tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post8501876690805252006..comments2024-02-18T15:43:14.717-05:00Comments on Moved to LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com/Blog: When Is A Low-Carb Diet Not A Low-Carb Diet?Jimmy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590225257991702645noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-77665066088555684162007-05-17T22:24:00.000-04:002007-05-17T22:24:00.000-04:00I agree with Jimmy Moore that how you look and fee...I agree with Jimmy Moore that how you look and feel in your clothes is important. Also, with all that workout the guy is doing he must remember the muscle ways more than fat so it may not be as dire as he thinks.Robert Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671639701122404110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-11603473616179263552007-05-17T14:20:00.000-04:002007-05-17T14:20:00.000-04:00As a diabetic, your reader would have most likely ...As a diabetic, your reader would have most likely been put on their version of a "low carbohydrate" diabetic diet. But remember, the Diabetes Association decries anything less than 130 g of carbs/day as unhealthy (or is it 150? I forget). <BR/><BR/>What the food pyramid and all those nutrition labels on everything in the grocery store suggest is that you need a MINIMUM 300 g of carbs/day! That's a horrifyingly huge amount of carbohydrate to those of us who eat truly low carb, and even the 130-150 amount recommended by the diabetes assn. is still awfully high, but sounds "low" compared to the amounts suggested on the nutrition labels.<BR/><BR/> No wonder there's so much confusion about what constitutes low carb, especially for someone who has been diagnosed with diabetes.<BR/><BR/>Still, he musn't forget, if he plans on reducing his carb level to a very low ketogenic state, he's going to need medical assistance in adjusting any diabetes medications he might be taking to take into account the significantly lower carb intake.Caliannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00055882170095208056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-1385912269702615162007-05-16T19:29:00.000-04:002007-05-16T19:29:00.000-04:00Actually there are a number of diets considered lo...Actually there are a number of diets considered low carb where carbs exceed 100gr/day, including the ZONE and South Beach, and Protein Power maintenance. "Low Carb" has come to mean any diet which gets 40% or less of its caloric intake from carbs. A Very Low Carb Ketogenic Diet, VLCKD, is a specific type of low carb diet. The distinction is now been made particularly by the research community.K. Dillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413996123242214042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-64445933768120719452007-05-16T03:05:00.000-04:002007-05-16T03:05:00.000-04:00It really is a problem when the same term is used ...It really is a problem when the same term is used for a range of very different things!<BR/><BR/>It's also complicated because lowcarb 'proper' -- and I would go back to Atkins for the start of any definition of this (even though he didn't invent it, he certainly pioneered its implementation in our world!) -- has other factors besides simply "lowcarb". Like sufficient protein, like water intake, and exercise. Cutting carbs by living on salads wouldn't be healthy, for example. Without the larger umbrella term that combines multiple points (Atkins, PPLP, Zone, etc.), the 'lowcarb' term itself is not very usable.PJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04391277875371518678noreply@blogger.com