Strider wrote:Can you define 'high-fat diet"? I can only eat so much bacon...
photohiker wrote:Well there you go. All along I was of the impression that if you wanted to lose weight, all you need to do is to reduce intake and increase activity. Apparently, I was wrong. All you need to do is to switch to a high fat diet.
photohiker wrote:I think you lose weight based on the deficit of intake versus expenditure. That's nothing specific to fat or carbs, it's just if you control the fuel intake and burn more than you intake then the weight will go down. You want to drop it faster, take on less fuel and burn even more.
photohiker wrote: Dropping weight faster is not considered a good thing. Crash diets have a reputation for health impacts and weight loss failures after the diet ends. I burned mine off over several months and I have had no problem keeping it off by maintaining a daily exercise regimen and not going crazy eating stuff regardless of fat or carbs.
photohiker wrote:If you want a good reference for many diets, just subscribe to the Womens Weekly and similar magazines. Just because a diet exists doesn't mean it is the answer. The answer is far simpler than a published diet.
photohiker wrote:I don't often have a high fat meal, but I know when I do, and I agree that the body works a lot harder processing it than a normal balanced meal.
photohiker wrote:LandSailor, The Women's weekly calls their version of the Keto diet the 'Paleo Diet'
wayno wrote:atkins diet, low fibre, high protein fat, high constipation.... long term people have become very sick on the atkins diet, very acidic diet, very hard on the liver and kidneys... long term decalcification of the bones, calckium is one of the main ways your body copes with acidic diets, it will pull it from our bones to neutralise the ph of an acidic diet.
The long-term studies of MacDonald and New and their colleagues (12,13) support Wachman and Bernstein's assertion that 15% of skeletal calcium can be lost over a decade to buffer a mild metabolic acidosis as a result of dietary practices
Leiothrix wrote:If you eat enough fat with Atkins style diet you shouldn't have any problems with constipation. The problem is that should be 20% ish, and most people trim fat rather than eat it.
Leiothrix wrote:High protein can be a problem with kidneys, but only if you don't drink enough water or have existing problems.
Leiothrix wrote:The main way your body buffers itself is with carbonates, HCO3 <-> H2CO3 <-> CO2. The main way that balances is atmospheric CO2, i.e. breathing.
Metabolic acidosis occurs when the body produces too much acid, or when the kidneys are not removing enough acid from the body.
There are several types of metabolic acidosis:
Diabetic acidosis (also called diabetic ketoacidosis and DKA) develops when substances known as ketone bodies, which are acidic, build up during uncontrolled type 1 diabetes
Hyperchloremic acidosis results from excessive loss of sodium bicarbonate from the body, as can happen with severe diarrhea
Lactic acidosis is a buildup of lactic acid. It can be caused by:
Alcohol
Cancer
Exercising for a very long time
Liver failure
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
Medications such as salicylates
Prolonged lack of oxygen from shock, heart failure, or severe anemia
Seizures
Other causes of metabolic acidosis include:
Kidney disease (distal tubular acidosis and proximal renal tubular acidosis)
Poisoning by aspirin, ethylene glycol (found in antifreeze), or methanol
Severe dehydration
Picaro wrote:Leiothrix wrote:The main way your body buffers itself is with carbonates, HCO3 <-> H2CO3 <-> CO2. The main way that balances is atmospheric CO2, i.e. breathing.
This is interesting, do you have any more on it ?
Compensatory mechanisms
Metabolic acidosis is either due to increased generation of acid or an inability to generate sufficient bicarbonate. The body regulates the acidity of the blood by four buffering mechanisms.
bicarbonate buffering system
Intracellular buffering by absorption of hydrogen atoms by various molecules, including proteins, phosphates and carbonate in bone.
Respiratory compensation
Renal compensation
Orion wrote:icefest, perhaps you can answer a question for me.
Someone who subscribes to the whole alkaline diet theory was saying that it made sense to adjust one's acid/base diet composition when going to high altitude. I thought that this was probably nonsense but I wondered: in the case where the body is already pH stressed (high altitude) could diet make a difference? I think that, if it did, one would want to eat more acidic food. My guess is the answer is "hokum" but I'm willing to be shown that it could matter in this case.
What do you think?
Picaro wrote:
IMHO, keto, or very low carb, is useful as a cyclic protocol for basically healthy people. Long term, especially when unmonitored, thyroid issues can be another problem along with acidity ( not to be confused with diabetic ketoacidosis, which is entirely different and deadly )
A general carb level, including much vege's, would be 100 to 200 gm for average folk, maybe up to 300 for very active people who operate anaerobically regularly.
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