Lyle McDonald schrieb:

Lady o' the house wrote:

I started low carbing 2 months ago because I didn't feel good. I was a
'pasta and pretzel queen' and I was hungry all the time. My brother has
lost about 50 pounds on the Atkins diet and he persuaded me to try it. I
definitely feel better eating fewer carbs and I have lost 16 pounds. Low
carbing may not work for everyone but it's working for me.

If you are interested in first reading about low carb dieting (I did so
before starting), check out Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution or one of the
other low carb diet books (you can find titles on Amazon.com---just search
for low carb diet).

No, don't check out Atkins book, it's a piece of ****.
Get Protein Power by the Eades. It only has one or two errors in it.


At least one of those errors could do severe harm to the reader, though.
They erroneously believe that alpha linolenic acid slows down the
eicosanoid synthesis pathway. This, however, is only true for those
eicosanoids that are synthesized from linoleic acid. They seem to be
unware that there is also a pathway from alpha linolenic acid to certain
eicosanoids and those eicosanoids act predominantly anti-inflammatory
and do all the other things the Eades attribute to the "good"
eicosanoids.

So everyone who follows their advice to avoid alpha linolenic acid would
do himself a disservice. The importance of alpha linolenic acid is also
clear from many studies like the Lion Diet Heart Study or the Nurses'
Health Study.

Thorsten

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"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution"

(Theodosius Dobzhansky)