Low Carb Nutrition - Article List

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All You Need To Know About Carbs

All you need to know about carbs - Carbs are a part of nearly every dieter's vocabulary. A number of diets are famous for fighting carb consumption. But you should know that not every carbohydrate is created alike. While it is true that you can lose weight

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History And Background Of Low-carb Dieting

The terminology low-carb wasn't really coined until around 1992 when the USDA announced America's model food pyramid included six to eleven servings daily of grains and starches. However, low-carb dieting dates back more than 100 years before the trendy

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The Misleading Concept Of Low Carb Nutrition

Okay, we're slowly starting to get it: losing weight by itself is simply not enough. There have been numerous reports about people dying from diets that simply are not healthy, even if they are tasty. Everything from all-meat diets to ice cream diets

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Low Carb Diet Terms:

Overeating - the persistent consumption of excess food in relation to the energy that the person expends, leading to weight gain and often to obesity.
Recommended daily calorie intake values - 2500 (food) calories/day for men, and 2000 (food) calories/day for women. Children, sedentary and older people require fewer calories, physically active people require more.
Banned weight loss products (U.S. FDA) - FDA has banned 111 ingredients once found in over-the-counter diet products. These substances, which contain alcohol, caffeine, dextrose, and guar gum, have not proved effective in weight-loss or appetite suppression.
Pritikin Diet - a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet similar to the Atkins diet, based on the theory that we have an instinct to eat fat that was developed in the early days of man. It is alleged that the ready availability of fat now causes us to instinctively overeat it.
Vertical Banded Gastroplasty (VBG), also known as Stomach stapling, has been the most common restrictive operation for weight control. It limits the amount of food a patient can eat at one time and slows passage of the food.