well, Dr. Ellis, we're waiting for your reply! And your revised editions of your "books"...
guess you didn't really know "everything", did you, ha haaa...
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/...ealth-headlines
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 14, 2003
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - A new study offers intriguing evidence for the idea that people on low-carbohydrate diets can actually eat more than folks on standard low-fat plans and still lose weight.
Perhaps no idea is more controversial in the diet world than the contention, long espoused by the late Robert Atkins, that people on low-carb diets can consume more calories without gaining weight. Yet skeptics say these dieters simply must be eating less.
Now, a small but carefully controlled study offers a strong hint that Atkins was right: People on low-carb, high-fat diets actually can eat more. The study, directed by Penelope Greene of the Harvard School of Public Health and presented at a meeting here this week of the American Association for the Study of Obesity, found that people eating an extra 300 calories a day on a very low-carb regimen lost just as much weight during a 12-week study as those on a standard low-fat diet.
During the course of the study, they consumed an extra 25,000 calories. That should have added up to about 7 pounds. But for some reason, it didn't.
"There does indeed seem to be something about a low-carb diet that says you can eat more calories and lose a similar amount of weight," Greene said. Not even Greene says this settles the case, but some at the meeting found her report fascinating.
"A lot of our assumptions about a calorie-is-a-calorie are being challenged," said Marlene Schwartz of Yale. "As scientists, we need to be open-minded." Others, though, found the data hard to swallow. "It doesn't make sense, does it?" said Barbara Rolls of Pennsylvania State University. "It violates the laws of thermodynamics. No one has ever found any miraculous metabolic effects."
In the study, 21 overweight volunteers were divided into three categories: Two groups were randomly assigned to either low-fat or low-carb diets with 1,500 calories for women and 1,800 for men; a third group was also low-carb but got an extra 300 calories a day.
Each afternoon, the volunteers picked up that evening's dinner, a bedtime snack and the next day's breakfast and lunch. Instead of lots of red meat and saturated fat, which many find disturbing about low-carb diets, these people ate mostly fish, chicken, salads, vegetables and unsaturated oils. In the end, everyone lost weight. Those on the lower-cal, low-carb regimen took off 23 pounds, while people who got the same calories on the low-fat approach lost 17 pounds. The big surprise, though, was that volunteers getting the extra 300 calories a day of low-carb food lost 20 pounds.