Depends on preference and macro. Low protein or low fat diets are a bad idea. Low carb can be sustained for a long time without health issues.
Why?
Why what?
Why are low fat and low protein diets a bad idea. Or why can low carb be sustained for a long time?
Low fat diets (barring certain medical conditions) tend to not provide sufficient fats for normal hormonal production and metabolic function. Basically you need fats to absorb vitamins, to function normally, to repair tissue. If you under eat fats long term (as studies in the 70-80s showed) you will damage your body.
Low protein diets will result in loss of lean body mass - generally when we loss weight we are trying to keep or minimise the loss of muscle, bones, connective tissue. Eating insufficient protein long term will also have a negative impact on liver function, metabolism, etc...
We can go into specific details, those are just summaries.
As to carbs, a variety of low to high carb diets exist - and aside from possible benefits that these may or may not deliver one can cut carbs without significant issues.
For the actual numbers of what makes up the recommended diet - take a look at
ttp://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets
Can you please post a link or citation for the low fat studies you refer to? I've been trying to find human studies based on diets of actual food (as opposed to synthetic fat free solutions administered by nasogastric tube or IV). I'm coming up empty. Any help would be much appreciated.
Depends on preference and macro. Low protein or low fat diets are a bad idea. Low carb can be sustained for a long time without health issues.
Why?
Why what?
Why are low fat and low protein diets a bad idea. Or why can low carb be sustained for a long time?
Low fat diets (barring certain medical conditions) tend to not provide sufficient fats for normal hormonal production and metabolic function. Basically you need fats to absorb vitamins, to function normally, to repair tissue. If you under eat fats long term (as studies in the 70-80s showed) you will damage your body.
Low protein diets will result in loss of lean body mass - generally when we loss weight we are trying to keep or minimise the loss of muscle, bones, connective tissue. Eating insufficient protein long term will also have a negative impact on liver function, metabolism, etc...
We can go into specific details, those are just summaries.
As to carbs, a variety of low to high carb diets exist - and aside from possible benefits that these may or may not deliver one can cut carbs without significant issues.
For the actual numbers of what makes up the recommended diet - take a look at
ttp://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets
Can you please post a link or citation for the low fat studies you refer to? I've been trying to find human studies based on diets of actual food (as opposed to synthetic fat free solutions administered by nasogastric tube or IV). I'm coming up empty. Any help would be much appreciated.
Are you looking for the risks related to minimum fats from low fat low cal diets?
The studies that showed negative impact by going below minimum fat are outlined in the adaptive thermo thread on my profile (I can't access my profile, thanks mfp.)
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Same can be said of cholesterol.
Correct, the body can make it's own cholesterol too...
It personally wouldn't be sustainable for me as I prefer a balanced and varied diet.
And ketones.
geez
...sorry 'bout that.
Can you please post a link or citation for the low fat studies you refer to? I've been trying to find human studies based on diets of actual food (as opposed to synthetic fat free solutions administered by nasogastric tube or IV). I'm coming up empty. Any help would be much appreciated.
Are you looking for the risks related to minimum fats from low fat low cal diets?
The studies that showed negative impact by going below minimum fat are outlined in the adaptive thermo thread on my profile (I can't access my profile, thanks mfp.)
Look also at http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/FFA_summary_rec_conclusion.pdf for fat recommendation and the reason behind them.