Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Excited and inspired by his results on this high-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet—which was made up almost entirely of protein, fat, alcohol, and what was then called "roughage"—he published, at his own expense, the first commercial low-carb diet book, Letter on Corpulence.
Banting identified sugar as the main cause of his own obesity, and his physician, Dr. Harvey, promptly put both flour and sugar on the forbidden list.
It worked. | | How Does a low-carb diet Help You Lose Weight?
When you eat a lower-carb diet, you stimulate less insulin but you also stimulate more glucagon, its sister hormone, which responds more to protein (remember that neither hormone is stimulated by fat). Glucagon liberates the fat from storage sites and gets it ready to burn for energy. Meanwhile, since you no longer have elevated levels of insulin, you are not suppressing carnitine, which, you may remember, is the compound in the body responsible for escorting fat into the central furnaces of the cells, where it can be burned for fuel. | | If you have been diagnosed with, or are at risk for, diabetes and your doctor is reluctant to put you on a low-carb diet, you can find updated references for relevant studies on my website, JonnyBowden.com.
*Diabetes expert Dr. Ron Rosedale of the Rosedale Center for Metabolic Medicine in Boulder, Colorado, states that everyone in this country is to some degree "pre-diabetic. | | How a low-carb diet May Help Prevent—or Even Reverse—Diabetes
Dietary treatment for diabetes is currently one of the hottest topics of debate in the diabetes community. Some factions are passionately holding on to the old recommendations of a high-carb diet, while other clinicians are making strenuous arguments for lower-carb, higher-fat, higher-protein diets! The precise dietary treatment for full-blown type 2 diabetes is beyond the scope of this book, though it is a fascinating subject and in my opinion has great relevance for nondiabetics as well.* What can we say for sure? | | Let me say one word about that: appetite. A low-carb diet contains built-in appetite controls—it's like having your own little diet pill built into the meals. Here's how it works. One of the major hormones involved in telling the brain that you are full is cholecystokinin (CCK), which is secreted in the intestines in response to a meal. (You may have also heard, correctly, that it takes about twenty minutes for this hormone to reach your brain and tell you you've had enough—another reason to listen to your grandmother and eat slowly if you want to lose weight! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I know there are a lot of books out there that say well, you can just change your foods, or you can consume this one particular food like grapefruit or cabbage, or you can go on the popular low-carb diet. I know some people have success with that, but I think the vast majority of people don't really meet their weight loss goals just by changing their foods.
What's missing is that body component, the strength training, the movement, the flexibility, and also the cardiovascular training. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  It isn't the low-carb diet that's to blame: it's the MSG still in your diet!
Food manufacturers hide MSG in other ingredients
We've seen a food industry go from blatantly displaying the use of MSG in its food products to creating a "clean label industry" whose pumose is to design ingredient and food product labels that will appeal to consumers while hiding the presence of MSG. The use of the term "natural flavoring" has increased, as have the patented proprietary reaction flavors, such as beef, chicken, and pork, whose ingredients don't need to be labeled. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
See book keywords and concepts |  It goes by the name "low-carb diet," and it has become very popular. Almost all diet books on store shelves are variations of this one theme: eat as much protein, meat and fat as you want, but stay away from those "fatty" carbs. As you have seen already in this book, my research findings and my point of view show that eating this way is perhaps the single greatest threat to American health we currently face. So what is the story, anyway? |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  And so I tried his low-carb diet. I also tried some of the low-fat diets, the Heart Association-type programs. I always lost some weight, but I always gained it back.
I'm 73 now, and I was 68 when I started with the South Beach Diet. I had been a heavy smoker and then I gave it up, which is how I happened to put on all that weight. I wasn't a big sweets eater. But I loved all the rest. Bread three times a day, with every meal. And potatoes. Rice. Pasta. Of course, meat and so on—big, heavy meals. Once my weight hit its peak, I started getting some other problems, too. |
Patrick Holford
See book keywords and concepts |  Reddy from the University of Chicago, who conducted a six-week study on ten healthy adults on a low-carb diet.6 Volunteers lost an average of 9 pounds (that's 1.5 pounds a week), but most developed ketones—compounds that are formed when the body uses its own fat as fuel and can raise acid levels in the blood. Acid excretion, a marker of acid levels in the blood, rose by 90 percent in some volunteers. There was also a sharp rise in urinary calcium levels during the diet despite only a slight decrease in calcium intake. Urinary citrate, a compound that inhibits kidney stone formation, decreased. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  By the way, if you're going to eat low carb foods, be sure to check out my book called low-carb diet Warning, at TruthPublishing.com, because there's a safe way to eat low carb, and then there's a very unhealthy way to eat low carb, and sadly, most Americans who are pursuing low carb diets are eating the unhealthy way.
Here's another interesting point in all of this -- when your body adds fat during this process of converting blood sugar to body fat, it has a blueprint of where to put that fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Interestingly, the low-carb diet was three times more effective at losing weight from the trunk area of the body than a low-fat diet. That may be of special interest to many people who are looking at ways to eliminate abdominal fat.
The Atkins diet is under fire these days, with some people claiming their ridiculous consumption of high fat foods was "recommended" by the Atkins diet and that, therefore, their cardiovascular disease is the fault of Atkins Nutritionals. |
Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., D. Craig Willcox, Ph.D., Makoto Suzuki, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  But if you're on a low-carb diet, your body tends to break down muscle tissue for usable energy—and muscle is not what you want to lose.
3. Getting protein from vegetable sources is important. Overconsumption of the amino acid methionine, a byproduct of animal sources—mostly meat—can result in high levels of the artery-toxic substance homocysteine, which is strongly linked to coronary heart disease, stroke, dementia, and even aging itself.48 Plant proteins have very low levels of this amino acid. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
See book keywords and concepts |  This is due to a protective mechanism that evolved in the days when we were roaming the plains: famine conditions (like a low-carb diet) encourage the body to create as much body fat as possible whenever food is available.
The best way to keep the body fat percentage down is to keep your activity level high in combination with a moderate to high complex-carb diet. Your body is happy, you feel good, and you will stay lean. In fact, the average BMI of the Okinawan elders is only 21 (lean is <2}), which is a major factor in their lifelong health—and can be in yours, too. |
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