Skeptic Project

You're all just too stupid to understand Ed's genius.

You sound like a conspiracy theorist Eric.

Meat did 911.

The Low-Carb and Low-Fat Camps have been fighting for years, I don't think I'd recommend a movie on the topic that is clearly biased in one direction and ignoring contrary evidence.

There's some good evidence to consider low-fat diets with moderate amounts of SFA, no TFA and limited amounts of calories to be as healthy (or more, depending on one's metabolism) as any other diet. This doesn't apply to Atkins' or similar diets though, which don't differentiate between PUFA/MUFA and SFA at all, mostly ignore TFA and forbid the consumption of fruits and most vegetables.

CJ is a communist. Don't listen to him.

I would like to point out that there is a huge difference between restricting your carb intake, and following an atkins type diet. The goal of atkins type diets is to make your body go into ketosis so that it burns fat instead of carbs/muscle for energy.

In a sensible low carb diet, you don't "count carbs", you just stay away from excessive and high GI carbs such as sugars. My current diet consists of loads of veggies, all types of meat, and many types of nuts. I've used this technique in the past to put on loads of muscle and eliminate belly fat.

Even on this diet I have no problem with the occasional Mcdonalds meal on the weekends.

I'm not well versed on the term, just going by memory. I remember they used to sell keto-sticks that extreme low carbers used to see if they were in ketosis.

Here is what I found on wiki:
If the diet is changed from a highly glycemic diet to a diet that does not provide sufficient carbohydrate to replenish glycogen stores, the body goes through a set of stages to enter ketosis. During the initial stages of this process, blood glucose levels are maintained through gluconeogenesis, and the adult brain does not burn ketones; however, the brain makes immediate use of ketones for lipid synthesis in the brain. After about 48 hours of this process, the brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly use the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs, thus avoiding the depletion of the body's protein store in the muscles.[7]

Ketosis is deliberately induced by use of a ketogenic diet as a medical intervention in cases of non-responsive epilepsy.[6] Other uses of low-carbohydrate diets remain controversial.[8][9]

EDIT: to acknowledge your edit. :p

Skeptic Magazine must be a fringe magazine, since they are promoting Gary Taubes lecture at Cal Tech:
http://www.skeptic.com/upcoming-lectures/why-we-get-fat/</p>

Oh look Skeptic Magazine doing a podcast with Gary Taubes:
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/a/7/6/a762bd54730e46b0/153_Skepticality.mp3?sid=a38cb34ffd5e7055d6957b90c97b74a3&l_sid=18359&l_eid=&l_mid=2537549

There's nothing wrong with HFCS as long as you don't over indulge in it, which is the same for pretty much everything.

I'm telling Ed not to argue not an Internet n00b.

Why does everyone seem to be nodding their heads in agreement here? The mainstream of science is always the most likely to be correct, and the mainstream is not in agreement here.

Except the mainstream didn't come to its conclusions by scientific means, it came to them by legislative ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbFQc2kxm9c

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I don't believe there was any sort of conspiracy at all, people jump the gun, people make mistakes, sometimes we're just wrong. I'm still trying to figure out the extent of how incorrect the current held belief is in regard to proper diet, because I definitely don't want to do the wrong thing.

Sorry Rox, my office blocks conspiracy youtubes.

@Matt, I'd give you a freebie but I only like to suck BIG dicks, sorry

It's a news broadcast, not a conspiracy video. Don't be a douche bag, I know it's hard, but give it a try. Ed's a big enough forum cancer, we don't need yet another person that grinds an ax against something just because they feel like it.

i'm just busting your honorary balls

Rox, just for you I took the time to watch that youtube video on my phone. That was not a news broadcast. You trolled me good!