TeddyTottie
Well-Known Member
So, this series has just finished on the telly and I am pretty disappointed by it. I don’t know what I expected, I knew it would be a 3 episode advert for Michael Mosley’s 800 cal diet, but I did hope that he might be more positive about the benefits of low carb, maybe mention insulin resistance, perhaps even prod at the foundations of the low-cal, low-fat edifice which has ruined the health of so many.
But no, nothing even slightly controversial. His 800 cal diet was low-carb, and the participants were actively expected to reach ketosis. But this was presented as a very temporary state, strictly for the 3 week period, and the mechanisms and benefits were barely touched on, with the specific benefits for the pre-diabetic young woman not mentioned at all.
And there was quite lot of obfuscation by omission - so talking about healthy and unhealthy fats and carefully not mentioning natural saturated fats in either category, at all. I don’t get the impression that Dr. Mosley is a by any means a stupid man, I am pretty sure that he is au fait with more current thinking on fats and carbs and don’t really see how anyone with an inquiring mind can ignore the tsunami of individual LCHF, long-term, success stories. Is it cynical to think that this doesn’t help him sell his low-cal programme?
And at the end of the 3 weeks, everyone had done well. But of course, my experience with LCHF tells me that they have done no better than very many of us who have never counted a calorie, albeit they got their results rather more rapidly. But they found it difficult, and hungry, and are now faced with the advice to start reintroducing ‘healthy’ carbs into their diets, because 800 calls a day is not sustainable. And someone (Dr. Mosley’s wife? can’t remember) more or less said that she expects them to regain their weight, but that’s ok because it will take them an average of 5 years to do. So yay!
So yeah, just more of the same old rubbish. I feel for the pre-diabetic woman, she was so pleased to have reduced her BG but we know, if she goes back to eating lots of carbs of any colour, diabetes awaits in her future. It makes me sad.
But no, nothing even slightly controversial. His 800 cal diet was low-carb, and the participants were actively expected to reach ketosis. But this was presented as a very temporary state, strictly for the 3 week period, and the mechanisms and benefits were barely touched on, with the specific benefits for the pre-diabetic young woman not mentioned at all.
And there was quite lot of obfuscation by omission - so talking about healthy and unhealthy fats and carefully not mentioning natural saturated fats in either category, at all. I don’t get the impression that Dr. Mosley is a by any means a stupid man, I am pretty sure that he is au fait with more current thinking on fats and carbs and don’t really see how anyone with an inquiring mind can ignore the tsunami of individual LCHF, long-term, success stories. Is it cynical to think that this doesn’t help him sell his low-cal programme?
And at the end of the 3 weeks, everyone had done well. But of course, my experience with LCHF tells me that they have done no better than very many of us who have never counted a calorie, albeit they got their results rather more rapidly. But they found it difficult, and hungry, and are now faced with the advice to start reintroducing ‘healthy’ carbs into their diets, because 800 calls a day is not sustainable. And someone (Dr. Mosley’s wife? can’t remember) more or less said that she expects them to regain their weight, but that’s ok because it will take them an average of 5 years to do. So yay!
So yeah, just more of the same old rubbish. I feel for the pre-diabetic woman, she was so pleased to have reduced her BG but we know, if she goes back to eating lots of carbs of any colour, diabetes awaits in her future. It makes me sad.