From Dr. Peter Attia’s blog today On Diet
- Why Weight Watchers is actually a low carb diet « The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D. The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D.bbl
…You’ll note that people on these diets [WeightWatchers, Slim Fast, Zone, Ornish, Atkins, eDiets, Jenny Craig, South Beach, Volumetrics] including the strictest low-fat high-carb diets, significantly reduce their total amount of carbohydrates (therefore reducing the amount of insulin they secrete). Even the Ornish diet, which is the most restrictive diet with respect to fat and most liberal with respect to carbohydrates, still reduces carbohydrate intake by about 40% from what people were likely eating pre-diet.
The reason, I believe, most of these diets have some efficacy – at least in the short-term – is that they all reduce sugar and highly refined carbohydrate intake, either explicitly or implicitly. No one on the Ornish Diet or Jenny Craig Diet is eating candy bars and potato chips, at least not if they are adhering to it. Hence, these diet plans do “clean up” the eating habits of most folks…(read the complete article…)
- How can carbohydrate restriction be healthy if it means limiting “natural foods” like fruits and vegetables? « The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D. The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D.
- The Fat Trap, NYT Magazine article – thoughts and comments « The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D. The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D.
- What I actually eat « The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D. The Eating Academy | Peter Attia, M.D.