In article ,
"FOB" wrote:

I'd say keep them under 50

50g carbs sounds good, but don't go lower until you know what you are
doing.

Billy wrote:
| Avoid big changes because they are difficult to maintain. Count your
| carbs, and try to keep them under 100 g or less.
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|
| Scientific American
| February 2011
|
| How to Fix the Obesity Crisis by David H. Freedman
| p. 40 - 47
|
| FROM BIOLOGY TO BRAIN p.44
|
| THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WAY to date to lose at least modest amounts of
| weight and keep it off with diet and exercise employs programs that
| focus on changing behavior. The behavioral approach, tested over
| decades, involves making many small, sustainable adjustments in eating
| and exercise habits that are prompted and encouraged by the people and
| the rest of the environment around us.
|
| . . . To combat obesity, behavioral analysts examine related
| environmental influences: Which external factors prompt people to
| overeat or to eat junk food, and which tend to encourage healthful
| eating? In what situations are the behaviors and comments of others
| affecting unhealthful eating? What seems to effectively reward eating
| healthfully over the long term? What reinforces being active?
| Behavior-focused studies of obesity and diets as early as the 1960s
| recognized some basic conditions that seemed correlated with a greater
| chance of losing weight and keeping it off: rigorously measuring and
| recording calories, exercise and weight; making modest, gradual
| changes
| rather than severe ones; eating balanced diets that go easy on fats
| and
| sugar rather than dropping major food groups; setting clear, modest
| goals; focusing on lifelong habits rather than short-term diets; and
| especially attending groups where dieters could receive encouragement
| to
| stick with their efforts and praise for having done so.
|
| Studies back the behavioral approach to weight loss. A 2003 review
| commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
| Services found that "counseling and behavioral interventions showed
| small to moderate degrees of weight loss sustained over at least one
| year"‹a year being an eon in the world of weight loss. An analysis of
| eight popular weight-loss programs published in 2005 in the Annals of
| Medicine found Weight Watchers (at that time in its pre-2010
| points-overhaul incarnation) to be the only effective program,
| enabling
| a 3 percent maintained body-weight loss for the two years of the
| study.
| Meanwhile a 2005 JAMA study found that Weight Watchers, along with the
| Zone diet (which, like Weight Watchers, recommends a balanced diet of
| protein, carbohydrates and fat), achieved the highest percentage (65
| percent) of one-year diet adherence of several popular diets, noting
| that "adherence level rather than diet type was the key determinant of
| clinical benefits." A 2010 study in the Journal of Pediatrics found
| that
| after one year children receiving behavioral therapy maintained a body
| mass index that was 1.9 to 3.3 lower than
| children who did not. (BMI is a numerical height-weight relation in
| which 18.5 is held to be borderline underweight and 25 borderline
| overweight.) The Pediatrics report noted that "more limited evidence
| sugges ts that these improvements can be maintained over the 12 months
| after the end of treatments." A 2010 study in Obesity found that
| continuing members of Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a national,
| nonprofit behaviorally focused weight-loss organization, maintained a
| weight loss of 5 to 7 percent of their body weight for the three years
| of the investigation. The U.K.'s Medical Research Council last year
| declared that its own long-term study had shown that programs based on
| behavioral principles are more likely to help people take and keep the
| weight off than other approaches. (The study was funded by Weight
| Watchers, but without its participation.)
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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