Low Carb Beats Low Fat
July 17, 2008
A new study comparing the Atkins diet, a Mediterranean diet and a low-fat diet published on July 17 inThe New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is likely to inspire headlines saying that the Atkins diet is better for your waistline and your health than a low-fat diet.
For years now the “low fat gurus” have been screaming bloody murder about alleged claims that “low carb high fat” diets not only work, but for many people work better. As someone who just got fatter and had their diabetes get worse on a “low fat” low calorie” diet, then started losing weight and getting their blood sugar under control, and had my total cholesterol drop with a significant improvement of good to bad while on a low carb diet, i can tell you it certainly works better for me.
I am no where close to where I want to be, but I will get their. I don’t have to be a diet guru to know these facts from my own life.
- My low fat diet was this: 1800 calorie a day diet that was planned out from a nutritionist and approved of whole heartedly by my doctor, then weighed, measured, and eaten according to plan took me from 240 pounds with a total cholesterol of 220 and an LDL (Bad) cholesterol level of 170. My average daily blood sugar was 140.
- I stayed on the diet to the letter from June of 2003 to May 2005. I went from 240 pounds to 295 pounds my total cholesterol went to 260 and my LDL went to 200. My average blood sugar went to 190. For those that don’t know this is pretty damned high and especially dangerous to those of us without insurance.
- On The Fuck It Diet where you eat what ever you want because you don’t really care or can’t afford to do differently I went as high 350 pounds. Cholesterol went to 270 and average blood sugar on and off meds went to 200.
- Since May of this year on a straight forward low card diet without expensive food, vitamins, or feeling like I was going to starve to death I have dropped to 300 pounds, have enough energy to exercise, dropped my total cholesterol to 220 with my LDL 180 and this mornings fasting blood sugar was 98.
While these are no doubt good results and will differ from person to person I am sick and tired of being told this doesn’t work. The good news is there is a new long term study out saying it does work wonders.Then we hear from the detractors for example.
Dr. Dean Ornish MD: “as a lead investigator on numerous peer-reviewed studies of low-fat diets, and the author of several books about the benefits of healthy low-fat lifestyles, I believe this study is extremely flawed.”
At least he can admit he knows the new information is bad for his reputation as “low fat guru”. Others over the years were clearly wrong about the benefits too. My former doctor despite the comparative results and hard data still doesn’t believe I am eating healthier. She and her fat ass can have their plain baked potato with tiny portions of anything that tastes good, I will take a thick juicy steak or bacon and eggs every day for breakfast over her diet any day. Oh I miss the carbs and indulge from time to time, but I go back to my diet of choice and continue to lose.
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The f#$% it diet made me laugh. I know I did that diet for a long time. What worked for me is I just started eating all the food groups together and making a couple changes (no sugar, whole grains, less fat). I don’t count calories or any of that, I just didn’t have that kind of time! I think balancing things is a lot better than trying to starve your body of important nutrients!