Why Bad Diets Are Bad?

On 12/08/11 12:44 AM, wrote:
On Aug 11, 4:43 am, wrote:
On 11/08/11 1:01 AM, Billy wrote:





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On 10/08/11 2:02 PM, swaggy wrote:

Bad diets may be effective for weight loss in the short term because you
will lose some extra fluid as well as some fat. However, the weight loss
is usually temporary because you re going to return to your old eating
habits when you go off the diet. In a few weeks, your weight will be
right back where it was before the diet.

There are no such things as bad diets, there are only bad dieters. All
diets that reduce calories work, though some are less healthy than others,
but they work.

Wrong.

Right.

Anything that you do that reduces your total calorie count, be it simply
reducing calories or increasing calories burned, will reduce weight.

Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science
of Diet and Health (Vintage)
by Gary Taubes

Not interested, as everyone has their version of what is good or bad.

I like a low carb (not ludicrously unhealthy like Atkins) diet, but that
does not mean that others have to agree with me.

What exactly is supposed to be ludicrously unhealthy about the Atkins
diet? You say you eat high fat, so clearly that isn't what you've
got your shorts in a knot about.

It goes to ludicrous extremes, Ketosis is not necessary. On Atkins you lose
energy, both strength and endurance. Ask around any gym for the opinions of
those who have tried it. You can eat low carb without those side effects.

My shorts are not knotted, I am simply a realist.

I also eat high fat - it
is nonsense that consumed fat (calorie count aside) puts on more body fat
than any other form of calorific intake. I am the same weight as when I was
a very fit surfer in my late teens. I wear the same size clothes and can
still run a marathon in very close to the same time - and I am now in my
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You think just maybe genetics plays a role in that?


No, else my parents and siblings would not be fat - and they are FAT.

I put weight on briefly in the eighties when I was in a relationship with a
girl who loved high carb foods and fanatically avoided all fats. The weight
came on quickly, and when I realised what had caused it and went back to
the high protein, high fat diet that I had previously favoured I lost it
just as quickly. I developed a diet that has kept me fit for decades, and
recently I have seen that it is very similar to the much vaunted Dr Dukan's
diet. Strange thing that.