Fats "good"/carbs " bad. Newest research

[+ bigjoey]

TIME

MedPage Today BARCELONA -- An enormous prospective study of food intake in adults, reported here, challenges several staunchly held beliefs about dietary components and their association with health risks: finding, for example that diets rich in fats, including ...…

 

 

Interesting study. At the end, note that for a single individual, very slight change in risk; change really reflected in population totals.

[MikeyGMin]

My friend has been on a keto diet for the last year. I scoffed at first for jumping on a fad diet -- especially when he started adding butter to his coffee --- but the results have been obvious. It's not easy though. The carb restrictions are severe when you are trying to lose weight. Manageable when you go into maintenance mode.

[+ sniper]

I tried it once and dropped 25 lbs in two weeks. And honestly wasn't carving the carbs which surprised me. BUT...once I slipped it was like I was "triggered" and I scarfed down everything in sight.

 

Tried it again a year or so later and found on day 3 I was having severe mood swings. I actually got up and walked out of a meeting because I was afraid I might say something deleterious to my career(to be fair, the meeting was too big and too long and kind of pointless and the conference room temp was over 75...).

 

But definitely works for weight loss if you can stick to it.

[+ Funguy]

The ony really good way to lose weight is to change your lifestyle.

That includes your diet. Eat sensibly, stay away from the obvious, learn a bit about food interactions (which foods to eat or avoid with other foods) - calories in/calories out does NOT work.

Get exercise - the best is walking up to 5 miles per day.

 

DO NOT TRY TO LOSE OVER SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

 

The best success i have had with my obese kid patients is about 2 pounds per month = 25# PER YEAR. Then the parents get in on the act too! I see them back every 3 months for reinforcement . . . Sooner and there isn't much change.

 

And an occasional cheat is encouraged!

[+ OliverSaks]

The ony really good way to lose weight is to change your lifestyle.

That includes your diet. Eat sensibly, stay away from the obvious, learn a bit about food interactions (which foods to eat or avoid with other foods) - calories in/calories out does NOT work.

Get exercise - the best is walking up to 5 miles per day.

 

DO NOT TRY TO LOSE OVER SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

 

The best success i have had with my obese kid patients is about 2 pounds per month = 25# PER YEAR. Then the parents get in on the act too! I see them back every 3 months for reinforcement . . . Sooner and there isn't much change.

 

And an occasional cheat is encouraged!

Care to give an example of some food interactions that you mentioned?

[marylander1940]

TIME

MedPage Today BARCELONA -- An enormous prospective study of food intake in adults, reported here, challenges several staunchly held beliefs about dietary components and their association with health risks: finding, for example that diets rich in fats, including ...…

 

 

Interesting study. At the end, note that for a single individual, very slight change in risk; change really reflected in population totals.

 

Is pizza again a vegetable or just the tomato sauce?

[+ Funguy]

Care to give an example of some food interactions that you mentioned?

 

Think "Ladies who Lunch"

They order a fruit plate. They don't eat the cottage cheese that usually comes on it. Soooooo - all that fruit has sugar which bumps insulin production. But after the insulin breaks down that sugar it has nothing more to act on and, whatdoyouknow, breaks down and gets deposited ultimately as fat.

If the cottage cheese is eaten, that becomes the target, does not cause more insulin production, and uses up the rest of the insulin already produced. Simplified but . . . Voila!

[+ OliverSaks]

Think "Ladies who Lunch"

They order a fruit plate. They don't eat the cottage cheese that usually comes on it. Soooooo - all that fruit has sugar which bumps insulin production. But after the insulin breaks down that sugar it has nothing more to act on and, whatdoyouknow, breaks down and gets deposited ultimately as fat.

If the cottage cheese is eaten, that becomes the target, does not cause more insulin production, and uses up the rest of the insulin already produced. Simplified but . . . Voila!

What breaks down after the insulin breaks down the sugar? I feel like you left something out... (after whatdoyaknow)