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<blockquote data-quote="pdmjoker" data-source="post: 2299402" data-attributes="member: 468524"><p>In the recent, infamous Mail on Sunday article about Dr Unwin and bananas, we have:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Dr Unwin's patients undoubtedly lost weight. This will be, Prof Kar says, because they were consuming fewer calories than they burned – not specifically because they'd cut out carbs.</p><p></p><p>(Professor Partha Kar is NHS England's chief diabetes expert.)</p><p></p><p>He's repeating the "it's all about calories" argument.</p><p></p><p>Just one counterexample would invalidate the "it's all about calories" argument, or at least show it has limited scope.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if Prof Kar ever saw: <a href="http://live.smashthefat.com/5000-calorie-challenge-day-21/" target="_blank">http://live.smashthefat.com/5000-calorie-challenge-day-21/</a> and <a href="http://live.smashthefat.com/5000-calorie-carb-challenge-day-21/" target="_blank">http://live.smashthefat.com/5000-calorie-carb-challenge-day-21/</a></p><p></p><p>An interesting n=1 experiment by a guy named Sam Feltham. Sam did a 21 day experiment eating 5000 calories daily with a low-carb high fat composition. He gained 1.3 kg (just under 3 lbs); but <strong>lost </strong>3 cm on his waist.</p><p></p><p>Sam repeated the 21 day experiment with the same calories, but with a high carb, low fat diet. He put on 7.1kg weight and his waist <strong>increased </strong>9.25 cm.</p><p></p><p>His weight gain on Low Fat is close to what is predicted by the "Calories" model, but the Calories model doesn't seem to be accurate with Low Carb. This serves as a counterexample.</p><p></p><p>(Sam's experiment seems credible and I haven't yet come across anything saying otherwise. Have you?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdmjoker, post: 2299402, member: 468524"] In the recent, infamous Mail on Sunday article about Dr Unwin and bananas, we have: [INDENT]Dr Unwin's patients undoubtedly lost weight. This will be, Prof Kar says, because they were consuming fewer calories than they burned – not specifically because they'd cut out carbs.[/INDENT] (Professor Partha Kar is NHS England's chief diabetes expert.) He's repeating the "it's all about calories" argument. Just one counterexample would invalidate the "it's all about calories" argument, or at least show it has limited scope. I wonder if Prof Kar ever saw: [URL]http://live.smashthefat.com/5000-calorie-challenge-day-21/[/URL] and [URL]http://live.smashthefat.com/5000-calorie-carb-challenge-day-21/[/URL] An interesting n=1 experiment by a guy named Sam Feltham. Sam did a 21 day experiment eating 5000 calories daily with a low-carb high fat composition. He gained 1.3 kg (just under 3 lbs); but [B]lost [/B]3 cm on his waist. Sam repeated the 21 day experiment with the same calories, but with a high carb, low fat diet. He put on 7.1kg weight and his waist [B]increased [/B]9.25 cm. His weight gain on Low Fat is close to what is predicted by the "Calories" model, but the Calories model doesn't seem to be accurate with Low Carb. This serves as a counterexample. (Sam's experiment seems credible and I haven't yet come across anything saying otherwise. Have you?) [/QUOTE]
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