as a kid one of my history textbooks talked about how much more Americans ate than Europeans in the 1800s. There was a story of a farm wife who kept track of her baking for her family for one year. As I recall she baked something like 300 pies, 200 cakes, 1,400 loaves of bread and 4,000 biscuits. But then her family was doing hard physical work every day from sun up until sun down. I don't doubt they were burning off those calories. Someone who drives to a desk job isn't going to burn them off no matter how often they go to the gym.
When he was earning gold medals, Michael Phelps would scarf down 12,000 calories - mostly from carbohydrates - every day he was in training. Some here claim that this makes him unhealthy and ensures a life riddled with disease. It's all nonsense.
For most people, a low carb diet works best, if you need to lose or maintain a desireable weight.
Given the availability of carbs in our food supply today, for most people, a low carb diet simply results in a low(er) calorie diet.
Again, you seem to suggest that the end result (diabetes) back then was predetermined for many people. The facts don't support such a thing. Best estimates show that less than 10% of the US population is diabetic today. That's still a lot of people, but with one-third of all Americans considered obese today, it is not surprising. Given that just three generations ago obesity was rare, it is reasonable to conclude that diabetes then was also rare, even though the average lifespan was shorter than it is today.
WhiskeyX,
Thank you for your Nutritional Studies posts and ping list.
I for one really appreciate your time on getting this information out to those of us who seriously read through them.
Sincerely,
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I used to defer eating for the first ~6 hours of the day. A pint of coffee with a few oz of cream was plenty to start my day. But I also struggled with the “short” 24 hours/day cycle. I’d be normal if the days were 28 hours long.
Anyway, good you have a working routine.
>> Best estimates show that less than 10% of the US population is diabetic today.
25% of the population has an abnormally high glucose level which qualifies for pre-diabetes. Add your value of 10%, and that amounts to 1/3 of the population.
It damn sure works
Get carbs down below 100 or 50 or 20 if you’re hardcore marine style self discipline and the weight will pour off
From all over.....it ain’t water weight it’s all of your fattiness
You just shrink
24 days ago I was 6’5” and 262.....not good but at my height you can hide it better...just been pigging out on sweets and breads for a year knowing the day would come
So ...and I’ve tried it before but never like this.....I’m averaging maybe 35-50 carb grams a day ....and eating all the meats and dairy and greens I want
Zero bread and very little sweets and no other carbs much at all
Best cheat is peanut butter or sugar free jello with heavy cream or ready whip
Anyhow I’m hungry when I eat twice a day and rarely snack
Today I’m 234
28 pounds in 24 days.....my wife is so jealous poor thing....she’s tiny anyhow but she being a split tail loses weight much slower
I’d like to hit 215-220 which would be my lowest since 1996
Eating meats and butter and cheeses and salad is easy for me but I do miss fries and rice
I am also trying to dodge diabetes which is so much more prevalent when older like me and with a big waistline
Low carb diet works and you’re much less hungry
Don’t give up
You get a good woman by working at it
Nifster is just that way naturally
Scratchy.
LOL
Blame the man.
You and my wife could start a club
Trust I love you guys anyhow
It’s just how it is
I had your diet 3 years ago. In hindsight, I went overboard on the animal fats — like cooking an egg in a tablespoon of butter. I now use a high-grade olive oil (which doesn’t lose it’s molecular structure under heat — from what I understand.)
My high weight was 220. Dropped to 165 in a matter of months on a ~50 carb/day diet. It definitely works.
I’m still on a low carb diet (< 100 grams/day) but I’m gaining weight through total calories.
Yes they are
Their carb is rice
Very little refined sugar
And lots of sea protein or short pig
Dumbass Americans get a days worth of calories in one big gulp
We are fat as hell
Probably 1500% fatter than in my youth in the 1960s
You should add in “Sugar - the Bitter Truth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&spfreload=10
You’re flat out wrong. All carbs aren’t alike in how they are processed in our bodies and we really have only had a couple of generations of ready access to so many sugars and other simple carbs.
That is the nub of the problem.
The end result of a population that consumes more calories than they burn. It's about the total calories, not the source of those calories. Same as it ever was.
That’s a heck of an accomplishment, and if you keep going the way you are, you’ll hit your mark before you know it.
It’s true that limiting carbs will make you lose weight or, in my case, stay the weight I want to be.
The women in my husband’s family are all very skinny because they starve themselves. I’m not skinny and I absolutely do not want to be. I’ve been that way before, and I much prefer being a normal weight and having some female curves with a small waist.
My mother-in-law had some mixed nuts on the kitchen counter...she ate about three of them and said oh, I can only have these or I’ll gain weight. I told her I eat nuts all the time and I have more than just a few...it’s the low carb content and the good fats that are key.
I started limiting my carbs years ago, and I’ve had no weight problems and I don’t go around hungry. I recommend it to women who find it hard to lose weight. A friend of mine is overweight, but she loves her carbs...she has the notion that all she has to do is substitute brown rice for white and she can have all she wants. Sure, the brown rice is better for you, but the carb content still should be limited.
Nope, their carbs are carbs just like our carbs. They all end up as glucose and provide 4 calories per gram. The Japanese consume less total calories than we do, so they are not as fat as we are, but their diet is heavily skewed toward carbohydrates (rice, noodles, etc), but they eat less total calories than Americans. Americans consume way too many calories, mostly from carbs, and they have the waistlines to prove it. Carbs don't cause us to become fat. Too many calories in and a sedentary lifestyle is the real culprit.
When I lived in Japan, I was constantly asked why Americans were so fat. We'd go out to dinner and they'd have four pieces of sushi and be done while I was just getting started. I lost a lot of weight during my time there even though I increased the amount of carbs I ate.
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