Re: Dr. McDougall on the Livin' La Vida Low Carb Show!!!!
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Mark Shields wrote:Good Doc, before you pick out one study on Paleo where an intense exercise plan was followed, who knows what that stress from CrossFit would do, let's not forget other studies done on a Paleo Diet
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724493/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19209185
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19604407
first article:
1) as in almost all the article made by paleo promoters, they dont examine health people but they examine people with diabetes or with insulin resistance or obese.
Why? obeses because they can put them in caloric restriction very easily.
why Diabetic 2 people? because they are in a condition in which the body is insulin resistant. When people have type 2 diabetic (insulin resistance) the most important thing is they they loose weight. They can resolve their type 2 diabetes with every type of diet if they go in caloric restriction and loose weight.
With whole food plant based low fat diet we can go off of medicine in 3 days.
Diabetes 2 is an overnutrition disease. and you can resolve only loosing weight and stopping overnutrition.
The best parameters to evaluate food in types 2 diabetes is not which food make the big glucose jump but which food improve most the insulin sensitive of the person.
2) "Further, the Paleolithic diet was lower in total energy...."
here is the key of the article. The usual trick of the low-carb promoters:
They put the people in big caloric restrinction.
Always when you put a person in caloric restriction especially if he is obese, especially if he is type 2 diabetic, he improve all the parameter (with the exception of LDL that is very strong linked by thye type of food even if in big caloric restriction).
So this article only prove a thing that scientist know by many and many years:
that caloric restriction improve the health parameter, and that loose weight improve parameter of obese and diabetic people.
3) The third typical trick of the lowcarb promoter is to hide the LDL value:
as you can see they give you the result of HbA1c,, triacylglycerol , diastolic blood pressure, weight , BMI and waist circumference, and HDL.
Why? because with such food it is impossible to prevent LDL to go up very much even if in caloric restriction regime.
LDL is linked to saturated fat and animal protein and is the most known and verified risk parameter for hearth disease.
Because of that they always and always hide and dont tell you the LDL value in their tricked articles.
Now i go to see the other 2 articles but i presume that are of the same type.