http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/26/carb.diet.ap/index.html
Lots of carbs + little fat = weight loss?
Hey, thanks for the info. I just read this articale. I’ve been trying to tell my girlfriend this for months. Maybe she’ll listen now. She has had no energy for months and now she will cause she can have her carbs and eat’em too. Thanks again for sharing this info.
There is a popular notion that as long as protein requirements are met and there is a calric deficit, that weight loss will occur, despite the ratio of fat to carbs.
I do have some trouble with this idea, with reguards to insulin, glucagon, etc.
I also cannot believe the people lsot weight in the study without a caloric deficit.
It works for me Jeff. I never cut my carb intake. I just clean it up. Might not work for everyone but it does for me. How is the cutting going?
That kind of diet leads to diabetes. Be careful.
This study doesn’t do much to answer the question. The control diet had less protein and much less fiber than the high-carbohydrate diet. Since fiber and protein both affect satiety, this is an obvious confound.
Also, the control diet, at 45% carbs, is no comparison to an Atkins-type diet.
Also the observation effect is a huge potential problem for ad libitum diets. People behave differently when their behavior is measured and recorded.
I have read some interesting articles in the past about kcal/kilojoule conversions of fat compared to protein and carbs. This might be nitpicky and and bordering on freaky-extreme, but it was my understanding that the kilojoule measurement of energy relative to macronutrients was a lot more accurate than a calorie and that fat converted in a far different manner meaning that 1 gram of fat didn’t convert in the same respect as 1 gram of protein. In other words, the 4 to 9 calorie conversion really wasn’t an accurate picture and its actually worse than that if you measure it by the actual energy produced by each food type. I wish I could find these articles but its been years since I’ve seen them. Just food for thought; perhaps some research on Google would shed some light on this.
I’m on the T-Dawg 2.0ish diet so I’m not poo-pooing fat whatsoever, this was just an interesting article I read way back when first getting into nutrition and energy expenditure. This doesn’t take into account glucagon/insulin ratios and some other aspects of low-carb dieting. It was just a conversion chart that seemed to allude to the concept that fat was actually worse than people thought relative to its caloric content and also how the body utilized it.
LUCID: These references and texts would be awesome.
I wont start back my rant about calorie models developped from oxydation ovens, but its about time somebody measured the energy processes better. For example, if I recall well, you actually lose 30% of the energy of protein just by the body`s processing alone.
Hope you dig up that stuff!