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High-carb diet works: Study
Participants had loads of carbohydrates and reduced fat intake Flies in the face of Atkins' low-carb craze; some expert LINDSEY TANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO In the midst of the low-carb craze, a new study suggests that by eating lots of carbohydrates and little fat, it is possible to lose weight without actually cutting calories, and without exercising, either. The study was small, consisting of just 34 overweight adults who either ate the recommended diet for three months; ate the recommended diet and exercised regularly; or ate pretty much what they usually eat. All meals were prepared for participants, who were instructed to eat as much as they wanted. They were also told to return any uneaten food, which the researchers said enabled them to calculate calorie intake. Many doctors dispute whether people can lose weight without reducing their food intake, and at least one questioned the study's accuracy. But the diet is more compatible with conventional notions of healthful eating than the fatty, low-carbohydrate Atkins and South Beach diets. Participants on the recommended diet lost about seven pounds without cutting calories and without exercise, and almost 11 pounds with 45 minutes of stationary bike-riding four times weekly. The control group lost no weight. The findings appeared in the Archives Of Internal Medicine. Gary Foster, clinical director of the University of Pennsylvania's Weight and Eating Disorders Program, said he suspects participants who lost weight ate less than what was reported. He said that while he recommends a low-fat, high carb diet to patients, without calorie reduction it would be "a public health disaster." "The whole idea that you could lose weight without reducing energy intake flies in the face of 100 years of data," Foster said. Lead author William Evans of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences stood by his findings. "Calories in, minus calories out does not always determine the amount of weight loss," Evans said. "This is because we metabolize fats and carbohydrates very differently." American Dietetic Association spokeswoman Cindy Moore agreed and said with low-carb diets hogging the spotlight, "it may be a reminder that we can lose weight in a variety of different ways." Foods on the successful diets included high-fibre cereal, vegetarian chili, whole-wheat spaghetti, many fruits and vegetables, and skim milk. Daily calories totalled about 2,400, similar to participants' usual consumption. The control group also received prepared meals with similar calories, but the foods included sausage, scrambled eggs, macaroni and cheese, french fries, whole milk and fewer fruits and vegetables. The successful diet was not tested against Atkins and other low-carb regimens, which contain more fat and fewer carbs than the control group diet. It's likely that there will be more studies challenging the current, popular conviction that the way to lose weight is to cut way back on carbs. The pendulum may even swing to where it was in the mid-1990s when dietary fat was the great enemy, blamed for obesity, heart disease and high cholesterol counts. Health conscious people busily counted fat grams. By the mid-1990s, the number of new foods and beverages whose labels proclaimed "no fat'' or "low fat" hit an all-time high. But in the last five to 10 years, the carbohydrate became the bad guy du jour. A new generation of dieters, following weight-loss plans such as the Atkins and South Beach diets, began gobbling up animal proteins and high-fat dairy products and sullying their plates with only the most minute portions of starches and sugars. Just as food manufacturers once responded to fat-bashing by banishing fat from dairy products, frozen dinners and snacks, companies became focused on the low-carbohydrate ‹ make that "net carbs" ‹ bandwagon. Walk the aisles of the supermarket now, and you'll find breads, frozen dinners, ice cream, cereal and power bars with reduced carbohydrate content. Foods designed for low-carbohydrate diets are making the transition from a specialty item in the health-food section to shelves throughout the store. But it's entirely possible that, at some point that may not be too far off, carbs will once more be regarded as benign while fat once again becomes the enemy. In the meantime, nutritionists generally advocate a balanced diet that includes proper amounts of protein, fats and carbohydrates, particularly complex carbs that are -- Diva ****** There is no substitute for the right food |
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I think they'll be arguing which diet is best for years to come. In the
meantime, I'll continue with my balanced diet (controlled calories consisting of good carbs, protein and fat). This diet along with exercise has never failed me. We just need to find a healthy eating style that fits our own tastes and lifestyle. Beverly "Carol Frilegh" wrote in message ... High-carb diet works: Study Participants had loads of carbohydrates and reduced fat intake Flies in the face of Atkins' low-carb craze; some expert LINDSEY TANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO In the midst of the low-carb craze, a new study suggests that by eating lots of carbohydrates and little fat, it is possible to lose weight without actually cutting calories, and without exercising, either. The study was small, consisting of just 34 overweight adults who either ate the recommended diet for three months; ate the recommended diet and exercised regularly; or ate pretty much what they usually eat. All meals were prepared for participants, who were instructed to eat as much as they wanted. They were also told to return any uneaten food, which the researchers said enabled them to calculate calorie intake. Many doctors dispute whether people can lose weight without reducing their food intake, and at least one questioned the study's accuracy. But the diet is more compatible with conventional notions of healthful eating than the fatty, low-carbohydrate Atkins and South Beach diets. Participants on the recommended diet lost about seven pounds without cutting calories and without exercise, and almost 11 pounds with 45 minutes of stationary bike-riding four times weekly. The control group lost no weight. The findings appeared in the Archives Of Internal Medicine. Gary Foster, clinical director of the University of Pennsylvania's Weight and Eating Disorders Program, said he suspects participants who lost weight ate less than what was reported. He said that while he recommends a low-fat, high carb diet to patients, without calorie reduction it would be "a public health disaster." "The whole idea that you could lose weight without reducing energy intake flies in the face of 100 years of data," Foster said. Lead author William Evans of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences stood by his findings. "Calories in, minus calories out does not always determine the amount of weight loss," Evans said. "This is because we metabolize fats and carbohydrates very differently." American Dietetic Association spokeswoman Cindy Moore agreed and said with low-carb diets hogging the spotlight, "it may be a reminder that we can lose weight in a variety of different ways." Foods on the successful diets included high-fibre cereal, vegetarian chili, whole-wheat spaghetti, many fruits and vegetables, and skim milk. Daily calories totalled about 2,400, similar to participants' usual consumption. The control group also received prepared meals with similar calories, but the foods included sausage, scrambled eggs, macaroni and cheese, french fries, whole milk and fewer fruits and vegetables. The successful diet was not tested against Atkins and other low-carb regimens, which contain more fat and fewer carbs than the control group diet. It's likely that there will be more studies challenging the current, popular conviction that the way to lose weight is to cut way back on carbs. The pendulum may even swing to where it was in the mid-1990s when dietary fat was the great enemy, blamed for obesity, heart disease and high cholesterol counts. Health conscious people busily counted fat grams. By the mid-1990s, the number of new foods and beverages whose labels proclaimed "no fat'' or "low fat" hit an all-time high. But in the last five to 10 years, the carbohydrate became the bad guy du jour. A new generation of dieters, following weight-loss plans such as the Atkins and South Beach diets, began gobbling up animal proteins and high-fat dairy products and sullying their plates with only the most minute portions of starches and sugars. Just as food manufacturers once responded to fat-bashing by banishing fat from dairy products, frozen dinners and snacks, companies became focused on the low-carbohydrate make that "net carbs" bandwagon. Walk the aisles of the supermarket now, and you'll find breads, frozen dinners, ice cream, cereal and power bars with reduced carbohydrate content. Foods designed for low-carbohydrate diets are making the transition from a specialty item in the health-food section to shelves throughout the store. But it's entirely possible that, at some point that may not be too far off, carbs will once more be regarded as benign while fat once again becomes the enemy. In the meantime, nutritionists generally advocate a balanced diet that includes proper amounts of protein, fats and carbohydrates, particularly complex carbs that are -- Diva ****** There is no substitute for the right food |
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"Beverly" wrote: I think they'll be arguing which diet is best for years to come. In the meantime, I'll continue with my balanced diet (controlled calories consisting of good carbs, protein and fat). This diet along with exercise has never failed me. We just need to find a healthy eating style that fits our own tastes and lifestyle. Beverly Amen to that. I love it when people ask what "program" I'm on, and I say "the Eat Less, Exercise More" diet. They hate it. Amy 168/115 |
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wrote: So, they put people on a diet severely deficient in some macronutrients, forced them to eat meals prepared by researchers (which means cutting out their favorite junk foods etc), which likely taste very bland (lowfat stuff), and surprise, those people lost weight!!! I see no medical miracle here and also, no basis for a claim that "calories do not matter". What I see is that on such a diet, people naturally eat less, at least for a while. Sweetie, I just post em. I really don't pay much attention as my diet is fairly engraved in wheat free stone. The only current variable is do I go back to the thyroid pills or write it all off to a hibernating snosy, very cold winter and pray for an early sprin? Then I can walk outside again. i can't use a treadmill because of the latex, but will increase stair climbing. -- Diva ****** There is no substitute for the right food |
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Carol Frilegh wrote in message ...
High-carb diet works: Study Participants had loads of carbohydrates and reduced fat intake Flies in the face of Atkins' low-carb craze; some expert LINDSEY TANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO In the midst of the low-carb craze, a new study suggests that by eating lots of carbohydrates and little fat, it is possible to lose weight without actually cutting calories, and without exercising, either. Check this out: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109890,00.html Atkins Attack By Steven Milloy Already-confused dieters are no doubt reeling from reports this week of a new study linking a high-carbohydrate diet with weight loss. Rather than well-conducted scientific research, though, the new study appears to be merely a junk science-fueled attack by government nannies on politically incorrect low-carbohydrate regimens like the Atkins Diet (search). "In the midst of the low-carb craze, a new study suggests that by eating lots of carbohydrates and little fat, it is possible to lose weight without actually cutting calories - and without exercising, either," reported The Associated Press this week. "Revenge of the High-Carb Diet - Ha! It Works, Too" was the Reuters headline. But unlike the sensationalistic media, which tend to limit their reporting of new study claims to regurgitated press releases and sound bites from study authors, I actually read the study in the Jan. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. It didn't take long to discover why study subjects on the high-carbohydrate diet lost weight - they ate fewer calories! The researchers divided the 34 study subjects into three groups: a control group of 12 individuals who consumed a low-carbohydrate diet (search); a group of 11 individuals who consumed a high-carbohydrate diet; and a group of 11 individuals who consumed a high-carbohydrate diet and did aerobic exercise. Study subjects were provided with foods constituting 150 percent of their required daily caloric intake and instructed to eat as much as they wanted. Carbohydrates constituted 45 percent of the control groups' calories and about 62 percent for the high-carbohydrate groups. After 12 weeks, the study subjects on the control diet weighed the same as when the study started. But study subjects on the high-carbohydrate diet lost weight: about five pounds on average for those in the high-carbohydrate-only group and about 10 pounds for those in the high-carbohydrate-plus-exercise group. To the study authors and media, these superficial "results" apparently prove that you can lose weight while eating as many carbohydrates as you like - and you don't even have to exercise. It might be a couch potato's fantasy come true - except that the study details tell a different story. As it turns out, study subjects in the high-carbohydrate groups consumed about 400-600 calories less per day than those in the control group. Over the 12-week period of the study, then, the average study subject in the high-carbohydrate group consumed about 42,000 calories less than the average study subject in the control group. Since a pound of fat represents about 3,500 calories, it's no wonder why those in the high-carbohydrate group lost weight. It was because they ate less, not because of any magical effects of a high-carbohydrate diet. Although the media's apparent lack of interest in examining the actual study data is disappointing, the inaccurate description of the study to the media by lead author William J. Evans of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is even more dismaying. He told Reuters that the study subjects ate "around 2,500 calories per day," thereby implying that the only difference in their diets was the amount of carbohydrates. That's just plain misleading. Control group subjects averaged 2,825 calories per day during the 12-week study; high-carbohydrate group subjects averaged 2250 calories per day and high-carbohydrate-plus-exercise subjects averaged 2,413 calories. Such variation over 12 weeks adds up to significant differences in total caloric intake and is most likely what produced the observed weight loss in the high-carbohydrate groups. The study authors then had the audacity to slam low-carbohydrate diets, such as the Atkins diet, as a means to lose weight. "Little evidence exists to support this idea," wrote the study authors. But it appears that there's not even that much evidence in favor of their all-the-carbs-you-can-eat idea. It's no secret that nutrition nannies in the federal government oppose high-protein/low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins plan ― not because such diets don't work but because their fat-is-OK approach contradicts the nannies' low-fat dietary prescriptions of the last 30 years. (The irony of course is that obesity has supposedly skyrocketed while America went low-fat.) Evans and his group, not surprisingly, were funded by the National Institutes of Health, a government group that claims in bold-face on its Web site that "[High-protein/low-carb diets are] not a healthy way to lose weight!" That may or may not be true. Much more research is needed. Hopefully that research won't be conducted by biased, government-funded research hacks. Steven Milloy is the publisher of JunkScience.com, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and the author of Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams (Cato Institute, 2001). |
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"Ignoramus11235" wrote in message ... In article , Carol Frilegh wrote: In article , Ignoramus11235 wrote: So, they put people on a diet severely deficient in some macronutrients, forced them to eat meals prepared by researchers (which means cutting out their favorite junk foods etc), which likely taste very bland (lowfat stuff), and surprise, those people lost weight!!! I see no medical miracle here and also, no basis for a claim that "calories do not matter". What I see is that on such a diet, people naturally eat less, at least for a while. Sweetie, I just post em. I really don't pay much attention as my diet is fairly engraved in wheat free stone. I did not mean to offend you at all. Thanks for posting. I just noted that I find the news article to be rather disingenious. The only current variable is do I go back to the thyroid pills or write it all off to a hibernating snosy, very cold winter and pray for an early sprin? Then I can walk outside again. i can't use a treadmill because of the latex, but will increase stair climbing. Just how cold it is where you are now? I walked 50 minutes this morning in -5F weather, it was rather pleasant. i OK, you *enjoy* being hungry and now you tell us that you find a temp cold enough to freeze a person solid in a relatively short time, pleasant. I don't know about you, ig. Your mileage most definitely varies from most people, I think. I've been watching the temp here anxiously because it's supposed to be up to 60F and I want to go out walking when it gets there. I'd be buried under every blanket and quilt we own, wearing every sweater that I have if the temperature got down to -5F here. Tonia |
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carol,
what was your reason for going off your thyroid med in the first place? -- read and post daily, it works! rosie It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ...............................Franklin Delano Roosevelt http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ "Carol Frilegh" wrote in message ... In article , Ignoramus11235 wrote: So, they put people on a diet severely deficient in some macronutrients, forced them to eat meals prepared by researchers (which means cutting out their favorite junk foods etc), which likely taste very bland (lowfat stuff), and surprise, those people lost weight!!! I see no medical miracle here and also, no basis for a claim that "calories do not matter". What I see is that on such a diet, people naturally eat less, at least for a while. Sweetie, I just post em. I really don't pay much attention as my diet is fairly engraved in wheat free stone. The only current variable is do I go back to the thyroid pills or write it all off to a hibernating snosy, very cold winter and pray for an early sprin? Then I can walk outside again. i can't use a treadmill because of the latex, but will increase stair climbing. -- Diva ****** There is no substitute for the right food |
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"Ignoramus11235" wrote in message ... In article , That T Woman wrote: "Ignoramus11235" wrote in message ... In article , Carol Frilegh wrote: In article , Ignoramus11235 wrote: So, they put people on a diet severely deficient in some macronutrients, forced them to eat meals prepared by researchers (which means cutting out their favorite junk foods etc), which likely taste very bland (lowfat stuff), and surprise, those people lost weight!!! I see no medical miracle here and also, no basis for a claim that "calories do not matter". What I see is that on such a diet, people naturally eat less, at least for a while. Sweetie, I just post em. I really don't pay much attention as my diet is fairly engraved in wheat free stone. I did not mean to offend you at all. Thanks for posting. I just noted that I find the news article to be rather disingenious. The only current variable is do I go back to the thyroid pills or write it all off to a hibernating snosy, very cold winter and pray for an early sprin? Then I can walk outside again. i can't use a treadmill because of the latex, but will increase stair climbing. Just how cold it is where you are now? I walked 50 minutes this morning in -5F weather, it was rather pleasant. i OK, you *enjoy* being hungry and now you tell us that you find a temp cold enough to freeze a person solid in a relatively short time, pleasant. I don't know about you, ig. I grew up in a cold country, and cold weather reminds me of childhood. I bought an awesom winter jacket a few weeks ago, it is the warmest thing I have ever seen and very comfortable. Only $59.99. Your mileage most definitely varies from most people, I think. I've been watching the temp here anxiously because it's supposed to be up to 60F and I want to go out walking when it gets there. I'd be buried under every blanket and quilt we own, wearing every sweater that I have if the temperature got down to -5F here. Sounds like a metabolism thing to me! i I don't think it would be just me, people here would be freaking out all over the place if it got down to -5F! You should have seen them earlier this month when it snowed. My DH wouldn't let me go to the gym because it's a drive across town and most people don't slow down and drive careful, it's speed up and get home as fast as they can. The average temperature for this date is 54F. The temperatures here in the summer get to over a 100F but usually stay in the 90s. I think that with me too it's what I've grown up with and I'd not adapt very well if we moved up to the frozen north! Tonia |
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That T Woman wrote: I don't think it would be just me, people here would be freaking out all over the place if it got down to -5F! You should have seen them earlier this month when it snowed. My DH wouldn't let me go to the gym because it's a drive across town and most people don't slow down and drive careful, it's speed up and get home as fast as they can. The average temperature for this date is 54F. The temperatures here in the summer get to over a 100F but usually stay in the 90s. I think that with me too it's what I've grown up with and I'd not adapt very well if we moved up to the frozen north! Tonia -5F I wish it were that warm today! I woke up to -20F. Minnesota weather, it keeps the riff-raff out. -- For good laugh at computer security, go to http://www.vseasy.com/Security_Humor.html |
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In article , Ignoramus11235
wrote: In article , Carol Frilegh wrote: In article , Ignoramus11235 wrote: So, they put people on a diet severely deficient in some macronutrients, forced them to eat meals prepared by researchers (which means cutting out their favorite junk foods etc), which likely taste very bland (lowfat stuff), and surprise, those people lost weight!!! I see no medical miracle here and also, no basis for a claim that "calories do not matter". What I see is that on such a diet, people naturally eat less, at least for a while. Sweetie, I just post em. I really don't pay much attention as my diet is fairly engraved in wheat free stone. I did not mean to offend you at all. Thanks for posting. I just noted that I find the news article to be rather disingenious. The only current variable is do I go back to the thyroid pills or write it all off to a hibernating snosy, very cold winter and pray for an early sprin? Then I can walk outside again. i can't use a treadmill because of the latex, but will increase stair climbing. Just how cold it is where you are now? I walked 50 minutes this morning in -5F weather, it was rather pleasant. And shovelled? At 73 I don't car for a fall. i -- Diva ***** The Best Man for the Job May Be A Woman |
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