That’s pretty much a BS argument against starvation diets. Cutting 800Kcal from your diet might be in the long run just as effective as cutting 2800Kcal because of metabolic slowdown, but the latter is certainly orders of magnitude easier for a lot of people.
It seems like it would be pretty easy to quit smoking by reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke a day by 1 every week. But most people simply cannot do that. Add that a lot of overweight people already have a problem with “moderation” and slightly reducing your caloric intake becomes rather useless advice.
It’s like “How to lose weight?” “Well, just eat less and exercise more”… IF they could eat less, they wouldn’t be overweight in the first place, now would they?
According to the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the recommended daily allowance of carbohydrates for a non-pregnant, non-lactating woman on a 2000 calorie diet is 130 grams. See page 6
holy crap on a stick … compare that to the listing on any food - daily carb load is 300 grams [just looked at the bottle of a-1 sauce sitting next to me - one serving is 3 gr carb, 1% of the RDA … ]
Did you know that the definition of low carb is under 100 gr carb per day? WHen did they chop the RDA of carbohydrates in half? Why hasnt the RDA labeling caught up to it?
I’d provide you a link, but a google search on it turns up a huge variety of opinions on the subject. It seems no two people can agree on whether ketosis is good or bad.
Although Dr Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet does not advocate the Atkins diet because there’s no emphasis on low saturated fat in that diet, he does defend it by saying that the occurance of ketosis from Atkins is highly overstated.
I don’t have a cite but it’s in the book. (I just returned it to my cousin from whom I borrowed it)
It states on page 5 that the DRI for macronutrients for adults is 20-35% from fat, 45-65% from carbohydrate and 10-35% from protein. On a 2000kcal/day diet, that would mean 225 to 325g of carbohydrate per day.
However, on page 6 the DRI for macronutrients for females is 130g/day of carbohydrate and 46g/day of protein. Using arithmetic, on a 2000kcal/day diet, that would mean consuming 144g/day of fat (65% from fat!!).
I must be missing something.
