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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Hi Folks,
Just discovered this article and since my med/biology/diabetes knowledge is like zero I would like to hear what you guys have to say about the report. The Guardian newspaper (UK) put one of their reporter on the Atkins diet for 3 months to see how the diet affects him. They also have a panel of experts to look at his blood test results. The report has been pretty fair in pointing out that it's an one case study and it's only a study about the diet's effects on the reporter. The reporter started at 87.9kg and weighed 80.8kg after staying on the diet for 10 weeks. His body fat went from 27% to 24.8%. The stats from the blood tests as interpreted by the experts, however, do not look too good. Here are some of the paragraphs I'd like to highlight: From "For Alok, this is not a good thing": Basically for Alok as an individual, the Atkins diet appeared to induce a metabolic state that was more like diabetes than simple starvation (which is the other cause of ketosis). This is not a good thing, and indeed the whole Atkins diet picture looks like a recipe for insulin resistance and consequent type 2 diabetes - exactly the opposite of what we should be aiming for in terms of weight loss. From "Do you want fat with that?": [Atkins] reckons that people following his low-carb regime will see positive effects on their cholesterol, for example. The LDL (the bad type), he says, should decrease and HDL (the good type) should increase. Having more of the bad than the good kind increases the risk of heart disease. Six weeks into the experiment for me saw the opposite effect to what Atkins predicted - my ratio of LDL shot up compared to my HDL cholesterol. My risk of heart disease had increased. The whole report can be found in he ************************************************** *************************** Do you want fat with that? June 24: For three months, Alok Jha has been testing the health claims of the controversial Atkins diet. Find out here what happened when he cut the carbs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/atkin...246422,00.html Cheers, Ada |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Gotta love those halfass studies...or trial is what it should be called.
It's obvious the guy had a biased opinion from the start. "Ada Ma" wrote in message ... Hi Folks, Just discovered this article and since my med/biology/diabetes knowledge is like zero I would like to hear what you guys have to say about the report. The Guardian newspaper (UK) put one of their reporter on the Atkins diet for 3 months to see how the diet affects him. They also have a panel of experts to look at his blood test results. The report has been pretty fair in pointing out that it's an one case study and it's only a study about the diet's effects on the reporter. The reporter started at 87.9kg and weighed 80.8kg after staying on the diet for 10 weeks. His body fat went from 27% to 24.8%. The stats from the blood tests as interpreted by the experts, however, do not look too good. Here are some of the paragraphs I'd like to highlight: From "For Alok, this is not a good thing": Basically for Alok as an individual, the Atkins diet appeared to induce a metabolic state that was more like diabetes than simple starvation (which is the other cause of ketosis). This is not a good thing, and indeed the whole Atkins diet picture looks like a recipe for insulin resistance and consequent type 2 diabetes - exactly the opposite of what we should be aiming for in terms of weight loss. From "Do you want fat with that?": [Atkins] reckons that people following his low-carb regime will see positive effects on their cholesterol, for example. The LDL (the bad type), he says, should decrease and HDL (the good type) should increase. Having more of the bad than the good kind increases the risk of heart disease. Six weeks into the experiment for me saw the opposite effect to what Atkins predicted - my ratio of LDL shot up compared to my HDL cholesterol. My risk of heart disease had increased. The whole report can be found in he ************************************************** ************************** * Do you want fat with that? June 24: For three months, Alok Jha has been testing the health claims of the controversial Atkins diet. Find out here what happened when he cut the carbs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/atkin...246422,00.html Cheers, Ada |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Gotta love those halfass studies...or trial is what it should be called.
It's obvious the guy had a biased opinion from the start. "Ada Ma" wrote in message ... Hi Folks, Just discovered this article and since my med/biology/diabetes knowledge is like zero I would like to hear what you guys have to say about the report. The Guardian newspaper (UK) put one of their reporter on the Atkins diet for 3 months to see how the diet affects him. They also have a panel of experts to look at his blood test results. The report has been pretty fair in pointing out that it's an one case study and it's only a study about the diet's effects on the reporter. The reporter started at 87.9kg and weighed 80.8kg after staying on the diet for 10 weeks. His body fat went from 27% to 24.8%. The stats from the blood tests as interpreted by the experts, however, do not look too good. Here are some of the paragraphs I'd like to highlight: From "For Alok, this is not a good thing": Basically for Alok as an individual, the Atkins diet appeared to induce a metabolic state that was more like diabetes than simple starvation (which is the other cause of ketosis). This is not a good thing, and indeed the whole Atkins diet picture looks like a recipe for insulin resistance and consequent type 2 diabetes - exactly the opposite of what we should be aiming for in terms of weight loss. From "Do you want fat with that?": [Atkins] reckons that people following his low-carb regime will see positive effects on their cholesterol, for example. The LDL (the bad type), he says, should decrease and HDL (the good type) should increase. Having more of the bad than the good kind increases the risk of heart disease. Six weeks into the experiment for me saw the opposite effect to what Atkins predicted - my ratio of LDL shot up compared to my HDL cholesterol. My risk of heart disease had increased. The whole report can be found in he ************************************************** ************************** * Do you want fat with that? June 24: For three months, Alok Jha has been testing the health claims of the controversial Atkins diet. Find out here what happened when he cut the carbs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/atkin...246422,00.html Cheers, Ada |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Well, at least he read the Atkins book and follow it to the letter. I guess he
deserves some respect for that at the very least. Ray wrote: Gotta love those halfass studies...or trial is what it should be called. It's obvious the guy had a biased opinion from the start. |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Hi,
He hasn't been following Atkins : [quote from Guardian] Alok's efforts did not take his carb intake as low as recommended even on the more liberal pre-maintenance level of Atkins. [unquote] So, maybe that's why his LDL was so high after the experiment ... One shouldn't eat lots of fat and too much carbs together. Hamburger Low-Carb since 09/01/03 320/285/200 |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Hi,
He hasn't been following Atkins : [quote from Guardian] Alok's efforts did not take his carb intake as low as recommended even on the more liberal pre-maintenance level of Atkins. [unquote] So, maybe that's why his LDL was so high after the experiment ... One shouldn't eat lots of fat and too much carbs together. Hamburger Low-Carb since 09/01/03 320/285/200 |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Hamburger wrote:
Hi, He hasn't been following Atkins : [quote from Guardian] Alok's efforts did not take his carb intake as low as recommended even on the more liberal pre-maintenance level of Atkins. [unquote] So, maybe that's why his LDL was so high after the experiment ... One shouldn't eat lots of fat and too much carbs together. Hamburger Low-Carb since 09/01/03 320/285/200 Good use of eyeballs and a brain. This would indicate a half arsed little food experiment of some kind, but not an Atkins experiment. Thanks. Jim -- ................................ Keepsake gift for young girls. Unique and personal one-of-a-kind. Builds strong minds 12 ways. Guaranteed satisfaction - courteous money back - keep bonus gifts http://www.alicebook.com |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Hamburger wrote:
Hi, He hasn't been following Atkins : [quote from Guardian] Alok's efforts did not take his carb intake as low as recommended even on the more liberal pre-maintenance level of Atkins. [unquote] So, maybe that's why his LDL was so high after the experiment ... One shouldn't eat lots of fat and too much carbs together. Hamburger Low-Carb since 09/01/03 320/285/200 Good use of eyeballs and a brain. This would indicate a half arsed little food experiment of some kind, but not an Atkins experiment. Thanks. Jim -- ................................ Keepsake gift for young girls. Unique and personal one-of-a-kind. Builds strong minds 12 ways. Guaranteed satisfaction - courteous money back - keep bonus gifts http://www.alicebook.com |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Ada Ma wrote in message ...
Hi Folks, Just discovered this article and since my med/biology/diabetes knowledge is like zero I would like to hear what you guys have to say about the report. The Guardian newspaper (UK) put one of their reporter on the Atkins diet for 3 months to see how the diet affects him. They also have a panel of experts to look at his blood test results. The report has been pretty fair in pointing out that it's an one case study and it's only a study about the diet's effects on the reporter. The reporter started at 87.9kg and weighed 80.8kg after staying on the diet for 10 weeks. His body fat went from 27% to 24.8%. The stats from the blood tests as interpreted by the experts, however, do not look too good. Here are some of the paragraphs I'd like to highlight: From "For Alok, this is not a good thing": Basically for Alok as an individual, the Atkins diet appeared to induce a metabolic state that was more like diabetes than simple starvation (which is the other cause of ketosis). This is not a good thing, and indeed the whole Atkins diet picture looks like a recipe for insulin resistance and consequent type 2 diabetes - exactly the opposite of what we should be aiming for in terms of weight loss. From "Do you want fat with that?": [Atkins] reckons that people following his low-carb regime will see positive effects on their cholesterol, for example. The LDL (the bad type), he says, should decrease and HDL (the good type) should increase. Having more of the bad than the good kind increases the risk of heart disease. Six weeks into the experiment for me saw the opposite effect to what Atkins predicted - my ratio of LDL shot up compared to my HDL cholesterol. My risk of heart disease had increased. The whole report can be found in he ************************************************** *************************** Do you want fat with that? June 24: For three months, Alok Jha has been testing the health claims of the controversial Atkins diet. Find out here what happened when he cut the carbs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/atkin...246422,00.html Cheers, Ada It's another lame Atkins bashing attempt by the media. The panel of experts consisted of two biochemists, a health psychology reader, whatever that is, and a nutritonist. Isn't it strange that they didn't include at least one medical doctor, especially when they are comparing his medical condition to that of a diabetic? All the analysis by the biochemist is low level stuff, and done at 6 weeks. While they spend lots of time bashing Atkins, they don't even give basic info, like what his cholesterol levels were before and after, though they do say they got worse. Perhaps most telling is the comment from the nutritionist: "Alok's efforts did not take his carb intake as low as recommended even on the more liberal pre-maintenance level of Atkins." Hmmmm, I thought he was doing Atkins? So, here we have the bio guys claiming he was in some unhealthey diabetic ketosis state and the nutritionist saying he never even cut carbs really low. What a joke. If they want to do a trial with a reporter to report his experiences trying to lose weight, that's OK. But, then he should be following the real Atkins plan, shouldn't he? And if they want to report on the effects of LC on people's cholesterol, how much weight they lost, etc., why not site the Duke University study, which was done on a reasonable group of people, in a controlled environment, not one reporter? |
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Reporter's 3 months Atkins experiment
Ada Ma wrote:
| Well, at least he read the Atkins book and follow it to the letter. | I guess he deserves some respect for that at the very least. | | | Ray wrote: | || Gotta love those halfass studies...or trial is what it should be || called. It's obvious the guy had a biased opinion from the start. He did certainly did not follow the book to the letter. He made a very grave mistake that was certain to skew the results against the Atkins diet; whether he did this on purpose or not, who knows? That mistake was having his blood tests before, and six weeks (42 days) into the diet. If he actually read the book he would know that docto Atkins specifically says to wait at least 90 days for the second blood lipid tests because there may be a slight elevation in cholesterol while the body adjusts to burning fat instead of carbs. By 90 days the cholesterol usually starts to drop; dramatically for some. Was he out just to get a story, or was he trying to purposely trash Atkins? Either way, it was not a fair or unbiased trial. Whuy did he not report his cholesterol levels after the 90 days on the diet? His reults are meaningless. Any one of us who have been following the Atkns plan for a length of time know about the dramatic positive changes in blood lipids that go with it when it is followed correctly. -- Peter 270/215/180 Before/Current Pix: http://users.thelink.net/marengo/wei...htlosspix.html |
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