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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Nope-—way too much. Unnatural (our hunter gatherer ancestors ate about 20-30% carbs and Cro Magnons in winter ate almost none). A carb from whole wheat pasta is still a carb—but with more fiber. Big deal. No more than 30% total carbs. But, that’s my studied opinion—I do this for a living. But please—if 50% works for you, do it.
You see, statins work in the liver by blocking an enzyme pathway that leads to the creation of cholesterol. Unfortunately, that same enzyme pathway is the one your body uses to create CoQ10. So statin takers need to be especially aware of the fact that they’re not producing CoQ10 at the levels they would be if they were taking no medication. When your body lacks CoQ10, energy production will lag and cell function will suffer.
I respect your professional opinion. I’m also a professional in my field (fitness training), and ACE recommends that carbs be 50%. Which only goes to prove...what I’m not sure!!!! :-D
I would go to the meetings and tell the VPs and on one occasion the president at the time (they switch every year) that their recommendations for diet are killing their diabetic patients and making more obese people and diabetics by the minute. Some of them actually listened to me, but they are so brainwashed it will not be easy!
As I tell my patients: there are 2 essential fatty acids, 8 essential amino acids, but NO essential carbohydrates. None.
The ADA recommendations killed my grandmother.
She lost a lot of weight on Atkins in the early 80’s about 5 years after she became diabetic. Got off all her meds even.
Went to her doctor who complimented her on her weight loss and excellent bloodwork. And when she told him how she’d lost the weight he shrieked ‘but you’ll DIE of a HEART ATTACK!’.
So she went back to the dietary recommendations for diabetics, gained a whole bunch of weight back (because carbs make you hungry if you’re a diabetic and screw up your thyroid and thus metabolism) got back on all her meds. And ended up on insulin shortly thereafter.
And 5 years later she DIED of a HEART ATTACK.
Criminals. Totally sold out criminals.
Thanks
The pathway that statins inhibit is also one that produces CoQ10 in the body. When you block both bad things happen long term.
One thing your heart uses is CoQ10. IIRC it uses more than any other organ.
my goal in life is to outlive all the vegans and health nuts in my husband’s family.
you must ask yourself why man has consumed red meat for thousands of years yet only in the last say 75 have we seen the rise in cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Its because of processed manufactured “food” loaded with carbs to make them palatable.
Carbs=sugar=spiking blood sugar=insulin abuse. At some point your body says look... you really need to spike me to get me to make insulin with all those carbs.
The low fat high carb diet that the media and medical community pushed on us is what is killing us.
RDA says 300 carbs is what you should eat. Yeah, if you want to kill yourself.... If your already healthy and are at a good weight eat up to 80 grams of carbs a day. if you need to lose weight keep it around 50 or less.
Here is the paleo twist. Stick to all the meat cheese and vegetables you want and you won't even have to count the carbs. (paleo people debate the cheese) Try to stick to organic meats and grass fed dairy but even if you don't its still 1000s of times better sticking to whole food. EAT all the eggs you want.
If it looks like it was made in a factory don't eat it.... or eat very little of it.
I eat all the fatty meats, cheese and veggies I want. I am 5'7 118 lbs and I do not exercise.
I know of a great website for a guide. If you want it pm me. It might be inappropriate to post such a website. The best part is they don't try to sell you anything.
Saturated fat and cholesterol have been unfairly demonized.... Probably to get people to take up another unhealthy lifestyle known as vegan or vegetarian. My guess, the animal rights people and the global warming people.
Calorie breakdown.
I do 50ish% fat 30ish% protein less than 20ish% carbs
I need to qualify my recommendation (apologies, I am used to working with active exercisers, runner, etc.). If you actively work out 3-5 days a week, carbs should be about 50% of your calories. My apologies.
If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you? (And I have had great success with my own modified version of the Atkins diet).
Potatoes are not bad in and of themselves. It’s just that we prepare them in awful ways and eat too much of them. I think I heard something about moderation once, a long time back...
Taking fish oil made my cholesterol level drop significantly. It was the only thing I changed and it wasn’t even to change my levels. It was a general health choice and the dropping levels were a surprise. If I took it twice a day (or even every day consistently) my numbers would go down even more I bet.
But what do you think of the recommendations on fiber?
I tried that percentage roughly with my t2d. There weren’t enough hours in the day to exercise my way out of the high sugars brought on by 50% of my diet from carbs.
I was literally exercising 2hrs a day. Recumbant bike and treadmill jogging. Given I had a job and other responsibilities plus a commute, any more time was completely unreasonable. My total calorie intake was roughly 1500 calories. My A1C was still 6.5.
Once I ditched most of the carbs (I eat 20-30g a day total now) I could rejoin the living and enjoy those 2 hrs a day doing something ELSE than running like a hamster. And my A1C runs between 4.8 and 5.2 now. Oh, and I lost weight I wasn’t able to lose in spite of all the exercising.
aren’t their CoQ10 vitamins? Should they be taken for normal healthy middle aged people?
I take coq10 all the time and I’m not on a statin. Your body makes it naturally, it’s needed, but you make less the older you get.
YMMV.
” I think I heard something about moderation once, a long time back...”
that’s the key. Cutting out bread and rice and potatoes is kind of ridiculous too, especially if you have kids.
I’m eating some soup right now with some white rice and a ham sandwich. I wish I the money and time to make meat and vegetable for both lunch AND dinner but that’s not realistic.
The easiest, cheapest low carb meal I cook is a 3 egg omelette with 1oz of cheddar + 1oz of swiss. Add in veggies like onions, peppers, tomatoes and what have you if you have them. I dollop of sour cream on top when it’s done.
Super yummy. If I eat one of those for breakfast I’m usually not hungry till 3 or 4pm.
Low carbing kids is a fantasy by and large. I have one child that *might*, *might* actually tolerate that. She loves veggies and omelettes and stuff. The rest would go on food strike. And whine. A lot.
Agnes, I doubt there are too many men worldwide that eat the amount of eggs I do.
When I moved to the country I raised free range hens. Real free range - like they go anywhere they want and eat bugs and grass all day. And get killed by bold day predators.
Anyway, I read that free range yolks were high in omega 3. I make omelets once in awhile but 5 out of 7 days in a week its 4 fried eggs I the morning. Fried in Land O Lakes Salted butter.
Forget the bacon grease crap, that’s for store bought eggs. You haven’t lived until you eat a free range egg that has a orange yolk. The salted butter is all you need for flavor and just a little pepper. If I see my daughter grab for the salt shaker she gets it.
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