Tagged As: low saturated fat diet
Question:
What do you guys think of this diet --- chicken or turkey (skinless), soy products, green vegetables, and avocados? Too many diets lower carbs at the expense of upping saturated fat, but I say we avoid them both.
Answer:
That's low total fat rather than low saturated fat. It ends up low-carb, low-fat, high-protein and that's neither as effective per-calorie for fat loss nor as healthy. In the 1980s folks died from extremist high-protein diets though this isn't an extremist one. Still, for the same total calories medium-protein low-carb high-fat beats medium-protein low-carb low-fat. The hormone that drives this is glucagon. If what you'd written included plenty of polyunsaturated fats my reaction would be okay, well within the Atkins parameters, whatever>. Since polyunsaturates are beneficial more of them at the expensive of saturates is fine. Some drizzled walnut oil one day, dipped safeflower oil the next, sprinkled olive oil the day after that and it's a fine system. But that's not what you wrote. What you wrote is low-carb, low-fat, high-protein, known to have problems. So why exactly would you recommend such a system?
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