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New Analysis: LCHF Best For Long-Term Weight and Health Markers

Yesterday 16:52 in Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Weight loss studies

goldencup2 Which diet works best long-term for weight loss and improved health markers? Some say: eat fewer calories and go hungry. Others say: eat fewer carbohydrates.

Many 21st Century studies have compared the effect of these two popular pieces of advice. At least 18 studies of the highest quality have clearly shown a better weight loss result from a low-carb diet. Low-fat and low-cal diets have not won in any comparison.

Now, a new analysis selecting 13 of the most well-designed and reliable long-term studies, summarizes the results. The winner? You probably guessed right. The same as usual.

Reality now becomes increasingly difficult for opponents to explain away. Continue Reading →

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Losing 135 Pounds in One Year With LCHF

May 9 4:21 in Weight loss studies

Before and After One Year2

This is pretty impressive. I just got an email from Cord in the pictures above, he wanted to share his story: Continue Reading →

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A Low Carb Diet Superior for Overweight Children Once Again

February 8 17:30 in Food for kids, Weight loss studies

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Do you want to lose weight? Study after study shows that if you do, you should avoid sugar and starch. This is also true for children and youth. A new study showed that children (on average 13 years old) lost more weight on a strict low carbohydrate diet, despite eating until satisfied!

Children who instead received low fat and low calorie dietary advice had more difficulty losing weight, despite going hungry. Nor did their health markers improve in comparison.

At least two studies have previously demonstrated better weight for overweight children and youth who were given advice on a strict low carbohydrate diet [1 2]. And altogether there are now at least 18 studies of highest standard (RCT) clearly demonstrating a better weight on a low carbohydrate diet compared to “eat less and run more”. The latter advice has to my knowledge never won in any comparative study. Nor has anybody been able to show me such a study.

This means 18-0 in favor of a low carbohydrate diet.

A low carbohydrate diet is dieting for smart people who enjoy life (and who exercise for the purpose of being fit and feeling well). Eating pasta daily, counting calories and having to exercise like an elite athlete to get slim is a good option for masochists.

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Surprise: Sugar is Bad for Your Weight

January 18 12:23 in Sugar/fructose, Weight loss studies

A new review of all major trials once again show what everybody already ought to know: Sugar is bad for your weight.

The Heart.org: New meta-analysis on sugar sparks old debate

BMJ: Dietary sugars and body weight: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials and cohort studies

Is anybody surprised?

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Warnings Against the Atkins Diet “Outdated”

September 3 2012 21:59 in Low Carb High Fat, Weight loss studies

Updated researchers now take LCHF diets very seriously:

Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia…

“We have passed the time where we would say the Atkins diet is bad for you. That’s an outdated position,” Foster says. “This is a viable alternative for weight loss.”

USA Today: Low-carb diet gets more support from new analysis

I wrote about this analysis last week.

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The Science of Low Carb

March 18 2012 19:16 in Diabetes, Science & Health, Weight loss studies

After 150 years of on-off popularity, low carb diets are finally getting the scientific support they need to be taken seriously.

Dr Eric C. Westman, MD and president elect of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (weight loss doctors), has 15 years of experience helping patients lose weight and improve their health using low carb. He has also helped do several high-quality scientific studies on low carb.

In this interview I did with him at the last ASBP meeting he talks about the science and the practicalities of using real low carb food for improving your weight and health.

More videos like this

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Low Carb Wins Yet Another Study

December 9 2011 11:07 in Cancer, Insulin, Low Carb High Fat, Weight loss studies

Protects you from cancer?

Do you want to lose weight and decrease the risk of breast cancer? We know that low carb diets are better for weight loss than low fat diets, that’s been demonstrated over and over. A new study of the highest quality (RCT) shows that low carb gives more weight loss than a Mediterranean diet as well. It also decreases the cancer stimulating hormone insulin more effectively:

Intermittent, Low-Carbohydrate Diets More Successful Than Standard Dieting, Present Possible Intervention for Breast Cancer Prevention

Yet another new study presented at the same conference, an observational study, points in the same direction when it comes to cancer risk:

Starch Intake May Influence Risk for Breast Cancer Recurrance

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Obesity and the trouble with sugar

September 26 2011 18:47 in Insulin, Robert Lustig, Weight loss studies

Here is professor Robert Lustig’s insightful talk from AHS – again. This time the slides are included in the video (not always perfectly synced) which makes the video much more watchable.

Lustig has a very believable explanation to how our weight regulation works, and why it sometimes do not. The core of his message: Too much fructose (or even more glucose) in the diet increases the hormone insulin which induces leptin resistance and makes us want to eat too much.

See his talk and you will understand more about obesity than many confused experts do. Personally I have seen it three times, which makes me feel very smart.

All about weight loss

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The Taubes and Guyenet show goes on

September 3 2011 23:13 in Gary Taubes, Insulin, Stephan Guyenet, Weight loss studies

Gary Taubes is back from a long blogging hiatus with an interesting post. As usual, when Gary writes he writes a lot. Even the title is long:

Within about five minutes Stephan Guyenet had his own new post up, detailing why Gary Taubes is wrong again:

They both have a few good points. But is this really just about the science? Continue Reading →

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Low carb winning because of the meat lobby?

August 31 2011 9:32 in Lobbyism, Weight loss studies

In Sweden it’s getting very popular to eat real low carb food (i.e. LCHF). Thus, the media went all crazy here today with the news that the meat lobby is behind it all.

Two reporters had investigated the studies showing better weight loss (and improved risk factors) on low carb diets. They claimed that these studies had something in common: they were sponsored by the meat industry. Presumably in an attempt to fool us into eating more meat.

True or another conspiracy theory? Continue Reading →

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