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Old September 11th, 2014, 01:19 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
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Default Low-Carb Beats Low-Fat for Weight Loss, Study Says

On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 1:50:22 AM UTC-4, Lewis wrote:
Okay, so one time? In band camp? David Harmon was all, like:

-- Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:08:59 -0700

For people who want to lose weight and boost their heart health, cutting


down on carbohydrates may work better than trimming dietary fat,




Well duh, trimming dietary fat does *nothing* for weight loss. Your body

doesn't have a mechanism to convert dietary fat into stored fat, it can

only convert carbohydrates to fat.



IDK about that. It's the first time I've ever heard that claim. A quick
google produces some evidence that dietary fat can be converted into body
fat:

http://thesmarterscienceofslim.com/h...ly-but-simply/

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=409411

Those probably aren't the definitive sources on the subject, but it's what I
could find. I didn't find any reference that says dietary fat can't be converted into body fat. It also sounds unlikely from an evolution standpoint. You would think humans would have evolved so that any source of food can be converted into stored fat for survival. To not be able to store
readily available fat from a killed animal would seem to be a potentially
fatal flaw.




You can lose weight by limiting calories, but that starves your body so

you tend to 'rubber band' the weight back on. You can lose weight by

exercising more, but you tend to need more calories, so you eat more

and then you stop exercising and the weight comes back. You can

eliminate carbs which means you can eat anything you want to that

contains no carbs (as much fat and protein as you want), but as soon as

you start eating carbs again, the weight comes back.



So, you can starve yourself of calories, exercise a lot, or eliminate

carbs. Any ne of them will cause you to lose weight, but the worst

choice is limiting calories.



+1






The BEST option seems to be exercise and eliminating carbs.



I would rephrase that to a low carb diet and exercise. You don't have
to eliminate carbs and that feeds into the classic stereotype that the
media and "experts" love to use against LC. They show fridges overflowing
with nothing but bacon, steak, and eggs, plates full of meat and not
a vegetable or fruit in sight. With the most popular LC plan, Atkins, even
from day one you can have 20g of carbs a day. After 2 weeks it's slowly
increased as you continue to lose weight. Long term, how many carbs you
can have depends on your metabolism. But many can have 100g a day or so
with no problems. That's still probably 1/4 of the carbs a typical American
has in a day.