Swedish experts found Low carb most effective

[tonyS54]

So, two meals a day, no breakfast, no snacks, LCHF is the Swedish way.


""If you can, skip [breakfast]! This is a habitual behavior, the body has no need for nourishment the minute you get out of bed if you've eaten a high-fat dinner the day before. We make our own glucose from stored protein, and it probably costs a few calories to produce this glucose, which can be one reason why a low-carb diet provides great weight loss. Also, skip snacks and any low-fat products. If we were meant to nibble on low-fat foods all day we wouldn't have been equipped with a gall bladder. If you eat two meals daily, with few carbohydrates and plenty of good fats, you'll do just fine. Do like the Mediterranean people. Let a cup of coffee be your breakfast in the morning.""

http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/contributing columnist0/Sverige-Speaks-We-ve-Found-The-Best-Diet_printer.shtml


Who's for doing LCHF that way?

I leave home at 7am through the week so I always have breakfast apart form the weekend then it's a a brunch.

2. LCHF will promote a greater increase in HDL ("good") cholesterol without having any adverse effects on LDL ("bad") cholesterol. The stricter low-carbohydrate diet (20% of total calories) will lead to improved glucose levels for individuals with obesity and diabetes, and to marginally decreased levels of triglycerides.
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/new...peaks-We-ve-Found-The-Best-Diet_printer.shtml

That's how it's worked out for me, and if the following links conclusion is right it could help in keeping my diabetes progression in check.

Conclusions Increased triacylglyceride and low HDL are independently associated with increased rate of progression of diabetes. The genetic factors that predispose to diabetes are different from those that cause rapid progression of diabetes suggesting a difference in biological process that needs further investigation.
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/02/dc13-1995.abstract

 

[phoenix]

Nystrom's breakfast study.is a bit of an odd study because it compares a low fat breakfast and lunch and a low carb breakfast and lunch with a coffee breakfast followed by a Med diet type meal.(similar total calories) The people then went home to eat their own meals so we don't really get a full picture of the day.
The low carb breakfast plus lunch resulted in a slightly lower (than the Med lunch) amount of glucose (area under the curve) but the low carb diet had raised post meal trigs
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0079324
. Tony, that statement ' The genetic factors that predispose to diabetes are different from those that cause rapid progression of diabetes suggesting a difference in biological process that needs further investigation' is I think really significant and suggests why some people find that they have great success with 'lifestyle' interventions (of various types) and others don't.

 

[tonyS54]

Nystrom's breakfast study.is a bit of an odd study because it compares a low fat breakfast and lunch and a low carb breakfast and lunch with a coffee breakfast followed by a Med diet type meal.(similar total calories) The people then went home to eat their own meals so we don't really get a full picture of the day.
The low carb breakfast plus lunch resulted in a slightly lower (than the Med lunch) amount of glucose (area under the curve) but the low carb diet had raised post meal trigs
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0079324
. Tony, that statement ' The genetic factors that predispose to diabetes are different from those that cause rapid progression of diabetes suggesting a difference in biological process that needs further investigation' is I think really significant and suggests why some people find that they have great success with 'lifestyle' interventions (of various types) and others don't.

Thanks for the link, to be fair they do state "however, it should also be noted that fasting levels of triglycerides have in some studies been lowered more effectively by low-carbohydrate diets compared with low-fat diets", as I don't expect ever to be given an option to have post meal trigs measured and the evidence of the effects of low carb have differing results I see no reason to make any changes to my diet.

My lifestyle changes occurred while I was on the low fat diet which hardly made any difference to cholesterol , all the big improvements I saw in cholesterol were purely down to changing to HF/LC.

 

[Unbeliever]

Didn't any of you people go to the States and eat a proper American Breakfast? Sour dough toast, waffles, PROPER bacon and sausage, hash browns, PROPER scrambled eggs, pastries, gallons of coffee, endless supply of pink grapefruit juice, etc etc?? No need to eat for the rest of the day. Diabetes ruined the start of my day....

As our American friends might say "Gross" ! I wouldn't be able to eat for a week after that! Well maybe I would because I would have been sick !

Thanks for the tip about the sugar in the berries lowering bgs more quiickly xyzzy!

 

[modesty007]

So, two meals a day, no breakfast, no snacks, LCHF is the Swedish way.



""If you can, skip [breakfast]! This is a habitual behavior, the body has no need for nourishment the minute you get out of bed if you've eaten a high-fat dinner the day before. We make our own glucose from stored protein, and it probably costs a few calories to produce this glucose, which can be one reason why a low-carb diet provides great weight loss. Also, skip snacks and any low-fat products. If we were meant to nibble on low-fat foods all day we wouldn't have been equipped with a gall bladder. If you eat two meals daily, with few carbohydrates and plenty of good fats, you'll do just fine. Do like the Mediterranean people. Let a cup of coffee be your breakfast in the morning.""

http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/contributing columnist0/Sverige-Speaks-We-ve-Found-The-Best-Diet_printer.shtml


Who's for doing LCHF that way?

Learn about LCHF here - http://www.dietdoctor.com/ or here http://lowcarbhealthyfat.com/about/

 

[diadeb]

I thought like many other people that breakfast was "the most important meal of the day" and so now-a-days I eat it, I usually eat a 2 egg omelette. So which is better for losing weight/maintaining weight, a bullet proof coffee or omelette??