Thank you Happy Healthy Long Life - The Healthy Librarian for posting! More details about the TWIN DOCTOR LOW FAT VS LOW CARB MONTH-LONG EXPERIMENT. (Thanks, to Tom A.) See what you think. Personally, I find my plant-based no-added-oil low-processed food way of eating--which isnt ULTRA-low fat, because I use some nuts, seeds, & soy, & I sparingly/occasionally use sweeteners--SUSTAINABLE & VERY PALATABLE. Its given me lots of energy, improved biomarkers, & kept from needing medications. Just saying…. EXCERPTS: Take away carbohydrates and the joy goes out of meals. And remove all fruit and veg - they all have carbs - and you get constipated [Xand Van Tulleken]: “I went on a no-carbohydrate diet - essentially no sugar - and Chris [Xands twin brother] went on an extremely low-fat diet, restricting himself to food with less than 2 per cent fat. We were allowed to eat as much as we wanted, except I couldnt have carbohydrates and Chris was allowed only the barest amount of fat - you need some fat to survive, so he restricted himself to food with less than 2 per cent fat. However, in every other respect, including our exercise levels, our lives were similar, so any changes in our bodies at the end of the experiment would be down to the diets. There was one saving grace: each of the diets was easy to follow because they have just one simple rule. And I also had a pretty good reason to persevere: I really thought my low-carb diet would work and Id end up slim and healthy a month later. Over a series of tests - all of which involved needles and long sessions of uphill cycling - he put us through our paces. Again [low-fat] Chris thrashed me in every test. So, even though I seemed to be losing more weight, everything became harder to do. And the tests we did to assess our levels of blood fats and risk of diabetes at the end of the diets revealed an astonishing and concerning truth about how my body had been fuelling itself in the absence of carbs. While it was getting some energy from the protein in my diet, some was probably also coming from breaking down my own muscle. Our experiment showed that you can lose a lot of weight, as I did, on a low-carb diet, but that isnt necessarily good for you. The insulin hypothesis sounds scientific, but it doesnt explain what large, independent research studies over long periods of time have shown: low-carb diets dont work for everyone or even a majority of people. ---->For any diet to work you have to be able to keep it up for the rest of your life. I thought I would stick to low carbs after we finished, but having my first meal with carbs - and the boost in energy and alertness it gave me - reminded me that for a month I had been under-performing in all areas of my life, and Id felt dreadful. What we discovered is that the real reason were all getting fatter isnt fat or sugar. Furthermore, sugar alone isnt very addictive - only horses snack on sugar cubes and very few people gorge on boiled sweets or dry toast. And fat isnt really addictive either: when did you last sneak a spoonful of butter from the fridge late at night? The modern processed food industry knows this and thats why youre rarely sold the two separately - what is addictive is the combination. We interviewed some amazing scientists who showed us that a combination of fat and sugar (such as in milk chocolate or ice cream) has a similar effect on your brain to cocaine. Remove either and your tub of ice cream will be a lot less appetising and a lot less addictive. Itll have fewer calories, too. What we relish is fat/sugar combinations - chocolate, ice cream, French fries. To see the effect of these combinations on the brain - and why they might be addictive like cocaine - after the diet part of our experiment finished, I had an eye scan done by Jennifer Nasser, a nutrition professor at Drexel University in the U.S. This scan effectively detects dopamine, a neurotransmitter that activates the reward centres of the brain. I was scanned while I ate fatty, sugary foods: sure enough a huge surge of dopamine. --->So, what were our conclusions? If you want to lose weight it will be much easier if you avoid processed foods made with sugar and fat. These foods affect your brain in a completely different way from natural foods and its hard for anyone to resist eating too much. And any diet that [completely] eliminates fat or sugar will be unpalatable, hard to sustain and probably be bad for your health, too.”
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:48:54 +0000
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