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How Can Bacon Stall Low-Carb Weight Loss?
Courtesy of our friends over at The Weight Loss Daily Blog, I learned something new about the food that most people erroneously stereotype as the staple of livin' la vida low-carb: BACON!Although the idea that those of us who are on a low-carb diet sit around all day snacking on bacon, eggs and cheese is completely untrue, the popular perception by most uneducated people about this way of eating is that you should eat that way. That's why the people who go on their own version of "the Atkins diet" are robbing themselves of the right way to do low-carb.Because it seems the nitrates and nitrites that are added to bacon as a way to help preserve their color and protect against the growth of bacteria is actually the culprit in the added risk of cancer and those dreaded weight loss stalls.When nitrates and nitrites come under intense heat in the curing process, they are transformed into what is called nitrosamines.
Westman: Science Will Prove Low-Carb As Viable For Weight Loss ...
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced you to a researcher named Dr. Jeff Volek who shared some of the amazing research he is working on that shows the effectiveness of livin' la vida low-carb for both weight loss and improved health. Today I have another young researcher that I was privileged to interview for my blog named Dr. Eric C. Westman, Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center.I recently named Dr. Westman one of my top 10 low-carb movers & shakers of 2006 and for good reason. His fingerprints are all over much of the positive research coming out about the low-carb lifestyle these days and I believe he is someone that everyone who supports the low-carb nutritional approach should get to know a little better.Dr. Westman is just like you and I, except he is doing research that could quite literally change the way we look at diet, weight loss, and health forever.
Researchers: Low-Carb Diet Significantly Reduces Hepatic Fat in ...
Back in March I wrote about a review in the World Journal of Gastroenterology - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the metabolic syndrome: Effects of weightloss and a review of popular diets. Are low carbohydrate diets the answer?; in which researchers noted that carbohydrate restricted diets not only enable weight loss, but are also show "greater improvement in markers of the metabolic syndrome without significant adverse effects with low-carbohydrate diets. This raises the question of whether low-carbohydrate diets should be recommended as part of a weight loss strategy for our patients. At this point, questions regarding the nutritional adequacy and long-term safety remain. While studies have evaluated the effect of these diets on weight loss, cardiovascular and metabolic marker studies are needed to evaluate the effect of these diets specifically on NAFLD [Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease]."Last month a study was published in the British Journal of Radiology, Low-carbohydrate diet induced reduction of hepatic lipid content observed with a rapid non-invasive MRI technique, in which researchers investigated non-invasive MRI imaging as a way to measure hepatic fat changes over 10-days in subjects following a low-carbohydrate diet.
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