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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.184401.15382@spdcc.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:44:01 GMT
- References: <17913@pitt.UUCP> <1992Dec29.024354.0201957@locus.com> <1992Dec30.112625.12466@omen.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Dec30.112625.12466@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >One note for "Atkinites": Apparently citric acid bollixes ketosis in
- >40-50% of dieters on a ketogenic low carbohydrate diet. And guess what,
- >that stuff is in just about every diet soda except Dr. Pepper according
- >to the labels I've read. Film at 11, details in next Adiposity 101.
-
- I would imagine that it depends on the amount of citric acid ingested.
- It's metabolized like a carbohydrate (it is the "citric acid cycle", after
- all.) The amount of citric acid someone would get from drinking diet sodas
- is very small compared to their carbohydrate intake, even on an Atkins diet.
- Note that most people on a 300-600 calorie/day diet will experience ketosis
- even with a substantial part of this being carbohydrates. In any event,
- the idea that diet sodas prevent ketosis in a large number of large people
- is pretty far-fetched.
-
- >Note I am not endorsing the Atkins diet, just sharing some info.
- >As far as I can discern, Atkins isn't worse than other
- >weight loss diets given the same smount of weight loss.
-
- The problem is that you "share" these biochemical minutiae which have
- no necessary relevance to the problems people who have to lose weight
- face. You have no intelligent filter which allows you to weight these
- trivia: every research report in IJO and other places seems to you to
- have equal importance.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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