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**Roger Zoul** · March 1st, 2007, 05:53 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

wrote:
:: On Mar 1, 8:54 am, "Hollywood" wrote:
::: On Mar 1, 8:26 am, Aaron Baugher wrote:
:::
:::: Jbuch writes:
::::: But you forgot the part that if the study doesn't succeed, the
::::: blame will go to the low-carb part.
:::
:::: Which seems likely. Cutting calories by 50% certainly has nothing
:::: to do with low-carb eating, and starving the test subjects the
:::: whole time is just going to encourage recidivism and weight gain
:::: when they go into their maintenance (whatever that means to them)
:::: period.
:::
:::: --
:::: Aaron -- 285/235/200 --http://aaron.baugher.biz/
:::
:::: "If you hear hoofbeats, you just go ahead and think horsies, not
:::: zebras."
:::
::: While I agree that calories are somewhat secondary given the
::: metabolic advantage, the insulin metabolism, and the hunger
::: quashing effects of LC diets, even Atkins wrote that at some point,
::: calories matter (Atkins for Life). The Drs. Eades concur.
:::
::: By 50% seems like a Kimkins kind of thing. Lot of LC diets out
::: there, and not everything is Atkins-South Beach-Protein
::: Power(LifePlan). I wouldn't do Kimkins if it were the only thing
::: that actually worked, but that's me, I guess.
::
::
:: The whole thing sounds rather dubious to me. Also curious about why
:: this is 10 weeks of overnight stays. What's up with that? They
:: say the subjects can go to work or school, so they are obviously not
:: trying to keep them from eating unaccounted for food. Are they
:: afraid they will sleep walk and raid the fridge? LOL

Well, there is a lot of eating that goes on through the evening....which
packs the pounds on since calories & carbs do add up. Keeping them
overnight may tend to decrease that random eating and thus result in some
weight loss.

Of course, cutting food by 50% might upset some, causing them to look for
extra calories during the day.

But what do they mean by standard American diet? How many calories are in
that? 5000? if so, then cutting to 2500 may leave some of these people
full. When the gain weight, they'll blame that on low-carb, too.