Does low carb work?
Does a low-carb diet lead to improved health and weight loss?
We recently asked our members this question and got 1,184 replies. Here are the results.
It seems that at least 85 percent of them feel that low carb works well.
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I don't like low-carb eating, don't do it, and I'm 60 years old and healthily slim...and have been throughout my lifetime. I concentrate on being in touch with my body's needs and eating lightly compared to my needs by "feel" rather than by external measurements, like counting calories, carbohydrates or food units of any kind. I eat the types of food I feel like, but only in the amount my body tells me it needs via definite physically hungry. And it works!
From what I can see, low-carb eating is an unproven but highly promoted approach, that is not supported by the best scientific studies. It's also an interesting fact that the world's fattest country, the USA, is also the country in which people eat the highest proportion of protein. Not that two things existing together necessarily proves that one causes the other, but if low-carb/high-protein was a great approach, it's surprising to see the exact opposite to the expected relationship among all of countries on earth!