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Re: Atkins UKTV Documentary
Thanks for posting the video, that was really interesting to watch. A lot of things that they didn't bother testing though to come up with their theories, mainly they were looking at ways eating so fat effected the body, rather than looking at how eating less carbs does.
Of course the group having fat added to their pasta gained more weight, because they combined high fat with high carbs, that is the problem. McDonald's double-cheeseburgers make people fat as all get out, but take away either the bun and ketcup, or the meat and cheese, and you're talking a whole new ballpark. Even though the group losing the bun and ketcup won't have to deal with those pesky cravings because they won't have the sugar crashes from eating a high amount of carbs.
I also think that by rulling out one study as not having significant results is weird when it wasn't even complete. I think it's a combination of ketosis, decress in appeitite, and the way our body breaks up fat versus carbs, not just one single answer. I eat more calories now than I did on low-cal, and I'm still losing weight at a faster pace, so it has to be more than appetite suppression.
I would have liked to have seen the twins experiment performed on switch, by making them trade places, and also measuring the results of those. Just because they are identical doesn't mean sqaut to me, people burn carbs differently than other people. I have an extremely hard time getting rid of carbs, and I would watch people eating just as much as me, doing a quarter of the working out that I was, and losing twice as much as me, and then their answer to that was that I must be cheating, and there was no other solution. Turns out that my body loves carbs so much that it never wants to let them go, and a few is never enough, it always wants more, more, more.
Overall good video though, and really interesting to watch. I'm also glad they included the real reason for Dr. Atkins's death. If I had a nickel for everytime I've had to debunk the urban myth that he died of a heart attack, I'd be one rich woman!
Thanks for posting the video, that was really interesting to watch. A lot of things that they didn't bother testing though to come up with their theories, mainly they were looking at ways eating so fat effected the body, rather than looking at how eating less carbs does.
Of course the group having fat added to their pasta gained more weight, because they combined high fat with high carbs, that is the problem. McDonald's double-cheeseburgers make people fat as all get out, but take away either the bun and ketcup, or the meat and cheese, and you're talking a whole new ballpark. Even though the group losing the bun and ketcup won't have to deal with those pesky cravings because they won't have the sugar crashes from eating a high amount of carbs.
I also think that by rulling out one study as not having significant results is weird when it wasn't even complete. I think it's a combination of ketosis, decress in appeitite, and the way our body breaks up fat versus carbs, not just one single answer. I eat more calories now than I did on low-cal, and I'm still losing weight at a faster pace, so it has to be more than appetite suppression.
I would have liked to have seen the twins experiment performed on switch, by making them trade places, and also measuring the results of those. Just because they are identical doesn't mean sqaut to me, people burn carbs differently than other people. I have an extremely hard time getting rid of carbs, and I would watch people eating just as much as me, doing a quarter of the working out that I was, and losing twice as much as me, and then their answer to that was that I must be cheating, and there was no other solution. Turns out that my body loves carbs so much that it never wants to let them go, and a few is never enough, it always wants more, more, more.
Overall good video though, and really interesting to watch. I'm also glad they included the real reason for Dr. Atkins's death. If I had a nickel for everytime I've had to debunk the urban myth that he died of a heart attack, I'd be one rich woman!
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