Sutimming Upstream to Shed Pounds
The authors of the diet websites in this section seem to enjoy swimming against the current. They look at what everybody else considers to be fact and say, “I don’t thiiiiiiiiiiink so.” These diets are low carb and fat indulgent, the exact opposite approach as those endorsed by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and oh, just about every other good - food, good - nutrition group. These diets:
Prohibit or severely restrict consumption of plant foods c” Emphasize foods from animals n* Ignore calorie counts entirely
Does that mean they won’t help you lose weight and buy your acomplia? I don’t know. I’m not being flippant here. I really don’t know. But I don’t feel too bad about it because all the high muckety - mucks who run the nutrition establishment, or at least the USDA, don’t know either.
After several decades of claim (”You lose weight!”) and counterclaim (”It’s not safe!”), the nutrition gurus at the USDA decided run a study to determine whether low - carb, fat - indulgent diets can help people take off pounds safely.
In January 2001, the USDA created plans to launch diet trials at several medical centers across the United States. The goal is to find out whether sticking to a low - carb, fat - indulgent diet is a safe and effective way to lose weight. The study will track volunteers for one, two, and three years to see if they accomplish their weight - loss goals. Results will start rolling in soon, and the trials end in 2004. Some preliminary results suggest that the same old, low - fat, high - carb diets work best, but preliminary is the watchword here. You’ll have to be patient.
If the new trial shows weight loss, there will be a lot of red faces in the nutrition establishment. If it doesn’t, imagine all the people who get to stick out their tongues and say, “Nyah, nyah, told you so.” Meanwhile, the following diets are the ones everyone is arguing about.
