Low carbers will love this news

Brad Sheppard wrote:

Interesting .. I'm going to nudge my woe more towards low carbs. My
blood glucose already overreacts to carbs, so that may improve.
Healthy fats for me: fat from nuts (almond butter, peanut butter),
olive oil, canola oil, and fish oil. I'm going to aim for below carbs
instead of the 35% I now avg. Do you know what percentage of calories
your carb intake accounts for?

Percentage wise it was less than 25%.

Crafting Mom
Do it your way, but do it forever.

"Mu_n Struck" :

Didn't see tcomeau's initial response, so I'm piggybacking here.

tcomeau wrote:

"RLW" wrote in message
...

"Brad Sheppard" :


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...&e=3&u=/ap/200
31
013/ap_on_he_me/low_carb_mystery

They did a study with 21 people (that's only 7 people per group) for
twelve
weeks and it's being touted as a "strong hint that Atkins was right"?
Oh
please.

Rowena.


The mainstream *insists* (shrilly, I may add) that the Law of
Thermodynamics applies to weight management in humans in every
instance with absolutely no exceptions whatsoever. Calories-in vs
calories-out *without exception*. It's the LAW.

Thus you only need to find one instance that contradicts it to
entirely disprove its application to the human body in weight
management.

The Law of Thermodynamics cannot be applied directly to humans because
the Law only applies to simple, static, and, most importantly,
*closed* systems. The human body is a complex, dynamic and, most
importantly, an *open* system.

Calories cannot be used to accurately calculate, predict or control
weight gain or loss. Calories mean very little when it comes to weight
management in humans.

I'm simply making the comment that you cannot draw conclusions about all
people from a group of 21. What if they 'randomly assigned' 3 or 4 people
with much better muscle tone (faster metabolism) than the rest, to the
low-carb, higher calorie group? Something like that may have been enough to
push the overall average of the group out. I think it's highly premature to
make statements such as "Atkins was right" based on such a short term, small
sample size study. Especially since it appears that the 'low carb' diet
mentioned wasn't strictly an Atkins diet.

Rowena.

I never imagined it would get to this stage, but my daily carb
consumption has plummeted. I added raw olive oil and am now even more
regularly consuming seeds and nuts.

My late father sometimes swore by the Calories Don't Count diet and
would take at least one tablespoon of raw vegetable oil a day
(alone--he was no salad eater). He urged me to do the same.

But that stuff is blecchh by itself.



Tina
226/197/143.9/141
Balanced
Consumed (journaled) 1,400 calories yesterday

53 Pounds are Gone!






Crafting Mom wrote in message ...
Brad Sheppard wrote:

Interesting .. I'm going to nudge my woe more towards low carbs. My
blood glucose already overreacts to carbs, so that may improve.
Healthy fats for me: fat from nuts (almond butter, peanut butter),
olive oil, canola oil, and fish oil. I'm going to aim for below carbs
instead of the 35% I now avg. Do you know what percentage of calories
your carb intake accounts for?

Percentage wise it was less than 25%.

Crafting Mom
Do it your way, but do it forever.