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Dana Carpender

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Low Carb Diet Hurts Memory!

Big, Carb-Heavy Breakfast Aids Weight Loss!

Atkins Diet IncreasesAll-Causes Mortality!

Deep Breath!

Headlines:

Designed to sell newspapers and magazines

Never subtle

Subtlety is where the truth lies!

The ________ Media!

Supported by advertising Food processors Drug industry

What happened to the Incredible Edible Egg???

Is Beef still What’s for Dinner???

Consider the Source

What is the publication?

Who is the author? Credibility? Obvious bias?

Read the article Any new information, or just the

same old canards?

Studies

Observational (most are this type) Correlation is NOT causation! Maybe suggestive, never conclusive.

Clinical How many subjects? Over what period? Closely monitored? What was the actual diet? Multiple variables?

Comparison of Weight-Loss Diets with Different Compositions of Fat,

Protein and Carbohydrates

“No difference in diets for weight loss”Clinical study, 811 (645) participants

The diets: 20% fat, 15% protein, 65% carb 20% fat, 25% protein, 55% carb 40% fat, 15% protein, 45% carb 40% fat, 15% protein, 35% carb

Reading more closely…“Low-Carb” = 35% calories from

carbohydrates, or 137 grams???

Only 40% from fat??? (I shoot for more like 70-75%.)

Reported intakes did not reach target levels of macronutrients!

They never actually tested a low-carbohydrate diet!

10% of participants kept off 10% of their body weight. Success?

Atkins Diet Increases All-Cause Mortality!

by Dr. Dean Ornish

(Gosh, we’re awfully impressed, I can tell you!)

Annals of Internal Medicine

“Meat Intake and Mortality: A Prospective Study of Over Half a Million People”

Reading more closely…

“Prospective” = “Observational”

“Meat intake was estimated from a food frequency questionnaire…”

Big assumptions: Accurate memory of what you ate Food intake remains the same for

a decade

So, how did this one work? “High animal protein” and “high

vegetable protein” groups Broke into deciles by carb intake Men vs Women “Lowest carb” group still 37%, or

168 grams carb “Low-carb”/high-veg group was

even higher over all Men ate more carbs than women.

NO GROUP was close to “low-carb”

Furthermore….. “High-veg” group actually ate more

animal protein than vegetable! Lowest 2/3 of “low-animal” group

ate more animal protein than “high-animal” group!

Lowest 2/3 of women’s “low-animal” group ate more red/processed meat than “high-animal” groups!

Differences persisted with the men. Where did the animal group’s carbs

come from? Had to be sugar.

What did this demonstrate?

NOTHING!Except an overwhelming desire of

some people (ahem-Ornish-ahem!) to “prove” that animal foods are bad and plant foods are good.

Next: Multiple Variables

The “Big Breakfast” Study 94 obese women with metabolic

syndrome Put on either a “low-carb” or a “big

breakfast” diet “Low-carbers” did a little better in first

four months, then regained “Big-breakfasters” continued to lose

Reading more closely…

Calories: Low-carbers ,1085; big-breakfasters, 1240. Huh?

Carbs: LC, 17 g; BB, 97 g. Fat: LC, 78 g; BB, 22 g. Protein: LC, 51 g; BB, 93 g. Huh? Breakfast size: LC, 290 calories,

25% of daily calories; BB, 610 calories, nearly half daily calories.

SIX (count ‘em SIX) Variables!

Caloric intake Fat intake Carbohydrate intake Protein intake Breakfast size Weighting of caloric intake toward

beginning/end of day

So, who did what to whom?

And what’s with this?

Bad math! What low-carb diet restricts you to

1000 calories a day? What low-carb diet restricts

breakfast size? Only 51 grams or protein a day?

Straw Man Argument!

Low-Carb Diet & Memory Loss

19 women, aged 22 to 55 9 low-carb, 10 low-calorie Week 1: low-carbers showed

decreasing memory and slowed reaction time

Week 2: carbs added back, cognition skills “returned to normal”

Wait a minute now… First week was essentially zero-carb.

(Do you remember your first week?) Just getting to Induction by the end

of the study – and their cognitive problems vanished!

Even in Week 1, low-carbers still out-performed on “attention vigilance task”

Once again, someone is “creating a reality” they only wish were true.

Low Carb Diet Best for Lowering Blood Pressure

(Now we’re talking!) 146 obese subjects with comorbidities

(diabetes, elevated cholesterol & triglycerides, hypertension)

Half put on low-carb, half on low-fat with orlistat (aka xenical or “Alli”)

Low-carbers were on Atkins induction – an actual low-carb diet!

So, how did they do? Low-carb group lost 9.5% of their

body fat; low-fat group lost 8.5% (even while taking the orlistat)

Both improved cholesterol and trigs Insulin & glucose markers improved

only in low-carb group BP improved far more dramatically

in low-carb group 47% of low-carbers discontinued BP

meds vs 21% of low-fat group

In summary, ask yourself…

Do I trust the source? Is there actual science involved? Observational or clinical study? How big? How long? How was it

constructed? Was it really low-carbohydrate? Do the headlines match the actual

conclusions?

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