WB FAT The Myth of the Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet

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The Myth of the Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet - Part 2 of 2
Joel M. Kauffman, PhD (10 June, 2009)

Former Professor of Chemistry of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, now Emeritus.
Author of Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths per Year

In 1956 Prof. Alan Kekwick and Gaston Pawan, MD, at Middlesex Hospital, London, England, conducted tests of 4 varieties of 1,000 kcal/day diets: 90% fat (by fuel values), 90% protein, 90% carbohydrate, and a normal mixed diet. Subjects on the high-fat diet lost much more weight than any of the others. Several subjects on the high-carb diet actually gained weight, even at only 1000 kcal/day! Even at 2,600 kcal/day of very low-carb diet, subjects lost weight.

Thus the dogma that a "balanced" diet is best for almost everyone had been falsified a half century ago. All honestly-run low-carb diet trials show benefits, even ones where the researchers expected the opposite.

Examination of at least two dozen recent controlled diet trials by an equal number of authors in several countries led them to these conclusions:

1. Carb restriction improved control of serum glucose, the primary target of nutritional therapy, and reduced insulin fluctuations.

2. Carb-restricted diets are at least as effective for weight loss as low-fat diets.

3. Substitution of fat for carb is generally beneficial for markers of and for the actual incidence of cardiovascular disease. [This means that a diet of 25% carb, 25% protein and 50% fat will be optimum for many folks. Some have followed such diets for over 50 years.]

4. Carb restriction has benefits even in the absence of weight loss.

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