{"id":2747,"date":"2015-08-17T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2023-04-15T08:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:17:53","slug":"a-very-low-fat-diet-vs-a-not-low-carb-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/2015\/08\/a-very-low-fat-diet-vs-a-not-low-carb-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"A very low fat diet vs. a not low carb diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Last week\u2019s big news story, in the real food\/managed carb world in which I live, was captured by this BBC headline: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-33905745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Low-fat diets 'better than cutting carbs' for weight loss<\/a>\u201d. This story was the result of a paper being published in Cell Metabolism. The summary is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-metabolism\/abstract\/S1550-4131%2815%2900350-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and the full paper is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-metabolism\/pdf\/S1550-4131%2815%2900350-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The early results from this study were presented in March 2015 at the annual meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/to-reduce-body-fat-eating-less-fat-may-be-more-effective-than-eating-less-carbohydrate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endocrine Society in San Diego<\/a>. The story was not widely covered back in March, but the same BBC reporter, James Gallagher, (Health Editor for BBC online), wrote about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-31763205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The quick response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have people saying \u201cThere you go \u2013 cutting calories is best\u201d \u2013 here are the quick rebuttals of this premature conclusion. The first point is the only point you need to make in reality:<\/p>\n<p>1) This was not a low fat vs. a low carb study.<\/p>\n<p>The carbohydrate intake, as a percentage of total calorie intake, was 30% for the \u2018low carb\u2019 intervention. For a typical female consuming approximately 2,000 calories a day, that\u2019s 600 calories of carbohydrate \u2013 approximately 150 grams of carbohydrate for the day. People doing low carb diets, to achieve optimal fat burning (ketosis), are consuming approximately 25 grams of carbohydrate a day. The fat intake, on the other hand was low fat \u2013 dangerously low fat \u2013 at approximately 7%.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>Please login below or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/sign-up\/\">sign up<\/a> to access the rest of this article.<\/h4>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/membership\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DHT-benefits.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n      \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n          <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/login\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n                  <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n                    <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/login\/?action=forgot_password\">Forgot Password<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s big news story, in the real food\/managed carb world in which I live, was captured by this BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,75,26,6,76],"tags":[18,449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}