«We've known for quite some time that reduction of
dietary carbohydrates causes an excess of water loss,» he says, so the weight loss may be due to water loss.
First, remember that
dietary carbohydrates cause a release of insulin from the pancreas, in order to dispose of the carbohydrate as an immediate source of energy or for storage in the liver and skeletal muscles as glycogen.
Not exact matches
In order to be appealing, however, these products had — and perhaps still have — there are many «low fat» products still marketed as «healthy» foods even though current science suggests that
dietary fat doesn't
cause body fat, more sugar and simple
carbohydrates do — way more sugar than their regular - fat counterparts.
With regard to non-insulin dependent diabetics, then the limiting factors are the disturbance
caused by the diarrhoeal infection and the
carbohydrate restrictions imposed by
dietary management.
When we consider that excess
carbohydrates, and thus excess insulin could be part of the root
cause, not
dietary fat, everything starts to seem much more logical.
Cardiologists are discovering that «high glycemic index»
carbohydrates (sweet and starchy foods that
cause blood sugar to rise rapidly) are, by far, the most important
dietary risk factors in coronary artery disease.
More specifically, controversy continues to surround the theories that 1)
dietary fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol
cause heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer and should be replaced in the diet with polyunsaturated vegetable oils; 2) a diet high in
carbohydrates will reduce the risk of chronic disease; and 3) excessive sodium intake is the primary variable in the etiology of hypertension, a risk factor for heart disease.
Ketogenic
dietary therapies are designed to
cause a metabolic shift within the body, with fat becoming the primary fuel rather than
carbohydrate and ketone bodies replacing glucose as an energy source for the brain.
While a detailed critique of this study is beyond the scope of this section, suffice it to say for now that the China Study was a) an epidemiological study, and therefore incapable of proving that any
dietary factor
caused or prevented any health problem; and b) did not take refined
carbohydrate into account as a potential risk factor for chronic disease.
Dietary carbohydrates are the primary
cause of elevated blood sugar.
I actually published one of his articles on this site nearly 10 years ago, in which he expounded on the misguided
dietary advice to «eat less fat and more
carbohydrates,» stating that this advice just might be the
cause of the skyrocketing rates of obesity in America.
The effect of diet on the gluconeogenic capacity of rat - kidney - cortex slices [5] Liver and kidney metabolism during prolonged starvation [6] Unrecognized Pandemic «Subclinical» Diabetes of the Affluent Nations:
Causes, Cost and Prevention [7]
Carbohydrates and Immune Function [8] Overexpression of glut1 and glut3 in stage I nonsmall cell lung carcinoma is Associated with poor survival [9] The in?uence of diet on the mucin carbohydrates in the chick intestinal tract [10] Rat intestinal mucosal responses to a microbial flora and different diets [12] Chronic Ethanol Induced Impairment of Hepatic Glycosylation Machinery in Rat Is Independent of Dietary Carbohydrate [13] Glycosylation in Cellular Mechanisms of Health and Disease [14] Metabolic Aberrations Associated with Arginine Deficiency [15] Glycerol gluconeogenesis in f
Carbohydrates and Immune Function [8] Overexpression of glut1 and glut3 in stage I nonsmall cell lung carcinoma is Associated with poor survival [9] The in?uence of diet on the mucin
carbohydrates in the chick intestinal tract [10] Rat intestinal mucosal responses to a microbial flora and different diets [12] Chronic Ethanol Induced Impairment of Hepatic Glycosylation Machinery in Rat Is Independent of Dietary Carbohydrate [13] Glycosylation in Cellular Mechanisms of Health and Disease [14] Metabolic Aberrations Associated with Arginine Deficiency [15] Glycerol gluconeogenesis in f
carbohydrates in the chick intestinal tract [10] Rat intestinal mucosal responses to a microbial flora and different diets [12] Chronic Ethanol Induced Impairment of Hepatic Glycosylation Machinery in Rat Is Independent of
Dietary Carbohydrate [13] Glycosylation in Cellular Mechanisms of Health and Disease [14] Metabolic Aberrations Associated with Arginine Deficiency [15] Glycerol gluconeogenesis in fasting humans
Those in the ketogenic community often label diabetes as a problem of «
carbohydrate toxicity,» suggesting that
dietary carbohydrate is the primary
cause of the disease process.
While it is slowly becoming more common knowledge that
carbohydrates are far more fattening than
dietary fat, it is rare in my practice to meet a person with anorexia who does not eat
carbohydrates regularly (even if it is only secretly during the night and with tremendous guilt...) this is because anorexia
causes starvation, and people who are starving get very hungry.
All of these health problems are
caused by nutritional deficiencies
caused by the
dietary restrictions imposed by a low
carbohydrate diet.
Refined
carbohydrates are the
dietary cause of heart disease and diabetes.
Either you are introducing a red herring by stating that refined sugar is unhealthful, which all
dietary camps would agree on and is a non-issue, or you are seriously convinced that complex
carbohydrates i.e. starch
causes inflammation and heart disease.
However, a percentage of IgA nephritis is
caused by
dietary lectins (
carbohydrate binding proteins) and reactions to other food antigens.
A diet low in saturated fat and high in
dietary fiber and complex
carbohydrates may reduce insulin secretion, both directly by reducing the postprandial glycaemic response (39, 40), and indirectly by reducing adiposity (41),
causing a large increase in the production of IGFBP - 1 within the liver (42).»
The clinical use of and clinical research on LCDs have raised fundamental questions about insulin resistance and the regulation of cellular fuel utilization, as well as questions about whether
dietary carbohydrate is an essential nutrient, and whether
dietary fat
causes heart disease.
There are many possible
causes of too - much - insulin, but one of the major ones is excessive
dietary intake of refined
carbohydrates and particularly sugar.
Body builders who want longevity and better health most often have carb cycling built into their training regime otherwise chronically (extreme) low
dietary intake of
carbohydrates can
cause fatigue and increase cortisol due to the stress on the body.
During very low
carbohydrate intake, the regulated and controlled production of ketone bodies
causes a harmless physiological state known as
dietary ketosis.
In addition, as Dr. Perlmutter notes in his book, latest research indicates what really
causes heart attacks isn't clogged arteries but inflammation — and inflammation is certainly NOT
caused by
dietary fat but by consumption of
carbohydrates.
Benign
dietary ketosis resulting from restricting
carbohydrates could, theoretically,
cause ketoacidosis in persons with a predisposition to the condition.
Lactate, which increases during starvation, can induce hepatic ketogenesis.2 Low -
carbohydrate, fat - rich meals can enhance alpha - cell secretion of glucagon and lower insulin concentrations.3, 4 Plasma fatty acid concentrations can be twice as high during low -
carbohydrate diets as compared with the usual
carbohydrate intake in the postabsorptive period.5 Increased concentrations of free fatty acids in the absence of
carbohydrate - induced inhibition of beta - oxidation of fatty acids and in the presence of an abnormally high ratio of glucagon to insulin and elevated concentrations of lactate may have
caused ketoacidosis in our patient, who was trying to avoid all
dietary carbohydrates.
This holds that
dietary carbohydrates are the main or only
cause of increased insulin, and thus reducing
carbohydrate intake is necessary to lose weight.
Diabetes is one of the most common feline endocrine diseases and, while we do not know all of the
causes of this complex disease, we do know that many diabetic cats cease needing insulin or have their insulin needs significantly decrease once their
dietary carbohydrate level is lowered to a more species - appropriate level than that found in many commercial foods — especially dry kibble.
Dog and cats do not have a
dietary requirement for
carbohydrates and consuming them in excess can
cause weight gain and other related health issues.