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The case for the government ‘food pyramid’ takes another blow

Friday, 16 November 2018, 19:15 MJA Uncategorized 25

American Thinker:

Atkins vindicated again.

Poor Dr. Robert Atkins, the diabetes expert who discovered in the early 1970s that low carb diets help patients lose weight better than low fat diets, has always had the worst time being believed. He’s been debunked, lied about, and treated as a pariah by the diet establishment, despite the obvious merits of his findings.

Study after study affirms them, researchers such as Gary Taubes confirm his claims, and similar low-carb regimens to the Atkins Diet, such as Keto, have large followings, but the high-carb government food pyramid and an entire diet industry built around those earlier postulations about low-fat diets carry on, pretending he doesn’t exist.

Now a big and very rigorously tested study has come out from a couple of Harvard researchers, and well, is Dr. Atkins vindicated again.

Here’s what the New York Times writes:

It has been a fundamental tenet of nutrition: When it comes to weight loss, all calories are created equal. Regardless of what you eat, the key is to track your calories and burn more than you consume.

But a large new study published on Wednesday in the journal BMJ challenges the conventional wisdom. It found that overweight adults who cut carbohydrates from their diets and replaced them with fat sharply increased their metabolisms. After five months on the diet, their bodies burned roughly 250 calories more per day than people who ate a high-carb, low-fat diet, suggesting that restricting carb intake could help people maintain their weight loss more easily.

The new research is unlikely to end the decades-long debate over the best diet for weight loss. But it provides strong new evidence that all calories are not metabolically alike to the body. And it suggests that the popular advice on weight loss promoted by health authorities — count calories, reduce portion sizes and lower your fat intake — might be outdated.

According to one of the study’s authors, writing in a Los Angeles Times op-ed titled, “The case against carbohydrates grows stronger“:

People have a hard time believing that weight control isn’t just a matter of calories eaten and calories burned. But there is an alternate hypothesis about obesity, which is what my group studies. The carbohydrate-insulin model argues that overeating isn’t the underlying cause of long-term weight gain. Instead, it’s the biological process of gaining weight that causes us to overeat.

Here’s how this hypothesis goes: Consuming processed carbohydrates (especially refined grains, potato products and sugars), causes our bodies to produce more insulin. Too much insulin, one of the most powerful hormones, forces our fat cells into calorie-storage overdrive. These rapidly growing fat cells then hoard too many calories, leaving too few for the rest of the body. So we get hungry, and if we persist in eating less, our metabolism slows down.

Makes sense to me.

Yet still we have the government food pyramid and the huge diet industry that builds all its knowledge around that flawed model. Michelle Obama with all her diet advice, is all in for this one. Any question as to why so much of the public has gotten fat? Why is this thing still around and what is being done to get rid of it? Here it is in all its glory on Health.gov:  MORE HERE

25 Comments on The case for the government ‘food pyramid’ takes another blow

  3. I just ate a Dr. Atkins bar. I’ve been following the Dr. Atkins (Keto) diet for about 7 years now and I feel great. My doctors had a fit when I told them what diet I was following. My test numbers are great and they are at a loss for words. You can learn to make bread from coconut flour, almond flour, and pizza from a combination of mozzarella cheese, almond flur, 1 egg and cream cheese (fat head pizza). If you’ve been diagnosed borderline diabetic or diabetic, the first thing you have to give up is carbs – bread, rice, potatoes. Rice is the worse, it immediately turns to sugar in your blood.

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  4. koch brothers, corn and the monsanto mob

    Most MD’s know very little about nutrition- better to ask a nurse, unbelievably.
    “Medical students are still getting less than 20 hours of nutrition education over 4 years, and even most of that has limited clinical relevance. Thirty years ago, only 37 percent of medical schools had a single course in nutrition. According to the most recent national survey, that number has since dropped to 27 percent….”
    https://nutritionfacts.org/2017/06/08/how-much-nutrition-education-do-doctors-get/

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  6. In case Bad Brad shows up to comment…this is for him. THANK YOU for suggesting keto on a thread last year. I started eating a Keto Diet and have lost 20lbs and 2 pants size. I am striving to lose a bit more but I think I could be described as a slender energetic middle age woman instead of a chubby, frumpy one

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  11. I have lost almost 25lbs in 3 weeks doing Keto + IF (Intermittent fasting). It is crazy that I can go OMAD (One Meal A Day) and will try an extended 42-48 hr fast next Monday. After years of following the PRO’s advice and going up and down most of my life, I feel like I can maintain this easily. Energy level even after a workout of 5+ compound movements with heavy weight, I feel the muscles are tired but my brain is not.

    Dr. Eric Berg on YouTube:

    https://www.youtube.com/user/drericberg123

    Shabbat Shalom!

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  15. Most of the stuff in the bottom of their pyramid is bad for you – not just because of ‘hyperglycemia’ and growing insulin resistance with age (which doesn’t happen if you immediately burn those carbs) – but because they contain poisons like lectin which attack your digestive track allowing toxins to enter your bloodstream. Search and read the latest research about lectins – it’s a mindblower (think: castor bean that kills you with lectin – the highest concentration of poisonous lectin in any plant.)

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  16. My wife and I have been following Keto since May 19. I lost 30 poounds, my blood sugar went down 50 points, my Aic is down two points. We watched a movie on Netflix, “The Miracle Pill”, confirmed some of the information from a nurse friend who confirmed that they feed Keto to autistic children and so we decided to try it.
    Good websites are Dr Ken D Berry.
    https://www.youtube.com/user/KenDBerry
    and Diet Doctor:
    https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb

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  17. I wouldn’t put much faith in dietary advice from Harvard Med, Yale Med , most of the north east medical centers nor many others. Over the past decades they have more often been wrong than correct about what a good diet is. They were brought and paid for by “big food” or “big pharma”.

    I think the US food pyramid was replaced by “My Plate” a few years ago. It’s mostly the same as the food pyramid with only minor easing on dietary fat consumption. Massive carb still fills most of the plate.

    Dr. Atkins didn’t invent low carb high healthy fat diet. He may have rediscovered it. It’s wisdom goes back even farther than the William Banting diet of 1862. As described in his self published booklet , Letter on Corpulence. Self published because The Lancet & other medical journals of the day wouldn’t touch it. The Banting diet was farther refined by the French & Germans over following decades, who recognized failure to lose weight had something to do with the yet not understood hormones. And that calories in calories out would never work to control weight or promote good health. But they were on the right track. Then the Germans lost the war & no one wanted to pay attention to their correct knowledge.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Letter_on_corpulence.pdf .

    I highly recommend two books:

    “Eat Rich Live Long – use the power of low-carb and Keto for weight loss and great health” by Ivor Cummins & Jeffery Gerber, MD
    (Also find the videos on Ivor Cummins YouTube channel)

    “Lore of Nutrition – challenging conventional dietary beliefs” by Tim Noakes & Marika Sboros

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  18. Also I’ve learned you can be slim or heavy and healthy. Or slim or heavy and unhealthy due to being insulin resistant , perhaps being diabetic in situ ( hidden diabetes)

    You might want to consider having a Dr Kraft BS GTIR ( blood spot glucose tolerance insulin response) test done.

    https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/early-detection-of-insulin-resistance-for-improved-patient-outcomes/ .

    https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/8069.pdf .

    And becoming insulin resistant seems to be driven by consuming too much sugar ( under any of it’s 50 or so names) and too much highly refined carbs.

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  19. Keto keeps me on track when I need to fine-tune things, but it’s not magic, it’s the restrictiveness that prevents me from going into a 5000 calorie Friday sugar binge. I can lose fat eating carbs, but it’s a hell of a lot easier when I have periods where carbs are off limits, because if I give myself an inch on leeway with snacking, I’ll end up taking 50 miles of bad food decisions every time. Better to do what works than what makes you feel good at the time. It works, and it’s a good choice if you’re prone to mak g bad choices, it’s so much easier when you take 99% of the temptation off the table.

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  24. I cut all carbs, sugars and all junk on 4/01/18 and I’m down 33 lbs. I don’t count calories and I don’t go hungry. I’ve never felt better. Low carb works. I’m down 6 sizes and it’s wonderful!!

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  25. Modified* keto since May ’18, down 65# and still losing. Another 10# and I will fit into my wedding tux again (silver anniversary coming up!)

    *30g carbs, 90g protein, 1gal H2O/day, no sugar or wheat. Tracking calories for a 1#/wk loss rate.

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