[ExI] Effects of low/no calorie diets

[Ben]

There's a simple solution to this issue of losing weight, and I'd be 
surprised if most of us here don't already know of it:

A low-carb, high-fat diet.

It's not necessarity a low-calorie diet (although it easily can be), but 
it is a weight-reducing diet, or at least certailnly seems to be for 
most people. It definitely is for me. And no problems with hunger pangs, 
no relapsing because of a lack of will-power, in fact there's very 
llittle to no will-power required, once you get over the initial stage 
of quitting the huge amounts of carbs we habitually eat with a western diet.

One of the best things about it is that there's no risk of missing any 
vital nutrients. Carbohydrates, at least the refined ones we eat such a 
lot of, are virtually nutrient-free calories, and start turning straight 
into sugar as soon as you put them in your mouth.

The main thing stopping many more people adopting a diet like this, I 
think, is the fear instilled by that scoundrel Ancel Keys, and the 
decades-long campaign to vilify fat and cholesterol, leading to official 
advice to consume massive amounts of carbohydrates (which get turned 
straight into fat by the liver in an attempt to clear the blood of all 
that glucose).

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that this is probably the root 
cause of the epidemic of obesity we're seeing today. If there's one 
thing that should be burned into the brains of nutritionists at all 
stages of their  education, it's this inverse relationship between 
dietary and body fat: Low-Fat, High-Carb diet -> High body fat. 
High-Fat, Low-Carb diet -> low body fat.


Ben Zaiboc