Clouds cause sun-seeking holiday makers distress and annoyance, going against the aim of converting their colourless colouration to a glowing olive hue. Just as clouds block out the sanctified sun, the adoption of a low carbohydrate diet inevitably recommence the eternal desire of permanent weight loss for thousands of adults who simply want less jiggle! Not only will your love handles linger, but you’re insides don’t have much fun!
But wait! If it’s so bad, why do so many people buy into Atkins and the Zone Diet and see such promising results? That’s just it. It promise you results, delivers them through a comforting decline in weight, but ultimately only ensures that the persistent podge returns.
You’ve probably heard endless benefits of the diet, like studies making glittering claims such as:
“Weight loss was greater in the low-carbohydrate group…”
“The LC diet appears to be an effective method for short-term weight loss in overweight adolescents…”
“a very low carbohydrate diet is more effective than a low fat diet for short-term weight loss…”
“The HPLC (high protein low carbohydrate) diet is a safe and effective option for medically supervised weight loss in severely obese adolescents.”
The key words being “short term” and “severely.” Indeed, low carb diets do suffice in aiding immediate weight loss and reducing blood pressure and triglycerides for people whose life literally depends on it! But with these diets being readily available to thousands of consumers doing it for cosmetic reasons, this high-risk solution is no solution at all!
A lack of carbohydrates forces your body into ketosis, meaning your body burns fat for energy when it’s preferred source of energy isn’t present. That being carbohydrates. I know what you’re thinking “but this sounds perfect, I don’t want this fat all over my body!”
Well you’re not getting off that easy, I’m afraid. Due to the debilitating lack of the simple sugars your body craves, weakness and fatigue inevitably follow which Dr John McDougall (a physician who advocates a high carbohydrate diet for long term health) refers to as “dietary insanity.” Thus, your glucose exhausted brain constantly craves any sugar it can possibly get, making that bar of Aero that you hid in the drawer completely impossible to resist. Cue the end to your diet through a binge on high fat foods, meaning you gain back those 10 pounds and then some! Alongside this, limiting carbohydrates means limiting fiber in your diet, which is only prevalent in carbohydrate crammed fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Thus, the almost unavoidable constipation (an extremely common complaint during this diet) leaves the victim feeling swollen, flagging and downright miserable. On the other hand, a diet abundant in fruit and vegetables ensures vastly improved digestion, so that your body can function at an optimal level. Not only this, but the low-calorific content makes it very easy to create a calorie deficit to the amount you need to remain overweight without spending hours and hours on the ‘dreadmill’; What a great alternative way to drop weight and feel great simultaneously, as opposed to feeling like a distended dumpster.
Unsurprisingly, Aberdeen’s Rowett Research Institute found low-carbohydrate regimes cause a four-fold reduction in the cancer-fighting chemical in the gut called butyrate. Thus, highly increasing the risk of colon cancer. If this doesn’t make you think twice about getting that steak out of the fridge, T. Colin Campbell PhD (an American biochemist who has studied the effect of nutrition on long-term health for over the past 50 years) has conducted numerous studies showing unequivocal evidence between the link of high protein diets and a multitude of health upsets from acne to heart disease.
This theory is backed up by the research of numerous scientists and physicians such as Dr.Esselstyn – a former heart surgeon who previously treated heart disease through the operating table and medication – who has been curing heart disease with a whole foods diet for over 20 years. Seventeen patients came to him with advanced coronary artery disease, five of whom had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of being on Dr.Esselstyn’s programme, their weight, cholesterol levels, angina symptoms and blood flow improved dramatically. Twelve years later, seventeen compliant patients had no further cardiac events. Adherent patients survived more than twenty years, free of symptoms. Permanent weight loss and dramatically improved health is as simple as picking up some bananas.
Tragically, you won’t receive the same results from returning to the feared “carbohydrate” foods of cakes and pastries. The average slice of chocolate cake is broken down into: 39% fat, 57% carbs, 4% protein, whereas a banana is just Calorie breakdown: 3% fat, 92% carbs, 5% protein. Processed “high carbohydrate foods” are also loaded with fat.
The fat you eat is the fat you wear.
Still not convinced? Look at ‘Freelee, The Banana Girl’ (a YouTube health guru) who lost 40 pounds through a high carbohydrate diet and openly documents eating up to 350 (ten times the amount that Robert Atkins reccomended) grams of whole food carbohydrates per day.
Now look at Atkins, who was obese while alive, had a history of congestive heart failure, and weighed 258 pounds at the time of his death.
Judge by results, not by theory.
Brianna Jackson 