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julepige
julepige Posts: 24 Member
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For the ones who is interested.
http://www.dieting-mag.com/ some good ideas there.

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  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Be careful.... read with a watchful eye. One of the sites quoted starts off with the words "Carbohydrates are a necessary part of our diet." We know that's not true.
  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    Peter Attia actually had a link on the refutation of this 'prospective cohort study and meta-analysis' in his email today: Dr. Zoë Harcombe, PhD Cambridge (Public Health Nutrition)
    Here's her breakdown of the article: zoeharcombe.com/2018/08/low-carb-diets-could-shorten-life-really/
    Let’s look at the ‘science’…

    We need to make a critical point up front: every headline using the words “low carb” was wrong. The first sentence of the paper was “Low carbohydrate diets…” This was also wrong. The full paper used the words “low carbohydrate” 40 times. That was also wrong – 40 times. Low carb diets have not been studied by this paper. Full stop. The average carbohydrate intake of the lowest fifth of people studied was 37%. That’s a high carb diet to anyone who eats a low carb diet. As we will see below, the researchers managed to find just 315 people out of over 15,000 who consumed less than 30% of their diet in the form of carbohydrate. The average carb intake of these 315 people was still over 26%. Not even these people were anywhere near low carb eating. Hence, if you do eat a low carbohydrate diet, don’t worry – this paper has nothing to do with you.

    You’re welcome to continue reading to see what else was wrong with this paper.

    A bit long with all the references attached but a fairly quick read with appendices shown from that original 'study' to explain what the problems were with it.

  • canadjineh
    canadjineh Posts: 5,396 Member
    edited August 2018
    Glad to see you are hunting up info to make your best choices, @julepige. It certainly can be difficult to weed out the sensationalism from the real science. That's why we never give up learning :mrgreen: Keep on keepin' on.

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337
    August 23, 2018
    The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research
    John P. A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc1
    JAMA. Published online August 23, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.11025


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