For anyone interested in the Low Carbohydrate High Fat (LCHF) diet this is a great movie. It is essentially a longer format of the snippet of the recent episode of Catalyst (13/11), which is available on iView.
In short; LCHF has been suggested to help lower diabetes in some populations. It is supported by prominent Sports scientists, Peter Brukner and Tim Noakes.
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No carbs genuinely works. I went no/low-carb for just under 5 months early last year and lost 24kg that has not returned, even though I am eating small amounts of bread and cereals again.
I think that diets are individual.
I thrive on grain based dishes, though I accept that for other people might benefit more from higher protein/fat diets.
It's pretty simple: protein & fats (somewhat) make you feel satiated so you stop consuming food with a high proportion of these earlier. Ever notice how drinking 1 protein shake leaves you? Carbohydrates do not do this (or rather the truth is there is a delayed feeling to being satiated, typically around 20 minutes or so). People tend to gorge on food that is high in carbohydrates because they do not feel satiated quickly.
If you consistently consume protein or fats in place of carbohydrates you will consume less energy over time simply because you felt full earlier.
Agreed. No one diet will work for everyone. It's about achieving a good balance of carbs, proteins and fats relevant to your body type and energy consumption/requirements.
No carb turns me into a complete mess. Constant headaches. Lethargic and often desperately need a nap by midday. No it's not temporary "Atkins Flu". I've stuck to it for a month in the past and been rewarded with feeling like walking death. I'm 39 and work long hours. I can't afford that. I'd lose my job before too long.
What frustrates me is people who think low carb works for everyone and insist on pushing it as if not doing it makes you the devil incarnate. (I am NOT saying that's you).
Is this also good for serial killers
Increased fat usage could result in improved endurance performance, meaning they could run further away…
Very interesting movie.
As someone who is testing the bullet-proof / paleo diet, I found that Donal's medical results almost mirror my own.
Great film, I am currently on a paleo diet so very interesting.
I'm on the seefood diet. Hey-ooooh!!
I love that diet!
I'm on the "Don't consume too many calories, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and exercise regularly" diet. It's amazing! You'd be surprised how fat you don't get when you're not engaging in excessive consumption and leading a sedentary lifestyle.
I think you overestimating power of your “diet”, especially “exercise regularly” part. It’s not like you don’t have to exercise at all, but value of exercise is overestimated.
I, personally, disagree with the guy in the move on some minor points, however overall idea is definitely deserve attention of the wider public.
AusGov tried recently to improve informed choices for the better diet and we all know how that ended (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-12/fiona-nash-backtracks-…). That was only the “not-helathy-food” lobbyist involved here. I think Novartis and the likes also would like to "rise their concerns”. Think of glooming TPP on the horizon.
Again, it’s not that your “diet” good or bad. The issues with the diet is far more complex than "Don't consume too many calories, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, and exercise regularly”. And the move has touched some valid points.
I'll tell my doctor that some person on the internet told me that exercising regularly was unnecessary, I'm sure he'll be cursing all that time he wasted in medical school.
I'm afraid it is as simple as watching what you eat and getting regular exercise. Ask anyone who has successfully lost weight and kept it off what their secret was. I can assure you it won't be Jenny Craig, or Atkins or any other diet.
Just because cynical people trying to turn a quick buck out of gullible fat people have invented a bunch of nonsensical diets, which at best are ineffective and at worst can do real harm, doesn't mean they have a clue what they're talking about.
If you want to lose weight stop eating garbage and get your fat arse moving. You won't lose weight over night but if you show even just a little willpower you'll eventually see your weight, and the likelihood that you'll be a burden on the health care system, decrease.
Agreed. It's a lifestyle change. The whole idea of a 'diet' is flawed because it is a temporary change to bring about a different result. You need to decide I'm going to eat healthly and exercise 3 times a week for the rest of my life. Results won't necessarily be fast, but they will be permanent. After a while it just becomes part of who you are and guess what, no need for any more diets.
Limiting your calories and exercising may help you to lose weight in the short term but it won't make you a healthy person. You need to feed your mitochondria to be truly healthy in the long term. Will power has nothing to do with it. Not many doctors will tell you this because they probably don't know themselves.
@gtrdude: Ok, we're getting pretty technical now. But I think we can agree that eating right and exercising will make you healthier than eating crap and sitting on your arse, perhaps not as healthy as you can possibly be, but healthier none the less.
Sure, feel free to discuss it with your doctor. You might be surprised. Though, I didn’t tell “unnecessary”, but "value of exercise is overestimated”.
With this approach of "get your fat arse moving” you achieve nothing but increase of profit for orthopaedic surgeons who would happily install artificial knee and hip joints.
For me it's sounds the same as to say to depressed person to “get over it”.
You don't even define what you mean by "overestimated". I'm not estimating what regular exercise does, I am telling you what our current understanding of human health tells us about the importance of regular exercise.
Excessive consumption and a sedentary lifestyle is what is causing people to balloon out to these incredible sizes.
Ultimately, I don't really care. People have been told a million times about the dangers of obesity but still want to live in a fantasy world where it isn't their fault. It's just annoying that the thing that is going to help people, make them healthier and live longer, is the one thing they refuse to accept.
Calories have nothing to do with balloon size people. It's the type of calories consumed and whether they are toxic to the body or not. How is it that I eat 50-100 grams of butter a day yet my high blood pressure has been corrected and is now at a healthy level? No statins or blockers or whatever. This is all based on scientific studies, not fantasy.
He's not saying that nobody should excercise or that excercise isn't healthy. He's saying that people use excercise as a primary method of weight loss when they shouldn't. Excercise is good except for when it puts chronic stress on the body.
@Juddy: “People have been told a million times…” This approach is overly simplistic and unproductive. Everybody knows that smoking is bad. You can tell lung cancer patients “I told you so” whatever many times you like and achieve nothing. The level of patients would be unchanged. How Australis tackle this problem? By developing and implementing a sound public health policies based on sound research.
What was pointed out in the movie, that the whole concept of western diet is based on questionable research based on demonising fats. From these questionable research arose questionable policies, that in turn, resulted in a lot of fat people who've been told to move their fat arses and eat less fat.
Also, I think, you’ve missed another point where the guy lost weight by not changing his level of exercise but by changing the diet. Somewhere at the end it was mentioned something like diet is 80% and exercise is 20%.
Even in science and in medicine particularly, braking the stereotypes are hard.
Spoken like someone in fantastic health with few injuries that's never had a weight (or hunger) issue and works decent hours. i.e. No concept of the struggle some people face.
Talk to me when you're doing 60+ hr weeks, have multiple injuries and have a "broken" appetite that sees you hungry 20 minutes after a huge meal.
We're not all built the same.
My health is reasonably good, cholesterol is a little high and I drink more than I should, etc.
I feel like I am being a broken record but I don't have weight issues because I don't consume excessively and I make every effort to exercise every day.
If you have injuries which impact on your ability to do exercise or you have issues with your appetite you should be talking to your doctor, not watching videos on the internet that try to demonize certain foods or offer fad diets which almost always don't work.
If people spent one tenth of the time planning healthy meals and working in exercise to their daily routine as they did inventing excuses why they can't we'd all be a lot better off.
Excuses? Your assumption that everyone who has weight issues is just lacking the self control to plan meals better and excercise is just plain insulting. People with attitudes like yours are the bane of my existence. You know almost nothing about me. Not the effort I've put in to my health, not the time I've spent with actual research papers to try to find ways forward.
You really think I would have injuries and other issues and not speak to a doctor? But even more so you think that most doctors will give advice that's useful to someone like me. Even the heart specialist my GP sent me to (precautionary only at this stage, nothing found) has said I'm in a tight spot.
Bottom line: If you have a weight issue and you see a doctor the only thing they're interested in recommending is bariatric surgery (which I consider to be mutilation) - doubly so if you have an injury. This despite the limited long term data showing it's not effective at 5 years and further out. No doctor I have ever spoken to has been able to address "broken" hunger drive with anything more than amateur psychology that I must be eating due to some psychological issue. If I go to my local medical center there's a prominently displayed sign asking you to speak to your doctor about weight loss "hypno bands". There's peak science for you - placebo effect and snake oil.
The trouble is you're in good health and don't understand how broken the health system is. Hope you never find out.
Edit: And the irony is I shouldn't be taking advice from strangers like on the net either you either. In any case I know enough to know this video isn't going to be a cure all so you're not delivering information I hadn't considered.
Your situation sounds extreme & has multiple complications. I'd be willing to wager most of the people who are obese or overweight are in that situation because of excessive consumption and a sedentary lifestyle.
If someone gets the the point where medical science has to offer them extreme solutions like surgery then that person has let their health deteriorate for way too long. It's kind of like an alcoholic suffering cirrhosis of the liver and the only real hope left would be a transplant. That isn't a failure of the medical community, it is the result of decades of alcoholism.
If you feel insulted because I point out that poor diet and a lack of exercise is the reason for the overwhelming majority of obesity in this country then that's on you. You might have a variety of complications that contribute to your weight issues but you would be in the minority and you should be angry with people who through laziness and stupidity become overweight or obese and then invent nonsensical excuses for their situation which makes people more sceptical of people such as yourself who have legitimate medical reasons.
You should feel insulted by the cynical salespeople and marketers who create diets that they know won't work just to bilk people out of their money & make them feel hopeless.
You should feel insulted by the companies who make rubbish food and then lobby the government incessantly to ensure consumers aren't provided with accurate information about the contents of the food that they are purchasing.
Situation is not extreme at all. Your assumption that people are just fat and lazy ("excessive consumption and a sedentary lifestyle") are exactly the words of someone who's never had a problem with hunger, movement or metabolism. They are insulting.
People with issues with hunger drive are numerous - they are ignored by people like you as glutenous. People who've injured an upper and lower body part are not rare either. Two unrelated injuries, or age related or hereditary illnesses like arthritis is all it takes.
Comparing me to an alcoholic etc. is just completely out of line. Anyone that fits the medical category of "obese" is offered these surgeries these days, and it is inappropriate. The medical community you are defending use to recommend ice pick lobotomies a few decades ago too.
I don't feel insulted. You are insulting me. There is a difference. You think you're better than idiotic diet and weight loss companies but you aren't at all. What you are completely failing to recognize is that most people who change their lifestyle and lose weight - something on the order of 90% - put that weight right back on by the 5 year mark (and often more). 90% failure rate is not a moral failure. It is not a question of being lazy or glutenous. 90% is a systemic failure.
Here's a little tid bit for you. Type 2 diabetics and those with metabolic syndrome are maligned as simply being glutenous and lazy. Do you have any idea what the odds are of developing type 2 diabetes if both your parents are diabetic? It's on the order of 75%. Regardless of how healthy your lifestyle is. At best you can push it back a decade by going low carb, or perhaps further with extreme low carb (though that has it's own problems).
Be thankful you have your health and stop doling out medical advice you aren't qualified to give while criticizing others for taking similar advice from other sources. It's not just insulting to me - it makes you look bad.
One last thing. It is clear to me you have a problem with hating the overweight. You say it in a round about way so as to make it seem socially acceptable but it's fat bashing pure and simple. You ought to examine your own reasons for that. It's not a compassionate or reasonable response. It certainly isn't as admirable as you are trying to make it out to be.
I didn't compare you to an alcoholic, I was drawing a comparison between different types of self-inflicted health issues. Your weight issues, and I assume you have weight issues because of your spirited responses, might very well have complicated medical conditions which contribute to your weight. Although, that seems to be a rather common response. I don't think I have ever heard someone who is obese say "Ya know what? I'm this way because I ate rubbish for years and never exercised. I can't blame anyone or anything else."
I'm not offering anyone any medical advice, I've stated numerous times that people should seek qualified medical advice, not quackery from the internet. You're not comprehending what I am saying, you are setting me up as a big meanie who just wants to be a jerk to fat people.
I have no idea why you would introduce lobotomies to this topic. Are you simply pointing out that the medical establishment has in the past performed operations that today are considered barbaric? We know that. It's also weird that you tell me not to offer medical advice but insist surgeries offered to obese patients are inappropriate. Is that your medical opinion, Dr.? Or are you now the one doling out advice you aren't qualified to give?
You've cranked the emotional response to my position up to ten and accused me of hating fat people. I find it odd you criticise me as 'not knowing anything about you' but in the next breath assume to tell me that I hate fat people. I don't hate them, I think their condition is self-inflicted. I think they have been sold a complete lie as to how they can manage or reverse their condition by greedy marketers. And I am concerned about the burden this issue is placing on our health system.
All of those are completely legitimate and honest concerns. Maybe if I wish to express them I should find out what the correct political vocabulary is so I can avoid hurting anyone's feelings?
I did not inflict upon myself that I feel extremely hungry 20 minutes after a large meal. It is not a case of discipline. It doesn't matter if I've been party eating or on an extreme diet for a month. This is not a case of "ate rubbish for years and never exercised. I can't blame anyone or anything else.". And this is not an unusual case - I know many other people with similar experiences.
I compare bariatric surgery to lobotomies because 50 years ago medical professionals would recommend lobotomies for a wide variety of mental disorders. This is now considered barbaric. I believe in a few decades the same will be said of the advice to cut 80% of a person's stomach away.
Regarding your statement about fat people - "I don't hate them, I think their condition is self-inflicted." Well how can you not hate or be disgusted with someone who's inflicted something upon themselves and is complaining about it or straining medical resources to deal with it. I don't think it's self inflicted AT ALL. Read my first paragraph above. There are plenty of lazy people who eat rubbish and don't end up fat. There are plenty who do but then eat sensibly and then lose weight. But that is not everyone. It is not just a matter of restricting calories either - people's bodies process them differently. But most importantly it's about being hungry. If you feel hungry all the time that's a very powerful motivator. It's EXTREMELY difficult to just stop eating if you never feel full. You mentioned alcoholics - Imagine the trouble an alcoholic would have if they had to drink 1 drink every day 3 times a day but not drink any more than that. There's something very real to this obesity epidemic - It's not just a case of a generation of morally corrupt lazy glutenous fatties.
Nice find. Pity it's only 360P, but free is free.
This diet works brilliantly for anyone who has problems processing carbohydrates, and insulin, which is created when carbs are consumed. Naturally, it'll help diabetics (types 1,2 and 3) and, since it's helpful in controlling blood sugar levels, it can help with depression and other mental illness (it's been used to treat childhood epilepsy)
In short, if you're carbohydrate intolerant, you should go on this diet.
The Catalyst show on the ABC mentioned that elite atheletes are using this diet too. I'm surprised they didn't mention it's used by practically ALL professional bodybuilders - it's the way to achieve single digit bodyfat %.
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