To Feel Better, Low-Fat Diet May Be Best

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There are plenty of healthy options in food out there !
1. Swine flu crisis might be a wake-up call against global warming, meat consumption and unclean environment.
2. It looks almost certain the historic health care bill, or renewed American dream will come to pass as the best Christmas gift ever toward the end of this year.
3. It is widely known that Obesity is epicenter of many different kinds of chronic diseases, as such, the implication of taking it under control can stretch to far more coverage for the uninsured and financial health across the spectrum.
(( Costs of Preventable Chronic Disease account for around 75% of the nation’s $2.4 trillion medical care costs. U.S. health care spending is also expected to double in the next 10 years. and they are largely preventable -- 80 percent of the risk factors are behavior-related. ))
Now that modern society has been automated in many ways, overnutrition tends to play a devastating role in our health, and the food that stays long in the body looks more likely to become a source where germs, bacterias, viruses and more multiply, even causing cancer and the like.
4. The loss driven by meat consumption seems to outweigh the gain from the fast food and meat industry.

HSR0601 11:46AM November 11, 2009

Pro tip for the Atkins guru: try reading instead of drawing false conclusions.
(1) Both diets worked. The weight loss was approximately 30lbs for both groups, with no significant difference between diet conditions.
(2) These researchers "previously reported marked improvements in mood with both diets over the shorter term of 8 weeks" in a previous study, and replicated that finding in this study. People are happier when they start a diet, regardless of which diet. The big finding here is that over the long term the Low-Fat diet (46% carb, 26% protein, 30% total fat) resulted in a maintained higher mood, whereas for the the Low-Carb dieters (4% carbs, 35% protein, 61% fat), moods dropped.
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/169/20/1873
Different diets work for different people, but good research like this is necessary to further our understanding of how food affects mental and physical health.

Nicole Jardine of TN 10:31AM November 11, 2009

The study seems to compare an "extremely low carb diet" with a somewhat low fat diet. So maybe extremes aren't so good? Big surprise there.

bbb of CA 10:45PM November 09, 2009

They missed the point that both groups are eating less than they wanted which means they were frequently hungry. Thus the group that got to eat ice cream occasionally is happier being hungry between times than the group that got none. It would be interesting to see what happens 2 years after the research is over and people return to their own style of living. I'll bet the Low Fat people have regained all the weight and then some while the low carbohydrate group is still at a lowered weight.
What they actually showed was that no mater how you choose to lower the caloric intake, you make people unhappy, they just made one group slightly less unhappy than the other.
The real benefits of the low carb eating is that you can eat as much as you want and still lose weight. The doctors claim that is not possible, I claim that it works for everyone I know that has tried it. In fact if you do not eat enough, you do not lose as much weight. Eating until you are not hungry makes you feel good as you lose weight. I know, I lost over 50 lbs and it has stayed off for over 5 years.
It is sad that so much of our research is tainted by the Low-Fat is a Good Diet mantra when back in the 1950's and 1960, they were successfully treating diabetics with low carbohydrate diets. It worked then and it still works now, but you will not find any researcher saying so because they will lose their funding and their jobs.
A successful Low carbohydrate living human at 66 and still going strong

Jerry of GA 10:32PM November 09, 2009