Other Problems With the High-Carbohydrate Diet

The High-Carbohydrate Diet is Associated with All Kinds of Bad Effects

The high-carbohydrate diet that’s in vogue today doesn’t represent a balanced diet.

Dr. Jan Karlsson, one of the original developers of the carbohydrate-loading regimen so popular among current-day athletes, has argued vehemently against a high-carbohydrate diet as a regular, everyday regimen.

He claims that such a diet is only acceptable for two or, at most, four days within the framework of the carbohydrate and muscle glycogen loading program.

Of course, if the body was fat-adapted, there would be no need to ever do glycogen loading, but this point has been thoroughly missed by everyone.

The carbohydrate-enriched diet leading to muscle glycogen loading has been widely accepted since the late 1960’s as an important way to prepare for endurance sports and training.

The dietary program, however, was to be applied only occasionally. Unfortunately, it was developed into a long-term treatment program and was used, not only by elite cross-country skiers and long-distance runners, but also by professional athletes in many different sports.

Even International Organizations such as the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission Recommended the Use of the High-Carbohydrate Diet for Athletes

Dr. Karlsson has stated that such long-term dietary regimens are synonymous with malnutrition. It has been shown that the intake of lipophilic (fat-loving) nutrients such as vitamin E is linearly related to fat intake.

Other risks are associated with such an extreme high-carbohydrate diet if followed for a long time. In fact, this dietary regimen means that individuals may actually sacrifice their own structural lipids (fats) for energy needs.

Vitamin Q and vitamin E are significant factors for the health of white blood cells; they’re the cells that are richest in antioxidants and, consequently, enhance the immune system. Significant immune system suppression is a possible result of low dietary intake of fats and the consequent use of one’s own fat stores as an energy source.

Athletes, with an extremely high intake of carbohydrates and, hence, subsequent impaired intake of lipid-based or lipophilic nutrients, have been in a situation referred to as the Carbohydrate Syndrome or the Carbohydrate Trap.

It seems reasonable to assume that this condition might:

•  reduce free radical elimination and lead to damage in muscles
•  increase cell injury
• inhibit the body’s inflammation and healing process in response to injury and infection
• hard-training athletes, who follow a high-carbohydrate diet, will suffer from overuse injuries due to a decreased ability to repair and rebuild damaged tissues
• vegetarians and others who consume a low-fat diet are also at serious risk for the same type of damage

People Who Have Extreme Energy Needs, such as Athletes and Those Involved in Manual Labor, Must be Very Careful About the Sources of  Their Daily Food Intake

If foods rich in carbohydrates come to serve as their primary source of energy, their risk of suffering from an insufficient supply of nutrients will increase.

Fats contain many of the essential nutrients we need each day to maintain our health. As I have proposed for many years, the low-fat diet is dangerous.

Sports medicine authorities have just recently recognized the existence of the Carbohydrate Trap or fat-phobia. The Carbohydrate Trap represents a stage of malnutrition imposed by unprofessional advisors and followed by unwitting, unknowledgeable clients.

This is one of the major difficulties in nutrition today: the emphasis on the low-fat diet in contrast to a diet that maintains an adequate fat intake.

How long will it take until our medical and scientific “experts” recognize the folly of their recommendation of low-fat eating?

Seven Nutrition Mistakes: What You Can Do to Correct Them

Using the Seven Nutrition Mistakes Below, Let’s Look at What You Can Do to Correct These

1. Everybody is Using Fish Oil also Known as Omega 3 Fatty Acids

If you’re going to use essential fatty acid supplements, then focus on Omega 6s.

The best sources for these are either borage oil or evening primrose oil (EPO). The first conversion step for the 6s is to gamma linolenic acid (GLA). This is the active ingredient. Borage oil has a lot of this.

I don’t even think one has to use Omega 3s, but if you do, the 6/3 ratio should be between 3/1 and 9/1.

2. Many Supplement with Zinc

Use a supplement that has no more than 15 milligrams of elemental zinc as you can take too much zinc AND too much in respect to copper. Keep the ratio of zinc to copper 10/1 or less. Using 15 milligrams of zinc as an example, then use 2 milligrams of copper.

3. Mineral Imbalances

Mineral supplementation is more important than vitamin use. The best source of minerals is chelated minerals — this is what I use in my product. You need the right amount and the absorption rate should be high.

Most sources are poorly absorbed. Using calcium as an example, calcium carbonate absorbs only about 10%, and this source is the one from the highly marketed coral calcium.

The government Recommended Dietary Allowances for minerals are pretty good so use them as a guideline.

4. Shotgun Approach

A dash of this and a dash of that. Wanna know what you need? Read the book I wrote on nutrition supplements. I spell it all out in there.

5. Using Supplements as Drugs

Supplements are not drugs and disease nowadays rarely arises from nutrient deficiencies. By following this attitude, you’ll be driven to make mistake #4.

6. People are Missing Out on Energy Medicine Because It’s Time Has Not Come

This is a tough one. The most popular energy medicine is homeopathy but the practice of it is out of touch so it’ll be tough to get that done correctly. Also, few people have the training or background to analyze what they hear or read. That’s why people consult with me, so I can take them by the hand.

There are many good companies who make excellent homeopathic combination products. This is a good way to start using the products. Many health food stores and drug stores sell these products so they are easy to get. They are labelled well and the indications are listed on the bottle such as sinus drops, headache drops, and intestinal drops.

Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber and a book called The Field by Lynne McTaggart are good ways to begin your studies in this area. Also, rent a movie called What the Bleep Do We Know. This stuff is coming out but we’re still decades before there will be much use of it on a large scale.

It just takes forever for things to reach take-off.

7. Continuing to Consume a Low-Fat Diet

This digs into so much that is wrong with many belief systems and the way our “experts” guide us. Few people read as deeply as they should and the medical, government, and university experts bought into low-fat and that shut-down rational thinking.

Studies continued to go on and low-fat can now be considered a dangerous diet because of glycation.

Low-carbohydrate is the diet of choice and just not for weight control.

Just saw an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the journalist rips Obama as a bad example because he’s eating burgers at Five Guys. What’s the implication? Beef and meat are bad for us.

Just a little bit of  research will uncover that what this nation believes about meat and beef is wrong. There’s no proof that meat and beef are bad. And in fact, if followed as part of a low-carb diet, then eating beef and meat is the healthiest diet for us.

But no, he chose not to do the research. There’s plenty of writing on this site to cover all that.

So, what does he do that’s so healthy? He eats M&Ms. Talk about insane. Glycation. And cholesterol. Do you know the precursor for cholesterol synthesis? Glucose from carbohydrates.

Everyone thinks it comes from fat. Wrong.

Let’s start by getting some of the basics right.

Low-Fat Diets are the Darling of the Medical Establishment

People are Waking-Up to the Harsh Reality that Low-Fat Doesn’t Work

In Fact, Many Believe the Low-Fat Diet Makes People Fatter

Well, of course it does! This was known all the way back in the 1950’s. Many studies were published about the biochemical process called “lipogenesis.” This is fat-making from non-fat substances such as carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates are the most significant source of fat in the human body. It never was fat, in fact, fat does not become body fat unless carbohydrates are around.

But no one involved in the promotion of both the dangers of fat and cholesterol or low-fat eating read any of this research. If they had the whole 50-year experiment that involved every living soul would have never happened.

How’d we ever get into this mess in the first place?

• it seemed ‘logical’ that the fat you ate became the fat on your body
• this was largely promoted by medical doctors and dietitians who have little training in biochemistry
• fat has 9 calories per gram and carbs have 4 calories per gram
• they reasoned that if one ate more carbs and less fat that calorie intake would drop by 50%
• bad move, as the body doesn’t monitor the calories that enter the mouth, it monitors whether they’re burned or stored, that’s how it balances its checkbook

Evidence About Reduced-Fat Diets and Weight Loss

There have been many reduced-fat diet studies and most of them have been abysmal failures. In one study, after two years, participants had lost just four pounds! From this the researchers claimed that low-fat eating had a strong correlation to weight loss.

This is exactly the stuff I’m trying to point out. These people support this diet and they’ll say anything to sustain their belief system. The media doesn’t read the research papers and evaluate them, they advertise the claimed results:

• the authors claimed that the subjects ate about 1,300 calories per day
• this is impossible because they would lose weight on that
• they lived freely and were told to eat 1,300 cals
• they ate more
• laboratory tests have shown that in all of the studies done during the last 50 years people ate more than they reported

Low-Fat Eating is Still the Darling of the Medical Establishment

This group will need to be bludgeoned to change their tune — see facts don’t count with this group. They say that’s all they care about, but actions speak louder than words.

Even with this statement from the National Institutes of Health during a Consensus Conference Statement for Methods for Voluntary Weight Loss and Control in 1992, nothing has changed:

“There is evidence that altering the proportion of the calories in the diet from fat, carbohydrate, and protein can have a limited effect on weight loss. However, the effects appear to be quite small in comparison with the direct effect of caloric restriction.”

A reduced fat diet was, by that time, known to have failed. Low-carb had been proven but none would look at the studies because of the purported hazards of fat and cholesterol.

Here in 2009, more low-carb studies are in the pipeline and the results are shaking everyone off their rockers.

Since the reduced fat diet using 30% of one’s daily calorie intake as the recommended plan to follow didn’t work, advocates are now saying to reduce fat even more, to say 20%.

They just don’t get it. Some vegetarian, low-fat zealots such as Dr. Dean Ornish hold tenaciously to the low-fat dogma.

All You Have to Know is that Your Body Makes Fat From Carbohydrates

End of story. Reducing fat cannot work unless you really cut the calories. And you’ll be so hungry that you can’t keep your calorie intake down for long. Don’t waste your time running down a dead-end street. If you want to lose weight and/or body fat — restrict carbohydrates.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to accomplish this. The most popular plan is the one proposed by Dr. Atkins. This plan has many problems all of which I’ve uncovered. I teach you in my body of work HOW and WHY it all works.

Low-fat diets don’t work.