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LC Research
"Hollywood" writes:
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. That may be true 'at some point,' as you say, but it becomes more important in the late near-goal stages of weight loss, which these people may never reach in the limited time of this test. The general attitude on calories that I get from Atkins and Eades is: *if* you're following the plan correctly, and *if* you've already eliminated foods that seem to stall some people like artificial sweeteners, and *if* you're eating until you're full, and you're still stuck, *then* you should start restricting your calories by a small amount and see if it helps. Calorie restriction is never the first step. I think if you wrote the Eadeses and told them you had to restrict your calories by 50% of maintenance to get the plan to work, they'd tell you you simply couldn't have been doing it correctly, or had some serious medical problems with your metabolism that should be looked at. This study seems designed to produce exactly the kind of post-diet recidivism that the experts like to claim is unavoidable. 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. I'm not familiar with that one, but I don't see the point. Sure, starvation at a 50% level will force me to lose weight, however unhealthy the process may be; but if I were going to do that, why bother with low-carb too? -- Aaron -- 285/235/200 -- http://aaron.baugher.biz/ "If you hear hoofbeats, you just go ahead and think horsies, not zebras." |
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