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Originally Posted by Wifezilla
The very fact that I exist disproves this. I never lost weight on high carb despite exercise, attempts at fasting, blah blah blah. I don't have my book in front of me, but there were plenty of documented references in Good Calories, Bad Calories.
Anthony Colpo has an axe to grind, but I tried doing things "his way" for over 20 years. It didn't work, gave me high blood pressure and made me miserable in the process. I'll stick with the Eades', than you very much.
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Wifezilla, can you see that Anthony Colpo is not suggesting that low carb diets are not
the most effective way for someone to lose bodyfat? He is merely pointing out that science done so far unequivocally shows this to be because they make people naturally eat less. And has nothing to do with any 'Metabolic Advantage'.
If the documented references in GCBC are not just so much hot air, don't you think it's a good opportunity for anyone, you, me, Gary Taubes, Mike Eades, or anyone else, to seize this amazing opportunity to make the charity of your choice $20.000 richer?. I mean, what has anyone got to lose by rising to this challenge?
It doesn't matter whether Anthony Colpo has an axe to grind. Any of the great people in History who has agitated for change, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mahatma Ghandi, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightinggale,... they've all had their particular 'axe' to grind. Try to look further than the admittedly offensive personality Anthony Colpo has, to see that the question he is posing is of critical importance to our understanding of how low carb diets work for bodyfat loss/gain. And you have to admit, it's a very generous offer.
Isn't it time people stopped hiding behind anecdotal misreading of how much a person actually puts in their mouths and discovered whether low carb diets
are the most effective approach for bodyfat loss simply because they naturally lead you to eat less, or if there is something more complex going on. Surely you can see that it would be really interesting to find out?
Wifezilla, just curious what you mistakenly think 'his way' is?. Anthony Colpo believes, lives, recommends , and is a tireless campaigner for both the health and bodycomp control benefits of a low carb dietary approach. I don't like his methods either. In fact I think the man is his own worst enemy. Neverthelessm isn't this an opportunity to look past his unsavoury character for a moment, answer one of the most contentious questions in the low carb world,
and at the same time, make some deserving charity twenty thousand bucks better off?
To recap:
Anthony Colpo is indeed a very unpleasant person.
He is a confirmed low carber, but thinks the concept of metabolic advantage is nonsense, and the clear advantage of a low carb dietary approach is because you naturally eat a lot less.
That is a question definitely worth answering.
All somebody has to do to make their fav charity a lot more solvent is to point out metabolic ward studies that show metabolic advantage exists.
Geez, just for the opportunity of relieving Anthony Colpo of $20.000 I'd leap at this opportunity, and I sincerely hope someone (Go Wifezilla!) does
Unfortunately I think the money will probably stay safely in the box under his bed, because I personally doubt whether metabolic advantage exists at all. And if it does exist, is so small that it is impossible for current measuring methods to detect.
Stuart