Peck away. . .
Go ahead, peck away at this study all you want. You'll have maybe six more to attack right after that, all consistently showing pretty much the same results. (Start with Volek, J.S., Sharman, M.J., and Gomez A.L., et al., "An Isoenergetic Very Low Carbohydrate Diet Improves Serum HDL Cholesterol and Triacylglycerol Concentrations, the Total Cholesterol to HDL Cholesterol Ratio and Postprandial Lipemic Responses Compared with a Low Fat Diet in Normal Weight, Normolipidemic Women," The Journal of Nutrition , 133(9), 2003, pages 2756-2761. . . .Brehm, B.J., Seeley, R.J., Daniels, S.R., et al., "A Randomized Trial Comparing a Very Low Carbohydrate Diet and a Calorie-Restricted Low Fat Diet on Body Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Healthy Women," The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism , 88(4), 2003, pages 1617-1623. . . . Stern, L., Iqbal, N., Chiceno, K., et al., "The V.A. Low Carbohydrate Intervention Diet (VALID) Study," Journal of General Internal Medicine , 17(S1), 2002, pages 147-148. . . . they go on and on.)
But never mind any of that. I didn't choose this way of eating because of what some study said, anyway. I simply found that eating low-carb (or high fat, whatever you want to call it) solved a lifelong problem I had with weight control. Nothing that dieticians told me did any damn good. Ever. They tsked and tsked, but never had anything better to say than don't eat fat, eat five times a day, and don't eat fat.
I've had no less than three dieticians condemn my low-carb way of eating saying it would result in all sorts of dire consequences. None of those dire consequences happened. Not one. Except I lost weight, improved my lipid profile, increased my stamina and energy, lost my cravings. It's been FIVE years now, and things just get better. All without the potatoes, rice, beans, bread, and bananas. And eating PLENTY of fat. And I DON'T eat breakfast, the most important meal of the day in the RD mantra.
I pay no attention to the clucking of RDs any more. They have no credibility with me. (Personally, I think what RDs and nutritionists practice is more like religion than science. They believe what they believe, and ignore or refute any evidence to the contrary.) Nothing a dietician every told me to do worked for very long. And when it didn't they told ME I was wrong.
If RDs are such damned geniuses and know-it-alls, how come THEY haven't come up with any good ideas for helping people with obesity? By that I mean a program or an approach that (1) actually WORKS in the real world (not in metabolic wards) and that (2) works so well that people actually WANT to keep doing it, and tell their friends about it. And don't point to that drivel on the ADA web site. It's out of touch with REAL people. They have failed miserably.
If you asked me, RDs have a HUGE credibility problem. They're stuck with the eat vegetables/don't eat fat/don't eat meat thing. . . and can't get past it
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