BBC Story about Low Carb Dieting – Part 1
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The world’s most beautiful and famous have swallowed his advice. He wrote one of the biggest selling diet books of all time, and it was based on his extraordinary belief that you could eat as much as you desire and still lose weight.
His name was Dr Robert Atkins, author of the Atkins new diet revolution. To some Dr Atkins was a hero, to others his diet was scientific heresy and potentially deadly.
In a series of ground breaking experiments Horizon investigates the truth behind the most controversial diet in history. Does the Atkins diet really work and is it dangerous?
Duration : 0:9:56
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August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
this video claims …
this video claims to investigate the truth, they will tell you if the atkins diet is healthy or deadly… I’m just wondering why they believe we should trust them any more than the cirtics and proponents of the atkins diets?
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Sigh, another …
Sigh, another tedious BBC quackumentary. Designed to appeal to the ill-informed and corporate biochemists.
I do admire the techniques of deciet and psychological manipulation which have been used though. First rate propaganda.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I will look up his …
I will look up his lecture. I do have his book “Good Calories, Bad Calories”. Another good link is Weston Price.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Its just amazing …
Its just amazing that that the actual reason people were putting on weight is because of the very ‘diet’ we were being told to eat by the so-called ‘Experts’.
1 high in ‘trans fat’ instead of the healthier ‘natural’ butter . 1 with no evidence to support its ‘fat will make you fat’ theory. 1 which could result in high natural sugar = insulin = highAGP from its ‘option’ of 5 fruit. Goinglite you may like to watch G.Taubes’ lecture on the net here it gives you the ‘Real’ science behind obesity !
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
That’s great to …
That’s great to hear! It’s amazing how healthy a Low Carb/High Saturated Fat diet can be! Here’s a good book that can help keep you on track: “Natural Health & Weight Loss” by Barry Groves. I myself have adopted The Atkins diet as a lifestyle change.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Me too, not just …
Me too, not just for what he did to the dieting world but for proving the ‘healthy’ lowkcal diet was doing nothing for me.
And that a LowCarb one has left me epileptic seizure free for 8months!!! Every month my Dr is phoning up to make sure i haven’t forgotten to phone him to tell him i’ve had one but he’s constantly being left shocked that i haven’t had one & he’s taking my diet very seriously now. I’ve even got a top neurological professor in London wanting me to keep him updated as well.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
hmmm, die haben das …
hmmm, die haben das buch wohl nicht gelesen, man darf eben nicht so viel essen, wie man will und so oft man will.. so ein scheiß… btw: ich hab damit nicht abgenommen, hab mich aber so wohl gefühlt, wie nie.. bis die schwindelgefühle und der extreme mundgeruch angefangen haben. da hab ich dann aufgegeben. jetzt bin ich vegetarier ^^
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
The “level” of …
The “level” of insulin on a high carb diet is the “monster”.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
It’s the amount of …
It’s the amount of insulin secreted that’s the issue. A plate of lowfat mash potatoes is going to secret a lot more insulin than a 4 oz low carb steak.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
The problem lies …
The problem lies within what is “healthy”. Nutritional guidelines are made from research. Research can only draw concrete conclusions from the people being studied. What is good for one person is not necessarily good for the next. Instead of treating humans as all the same, we need to look at individuals who have genotypic and phenotypic differences that make their body’s needs unique. the draw back is people will have to work at finding what works for them. The is no one size fits all.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Insulin is not a …
Insulin is not a monster. It is not only secreted in response to blood sugar which in reality, insulin is secreted every 6 minutes in a human with a larger amount secrete when nutrients have been taken in.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Healthy people will …
Healthy people will not excrete “sugar” or protein in the urine. Having either in the urine is usually a sign of various diseases. You will lose some caloric content in the feces but this is dependent on the fiber in the diet, your intestines and health. Again for healthy individuals, loss by either route is minimal. It would not explain huge amounts of weight.
People will not store all the excess calories as fat. Some will go to glucose storage depending on the body’s state and needs.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Not all of it will …
Not all of it will be burned or go to adipose on the hips…It does depend on your glycogen stores (glucose). So this wonderful scientist or actor is wrong. Glycogen stores are dependent on exercise, energy balance and intake of absorbed carbohydrates. There are certain organs and tissues that have to hae glucose as a fuel. Glucose can come from dietary carbohydrates directly, be made from other carbohydrates in the diet or from glucogenic amino acids found in protein.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I absolutely LOVE …
I absolutely LOVE how dramatically they introduce the first law of thermodynamics. I wish my thermo/cloud physics class was that exciting.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
In other words, you …
In other words, you have to be careful not to awake the “monster” which is insulin?
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Question: Could it …
Question: Could it be that some people will store as fat all the calories they intake (minus the calories they burn) whereas others have the extra calories go directly in the urine and solid waste?
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
You may cut it out …
You may cut it out completely and still be overweight for the rest of your life. In my case, eliminating it was good but it’s not the final solution.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
This is bullshit …
This is bullshit you can have celery on the Atkins diet.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Thanks for putting …
Thanks for putting this up!
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Best way to lose …
Best way to lose weight is surely just to eat healthily? The occasional fatty chinese or fish and chips isn’t going to matter that much, so long as you don’t have them too often. The other benefit is that just by being healthy about it you don’t go into that silly yoyo effect, because your body regulates itself, rather than prepping for another starving session.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
well, duh. If you …
well, duh. If you cut out sugar you’re going to lose weight.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Yeah, that’s what I …
Yeah, that’s what I did, only without exercising. There’s also one benefit from eating a lot less – saves money.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Me too.
Me too.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Carbs are bad, …
Carbs are bad, mmmmmmmmm k?
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Carbohydrates is …
Carbohydrates is driving insulin is driving fat,
George Cahill Jr, a retired Harvard Professor of Medicine & Expert on Insulin
the excessive consumption of calories from refined carbs & starches in peoples diets are the cause of obesity.
American Heart ociation & American College of Sports Medicine 2007