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- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Adiposity 101
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164845.1868@omen.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:48:45 GMT
- Article-I.D.: omen.1992Dec31.164845.1868
- References: <1992Dec30.184401.15382@spdcc.com> <1992Dec31.063136.21570@omen.UUCP> <1992Dec31.073630.4292@spdcc.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.073630.4292@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.063136.21570@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg) writes:
- >>Actually the information appeared in the American Journal of
- >>Clinical Nutrition, the mouthpiece of the diet establishment,
- >>virtually the sole source of papers Gordon uses to dispute some
- >>of the points made in Adiposity 101.
- >
- >So?
-
- I was responding to your jab about trivia in the IJO.
-
- >
- >>The 40-50% figure is what the author told me in a recent
- >>telephone conversation.
- >
- >If they don't go into ketosis, what does it mean? Frankly, it sounds
-
- What it means is that the subject can't tolerate the diet, and drops out.
- No problem for diet papers that ignore dropouts, but a bummer for the
- individual.
-
- >like a miracle drug: "new research means that people on the Atkins Diet
- >need not have bad breath which kills at 50 paces." Listen, if you weigh
- >400# and eat 1500 kcal/day as hamburger, you're going to lose weight,
- >ketosis or no ketosis.
- >
- >>I did find a few references to citric acid and metabolism in the
- >>literature. It is not just another carbohydrate.
- >
- >I said it was metabolized _like_ a carbohydrate. More properly, it's
- >metabolized like citric acid.
- >
- >>The paper is in Am J of Clin Nutr 1992;56:217S-23S. It has some
- >>rather interesting findings about VLCD and their remarkable
- >>sensitivity to tiny variations in CHO. Wouldn't hurt to read it.
- >
- >You mean if people add 1/2 a scoop more of their infernal powder
- >to their morning concoction this makes a difference? This is
- >princess and pea material. Why can't people be as anal-compulsive
- >about the three or four donuts they used to eat daily for breakfast
- >(and the remaining from the dozen for snacks during the day) when
- >they weren't dieting?
-
- No Steve. Kreitzman is not talking about an extra 1/2 scoop of
- powder per day. "dietetic beverages, such as diet cola, or
- slices of lemon in water. ... Although present only in small
- amounts, it appears that citric acid might be the offending
- substance possibly because of the known ability of citrate to
- control carbohydrate metabolism at the cellular level."
-
- >
- >The abstract of this paper doesn't indicate that its focus is
- >citric acid or carbohydrates at all, but on body composition
- >changes during VLCDs. I'm planning to look at it when I get
- >the chance, but I am a bit suspicious that you've taken this
- >citric acid stuff out of context.
-
- Frankly this citrate stuff does seem a modest proposal.
- I have not misrepresented what he wrote and said; if anything
- I understated it.
-
- >
- >>And just who does have such an intelligent filter? Let the one
- >>with a statistically significant long term cure rate cast the first stone.
- >
- >What I'm worried about is that you've taken an unimportant side comment
- >about citric acid and imbued it with unwarranted importance, importance
- >which even the author didn't forsee. S/he has an "intelligent filter",
- >most of the educated readers of Am J of Clin Nutr have an "intelligent
- >filter", Gordon and I have an "intelligent filter", but you don't, as
- >far as I can see.
-
- Kreitzman makes the point that subtle factors in a ketogenic diet
- can have a profound effect on diet compliance. If compliance is
- unimportant to success on a food restriction diet, what, Steve, is?
-
- >
- >>Until there's a cure (or even a safe and effective treatment)
- >>many will use VLCD and/or Atkins. As reported on the net, results
- >>with Atkins have been spotty. Switching from Diet Coke to Dr
- >>Pepper might help some of them.
- >
- >The only people I've seen who have mentioned Atkins are you and Yazz,
- >and it worked for him. And I hope you meant Diet Dr. Pepper.
-
- It was fine for Yazz, less so for me, and not at all for Banks. It was a
- disaster for "sojourner". That's about a 30% short-term success rate,
- with no long-term successes so far. Suffice it to say, next time I'm on
- Atkins or VLCD and the Ketostix lose their color, out goes the Cola and in
- comes Dr. Pepper and/or black tea.
-
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