LCHF

Austerity

Has anyone heard of this diet? The abbreviation LCHF stands for Low Carbohydrate, High Fat.

Now everyone will think that this is just another low carb diet, but this diet is also focused on you eating much fat. I think about 75% of your calorie intake should come from saturated fat according to this diet. You should avoid transfats and you should not eat margarine.

LCHF is very big in Sweden where it has been proven to work very well with obese people and people suffering from type 2 diabetes. I myself lost 15 kg on LCHF.

Because I now live in China I can no longer follow a strict LCHF diet because they eat loads of carbs in China :eek:

El_Dangeroso

Austerity wrote: »

Has anyone heard of this diet? The abbreviation LCHF stands for Low Carbohydrate, High Fat.

Now everyone will think that this is just another low carb diet, but this diet is also focused on you eating much fat. I think about 75% of your calorie intake should come from saturated fat according to this diet. You should avoid transfats and you should not eat margarine.

LCHF is very big in Sweden where it has been proven to work very well with obese people and people suffering from type 2 diabetes. I myself lost 15 kg on LCHF.

Because I now live in China I can no longer follow a strict LCHF diet because they eat loads of carbs in China :eek:

All low carb diets are high fat by definition, unless you want to die of rabbit starvation!

Lot's of low carbers on here. I was one but since maintaining I'm more paleo moderate carb but not too sure because I don't count. I'm guessing your a fan of Dr. Dahlquist? I hear she's getting quite a following in Sweden,

China is the home of eating lots of offal and insects, maybe time to branch out on the protein variety?;)

Also they still cook with lard for the most part (though this is changing )

As grains go, rice is probably one of the least toxic in terms of lectins etc, gotta watch that portion control though.

Blatter

Austerity wrote: »

Has anyone heard of this diet? The abbreviation LCHF stands for Low Carbohydrate, High Fat.

Now everyone will think that this is just another low carb diet, but this diet is also focused on you eating much fat. I think about 75% of your calorie intake should come from saturated fat according to this diet. You should avoid transfats and you should not eat margarine.

LCHF is very big in Sweden where it has been proven to work very well with obese people and people suffering from type 2 diabetes. I myself lost 15 kg on LCHF.

Because I now live in China I can no longer follow a strict LCHF diet because they eat loads of carbs in China :eek:

I find the high levels of saturated fat intersting. It is advocated that excess saturated fat is a bad thing. For example the American Heart Association recommends limiting the amount of saturated fats you eat to less than 7 percent of total daily calories. However, I'm unconvinced.

As for the diet itself, it does sound very like Atkins but with more of an emphasis on meat rather than vegetables perhaps? I've no doubt it works but my only problem with any low carb diet is I think it's difficult to maintain long term. Present day, carbs exist are almost every food place you go.

EileenG

Saturated fats have had a bad rap. They've been given the blame for a lot of the problems caused by transfats. In a diet without refined processed food, sat fats are good for you.

But yes, a high fat, low carb diet is very effective.

The fact that refined carbs are so easy to get doesn't make them good food.

Blatter

EileenG wrote: »

Saturated fats have had a bad rap. They've been given the blame for a lot of the problems caused by transfats. In a diet without refined processed food, sat fats are good for you.

But yes, a high fat, low carb diet is very effective.

The fact that refined carbs are so easy to get doesn't make them good food.

+1

How long do you reckon it will take for word to get out that refined carbs are the biggest health problem today and this 'low fat' theory is abolished? I might be wrong but i'm guessing 90%+ of society are misled in this regard by big food companies, such as Weight Watchers. I think people are being told too much to go low fat and not enought is being said about the refined carbs.

EileenG

As long as you can make a load more profit selling a low fat ready meal with 7% salmon and 15% spinach, and the rest pasta and unidentified chemicals, no-one is going to push the benefits of salmon and spinach.

Blatter

EileenG wrote: »

As long as you can make a load more profit selling a low fat ready meal with 7% salmon and 15% spinach, and the rest pasta and unidentified chemicals, no-one is going to push the benefits of salmon and spinach.

All the same, I'd like to see safe food and other healthy eating organisations, raise more awareness and educate people on this basic building block of nutrition.

metamorphosis

The amount of influence the grain industry has in the food world is scary also - as long as they are as powerfull as they are, things wont change mainstream.Pity too.

Frogdog

ULstudent wrote: »

The amount of influence the grain industry has in the food world is scary also - as long as they are as powerfull as they are, things wont change mainstream.Pity too.

And so it begins, ULstudent's quest to destroy Kellogg's!!!

I'm with you man!

El_Dangeroso

ULstudent wrote: »

The amount of influence the grain industry has in the food world is scary also - as long as they are as powerfull as they are, things wont change mainstream.Pity too.

I'd even qualify that as the processed grain and soy industries. Ain't no one getting rich off plain oats or rice.

There's soy in EVERYTHING now, even haagan daz ice-cream. In fact, I defy anyone to find a processed food that has no soy, wheat or vegetable oil, most have all three.

Even the wheat we had 50 years ago wasn't half as nowadays, but with the advent of high-yield semi-dwarf cultivars in the 1970's, you now get double the gluten for a quarter of the minerals. And we wonder why the prevalence of celiac disease is skyrocketing.