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Is SANE Eating a Low-Carb Diet?

The brilliant MooseGeorge from the Support Group asked a wonderful question the other day: There are 3 types of carbs, fiber, sugar and starch. Really only 2 types as starch is just long chains of sugar that are broken back down to simple sugars by our digestion. Fiber isn’t digested by humans and so […]

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Researchers Conclude That “Calories In” and “Calories Out” Are Automatically Regulated

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Is SANE Eating a Low-Carb Diet?

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Researchers Conclude That “Calories In” and “Calories Out” Are Automatically Regulated

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Is SANE Eating a Low-Carb Diet?

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The brilliant MooseGeorge from the Support Group asked a wonderful question the other day:

There are 3 types of carbs, fiber, sugar and starch. Really only 2 types as starch is just long chains of sugar that are broken back down to simple sugars by our digestion. Fiber isn’t digested by humans and so we don’t really care how much we eat. That leaves starch/sugar.

I believe SSoS recommends staying away from starch/sugar. So it seems to me at this point SANE eating really just devolves to be the Low-Carb diet? Or am I missing something?

(I’m coming from the point of view that “modern” Atkins says eat as much fiber as you want.)

Personally I don’t mind if SANE == Low-Carb. SSoS does a damn fine job of explaining WHY we avoid sugar/starch, and many other important nutritional points. But I can see why positing this question the way I just did might cause undesired confusion. 🙂

And I can’t help but wonder if I’m not over-simplifying a bit and missing something important.

Love this! Thanks George. My 2-cents:

Hey MooseGeorge – In most context low-carb diets limit carb intake to fewer than 75 grams per day…often lower than 50. Some implementations of a SANE lifestyle could be on the higher end of low-carb, however, just as many could be moderate carb. Keep in mind that the average American eats an extremely high carb diet, so just just about any way of eating that avoids nutrient poor sources of carbs (aka starches and sweets) *seems* low carb…but is more accurately thought of as moderate carb. I think both moderate carb SANEity and low carb SANEity can be wonderfully effective for different individuals.

When using “low” or “high” I think we may be best served thinking about high Satiety, low Aggression, high Nutrition, and low Efficiency…rather than applying “high” and “low” to macronutrients. After all, there are “high” and “low” quality sources of all three macronutrients…that’s why we have to look a level deeper at SANEity.

Does that help and seem reasonable?

Have a great weekend brother.

George’s reply:

Yes it does.

Actually lightbulb just went off in my head. 🙂 I’ve been focused on carb macro nutrient for so many years that I’ve lost site of the SANE forest for all the carb trees.

Thanks dude 🙂

Thanks to George for the great question. I hope this is helpful. Have a great week!

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Researchers Conclude That “Calories In” and “Calories Out” Are Automatically Regulated

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Despite being proven wrong, eating less and exercising more is still the most common approach to weight loss. We are led to believe that our body sits back while we consciously regulate our weight. That is not how our body works. After W.C. Miller of Indiana University ran a clinical test of this principle, he concluded: “This study examined the relationships among body fat…energy intake, and exercise…There was norelationship between energy intake [calories in] and adiposity [body fat]”

Think about any other system in our body—our respiratory system, our immune system, etc. We do not manually control our bodily systems. We can try to hold our breath. We can try to avoid colds. But the respiratory and immune systems are in control and will do what they want. Our “fat metabolism system” works the same way. Researcher J.M. Friedman from the Rockefeller University explains, “The average human consumes one million…calories a year, yet weight changes very little…These facts lead to the conclusion that energy balance is regulated with a precision of greater than 99.5%, which far exceeds what can be consciously monitored.”

The Fat Metabolism System: A series of signals from our hormones and brain which control how much we eat, how many calories we burn, and how much body fat we store. Researcher P.J. Havel from the University of California defines it more academically:“…a variety of nutrient, endocrine [hormonal], and neural [brain] signals…[regulating] food intake, energy expenditure, and body fat stores.”

When you think about how hard our body systems work to make sure we stay on an even keel health-wise, this point makes perfect sense. Yet here is what the American Heart Association advises: “How can you manage your weight in a healthful way? The answer is simple: balance the calories you take in with the calories you burn.” Which seems odd considering they also said: “Few reliable data are available on the relative contributions to this obesity epidemic by energy intake and energy expenditure.” I might be missing something, but if “few reliable data are available,” then how did they come up with this answer?

We don’t have to worry about beating our hearts thanks to our circulatory system, and we also don’t have to worry about balancing our calories thanks to our fat metabolism system. The key to long-term fat loss and health in general is keeping all of our body’s systems functioning properly by eating more high-quality food, and doing less, but higher-quality, exercise. In the case of our fat metabolism system, this lowers our “set-point” weight and keeps us slim as reliably as our elevated set-point currently keeps us heavy.

In the next post we’ll start to explore the science of our set-point weight…and how we can lower it.

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