Don’t they already know this? It’s called “The Atkins Diet”.
You beat me to it. The NYT is late coming to this party. The Atkins diet or the elimination of processed carbs makes for healthier blood lab results and lower weight without necessarily cutting a lot of calories. It can lower or even eliminate the risk of diabetes, as well. This is especially true as we age and become less active. If you don’t burn off that glucose created by the processed carbohydrates you consume, within 24 hours, it turns to fat and is stored in our bellies and butts. Without the processed carbohydrate intake, the body seeks out those stores of fats to burn for energy, resulting in weight loss. Unfortunately, fruits are almost straight sugar or fructose. They have to be eliminated or drastically reduced for this diet to work.
The bottom line is this: Eating fats doesn’t make you fat. Eating processed carbs that are converted to fats is what makes you fat.
I went low carbs this summer and have lost twenty pounds (only the beginning). I informed my doctor & he approved, saying, “If it’s white, don’t bite”, meaning restrict: bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, & sugar.
I replied that “`white is not right’, also known as the Louis Farrakhan diet”. He laughed.