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"CUTTING carbohydrates to lose weight could increase your chance of dying by 30 per cent.

Research reviewing the effect of low carbohydrate diets in 18 long-term studies has found they increase the chance of premature death.

University of Canberra nutritionist Professor Peter Williams will outline the risks of low-carbohydrate eating at a symposium in Sydney today.

"In the short term , a year or so, there are some advantages from a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet," he says.

But he said a recently published study of the long-term effect of these diets found you were 30 per cent more likely to die on a low-carbohydrate diet."

Low carb diets in my opinion tend to be only helpful for those suffering from the metabolic consequences of too much carbs/sugar, those with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome x etc.

Carbohydrate intake should be kept in relation to ones current metabolic health and activity levels. If you are very active you will need more carbohydrates than someone who is sedentary, and someone who is sedentary eating a high sugar diet is likely to develop the metabolic problems mentioned above quicker. If you are adrenal fatigued, have problems with hypoglycemia and are sedentary for e.g then you might do better on slightly less carbs and more protein than average, to balance blood sugar levels.

For the average individual i don't feel low carb diets are healthy. I also don't feel high sugar or carbohydrate diets are healthy though, we know from lots of research the consequences of high sugar diets. Moderate intake as always works for most and like i say kept in relation to how active you are and your current metabolic health.

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all carbs are sugars. long chained carbs are no food for the cells. it depends on how clean is the system in order to move the sugars from the blood to the cells. carbs are the energy of the sun chemically transformed by photosynthesis. no Sun > no carbs > no life. the body was made to run on Solar fuel



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/19/2013 02:46PM by Panchito.