Twin Doctors’ Diet Experiment: One Gave Up Sugar, One Gave Up Fat

New York Daily News ^ | THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014 | Victoria Taylor

[Starstruck]

I'm staying with my low broccoli diet.

You just need to find the right cheese sauce to fall off that diet.

[Cyber Liberty]

This wasn’t any kind of valid experiment. It was a silly stunt, leading to a poorly written article, culminating in worthless conclusions.

IOW, GIGO.

[Axeman77385]

Everything in moderation.

[FredZarguna]

You are correct. It’s baloney [and not the tasty kind.]

[nickcarraway]

I guess most people on Atkins don’t know, because I can’t remember one that didn’t think vegetables were evil and the main thing that make people fat.

[Cowboy Bob]

I was going to make the same comment!

[nickcarraway]

His body’s response to being deprived of complex carbs may have pushed more sugar into his blood stream.

[FredZarguna]

It was a silly stunt, leading to a poorly written article, culminating in worthless conclusions.

And therefore perfect for the typical feature story for public consumption.

[FredZarguna]

I’m calling Child Protective Services if you let him drink that again.

[PA Engineer]

This wasn’t any kind of valid experiment. It was a silly stunt, leading to a poorly written article, culminating in worthless conclusions.

Yes. I'm glad neither are my doctor.

[HamiltonJay]

I don’t see how, unless I misunderstand how the body works, and I may, I thought when you deprived the body of carbs, your body became Ketone dependent, deriving its energy from ketones extraced from stored fat.

If depriving yourself of sugars would cause blood sugar to spike, then I don’t understand how Diabetics could exist on a low carb diet.

[ottbmare]

I am reading this article wrong or does it make no sense whatsoever.

You're reading it right: it makes no sense whatever. It's contrary to the experience of millions and contrary to the findings of many studies.

One issue is that the guy who thought he was supposed to cut out carbs and eat nothing but protein and fat misunderstood. He wasn't supposed to cut out all carbs and fiber; he should have been eating low-sugar vegetables, some nuts, berries, avocados, salad, and other things to make meals pleasant. The point is to cut sugar and glucose-elevating foods out if your diet. Also, there are fats and then there are fats.

I eat a low-sugar diet and it has done wonders for my glucose levels, strength, sleep, skin, and mood. I think the twin who are crap carbs may have enjoyed his sugar rush, but he has a far better chance of experiencing heart attack, diabetes, and even Alzheimer's.

[MrB]

If he’d just cut out REFINED sugar,
he’d have beat his brother up the hill on the bike.

[I want the USA back]

Anything published in the NY daily news is automatically bullfeathers. It’s a poorly written rag scaled to the intelligence level of a mushroom.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I guess most people on Atkins don’t know, because I can’t remember one that didn’t think vegetables were evil and the main thing that make people fat.

Then not one of them actually read the Atkins book - they just heard that they could do an all-bacon diet and went for it. :)

[Impala64ssa]

My doc told me to stick with low fat dairy, go easy on the beef and pork, preferably to substitute them with anything that flies or swims, as long as it's not fried, and go easy on the carbs, whole grains as much as possible. In other words veganism and all these silly fads are at least a colossal waste of time and can actually be detrimental to your health. The big problem is, you can live without drugs, tobacco, booze, how do we live without food? And the fats, sugars carbs that are "bad" for us we still need to consume certain amounts of them to survive, let alone stay healthy. Or there's always BREATHARIANISM, no need for food I swear on a stack of Bibles AND Torahs, swear to G-D, etc, etc I am NOT making this up.

[Wuli]

one month does not a valid diet experient make, even one as poorly designed as this one

completely cutting out any component naturally found in the things it is O.K. to eat, whether it be all fat or all carbs, is not a diet experiment, its unhealthy

a good diet does not cut them out entirely, fats or carbs, but provides a good balance of them, the body needs some of each and feels under nourished when it does not get them, sometimes registering that under nourishment as a trigger to store more of what is being consumed as fat - the body’s natural way of “saving for a rainy day” when triggers indicate it should

[wku man]

I'm down to less than 20g of carbs, and under 2,000 calories/day (from probably 500g of carbs and 5,000 cal/day), and have lost 18 lbs. in just over three weeks. I go to the gym 4-5 times/week.

The solution to losing weight is as it has always been...eat less, exercise more, drink lots of water. Just put down the Doritos and hit the elliptical machine.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[FredZarguna]

There are Gluconeogenesic metabolic pathways which are not primarily ketotic in some unusual individuals. Gluconeogenesis

It's one of the reasons you don't do a "study" with two people.

[FredZarguna]

Saw a Breatharian on </i>Tom Snyder</i> about forty years ago. He was extremely slow [and slightly slurred] in his speech, and looked like he’d just been rescued from Andersonville.