Study: Resistant Starch Carbs Help Weight Loss

Yahoo! Contributor Network ^ | January 28, 2011 | BW Flag

[Immerito]

I didn’t realize Gary Taubes had a new book out. Thanks! I’ve added it to my reading list.

[worst-case scenario]

Now that sounds delicious.

[LS]

Taubes’ previous book, “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” is a gem, but it’s very dense with both science and a somewhat rambling history of “how we got here.” What he shows is that food science is EXACTLY like “climate science,” completely polluted and distorted by activists who captured a certain group in the government. With food, it’s the “low-fat, anti-meat” people who pushed carbs-—creating the obesity crisis. (My wife is a phenomenal baker, and Gary’s diet works, if I can get around my wife’s brownies and cookies!!)

[LS]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

They’re also great on shirt collars. Thanks decimon.

[LibertarianLiz]

What I like about this book is his use of studies from people who use the eat less/excercise more advice; yet, their very own studies show that neither works.

Hubby and I know we have to do this; but, neither of us likes eating like this. Yes, we lose weight, but he likes my garlic mashed potatoes and I like pasta and we both like pizza. Sigh. I know he's right; but it is difficult to do.

[LibertarianLiz]

Please read Taubes’ new book. He takes this theory head on and uses studies to prove that it just simply isn’t true. It sounds like it should be true; but, it doesn’t work. And, as someone who has been struggling with my weight since puberty, I can personally attest to the fact that it doesn’t work.

[WackySam]

Please read Taubes’ new book. He takes this theory head on and uses studies to prove that it just simply isn’t true. It sounds like it should be true; but, it doesn’t work. And, as someone who has been struggling with my weight since puberty, I can personally attest to the fact that it doesn’t work.

Getting fatter by eating less calories than your body burns is impossible. Energy can not be created or destroyed.

[WackySam]

"And, as someone who has been struggling with my weight since puberty, I can personally attest to the fact that it doesn’t work."

You've struggled with your weight because you either- 1- you don't know what your baseline calorie requirements are. 2- you can't control the amount you eat. 3- You're not active enough to burn to burn the excess calories you consume. 4- a combination of all the above.

It really is as simple as that.

[LS]

Yes. You CAN cheat a little, but the problem is that it's like a drunk---first you say, oh this brownie won't hurt. And it won't. But if you're like me, it's soon, "Oh, this afternoon brownie snack won't hurt before a dinner with lots of pasta and after a lunch with two slices of bread."

Again, if you haven't seen his bigger book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories," it's got far more studies.

[LibertarianLiz]

You are absolutely right. I have to get steeled for a complete change in the way I eat. I know it works, but it is difficult to eat this way.