jeff
Location: Milton, Wisconsin, USA
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 Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:26 am Post subject: Can everybody reach their optimal weight? |
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According to Taubes, maybe not.
| Quote: | Now, back to the issue of optimal weight. In the book, I phrase my conclusions, as I do most everything else, pretty carefully. So I say "the less carbohydrates consumed, the leaner we will be," but I do not say we'll be as lean as we might like -- what I think you're describing as optimal weight. It seems likely to me that those prediposed to be very fat -- in other words, those that are the most sensitive to carbohydrates in the diet -- and those individuals who have been very fat for a long time will have trouble reversing this process entirely; that there is chronic damage done by the diets they've been consuming.
Thus, the leanest they'll be will be on the diet with the least carbohydrates, but that may still not be lean. They may lose 50 or 100 pounds and have another 40 or 50 to go, but weight loss stops because their fat tissue is so exceedingly sensitive to insulin that even the whiff of a taint of a carbohydrate in the diet will lock up fat and keep it there. Again, this may or may not be the case, but my reading of the literature suggests it is. Had they grown up in a world without refined carbs and sugars, they might have always been relatively lean. Having eaten diets high in refined carbs and sugars for a few decades, though, it's possible that they may never undo all the damage done, only some of it. It's also possible that it could take years or decades to do it, and that a six month plateau or a year plateau is just part of the process. |
It seems possible that some people have so much damage, that it may never be completely undone. Thanks, Ancel Keys.  (Dean, we need a one finger salute smiley) LOL
http://www.livinlowcarbdiscussion.com/sh...0#pid58480
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