I’ve Lost 30lb In 2+ Months On A Low-calorie, Low-fat Diet W/exercise. How Is A High-fat, Low-carb Diet Better
It doesn’t appear that the carb craze is what it was 2 or 3 years ago, but I still see a lot of high-protein, fatty, low-carb diet plans and food products out there and people are seemingly losing weight. What makes the carb-counting diet the diet of choice for so many people? Are people really losing more weight this way and is it sustainable (are people keeping off the weight)? Is it bad for the heart?
I haven’t gone on an extremely low carb diet, but from what many people say, you gain the weight back fast when you’re off the diet.
lowering carbs is an easy way to lose weight for people..who want to lose it fast (short term weight loss)
i don’t think the carb craze is as ‘crazy’ as it was a few years ago. It wasn’t studied long enough to come up with any problem. .but now that we did..
“High-protein, low carbohydrate diets are not recommended because they restrict healthful foods that provide essential nutrients and do not provide the variety of foods needed to adequately meet nutritional needs. Individuals who follow these diets are therefore at risk for compromised vitamin and mineral intake, as well as potential cardiac, renal, bone, and liver abnormalities overall.”
http://www.about.com
After approximately one year until November 2003, approximately 188 individuals reported experiencing problems.
* 44% reported constipation
* 42% reported loss of energy
* 40% reported bad breath
* 31% reported difficulty concentrating
* 22% reported kidney problems: kidney stones (11%), severe kidney infections (2%), or reduced kidney function (9%)
* 5% reported gout
* 5% reported diabetes
* 5% reported osteoporosis
* 4% reported colorectal (1%) and other cancers (3%)
When carbohydrate intake or utilization is insufficient to provide glucose to the cells that rely on it as an energy source, ketone bodies are formed from fatty acids. An increase in circulating ketones can disturb the body’s acid-base balance, causing metabolic acidosis. Even mild acidosis can have potentially deleterious consequences over the long run, including hypophosphatemia (low blood phosphate levels), loss of calcium from bone, increased risk of osteoporosis, and an increased propensity to form kidney stones.http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/dietaryt…
Isn’t it time for the scientific community to realise that people are different. One diet does not fit all. I have reduced all my bad cholesterol numbers to good numbers using low carb methods and I feel great and am losing weight. It works for me.
For you.. maybe not.
Eskimos survived for centuries on almost pure fat diets. Chinese folk eat rice all day. HELLO!!!! How can this be explained with one swooping diet?
It can’t.
I dont know the answer I doubt science and the medical community more and more every day. they have agendas like any religious person does. POLITICS rules all..