This is the second in Atkins Diet misconceptions or myths series, and in this video I deal with the thought this is a high protein diet. Just check out google for “Atkins Diet” and “high protein,” and you’ll see how prevalent this misconception is. USDA Food Pyramid Standard for Protein: 10-35% of Total Calories health.msn.com www.health.gov With 35% being the standard for high protein, what does Dr. Atkins recommend? “The macro-nutrient breakout in the Induction phase is 60 percent fat, 30 percent protein and 10 percent carbohydrate. It should be more appropriately be called a high fat regimen. As you progress through the phases, your percentage of fat naturally diminishes as your percentage of carbohydrates increases.” Even in DANDR, he cautions against going high protein on page 43, “No, because when you cut out fat, what is left is protein and carbohydrate, both of which can produce a blood-sugar response. Fat is the only substance that won’t have an impact on your blood sugar. It also provides essential fatty acids you can’t get from protein or carbohydrates. Contrary to much of what you may have heard, fat can be good for you! (43)” Dangers of low fat, low carb, high protein diet: Sources: * www.nationmaster.com * www.medbio.info Rabbit starvation is the form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (eg rabbit) coupled with a lack of other sources of nutrients usually in combination with other stressors, such as severe cold or dry …
Atkins Diet Misconceptions: High Protein or High Fat Diet?
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@Wrenchlar
Actually you do not need all three , you could live your whole life without carbs and you would be fine. E.g the inuit people live on a diet mainly of fatty meat and no carbs , and they are completely healthy. You can cut out carbs and live a healthy life , but cut out fat or protein and you will die.
carbs are a metabolic primer for fatloss if you don’t have carbs you can’t burn fat what will happen is that Protein which has to come from the breakdown of muscle tissue will be converted into carbs. Protein from intake can’t be used as energy. are you talking nonsense because your lack of carbs prevents your brain from functioning properly. If you breakdown muscle tissue your metabolism goes down!
This is not anecdotal it is way way way more evidence based than the atkins diet. check out what the acsm fsa who doh and other big guns recommend. They don’t make stuff up as they go along. Many Millions have lost fat eating higher carbs than fat and protein from running a Marathon or going to work without the essential fuel you need to move its going to be harder this is a nobrainer!
@Wrenchlar Sorry you are just wrong. Protein can be converted to glucose and thereby to energy through gluconeogenesis. As for carbs being needed for fat loss, ketogenic diets have been proven more successful for losing visceral fat than other diets.
So as for brain functioning properly, I point to the unreadability of your posts or the random capitalization of your second posts. Is your blood glucose spiking and preventing you from following basic grammar rules of capitalization?
@Wrenchlar “Many Millions have lost fat eating higher carbs than fat and protein from running a Marathon or going to work without the essential fuel you need to move its going to be harder this is a nobrainer! ”
Can I buy a punctuation for this rambling mess of a sentence? It is undecipherable as to what it’s meaning is. How do you dispute the mounting evidence showing low carb diets more effective at weight loss and lean body preservervation than low fat plans?
sorry i didnt realize this was a job application had I realized that i may have given a shit about my grammar. Gluconeogenesis thanks for the misinformed education but I know what this is (new glucose being made). This results In muscle wastage as the protein being used as energy comes from muscle breakdown. I guess this wally is right and the acsm doh fsa nhs who and any decent sports nutritionist or dietitian is incorrect. You talk about evidence what do you think they go on? u r a turd!!
Marathon runners eat carbs are they fat?????
@Wrenchlar I run marathons on a ketogenic diet. Am I fat?
@Wrenchlar “any decent sports nutritionist or dietitian is incorrect”
Sorry you fail. There are a number of nutritionists that support a low carb plan, and the fact that the associations don’t is a manner of politics and group think and perhaps not science. Go back to the studies to find out what is the truth, and the science backs the low carb approach.
Finally, I can tell your mom is proud of you and your language.
@Wrenchlar Not a job application, but if you are going to say “are you talking nonsense because your lack of carbs prevents your brain from functioning properly.” You just might want to get your sh*t straight first. Just a clue…
As for gluconeogenesis, it is primarily from dietary protein not from muscle tissue especially not in protein deficit environment. Sorry you are just making this too easy to poke holes in your inadequate argument.
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@bowulf I am looking at the conversation here and I have to say the Keto diet worked well for me. The higher fat intake gave me heartburn but the fat came off without any effort. I combined it with interval running and weight lifting and it came off very quickly.
@Wrenchlar dude you are rambling. You don’t need any carbs at all. Studies have been done on the holocaust survivors decades later and their brains function normally. I have been on low carb/high protein diets while weight lifting and it works like a champ.
@Warpath2198 I hear you, and the heart burn probably could be dealt with easier than a heart attack or diabetes.
@bowulf lol every true, I have never been diabetic and never would want to. I have seen people injected themselves and taking blood samples. At the most I have only been about 30 lbs overweight after I got out of the Air Force. Its still amazing how places advertise low fat and add sugar lol. Take out fiber and add sugar. Take out natural sugar and add laboratory made corn syrup. So they offer all of these bad foods approved by the govt. and people like Obama’s wife is like hey just don’t eat it
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@Wrenchlar Because the average person runs a marathon, right?
how can i trust anything u say, u can barely read the captions for those websites
@hottiedrea Make up your own mind — read the websites for yourself.
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? Get over yourself, just because you think he’s having trouble reading means he’s lying? Quit acting like a dumbass and use yor brain before you talk.
Just my 2 cents. I failed on the Atkins diet, but lost 83lbs on a high fiber diet. I also paid no attention to carbs and didn’t exercise. No supplements either. Hope that helps?
@derekbanas I am glad you found your way. One way doesn’t necessarily work for all people or all tastes.
@bowulf I don’t mean to be negative. I just was frustrated by high protein diets. Especially because I had a business in which I basically exercised all day (moving business) and gained a ton of weight. Maybe this high protein diet only works for specific body types? If it worked for you and others I think that’s great! Achieving the goal is all that matters in the end
@derekbanas Actually Atkins is a high fat not high protein diet. I think its effectiveness probably revolves more around tastes or what food one desires more so than specific type of body. To keep beating yourself up with food choices that you can’t stand or aren’t willing to cook conversion foods, the diet is probably not one for you whatever it is.
It would be like me trying to do a raw vegan diet. I may lose weight for awhile, but I’d hate it and life being on it.