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Events“I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss.”
May 29 2015 by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
in Crazy ways to lose weight
in Crazy ways to lose weight 
Does chocolate help weight loss? And can you trust nutrition science news in the media? My answers would be “probably not” and “certainly not”.
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Recent articles on how high carb diet increased life span as much as 40 percent calorie restriction is a case in point. Where is the whole article? were amino acids left out? what was the control diet? how might this be appliccable or not to humans?
Let us all be more skeptical of such unproven claims
Why have not katavins lived to 120 or more?
Skeptical
The point they were trying to make was that the health media is sloppy when it comes to vetting these studies that they enthusiastically report. Even a medical journal published the study without any of the "rigorous testing" the journal purports to do.
http://www.amazon.com/Lilys-Chocolate-Stevia-Coconut-Ounce/dp/B0083CP...
Typical of that vegan type research
Short time few animals and strange percentages with stranger conclusions not supported
5 percent protein ( so low as to cause the short term results and not a long term human level)
The 33 and 60 percent protein
Not reasonable and seemingly
Designed for an unsophisticated vegan population
imo junk
Eric
Cell Reports ( named to confuse with cell? Or accidentally close name.)
May 2015
Tried to paste but look for your self on yahoo r science daily ( both have lots of junky articles)
Here is the link to the article.
The author and his group have published several papers with his"Method" indicating protein is not good for longevity.
Again 5% or 33% or 60% protein are IMO not good to use and not relevent for HFLC or ketogenic diets.
Why? ask yourself or try to ask him.
JUNKY science IMO
Why not research where the U is in the curve for these macrounutrients and what are the trade offs ?? 6 weeks or 6 months for stunted growth and lowered fecundity that over a few generation has no viable offspring? Think Potingers cats
Eric
It doesn't matter about the percentage of cacao or if stevia was used. The experimental design is too poor to extract any meaningful conclusions.
Did corrupt science beget stupidity in the media, or was corruption in the media what created and fed the beast of stupid science?
Theologians are boastful and nobody likes them, but are journalists and scientists any less boastful than religious type of persons?
Stupidity is associated with professionalism, regardless of the profession and the worldview.
Look at the example of Augustus Owsley Stanley and his over 50 years as an adult eating little else but meat eggs and cheese.
Look up the evidence for yourself EJCN (2013) 67, 789-796
Diets of less than 20 grams of carbs per day show Blood glucoses of 65 to 80 and ketones 7/8 MM Insulin 6.6 to 9.4
Stanley believed that the natural human diet is a totally carnivorous one, thus making it a no-carbohydrate diet, and that all vegetables are toxic.[17] He claimed to have eaten almost nothing but meat, eggs, butter and cheese since 1959 and that he believed his body had not aged as much as the bodies of those who eat a more "normal" diet. He was convinced that insulin, released by the pancreas when carbohydrates are ingested, is the cause of much damage to human tissue and that diabetes mellitus is caused by the ingestion of carbohydrates.
Stanley received radiation therapy in 2004 for throat cancer, which he first attributed to passive exposure to cigarette smoke at concerts,[18] but which he later discovered was almost certainly caused by the infection of his tonsil with HPV. He credited his low carb diet with starving the tumor of glucose, slowing its growth and preventing its spread enough that it could be successfully treated despite its advanced state at diagnosis
Seems the artificial sweeteners can cause problems with insulin sensitivity.
As posted before by others sugar or artificial
Sweeteners can be eliminated and not needed.
Like all carbs the addiction or preference can be beat
Eric
The daily dose of 200 ml heavy whipping cream I put into my 2 cups of coffee adds 5.8 g carbs, but 70 g of fat. I would guess it is LCHF even with the 1.4 g sugar and 11 g fat the chocolate represents that I usually have with the coffee.