Thu, Jul-21-11, 21:53
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
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Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Very-low-carb diets are especially good at lowering trigylcerides, lowering blood sugar, and raising HDL cholesterol. Overweight dieters tend to lose more weight, and more quickly, than on other diets. Very-low-carb diets, therefore, should be particularly effective as an approach to metabolic syndrome. It’s quite possible that other very-low-carb diets, such as Atkins Induction Phase, would have performed just as well as the Spanish Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet. In fact, most effective reduced-calorie weight-loss diets would tend to improve metabolic syndrome, even curing some cases, regardless of carb content.
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That came out of left field. The entire article is focused on an ad libitum low carb ketogenic diet. I just don't see how this comment made it there without first having established some rationale for it. Nor does the author, Steve Parker MD offer any reference to support that claim. See here:
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What’s the Spanish Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet?
Calories are unlimited, but dieters are encouraged to keep carbohydrate consumption under 30 grams day.
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Will the dieters of this study still be cured of metabolic syndrome a year later? Unlikely. Most will go back to their old ways of eating, regaining the weight, and moving their blood sugars, triglycerides, and HDL cholesterols in the wrong direction.
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Of course, if the diet can't be endured for more than the duration of the experiment, the subjects will just go back to their previous diets, and promptly return to their previous weight. And if by cure he means that metabolic syndrome is like the flu where it makes you sick for a while, then the immune system fights and kills the infectious agent thereby returning to good health permanently, he's on the wrong track. Metabolic syndrome is merely a symptom of chronic carbohydrate poisoning. The only cure is to stop eating the poison. Just like the only cure for arsenic poisoning is to stop eating the arsenic.
If it's too hard to stick to this ketogenic Mediterranean diet, then maybe it's the wrong diet to stick to. Atkins works just as well, and is much easier to stick to, even in Spain.
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