http://theconversation.edu.au/the-obesity-epidemic-too-much-food-for-thought-7969

The opening paragraphs talk of larger portion sizes and a lack of smaller options. It’s not long before the writer trots out the old favourite;

The result of energy intake exceeding overall expenditure is a positive energy balance.

No, that’s simply rubbish, and anyone studying health and nutrition knows it. Boil it all down and sugar is the problem, not portion sizes. Eat real, health, fatty foods, and the problem goes away.

I wonder when this obvious message will start to be the popular view?

There’s not a lot more to add, this video is nothing more than distortion of the facts to make it seem like low carb is a bad idea. Of course, if the authors of this video read a little science, they’d know how wrong they are.

The study cited as evidence that eating some carbs at dinner / evening may help with weightloss does NOT suggest that at all.

The study compared two diets, where the only difference was the time of day the carbs were eaten. So the conclusion from that study, is that if you are going to eat significant carbs and protein (the protein is important) then you must restrict calories and you should eat the carbs late.

This is a problem with quite a lot of dietary and health studies. They take the standard average diet, and compare it to one minor variation. When they find the variation works better for good health, they erroneously decide that is the ideal diet.

The reality is that in this study, calories were restricted. It has been shown conclusively that restricting calories is unsustainable for any number of reasons. So what happens when the subjects stop restricting calories? They get fat again.

A much better study would have a range of diets, including a high fat, low carb approach. Then you would find that low carb would trump the other approaches, even without calorie restriction.

The erroneous conclusion being drawn here simply gives people the idea they should be eating carbs, and you will find those people always struggling with weight control because of it.

The part of the first episode that really made me nuts was the Carbonara. They suggested eating carbonara the way the poor victim on the show was doing it was no good. That part they got right, but their solution was to take out the butter, cream and bacon! The only three nutritious parts of the meal, and they did away with them!

Then later on they do their little study on subliminal diet CD’s. Just a bunch of filler here, nobody in their right mind would believe that listening to a CD would affect your weight, except of course the fact that in doing so you will be thinking about your weight more and are likely to make other changes that probably will reduce your weight.

Clearly the producers and ladies appearing on the program have no clue about proper nutrition. Hopefully they do some research and fix the show pronto!

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