BBC Story about Low Carb Dieting – Part 5
Listen to the Lowcarbshow.com weekly podcast podcast.com At lowcarbshow.com our goal is to offer good information to help you lose weight! Vincent Vegan and Marc Sage offer a weekly podcast discussing all of the ongoing things in the diet and weight loss world – we focus mostly on Low Carb and Vegetarianism but we discuss everything – here is something I found on the internet that I thought you guys might enjoy! 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?
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@FrankSavages Well seeing as most pre-agricultural people had a life expectancy somewhere in their early thirties (not to mention the lack of university research departments in the paleolithic period) I think maybe it’s not a bad idea to have a bit of modern data on the matter
Congrats on the weight loss.
Anyone who has ever been on ketosis, specially deep ketosis KNOWS that the apetite is suppressed once you enter this metabolic state , and on the whole day. youre ALREADY not hungry BEFORE meals. it has nothing to do with “protein making you filling full”.
BTW im ny opinion, Atkins works because of the metabolic advantage ( more fat burned per calorie in deficit ) , the apetite control has little impact on the overall effects on the diet.
@PsychopathInFoil I tried Atkins diet and found it really boring and I was craving on carbs cause I cant give up my pasta! Because I was on low calories diet earlier and I knew it worked for me but I was tempted by the stories about Atkins diet I wanted to try.After cpl of days I couldnt look at eggs…:D back to low calorie diet
good luck with yours
thank you! I had to look away.
Please spare me the close-ups of people shoving food in their mouths!
long term effect? cavemen were on the atkins diet…How long a study do they need? For me three stone later im not tired thin and feel fantastic. No more of that flamible cake crap for me!
-Update-
I’ve hopped my ass back on the Low Carb diet, and I feel fucking great!
@r00sh Atkins diet strictly says that fats are essential for the diet to work. Atkins opposes a high protein low fat diet. There are however many spins on the Atkins diet and of course other low carb diets.
Personally, I won’t do the atkins diet because I do enjoy eating carbs, wheat bread, vegables, etc.. What I do is I cut back my calories significantly and up my protein to like 80-120 grams per day and I notice I eat a lot less. I get my protein from chicken, fish, beef, etc.. I’m able to lose as much weight at this way like I did when I did do the Atkins diet.
HOLY CRAP how could they get it wrong so many times? Protein is NOT an appetite suppressant, carbs make you hungry! You don’t eat more protein, you eat LESS carbs that aren’t dietary fiber!
well eskimos eat alot of fish fat…which is completely different from fats such as butter or vegetable oil or fat from a sirloin steak. eskimos do not sit at a computer all day. they are active. you cant compare that at all to americans.
and since when was the atkins diet a high fat diet? i thought it was just low/no carbs.
@VeoKenKs wouldn’t the best diet be one that adjusts the amount of carbs to the amounts of anerobic activity though? Eat more carbs on the days you work out, eat less on your lazy days. There are so many studies out there to show that eating sugar directly after a workout speeds up recovery. however, I do believe there are benefits to low carb aswell now after doing some reading, but the key for low carb to work optimally is to eat a lot of veggies with your meats and oils. veggies have fiber
@Chaaarge low fat is not better at perserving muscles its just if you have ate high carb for awhile you do not have much insulin receptors on your muscles in short you need to give your body a good 4 months of low carb eating to have enough time to produce enough insulin receptors on your muscles and then thus have insulin senseitive muscles like your suposed too have. and then have strong muscles while eating low carb
holy **** this is the best these people could come up with?? atkins is NOT a high protein diet it is a high fat , medium protein , low carb diet
a high protein, low fat diet is dangerous for your health
carbohydrates make you more hungery
iv been on atkins for 5 years now it cured my illneses like obesity & IBS-D
also take the eskimos who eat a diet of up to 80% fat and have 0% obesity, 0% heart dieases, 0% type 2 diabetes
while 1 in 2 amaricans will die from a heart attack
this documentary is so stupid and bias, carbs is sugar(CO2OH) CARBoHYDRAtes, explain to me why my cholesterol and blood pressure is OPTIMAL eating this diet, i even got my colon checked and it was healthy too
I’m sure a million anorexics around the world agree with you there.
What are they talking about? Carbs make you full for a bit then your hungry again. Fat makes you much fuller per calorie. Try eating 500 calories of Meat ( a giant steak) or try eating 5 oreos…. both 500 calories, what you think will make you fuller….
Did they even do any real research before they made this? Read “Good Calories and Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes to get all the facts about the low carb diet. They didn’t even metion insulin!!!! This program is under the illogical belief that you are fat because you eat too much.
Google Gary Taubes and get the facts straight.
I think low fat is better at preserving muscle and giving you power by increasing your insuline levels, I don’t think any one of the diets would work faster if they were both forced to eat 2k a day since weight is a function of energy in vs energy out.
the real test would be find foods very close in calories or just have each diet type eat 2k a day.. simple as that.. then see what is faster..
my op would be the low carb.. by far.
but they have the results of the “long term” effects of the convention diets ….. everybody is a fat bastard
i hate “scientists” who put down the diet that is essentially what the human species was MEANT to eat … we’re carnivores and we’re herbivores …. not highfructose corn syrupivores!
what these people need is a healthy dose of excersice.
Her study failed.
Notice how she was feeding them carbs as well as fats?
Of course they will want more.
Not only that the carbs that she was serving them looked like simple carbs.
OH MAN! I totally agree with you! Every time I take a break from the G.I diet a crave more and more and more bad carbs! When I see my weight begin to go up a few pounds I hop back on again and within a week my cravings have gone! I eat way less on the G.I diet in general.
Susan Jebb is a downright liar. How can she say that fat does not make people feel full? This is the opposite of the truth. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE on Atkins has experienced this. Carbs make you crave more and more carbs and never seem to fill you up. Jebb is a tool of the cereal producers. In their pay, and has NEVER been on a diet.