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The history of low-carb diets
Tyler:
--- Quote from: Jay on May 14, 2007, 09:42:52 AM ---The body still needs carbs.
You'd suffer brain damage with a zero carb diet.
What people need to do without is sugar and processed white flours.
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A lot of truth in your statement! Add High Fructose Corn Syrup to that list.
Razor X:
--- Quote from: Jay on May 14, 2007, 09:42:52 AM ---The body still needs carbs.
You'd suffer brain damage with a zero carb diet.
What people need to do without is sugar and processed white flours.
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It's virtually impossible to eat a zero-carb diet, even if you wanted to. Carbs are in fruits, vegetables, milk, pretty much anything but meat and fat. But most of the carb-overload we take in comes from sugars, white flours, grains, as you mentioned.
I tried Atkins for about six months about four years ago and really did not lose anything. I was not exercising at the time and I took them at their word that you could eat as much as you wanted as long as you avoided the carbs. I also think I ate too much peanut butter (one of my big weaknesses).
This time around, I'm eating basically chicken, turkey and fish with beef about once a week. Trying to stay way from the really fatty and high-cholesterol stuff. I've cut back but have not eliminated dairy products (milk and yogurt) and I am still eating 2 or 3 servings of fruit a day. What I've eliminated are the starches - potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, grain of any kind). It's still basically a balanced diet. Hopefully the elimination of the starches combined with the exercise regimen I'm on will yield some results this time.
Razor X:
--- Quote from: Robmeister on May 14, 2007, 08:32:02 AM ---And I thought Dr. Atkins started it in 1972.
There is much to be said and considered with keeping carbs REALLY low.
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I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories, but there is a school of thought that says that food manufacturers -- especially the ones who market "diet" foods - low fat, low carb, low-whatever-the-fad-is-this-week products -- have a vested interest in keeping people overweight so they'll continue to buy their products. It's an argument that does seem to have some validity.
GBORN:
--- Quote from: RazorX on May 14, 2007, 05:10:02 PM ---I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories
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I do. The money is in the medicine, not the cure. So goes it with the diet industry.
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