Another Anti-Low Carb Myth Down the Drain

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Jenny - 23 Mar 2004 13:50 GMT

Protein Supplementation with Isocaloric Carbohydrate Reduction Spares
Calcium.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/472144

What this translates into in English is that a higher protein lower
carbohydrate diet does not, as has been claimed for years in the media,
leach calcium from your bones.

In fact, it does the opposite and strengthens them.

This, along with "your kidneys will fall out" and "you'll die of a heart
attack because of all that fat" was the third major reason doctors have
given for years why low carbing was supposedly bad for you.

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steve - 23 Mar 2004 21:31 GMT

> What this translates into in English is that a higher protein lower
> carbohydrate diet does not, as has been claimed for years in the
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> doctors have given for years why low carbing was supposedly bad for
> you.

It's quite amazing to me that we (or I) have been indoctrinated with
this type of nonsense since childhood. "Low-fat, low-Cal is healthy"
is the deep-seeded belief system I've lived with all my life.

My mother used to make me drink skim-milk (PUKE!). And other low-fat,
low-Cal food items. No wonder why I was always hungry and would eat
entire boxes of Capt'n Crunch. A terrible, endless cycle that feeds on
itself.

These things being so entrenched in my psyche makes it difficult to
wolf down cream, real butter (?! oh my gosh not REAL butter?!), bacon,
cheese, etc.

I am so glad I've learned a way to eat that seems to be working and
satisfying. Seems like it's "my little secret" and when I hear doctors
on the radio or TV condemn low-carb eating, I quietly chuckle and
think to myself, "ignoramous!"

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Skinny pre-diabetic-hypoglycemic - 24 Mar 2004 18:32 GMT

Think of the 'low-fat' and 'fat-free' thing as a profit scheme.
Manufacturers and restaurants promote it because real butter, cream etc
are expensive for them.

Dairies get to take all the cream off to sell as cream, and sell the
skim milk as 'low-fat.'

Used to be a quote about 'skim milk masquerading as cream'. Now it's
blantantly claiming to be better than cream. :-)

Skinny --
pre-diab hypo
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>> What this translates into in English is that a higher protein lower
>> carbohydrate diet does not, as has been claimed for years in the
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
>on the radio or TV condemn low-carb eating, I quietly chuckle and
>think to myself, "ignoramous!"

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