Secret of Atkins diet revealed.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

i like getting all my advice from people that don't expose them self's to the material they give advice on .... if she hasn't been to medical school then she is the obvious choice for being my doctor and making my important life and death decisions for me...

She's an expert in all fields.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What evidence?  I'm not sitting through an hour long movie, so tell me the citation that backs up what you're talking about.  I'll read that instead.

She wants to argue about it (and be right) but she won't actually watch it. Instead, I'm supposed to watch it and take notes for her. What the hell? 

Is this how you handle your coursework, too, Requia?

Did you actually read the full text of the study you posted? Just curious, because that doesn't seem to be your MO.

[fomenter]

she only needs to see or read a little at the beginning to know if it is crap or true, she has the power of "always rightness"..

[The Good Reverend Roger]

she only needs to see or read a little at the beginning to know if it is crap or true, she has the power of "always rightness"..

She was born knowing all this shit.

[Requia ☣]

What evidence?  I'm not sitting through an hour long movie, so tell me the citation that backs up what you're talking about.  I'll read that instead.

She wants to argue about it (and be right) but she won't actually watch it. Instead, I'm supposed to watch it and take notes for her. What the hell? 

Is this how you handle your coursework, too, Requia?

Did you actually read the full text of the study you posted? Just curious, because that doesn't seem to be your MO.

Do you even know the names of the studies you mentioned?

[Requia ☣]

Nigel, seriously, this is what, the fourth time we've done this, why is it so hard for you to give a source thats not a journalist or somebody who thinks homeopathy is a neat idea?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Nigel, seriously, this is what, the fourth time we've done this, why is it so hard for you to give a source thats not a journalist or somebody who thinks homeopathy is a neat idea?

Seriously, you keep talking, but all I hear is blah blah blah.  You have passed judgement on the lecture without even hearing it through, because it disagrees with your preconceived notions.  You're a very poor excuse for a scientific thinker.  You should take up a different advocation...like lecturing at the institute for creation science.  It's more your speed.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And then she is bizarrely determined to make other people explain it for her so that she can argue with them. It's completely illogical. "I haven't watched that lecture but I disagree with it, and I'm not going to look at the citations but I'm going to post some that are kind of related, which I imagine proves my point. Even though I'm not sure what I'm arguing against."

[lumberjim]

Low Carb Diets

In the later stages of a fat loss phase, I will do some carb manipulation/cycling. However, that is very individualized and beyond the scope of this article.

Manipulating carb consumption and cutting carbs all together are two very different things.



Here are some basic facts on carbs:

- The human body is fueled by glucose. All foods must be converted into glucose before they can be used as fuel.

- Carbohydrates are more easily converted into glucose than protein or fat, and are considered to be the body's "preferred" source of energy and the brain's essential source of energy.

- Glucose is stored in blood, muscles and the liver as glycogen



- 1 gram of glycogen holds 2.4 grams of water



Since glycogen holds over double its weight in water, it's no wonder why people who cut carbs lose so much weight so fast. It's more likely that they lost mostly water weight.



This is why just using the scale to gauge your progress is a bad idea.



You burn glycogen throughout the day, and eating carbs simply refuels your tank. If all of a sudden you stop refilling the tank, your body still needs a source of fuel for the brain. So your body will make its own glycogen by breaking down muscle tissue. Again, not good!



Finally, cutting carbs will cause you to go into a state of Ketosis, which is when you have an abnormal amount of ketone bodies in the blood. Ketone bodies help feed the brain.



Most medical resources regard ketosis as a physiological state associated with chronic starvation.



Ketosis is regarded as a crisis reaction of the body due to a lack of carbohydrates in the diet. Ketosis would thus be a dangerous (potentially life-threatening) state which unnecessarily stresses the liver and causes destruction of muscle tissues.



The other issue with cutting carbs is that when you do finally eat carbs, your body has no idea how to process them and will immediately turn them into triglycerides, which is a fatty acid. Put simply, your body forgets how to use carbs and will immediately store them as fat.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is where Lumberjim thinks we'll all suddenly forget what a backstabbing, hypocritical shitneck he is.

[Requia ☣]

Nigel, seriously, this is what, the fourth time we've done this, why is it so hard for you to give a source thats not a journalist or somebody who thinks homeopathy is a neat idea?

Seriously, you keep talking, but all I hear is blah blah blah.  You have passed judgement on the lecture without even hearing it through, because it disagrees with your preconceived notions.  You're a very poor excuse for a scientific thinker.  You should take up a different advocation...like lecturing at the institute for creation science.  It's more your speed.

No, i passed judgment on Nigel claiming that science backs up low carb dieting, I watched the lecture long enough to know that according to the man, post industrial farmers are very active, but pre industrial farmers are sedentary.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Nigel, seriously, this is what, the fourth time we've done this, why is it so hard for you to give a source thats not a journalist or somebody who thinks homeopathy is a neat idea?

Seriously, you keep talking, but all I hear is blah blah blah.  You have passed judgement on the lecture without even hearing it through, because it disagrees with your preconceived notions.  You're a very poor excuse for a scientific thinker.  You should take up a different advocation...like lecturing at the institute for creation science.  It's more your speed.

No, i passed judgment on Nigel

Sorry, you lack the cops for that sort of thing.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

A friend of mine is on that "caveman diet" thing where you eat I guess meats, fruits and vegies that were available or some shit, no processed grains and... man I can't keep up with it all, but he's as thin as a rail.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, seriously, this is what, the fourth time we've done this, why is it so hard for you to give a source thats not a journalist or somebody who thinks homeopathy is a neat idea?

Seriously, you keep talking, but all I hear is blah blah blah.  You have passed judgement on the lecture without even hearing it through, because it disagrees with your preconceived notions.  You're a very poor excuse for a scientific thinker.  You should take up a different advocation...like lecturing at the institute for creation science.  It's more your speed.

No, i passed judgment on Nigel claiming that science backs up low carb dieting, I watched the lecture long enough to know that according to the man, post industrial farmers are very active, but pre industrial farmers are sedentary.

Noooooooo! Oh my god! He didn't say that at all! And I didn't claim that science backs up low-carb dieting! ZOMG!