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"By late 2004 to early 2005, reports from members of the media and food analysts were concluding that low-carb dieting was dying out or already passe. But amidst the reports about low carb's demise, most observers were missing the big picture. First of all, despite the naysayers, low-carb dieting in some form or another is here to stay, according to Opinion Dynamics, a market research firm that has tracked the movement since 2003." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "The Much-Maligned, Much-Misunderstood Low-Carb Trend As you no doubt know, in the mid-1990s, low-carb dieting became a huge, nationwide craze, as sales of Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution soared. By late 2004 to early 2005, reports from members of the media and food analysts were concluding that low-carb dieting was dying out or already passe. But amidst the reports about low carb's demise, most observers were missing the big picture." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"HEALTH FOODS Toward the finale of the low-carb dieting mania early in 2004,1 bought a box of Dreamfields "Healthy Low-Carb Living Authentic Pasta" because its label said, "Now you can eat all the pasta you want without all the carbs you don't." This pasta, the box said, had only 5 grams of "digestible carbs" (also called "net carbs" on some packages) per serving. But it also said that a 2-ounce serving had 42 grams of carbohydrate. What could possibly have happened to the other 37 grams?" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"If you have spent any time at all in the world of low-carb dieting, you will have heard of the glycemic index (GI). This index is a concept that is outdated for reasons I will describe more fully below. The glycemic index should be replaced by an index that judges how rich the carbohydrates you eat are in phytonutrients. This new index is called the phytonutrient index (PI), and it gives us much more valuable information than the glycemic index ever did, because it gives us a way to judge how rich our diets are in these healing plant foods." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Up until the success of the Atkins Diet and low-carb dieting in general, Slim Fast was an extremely successful product purchased by tens of millions of Americans who, quite obviously, are nutritionally illiterate and never read ingredients labels, or don't realize sugar is one of the last things you should put in your body if you are attempting to lose weight. The liquid forms of Slim Fast, by the way, are of a similar nature; the primary ingredient being water and the second ingredient being sugar. Those products are offering you primarily sugar water, which is much the same as soft drinks." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Low Carb" Is a Misleading Term At the end of the day, advocates of low-carb dieting and maintaining insist that the term "low carb" is inappropriate and misleading. "Low carb doesn't mean you're mainlining lard and eating pork rinds all day. It means making healthier choices in carbs and picking better-quality foods," says Lora Ruffner, R.N., who founded the popular www.lowcarb luxury.com website in 1999 and Low Carb Luxury Magazine in 2000." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "First of all, despite the naysayers, low-carb dieting in some form or another is here to stay, according to Opinion Dynamics, a market research firm that has tracked the movement since 2003. "We expect it to stabilize at between 7 to 15 percent of the population [or about 15 million to 33 million people]," says Larry Shiman, vice president of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based, full-service market research company, which specializes in the food industry. "The legacy of the trend is that for many dieters, low carb still plays a substantial role." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"It also has an exhaustive listing of articles, most of them taken from popular news media about anything related to low-carb dieting. Like other sites, this does not have label information about exactly what is in the products, but there is an easily accessible customer service department, so I'm sure you could get more information if you were interested in finding out specifics: www.synergydiet.com Vitacost: A recommended high-discount site for low-carb products, foods, and vitamins." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.) "This is one of the great paradoxes of low-carb dieting because it is completely counterintuitive. Nonetheless, I've seen it in action many times. More than one person wrote to me of weight loss stalled at a carb intake of 20 grams per day, which they were able to get going again by simply moving their carb intake up to about 40 or 50 grams. One possible explanation for this comes from the work of Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, who would argue that too low an intake of carbs creates higher levels of adrenaline and Cortisol (which ultimately work against weight loss)." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.) "Fat Flush brings a different spin to low-carb dieting by concentrating on what Gittleman calls the "five hidden weight gain factors": an overworked liver, lack of fat-burning fats, too much insulin, stress, and something that Dr. Elson Haas has called "false fat." The Liver In addition to being the main organ for detoxification in the body, the liver is also responsible for fat metabolism. Bile, for example, is made in the liver (and stored in the gallbladder) and is responsible for helping the liver break down fats." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.) "Chapter 1: The History and Origins of Low-Carb Diets Guess what? low-carb dieting did not begin with Atkins! Low-carb diets actually date back to 1864, when William Banting wrote his famous Letter on Corpulence (in essence the very first commercial low-carb diet). But Banting's diet wasn't known as a "low-carb" plan; in fact, there was no such label until the USDA decreed in its 1992 food pyramid that the perfect healthy diet for Americans includes six to eleven servings of grains and starches per day." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

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