Study that showed metabolic advantage?

[mcseje]

I remember reading, about 6 months ago, about a study showing that low carb actually has a metabolic advantage.

They used three groups, one on low fat with x calories, one on low carb with x calories, and one on low carb with x+300 calories. Needless to say both low carb groups lost more weight.

Does anyone have a link to this study or an article about the study?

Thanks,

-Jim

[gotbeer]

Here's one link:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=142835

and another:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=142867

and another:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=142964

and another:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=143459

[doreen T]

A Harvard School of Public Health study may stand dieting wisdom on its head, after low-carbohydrate dieters lost more weight than low-fat dieters despite eating 25,000 extra calories over a 12-week study period.

The findings generated national attention after Penelope Greene, a visiting scholar in the School of Public Health's Nutrition Department, presented her research last week (Oct. 13) at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The study, conducted with Walter Willett, Nutrition Department chair and Fredrick Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, put three groups of dieters on different regimens. They included a low-fat group, a low-carbohydrate group that ate the same number of calories, and a third group on a similar low-carbohydrate plan that included 300 extra calories a day.

Here's the full story from the Harvard University Gazette ... Low-carb more effective than low-fat (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/10.23/03-lowcarb.html) .. Study: Greater weight loss for low-carb dieters even when they consume more calories than low-fat dieters.


Doreen

[mcseje]

Thanks a lot, I couldn't find it and I'm in the middle of a firefight on another board and I needed ammunition.

-Jim

[Dean4Prez]

Thanks a lot, I couldn't find it and I'm in the middle of a firefight on another board and I needed ammunition.

-Jim
Which board, Sunny Jim?

And does the "mcse" in mcseje stand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer?

[mcseje]

Which board, Sunny Jim?

And does the "mcse" in mcseje stand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer?


Actually it was the snopes message board.

And, yes the mcse does refer to Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Though I've been away from infrastructure for about two years now so I don't think I'm going to upgrade it to 2003. I also have my MCDBA and I'm working on my MCAD (one more test) and my MCSD after that.

What does Sunny refer to?

-Jim

[dannysk]

The more importand finding for us is that those who ate the extra 300 calories, actually lost less weight, than the other low carb group.
Calories do count ! (As Dr. Atkins said in DANDR)

danny

[gotbeer]

Indeed, but I don't think the difference was statistically significant.

[Dean4Prez]

Actually it was the snopes message board.
I was wondering if it was fark.com. I witness the Low-Carb Good Word to the heathens there at Fark as BrotherLove

And, yes the mcse does refer to Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Though I've been away from infrastructure for about two years now so I don't think I'm going to upgrade it to 2003. I also have my MCDBA and I'm working on my MCAD (one more test) and my MCSD after that.

What does Sunny refer to?
-Jim
Something that stuck in my mind -- in the most recent Harry Potter book, Harry is addressed as "Sunny Jim" by a raven (IIRC) outside the teacher's staffroom at Hogwarts. Then another book I read (Robert Anton Wilson's Masks of the Illuminati) has James Joyce remembering advice from his father -- his father addresses him as "Sunny Jim", and that's why it stuck in my mind.