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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It’s not a fantasy. My 6 year old loves low carb, but that what she’s grown up with. Her older siblings tolerate some, but teens have plenty of health to spare. Lol
Oh yeah. We have our own chickens. Storebought eggs are smarmy in comparison.
Eggs are good for you!
I love winter except for the fact that my chickens stop laying. I don’t use a light in the winter. Like baseball, I give them the offseason to heal up before Spring Training/Laying.
antidisestablishment, what would be considered a typical low carb lunch for a kid who you pack their lunch?
Um.... NYT??
You’re four years behind the times. Catch up. Low carb is good but now science has come beyond low carb as we turn to our gut bugs, who are our immune system and need resistant starch. Resistant starch is essential, thus carbs are also essential.
More important than macronutrients are what you actually eat. Many vegetables are better cooked. Natural carbs like tubers are great for you, yes, even white potatoes. Avoid processed foods, and choose gluten free grains. Cooked, cooled white rice is a treat for your immune system.
You are so far behind the nutritional curve, NYT.
Coconut oil is great; it has a number of health benefits, like olive oil. (Both are even good as hair treatments, LOL). I don’t have a problem with butter...margarine is pretty nasty stuff, IMO.
I have nine free-range hens of varying breeds and a Leghorn rooster. You are so right about the yolks. A woman at church buys five dozen from me at a time! During this last winter (our first with chickens), we still got 3-5 eggs/day with no artificial light.
I am 36 in October. Atkins philosophy is good however, all the garbage so called food they manufacture is not good for you.
LOL. We use a light for heat only. It gets chilly in their chicken palace.
Packing lunch makes it hard. We homeschool,so she eats the same as her mom.
I am not a strict low-carb, paleo,or anything. I am more of a macro guy: percentages.
Anyway, eggs, meats (more poultry and fish), veggies, fruits and fats. Hard boiled eggs, egg salad, pickled eggs, cold cuts (not processed, you can just eat cold meats), jerky, Greek yogurt, any veggies, limited fruits and nuts.
It’s really about limiting processed foods as much as practical. Most products are made for shelf life, not taste or health. It takes some time, but most things can be made fresh and the difference is amazing.
One caveat... active kids have to eat a lot, so make sure their fat intake is significant.
I was at one of the early meetings where paleo crytalized with its early adherents—including me, back in ‘84. I do this for a living—I am an MD who does weight loss/maintenance the paleo way.
Indeed...glad you mentioned that. When I place my patients on the weight loss low carb/paleo, I recommend a fiber supplement otherwise they get constipated. Most do, but not all. For maintenance, I have several approaches, and some of them require fiber too.
agreed... one does not have to get religious about it. To keep fat content high I always use real full fat butter or coconut oil. Beef jerky is great for solid protein. same here on the foods you mentioned. Little fruit mainly stick to high antioxidant berries and I love apples so that is one of my treats. I also love good humor or blue bunny strawberry or birthday cake ice cream bars on a stick. I can have those so long as all my other carbs are veggie originated.
I was diagnosed with vasal vagal syncope. I had a pacemaker installed. You have to be very inactive for 6 months while the leads adhere to the heart wall. I put on a few pounds... at this time I drank lots of soda.
Anyways I started dieting and exercise and would only lose 1 pound maybe 2 a week if I was lucky. I ended up putting it back on. When I discovered paleo and did it strictly... WOW is all I can say.
In week 1 I lost 11 pounds, in week 2 another 6, and week 3 another 4.
21 pounds in 3 weeks on strict paleo. I am not always strict but I did notice the less strict I was the faster they came back. I give myself an 8 pound buffer. If I get to the 8 its back to fanatical strict paleo.
I was pre diabetic high triglycerides and high cholesterol. Now all my labs are stellar.
You cannot go wrong with paleo. Just don’t eat processed crap or at least drastically reduce it.
How so?
Describes Americans (when ladies were naturally slim with a healthy glow and vitality, not sporting the haggard skeletor look of modern Hollyweird) before the RDA gospel of death. "We're from the government and here to [blank] you."
Four years behind? Ahem...try 50...or more. And the resistant starch is interesting, but only that. Need much more critical data. But, while it might turn out to be good, essential? ESSENTIAL? No...I don’t think so.
I agree. My wife recently switched to coconut oil and I like it. Still use real butter and olive oil as well. Used to make butter and raise chickens, and that was the best. Can’t really do that living in a metro area, but still try to get stuff as fresh as possible. We are part of a co-op and that helps a lot.
I used to drink a lot of soda, but now it’s strictly water and tea and am occasional gin and tonic. My fruits are apples and berries as we—can’t do real sweet ones. Pineapple and cottage cheese is a good snack. I do love hot foods, so we have tons of really spicy peppers, sauces,etc. I also grill a lot.
My son and I did a lean gains diet and that worked well. It’s intermittent fasting. You eat only during an 8 hour window, and it was very interesting. I lost well, but also gained muscle. Huge difference. I think fasting is a good idea. Americans eat too much and fasting resets the gut.
All things in moderation. Sounds like you found what works for you.
Among other things, factory farmed raised animals are fed an unnatural diet that is lacking in Omega3 fatty acids.
Which means the meat from factory farm animals is lacking in Omega3 fatty acids.
Hunters eat meat that is high in Omega3’s. Likely why Eskimos who ate just about nothing but meat had almost or no heart disease.
This is one reason grass fed beef is healthier than factory farm raised beef.
I’m sensing that you have never actually been on a farm or have little knowledge of what cattle or hogs are raised being fed. ALL cattle are raised on either grass or similar type Roughage. Their digestive system demands it. If they were raised on anything other than Roughage they would die shortly after being born. Hogs are fed pretty much what they would eat in the wild. Grains and other non Roughage type feeds as their digestive system does better on that. To think that farmers don’t understand what an animal grows best on and stays healthy is ludicrous.
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