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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some folks haven’t caught up yet. The idea that all fat is bad is very, well, 1980s.
You should read Like Junk Science on the Climate, Saturated-Fat Fearmongering Has Been Exposed as Baseless May 07, 2014.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.
So. What other ‘health facts’ have we been assured are true are in fact not true?
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.
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.
Another one is that salt causes high blood pressure.
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.
Yup, that’s another one.
Bkmk. Thanks for posting this.
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