Re: The Secret to Low-Carb Diet Success: Eat Less


outsor@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Diabetics were put in hospital to control what was eaten, a low carb diet
> led to weight loss and better glucose and lipid numbers. The weight loss
> was because they ate fewer calories, not because of some magic difference
> in what was eaten.
>
> http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3287
>
>
> The Secret to Low-Carb Diet Success: Eat Less
> on Tuesday, November 29 @ 14:22:13 EST
> You can lead a man to steak, but you can't make him eat. This is the
> secret of success for low carbohydrate diets, according to
> researchers.
>
> In a small study published in the March 15 Annals of Internal
> Medicine, Guenther Boden, MD, a professor of medicine at Temple
> University School of Medicine, put 10 obese volunteers with type 2
> diabetes on a strict low carb diet and recorded every calorie they
> consumed.
>
> "We told them they could have whatever they wanted. If they didn't
> like the hospital food, we would send out for other food," said Dr.
> Boden, an endocrinologist.
>
> Although the patients liked the food - eggs, bacon and link sausage
> for breakfast, for example - they cut back on daily intake by about
> 1,000 calories. At baseline the volunteers were all consuming an
> average of 3,111 calories. "They each cut back to about 2,100
> calories, which, as it turns out, was the exact amount they should be
> consuming based on their height and age," Boden said.
>
> As a result they each lost about 3.6 pounds and improved their blood
> glucose levels.
> "Carbohydrates appear to drive both appetite and blood sugar," he
> said.
>
> Among the findings:
>
> · Mean fasting plasma glucose decreased from 135 mg/dL on day 8 to 113
> mg/dL on day 22 (p=0.025)
> · Serum triglycerides decreased by 35% from 162.83 ± 5.58mg/dL to
> 105.31 ± 2.65 mg/dL (p<0.001).
> · Total cholesterol decreased from 180 mg/dL to 163 mg/dL (p<0.02).
> · No significant differences in HDL or LDL.
>
> During the first week of the 3-week study, the volunteers ate a
> regular diet with no restrictions. For the next two weeks they were
> put on an Atkins induction diet, which limits carbohydrates to 20
> grams per day.
>
> It was well known that a low-carb diet can rapidly take off pounds,
> but Dr. Boden said that until his study, "there was disagreement about
> what caused the weight loss: was it just water weight, or did people
> burn off more energy with protein, or was it that something special
> about calories from carbohydrates that made them trigger more weight
> gain? It turns out that it is very simple - people just eat less when
> you take away the carbohydrates."
>
> But while this approach works in the short term, Boden said he doesn't
> think it can be sustained over the long haul. Rather than eliminating
> carbohydrates or restricting diets to 20 grams of carbs, he suggests a
> simpler approach: "take one potato instead of two or three, one slice
> of bread rather than three and stay away from desserts."
>
> In an editorial that accompanied the study, George A. Bray, MD, chief
> of clinical obesity and metabolism at the Pennington Biomedical
> Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., commended Dr. Boden for a "nicely
> done, short-term metabolic ward study." But Dr. Bray said that he is
> not convinced that "that one diet has any more value than another -
> they all have value."
> · Advise patients that this small study suggests that low carb diets
> may be effective for short term weight loss, but their long term
> efficacy was not studied.
>
> · Advise patients that the major contribution of this study was the
> observation that the effectiveness of low carb diet appears to be due
> to voluntary reduction of caloric intake, at least in the short term.
> Annals of Internal Medicine, Nov. 2005

***quote

But while this approach works in the short term, Boden said he doesn't
think it can be sustained over the long haul. Rather than eliminating
carbohydrates or restricting diets to 20 grams of carbs, he suggests a
simpler approach: "take one potato instead of two or three, one slice
of bread rather than three and stay away from desserts."

***unquote

That is a perfect description of the atkins diet, cut carbs a lot for a
couple of weeks to get over the carb cravings, then eat a reasonable
amount of carbs the rest of the time. This guys sounds like he's 100%
pro low-carb.

TC

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