Recommended reading, article by Ari Whitten. Take home points: 1) Carbohydrates are not the cause–or even a cause–of the obesity epidemic. The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Fat Gain/Obesity is wrong. 2) The amount of carbs in your diet has nothing to do with how fat or lean you are. A 500 calorie excess on either a low-carb or high-carb diet will cause the same exact amount of fat gain. A 500 calorie deficit on either diet will cause the same exact amount of fat loss. At a given level of calories, you will gain or lose the same exact amount of fat on either diet. 3) Low-carb diets have no beneficial effect on either health or fat loss. Well-designed higher carbohydrate diets achieve equal or better fat loss, and typically better performance, energy, and health too. 4) The weight loss many people achieve on low-carb diets is not due to carbohydrate restriction. It is due to a decrease in total calorie intake driven by the shift to more whole foods and more protein. Learn from this! If you want fat loss, make sure you’re eating a whole foods diet (i.e. minimal to no processed foods) and that you have a high protein intake. 5) Not only is low-carb eating not particularly beneficial. In many cases, if you do it long enough, it can result in severe hormonal dysfunction and a slower metabolism. 6) If you’ve been eating low carb for years and now find yourself with all the typical symptoms of a slow metabolism, liberating yourself from low-carb dogmas and eating more carbohydrates (from whole foods) is powerful medicine. nataliejillfitness/problem-with-low-carb-diets/
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:39:47 +0000
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