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Old December 15th, 2003, 09:29 PM
Trent Duke
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Default Low carb diets

The low carb diet craze is nothing new. It's been around for several
decades. Dr. Atkins has simply reintroduced it in a marketing way that made
sense to many, hence it caught on.

Does it work? Sure it does cause the average caloric intake per person has
increased to over 3000 a day. Atkins sample day of food caloric intake is
less than 2000. So if do the plan you are gonna lose weight cause you are
EATING LESS...not all due to "low carbs."

You take those same calories and reduce fat intake and simple carbs while
keeping those important complex carbs, you are still gonna lose about the
same amount of weight over a 12 month period. Most studies prove this.

Either way, exercising is crucial and many of those on low carb plans forget
that. When exercising you NEED complex carbs...the good carbs.

An increase in fiber intake to at least 30g a day is also crucial.

A diet (doesn't always mean to lose weight) is a lifestyle. You must decide
for yourself which is better for you and to get you to your goals. I
personally do not think the extreme low carb diet is the route to go cause
it is very hard to do long term.

In regards to those low carb foods, you have to be careful, cause unless
they are low in calories where you are reducing your overall caloric intake
for your active lifestyle, they aren't gonna do much for you in losing
weight.

HTH a little

Trent


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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:01:35 GMT
Subject: Low carb diets



I'm such a skeptic about diet and nutritional claims (because so many
are bogus) but am interested in this Low carb mania that seems to be
popular these days.

I notice that in the supermarkets there are new products touting
themselves as "Low Carb" with the insinuation that that will help with
weight control.

As I understand it, low carb foods tend to lessen the "amplitude" of
blood insulin levels which can cause hunger signals and consequently
cause a person to eat more. If that's true, isn't the bottom line STILL
calories "in" versus calories "out" or is there something else that the
low carb diet does?

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