Fast Weight Loss Diet Warnings
Whether it's Atkins, the South Beach or some other low-carb plan, as many as 30 million Americans are following a low-carb fast weight loss diet.
Any diet, weather low or high in carbohydrate, can produce significant weight loss during the initial stages of the diet.
Let's see if we can debunk some of the mystery about low-carb diets.
- Differences Between Low-Carb Diets
There are many popular diets designed to lower carbohydrate consumption. Other low-carb diets like the Zone and Life Without Bread are less restrictive. Carbohydrate, caloric intake, diet duration and participant characteristics varied greatly.
Many diet studies fail to monitor the amount of exercise, and therefore caloric expenditure, while participants are dieting.
The weight loss on low-carb diets is a function of caloric restriction and diet duration, and not with reduced carbohydrate intake.
Little evidence exists on the long-range safety of low-carb diets. The long range weight change for low-carb and other types of diets is similar.
Most low-carb diets cause ketosis.
Low-carb diets do not enable the consumption of more calories than other kinds of diets, as has been often reported.
- Despite their popularity, little information exists on the long-term efficacy and safety of low-carbohydrate diets.
- Strict low-carb diets are usually not sustainable as a normal way of eating. Strict low-carb diets produce ketosis which is an abnormal and potentially stressful metabolic state. This change comes as Atkins faces competition from other popular low-carb diets that call for less saturated fat, such as the South Beach diet plan. Low-carb dieting should not be considered as a license to gorge on red meat!
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posted by Lyn Devon @ 10:54 PM
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