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I have written a message to Tufts University about the proof that low-carb affects your memory.
Anyone disagree with what i wrote
"Were the blood glucose levels of the participants in your trials monitored?
If not, how do you know they were low. Surely the liver will generate glucose by gluconeogenesis. And unless all were diabetics, why would their blood glucose levels vary so much, regardless of what they were eating?
If the low calorie dieters were "confused" half way through the study, what was the explanation?
How do you know that your results were not the function of the START of a dietary regime and that there wouldn't be a settling down? A few weeks isn't long
There are people worldwide, many diabetics among them, who depend on the low carb way of eating to maintain health.
All the reporting of your study has done for them is to re-ignite the Anti- Atkins nonsense and make life more difficult.
I could easily find you a number of people with the sharpest of minds, who have followed a low carb programme for years.
Are you suggesting that all these people are under-functioning?
There are far too many unanswered questions in your study.At least in as far as the press have reported it.
At the most, you have uncovered an idea that needs careful study.
 
Well done Hana. As I posted in the low-carb thread, I couldn't believe that the "researchers" are supposed to be qualified (the head of research is apparently an endocrinologist), but appear to have absolutely no idea that when the brain doesn't get its glucose from carbs the liver breaks down fat and uses this to produce glucose, so reducing carb intake would have absolutely no effect on brain function - basic science that I learned years ago and you don't have to be a Phd to understand!
 
IanD said:
I understand the BBC has given up on Tufts because of inbreeding.
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Hahahahaha

it would have been interesting to see who financed the study

Not a few people report things changing over a period of time after dropping their carb levels, to a degree the body needs to reset after being drowned in excess glucose and "learn" to function on ketones: this tends to improve over a matter of weeks so it would have been interesting if they'd retested after six months.
 
That's not a bad response. Also links to the actual paper which is a free download if you ever find time to read it

On the Profile of Mood States Questionnaire, women in the ADA group showed greater confusion at the one- and two-week sessions.
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That amused me more than it should. It also made me wonder if Time Of The Month was factored in.
 
I'll put up tufts reply. It's not very edifying
 
I already put it up as "Reply from Tufts"
I still haven't read the full report, because i can't geet at any free download. I rang Reasing University to ask them for help, but they haven't got back to me
 
Hana,
Not sure what I am doing wrong - the URL is very long and although it works ok on my PC I can't get it to work when I copy it into a post.
 
That test was obviously not controlled properly at all.
If anything, since following a low carb regime I feel more perky, more verbose, able to articulate better etc. Load of rubbish.
 
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