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Renae
SFN Regular
543 Posts |
 Posted - 02/01/2004 : 07:27:34
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Interesting article from my friends at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition advocacy group, on the new low-carb diet craze and its variants:
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/01_04/cover.pdf
I remain baffled by the low-carb craze, which now seems to be EVERYWHERE. I see low-carb chocolate, low-carb beer, and even low-carb pasta at the grocery store, and I scratch my head.
According to this website, they're just beginning to understand foods' glycemic indexes and their affects on fat storage, weight gain, and appetitie.
I'm a lifelong low-fat, high-carb eater and I've never had anything resembling a weight problem. Gimme my warm chocolate chip cookies and sourdough garlic bread...or give me death! 
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2004 : 07:42:45 [Permalink]
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Have to admit that I've been trying a version for the past month or so. Lots of cheese (high protein, high fat) and 4% milk; no vegies or fruit; very few carbs. Whether or not there is a connection, for the first time ever (I'm 61+) the blood-pressure machine in the grocery put me in the red (hypertension level 1) in both catagories. 
I think that it's back to chicken and lean beef for me; and maybe I'll shelve the cheese.  |
Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. --Falstaff |
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Renae
SFN Regular
543 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2004 : 09:38:04 [Permalink]
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No fruits or veggies? Please explain how this diet could remotely be construed as healthful?
You are aware, aren't you, of the studies that link a diet high in fruits and vegetables to lower cancer rates? And of studies that show high-protein, high-fat diets are linked to calcium, heart disease, and kidney strain?
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2004 : 08:12:29 [Permalink]
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Nope, very small amounts of fruits and veggies. http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/atkins_diet.html One of the reasons for the popularity of Atkins is a study out showing that your rate of weightloss is nearly twice that of the ADA diets in the first year, remaining higher until about the second year when the weight loss evens out between Atkins and the ADA diets.
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...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
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Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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