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Are people on a low-carb diet replacing starches and sugars with unhealthy

high-fat foods? A new survey suggests they may do something radically different.

http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53685

A recent study of an internet-based support group (Active Low-Carber's Forum:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/) suggests that the major change in eating patterns

for dieters on low-carbohydrate diets has been the addition of large amounts of

vegetables and salads to replace carbohydrates removed from their diet. The

report was published today in the open access journal Nutrition Journal (no

subscription required: http://www.nutritionj.com).

Feinman, PhD, principal author and a professor of biochemistry at SUNY

Downstate Medical Center, notes that 54% of forum dieters increased salad greens

and 34% increased green vegetables by " at least double their usual consumption "

in response to removing starches and sugars from their diets.

Few of the 3,000 respondents reported that they had drastically increased

consumption of such high-fat foods as beef, bacon, or butter, popularly

portrayed as features of low-carbohydrate diets. This was especially true of the

half of the respondents who had lost 30 lbs or more and kept the weight off for

more than one year. A doubling of consumption of chicken, however, a lower-fat

food, was reported by 34% of the dieters.

Other surprising results from the survey were attitudes of family practitioners.

Half of the respondents reported consulting a health professional prior to or

during dieting. Of these, 55% stated that their health professional was

supportive, and another 30% found the physician had no opinion but was

supportive after good results were reported.

" The real import of the work, " says Dr. Feinman, " is that physicians can

prescribe a diet for people who want to do low carb that involves replacing

starch and sugar with green vegetables and salads, a diet that few could object

to on conventional health- or nutrition-related grounds. "

Dr. Feinman observed that people on the low-carb forum followed diets that had

no portion control beyond their own natural responses to carbohydrate

restriction, but he noted, " Those physicians who want to prescribe a fixed diet

could use the actual behavior of this group as a model. "

" Most people were happy with the diet and a section of narrative comments

produced consistent responses of 'have more energy,' " Dr. Feinman added.

The Active Low-Carber's Forum currently has more than 89, 000 members and their

site asserts, " 1,229,589 lbs lost by 59,754 members. "

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

450 son Ave., Box 2

Brooklyn, NY 11203

United States

http://www.downstate.edu

Check Nutrition at my site:

Nutrition.teach-nology.com

Ortiz, RD

nrord@...

" It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. "

~ Harry S. Truman ~

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This was not exactly a scientific sudy!

Judy Simon MS, RD

> Are people on a low-carb diet replacing starches and sugars with unhealthy

high-fat foods? A new survey suggests they may do something radically different.

http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=53685

>

> A recent study of an internet-based support group (Active Low-Carber's Forum:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/) suggests that the major change in eating patterns

for dieters on low-carbohydrate diets has been the addition of large amounts of

vegetables and salads to replace carbohydrates removed from their diet. The

report was published today in the open access journal Nutrition Journal (no

subscription required: http://www.nutritionj.com).

>

> Feinman, PhD, principal author and a professor of biochemistry at SUNY

Downstate Medical Center, notes that 54% of forum dieters increased salad greens

and 34% increased green vegetables by " at least double their usual consumption "

in response to removing starches and sugars from their diets.

>

> Few of the 3,000 respondents reported that they had drastically increased

consumption of such high-fat foods as beef, bacon, or butter, popularly

portrayed as features of low-carbohydrate diets. This was especially true of the

half of the respondents who had lost 30 lbs or more and kept the weight off for

more than one year. A doubling of consumption of chicken, however, a lower-fat

food, was reported by 34% of the dieters.

>

> Other surprising results from the survey were attitudes of family

practitioners. Half of the respondents reported consulting a health professional

prior to or during dieting. Of these, 55% stated that their health professional

was supportive, and another 30% found the physician had no opinion but was

supportive after good results were reported.

>

> " The real import of the work, " says Dr. Feinman, " is that physicians can

prescribe a diet for people who want to do low carb that involves replacing

starch and sugar with green vegetables and salads, a diet that few could object

to on conventional health- or nutrition-related grounds. "

>

> Dr. Feinman observed that people on the low-carb forum followed diets that had

no portion control beyond their own natural responses to carbohydrate

restriction, but he noted, " Those physicians who want to prescribe a fixed diet

could use the actual behavior of this group as a model. "

>

> " Most people were happy with the diet and a section of narrative comments

produced consistent responses of 'have more energy,' " Dr. Feinman added.

>

> The Active Low-Carber's Forum currently has more than 89, 000 members and

their site asserts, " 1,229,589 lbs lost by 59,754 members. "

>

> SUNY Downstate Medical Center

> 450 son Ave., Box 2

> Brooklyn, NY 11203

> United States

> http://www.downstate.edu

>

> Check Nutrition at my site:

> Nutrition.teach-nology.com

> Ortiz, RD

> nrord@...

> " It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. "

> ~ Harry S. Truman ~

>

>

>

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