Sat, Mar-17-18, 11:20
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Senior Member
Posts: 19,218
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Plan: atkins, carnivore 2023
Stats: 200/211/163
BF:
Progress: -30%
Location: Massachusetts
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Studies dont run long enough....
SCientific studies are not designed for use in the real world. APplying studies is the art and practicing of medicine. Appying it to our every day life is with the risk of not enough information.
FOr example, look at the length of time to move from a promising drug on rats/mice to FDA approval to withdrawn from market.
The Framingham Nurses study is long term, decades, and thousands of people tracked. Very good data. But It misses the finer points, and does not connect cause and effect. Well many studies dont connect the cause and effect.
Example: high fat diet and heart attacks. Participants in X study write everything they eat and the amounts for 6 months. 2 have heart attacks, what have they been eating. The info shows high fat diet with the heart attacks. BUT is this the cause? Did anyone think outside the box, and look at other factors like high fats and carbohydrates connected to heart attacks?
Most of us living LC for a long time actually are familiar with this
and with more studies and more studies, the doctors are finally realizing the truth, well some are, that it is the combo of fats and carbs that are the cause.
Dr Atkins lists a number of studies published long ago that showed this; these studies were ignored.
Werebear--- your struggles were NOT your fault. I hope you have made that jump as you have lived this LC journey for a while now. You were a victim of a "diseased" metabolism and misguided egos aka doctors. Not a m atter of will power. You were given WRONG information.
Atkins, and Banting before him, already prooved a maet and fat diet worked.
THese days, with the new generation of supporters, are leading the way to fine tuning this method.
ANd are still fighting against the tide.
( I rarely see a doctor now---wrong information too many times.)
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