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A Call for a Low-Carb Diet
The New York Times ^ | Sept 2, 2014 | A O'Connor

Posted on 09/02/2014 4:58:30 AM PDT by Pharmboy

People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows.

The findings are unlikely to be the final salvo in what has been a long and often contentious debate about what foods are best to eat for weight loss and overall health. The notion that dietary fat is harmful, particularly saturated fat, arose decades ago from comparisons of disease rates among large national populations. But more recent clinical studies in which individuals and their diets were assessed over time have produced a more complex picture. Some have provided strong evidence that people can sharply reduce their heart disease risk by eating fewer carbohydrates and more dietary fat, with the exception of trans fats. The new findings suggest that this strategy more effectively reduces body fat and also lowers overall weight.

The new study was financed by the National Institutes of Health and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It included a racially diverse group of 150 men and women — a rarity in clinical nutrition studies — who were assigned to follow diets for one year that limited either the amount of carbs or fat that they could eat, but not overall calories.

“To my knowledge, this is one of the first long-term trials that’s given these diets without calorie restrictions,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, who was not involved in the new study. “It shows that in a free-living setting, cutting your carbs helps you lose weight without focusing on calories. And that’s really important because someone can change what they eat more easily...”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carbohydrates; carbs; cardiovascular; diet; fats; lowcarb; weightloss
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

You beat me to it. The NYT is late coming to this party. The Atkins diet or the elimination of processed carbs makes for healthier blood lab results and lower weight without necessarily cutting a lot of calories. It can lower or even eliminate the risk of diabetes, as well. This is especially true as we age and become less active. If you don’t burn off that glucose created by the processed carbohydrates you consume, within 24 hours, it turns to fat and is stored in our bellies and butts. Without the processed carbohydrate intake, the body seeks out those stores of fats to burn for energy, resulting in weight loss. Unfortunately, fruits are almost straight sugar or fructose. They have to be eliminated or drastically reduced for this diet to work.

The bottom line is this: Eating fats doesn’t make you fat. Eating processed carbs that are converted to fats is what makes you fat.


21 posted on 09/02/2014 5:37:10 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: CatherineofAragon
Who ever told you olive oil isn't healthy? I struggled with weight my whole life, finally got where I should be just over a year ago. Seasoned fresh vegetables sauted in olive oil have become a major part of my diet.

I do avoid milk fat, totally. Some nutritionists say that the antibiotics used in processed milk settle in it. Besides that I read some offbeat theory somewhere that milk can cause lungs to clog up. Still eat meat, but simply prepared and high quality. Grains...only 100% whole grain.

22 posted on 09/02/2014 5:37:29 AM PDT by grania
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To: Pharmboy
In Jay Lifton's book, "The Nazi Doctors," he details the experimental soup made for the inmates in the concentration camps. They wanted to see what they could feed them that would bring on starvation slowly within a certain amount of time.

They settled on a water with cooked vegetables with added meat "flavoring." They actually made a low-fat soup which was designed to make the inmates' minds dull to where they were ambivalent to what was happening around them.

Depending on the amount of fat in the soup they knew how long it would take to starve a person to death. One month, two months, six months - they had it all worked out.

Yeah, the Nazi doctors invented the very first "low-fat" diet.

23 posted on 09/02/2014 5:39:48 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Vermont Lt
We were designed to eat stuff that walked on the ground, or came out of the ground/water.

True, but we also are designed to eat one thing at a time whenever we could find it. There were no plates, dinner prep, or freezers. We found, we ate. Complex carbs are ok to eat too, but sparingly. When we found them, they were small bits of grain that we would eat slowly because they were so hard to gather. Grains would usually be a last resort when there was no game, fish or fruits.

Today's grilled cheese sandwich or cereal with milk cannot be processed by our digestive systems.

24 posted on 09/02/2014 5:40:59 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: Wyatt's Torch

Same here...it’s amazing but drop the grains and other crap the government promotes and you revert back into peak condition in very little time.


25 posted on 09/02/2014 5:41:40 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

I went low carbs this summer and have lost twenty pounds (only the beginning). I informed my doctor & he approved, saying, “If it’s white, don’t bite”, meaning restrict: bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, & sugar.

I replied that “`white is not right’, also known as the Louis Farrakhan diet”. He laughed.


26 posted on 09/02/2014 5:48:48 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: palmer

Can you imagine what people would think of someone who walked into a field of barley, ripped off a few stalks and just started gnawing.

People would think they were insane.


27 posted on 09/02/2014 5:51:37 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: grania

No Oil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_o4YBQPKtQ

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28 posted on 09/02/2014 5:56:46 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: usconservative
Yes...quite aware. A few points:

Atkins was a cardiologist, not a surgeon. He popularized the low-carb approach, based on an article published in the medical literature in 1963. See here for more.

But this was old news more than 100 years ago. Have a look at this story from merrie olde England for the 19th century. The US demonization of fat began with the phony studies of Ancel Keys.

29 posted on 09/02/2014 5:57:28 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: usconservative

Oh, I agree with everything you say. The whole “fat is bad” meme is just wrong. Our bodies need fat.

Personally, I don’t cut out carbs altogether; that isn’t healthy, and I believe it’s a type of fad dieting. But I do limit them. I’m definitely a carnivore.


30 posted on 09/02/2014 6:01:13 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: grania

Some folks haven’t caught up yet. The idea that all fat is bad is very, well, 1980s.


31 posted on 09/02/2014 6:04:26 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Pharmboy
You should read Like Junk Science on the Climate, Saturated-Fat Fearmongering Has Been Exposed as Baseless May 07, 2014.

Also read There's politics all through the diet industry, and selling medicine is where their profit lies.
32 posted on 09/02/2014 6:10:21 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I’m a fitness trainer. As the food fads come and go, and as I’ve devised my own meal plans for my clients through the years, I’ve come to realize one thing...moderation in all things is what really works. Use common sense in staying away from the junk and processed foods, don’t be a glutton and don’t starve yourself, either. Eat fruits and vegetables, drink water, eat red meat in moderation and give yourself a treat now and then or you’ll fall off the wagon.


33 posted on 09/02/2014 6:11:50 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: Pharmboy

So. What other ‘health facts’ have we been assured are true are in fact not true?


34 posted on 09/02/2014 6:12:34 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Pharmboy

This is a Brand NEW study.
Cholesterol : Dietary guidelines are wrong on saturated fats, claims cardiovascular researcher
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Dietary-guidelines-are-wrong-on-saturated-fats-claims-cardiovascular-researcher

SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT SATURATED FAT! Butter is good for you!
http://time.com/2861540/fat-and-carbs-diet-guidelines/

I do great on the typical type 2 diabetic diet sans the high sugar fruits. Being allergic to the drugs had a lot to do with changing how I eat.

But I never bought into the fat issue. When you put your body in starvation mode, it shuts down the burning of calories. Balance is a better way to go with an occasional treats. Man has always been a MEAT eater first and foremost, grains were the last thing we learned to eat, and it took cooking them to do that.

Those with digestive disorders are a different lot of patients. Just as those with food allergies are. I have to keep reminding my PCP that I won’t take Fish Oil it is made from sea food, and I am allergic to it.


35 posted on 09/02/2014 6:13:36 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: Pharmboy

How could the low carb group lose ONLY 3.5 kg (7.7#) in 12 months? Should be able to do that in under one month.


36 posted on 09/02/2014 6:19:11 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Black Agnes

Another one is that salt causes high blood pressure.


37 posted on 09/02/2014 6:19:23 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: freepertoo

Well, that’s pretty much how I do it, and I’m not overweight. I drink adequate amounts of water, I do love vegetables-—fruit, not so much, and too much fructose isn’t a good thing, anyway. I always keep dark chocolate in the pantry. Fish, red meat, chicken.....love it all. I could never be a vegetarian.

But when you restrict carbs, at least somewhat, you don’t need to starve, and you will lose weight (if you need to). My mother-in-law thinks she can eat only half a handful of nuts at a time or she’ll get fat. I eat as many nuts as I want, but I don’t gain weight.


38 posted on 09/02/2014 6:19:28 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: cdcdawg

Yup, that’s another one.


39 posted on 09/02/2014 6:20:07 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Pharmboy

Bkmk. Thanks for posting this.


40 posted on 09/02/2014 6:24:16 AM PDT by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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