Posted on 06/06/2011 6:53:29 AM PDT by decimon
A modest reduction in consumption of carbohydrate foods may promote loss of deep belly fat, even with little or no change in weight, a new study finds. Presentation of the study results will be Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.
When paired with weight loss, consumption of a moderately reduced carbohydrate diet can help achieve a reduction of total body fat, according to principal author Barbara Gower, PhD, a professor of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
"These changes could help reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease," Gower said, noting that excess visceral, or intra-abdominal, fat raises the risk of these diseases.
Gower and her colleagues conducted the study, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, in 69 overweight but healthy men and women. Subjects received food for two consecutive eight-week periods: first a weight maintenance intervention, and then a weight loss intervention, which cut the number of calories that each person ate by 1,000 each day.
Subjects received either a standard lower-fat diet or a diet with a modest reduction in carbohydrates, or "carbs," but slightly higher in fat than the standard diet. The moderately carb-restricted diet contained foods that had a relatively low glycemic index, a measure of the extent to which the food raises blood glucose levels. This diet consisted of 43 percent calories from carbohydrates and 39 percent calories from fat, whereas the standard diet contained 55 percent of calories from carbohydrates and 27 percent from fat. Protein made up the other 18 percent of each diet.
At the beginning and end of each study phase, the researchers measured the subjects' fat deep inside the abdomen and their total body fat using computed tomography (CT) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans.
After the weight maintenance phase, subjects who consumed the moderately carb-restricted diet had 11 percent less deep abdominal fat than those who ate the standard diet. However, when the researchers analyzed results by race, they found it was exclusive to whites. Whites have more deep abdominal fat than Blacks even when matched for body weight or percent body fat, and may benefit from loss of this metabolically harmful depot, Gower said.
During the weight loss phase, subjects on both diets lost weight. However, the moderately carb-restricted diet promoted a 4 percent greater loss of total body fat, Gower said. "For individuals willing to go on a weight-loss diet, a modest reduction in carbohydrate-containing foods may help them preferentially lose fat, rather than lean tissue," she said. "The moderately reduced carbohydrate diet allows a variety of foods to meet personal preferences."
Hey “Dude” you need help if you are over twenty. I suspect you are a teenager.
At any rate, do me a favor and NEVER reply to me again.
Thanks decimon.
It’s the wheat.
I HAD to switch to oats from wheat due to food reactions and the weight just fell off and I actually increased how much I was eating.
Every time before that that I tried a lower carb diet, it never worked until I cut the wheat out. I ate everything else I wanted and still lost weight.
The downfall with the high carb diets is that it boosts your insulin levels.
Any extra sugars that your body doesn’t need or use gets converted to fat by the insulin.
I was shocked when I learned that. I couldn’t believe it at first but have read it in several places.
That’s why putting diabetics on high carb diets and then boosting their insulin to meet the demand is going to fail. Whoever thought that giving diabetics lots of carbs was a good idea in the first place .........
People just aren’t going to go on that kind of restrictive diet and stay on it.
For one thing, fat in your food is what satiates you.
A better way to manage the diet is to eat your protein and vegetables first, then fruits, and THEN the high carb foods last when you’re pretty full anyway. That way you’ll automatically limit how much you eat.
If you eat the carbs first, you’ll way overdo what you need.
So a 150 pound person is supposed to drink 75 POUNDS of water a day? At 8.33 pounds per gallon, you’re saying about nine gallons of water a day.
You’d kill yourself.
I cut out wheat and replaced it with oats and my weight dropped like a rock, as did my cholesterol and my BP, which was edging up, is down to its youthful mid-20’s range again.
No it doesn't. I tried that and about walked my feet off for a whole summer and only dropped 4 pounds.
It wasn't until I eliminated the wheat that the weight fell off effortlessly, without the exercise.
It's not necessarily how much you eat as what you eat.
See my tagline...
MEAT! And more MEAT!
BTW: very good recipes there (very healthy for non-diabetics) and yummy too. The deserts are positively scrumptioous.
I am surprised that the NIH would sponsor this study. Carbs come in many forms, but the variety that causes the creation and retention of fat cells is high GI carbs, such as all the “-oses”, to include sugar. Low GI carbs, such as whole grain pasta and whole apples, are beneficial, within reason. They break down over hours, not minutes. As long as we get a moderate amount of exercise, we will metabolize these foods, preventing the body from turning them into fat Comparing the intake of “carbs” and “fat”, without specifying whether they are low or high GI or saturated, poly-unsaturated or unsatured, produces, in my view, a meaningless result.
Thanks.
Thanks for the link.
I was thinking on inbibing in a glass of Glenmorangie (12 year old) tonight after my bike ride. Thanks for the added incentive.
I can vouch for it despite my not being diabetic. Mom is and feeds me that stuff when I'm visting. Its good.
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