{"id":33246,"date":"2022-08-18T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/?p=33246"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:56:10","slug":"low-carb-vs-low-fat-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/weight-loss\/low-carb-vs-low-fat-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Diets: A Surprising New Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Highlights\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>The low-carb vs. low-fat diet question may have a surprising answer.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>More and more Americans are obese despite eating less food and exercising more.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Processed foods alter the microbes in the gut, predisposing the body to obesity.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>People may pass on their obesity-proneness to their children.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Weight loss solutions like the Plenity weight loss device don\u2019t affect gut microbes.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you think there are more and more obese people in the streets, you\u2019re not wrong. In 1980, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajcn\/article\/115\/6\/1445\/6572830\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14% of American adults<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> qualified as obese. Today, that number is 42% \u2014 almost every second person. We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, even though we have been reducing the amount of food we eat since 2000. What\u2019s going on?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Low-carb vs. Low-fat Diet \u2013 Are We Overlooking Something?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cause of obesity is obvious. With food more readily available than ever before in history, we have been overeating for decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve been told that the answer to obesity is simple: We just need to follow a low-fat diet and get more exercise. The problem is, many Americans have embraced low-fat diets for more than two decades, yet rather than decreasing, obesity has skyrocketed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something doesn\u2019t add up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current research is suggesting that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3402009\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">easily digestible carbohydrates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may be the culprits for the exploding waistlines and scale-crushing weight gains. Could it be that instead of the low-fat approach, we should consider low-carb diets? The issue is anything but simple at this point, but research is beginning to point that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How Much We\u2019ve Been Eating<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Few countries in the world can produce as accurate and plentiful data concerning the diet habits of their citizens as the U.S. According to data from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes\/index.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHANES<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN FAO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, food availability and food consumption in the U.S. have held <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/view-large\/figure\/357534426\/nqac075fig1.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">relatively steady<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since 2000. In 2018, we consumed slightly less food than in 1999.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, the percentage of obese people in the population has gone from 30% to 42% during the same period. And the trend shows no signs of abating. At this rate, being overweight is going to be the new normal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can we grow more and more overweight even as we eat less and exercise more?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Searching for an Explanation<\/h3>\n<p><b>Could the statistics be flawed?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> People may tend to underreport their calorie consumption, and science is aware that obese people are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fendo.2019.00850\/full\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">especially inclined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logic says, however, that even extreme underreporting cannot hide a statistical trend over two decades. Furthermore, before 2000, the food consumption statistics had been spot-on, showing an upward trend and based on the same data collection methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33247\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2.jpeg-40_11zon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33247\" title=\"Holding body fat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2.jpeg-40_11zon.jpg\" alt=\"Holding body fat\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2.jpeg-40_11zon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2.jpeg-40_11zon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Why are we still overweight?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Are we exercising less?<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Could it be that while we eat less, we also move around less and spend more time stuck to our computer and tablet screens?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/exercise.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Official data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seems to contradict this theory. We may be less physically active at our jobs, but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2739044\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we\u2019re moving more<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in our free time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People may be inclined to overestimate how much physical exercise they get, but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1141\/health-and-fitness-clubs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">independent data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> confirms the official findings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What We Eat May Be the Answer<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We humans have struggled for millennia to produce enough food to sustain populations and allow for population growth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, beginning in 1950, the Green Revolution transformed agriculture, resulting in the age of abundance. The industrialization of agriculture has allowed us to produce inexpensive processed foods by the millions of tons, giving almost everyone in industrialized nations the opportunity to overeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although it has managed to put food on the table, the Green Revolution took a few shortcuts here and there. It has focused agriculture on selected, often genetically modified crops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the crops themselves are often rich in vitamins and nutrients, processing methods have had a profound impact on the quality of the resulting food products.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider these facts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A wide range of fibers, trace nutrients, and prebiotics is now processed out of food.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, we have more salt and sugar in everything we eat.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additives like various preservatives, emulsifiers, and stabilizers ensure that the food doesn\u2019t spoil before stores can sell it to us.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Artificial sweeteners and colors make food more attractive to the eye and the palate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33248\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3.jpeg-38_11zon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33248\" title=\"Bags of salt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3.jpeg-38_11zon.jpg\" alt=\"Bags of salt\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3.jpeg-38_11zon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3.jpeg-38_11zon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The food industry floods its products with salt, sugar, and additives.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing out on essential nutrients and eating compounds nature never intended us to ingest is not without consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What You Eat Is What Your Children Will Be<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eating heavily processed food alters the microbe ecosystem in your gut. In the absence of prebiotics, some microbes never manage to multiply. Others succumb to the onslaught of preservatives and artificial colors and flavors. Still, others may thrive under these circumstances and have population explosions of their own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generation after generation, the altered gut biome becomes the new normal. This theory may explain the uncontrollable spread of obesity despite our newfound fondness for low-fat diets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gut microbiome changes, and the changes persist as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5837012\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">children inherit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> them from their parents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How the metabolism uses the energy resulting from food also changes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obesity becomes genetically ingrained, and one generation passes it on to the next.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-6643\/10\/3\/365\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much research is needed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to explore the possibility of biological processes feeding the ongoing obesity epidemic, but the theory certainly warrants further investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Why a Low-carb Diet May Make More Sense than a Low-fat One<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modern foods contain easily-digestible, refined carbohydrates that lack a natural cell structure. Our bodies absorb these nutrients quickly, without allowing beneficial gut microbes to absorb their share. The result is an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3402009\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inflammatory microbiome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the gut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0068596\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Animal research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suggests that altered gut microbiomes lead to weight gain without changes in physical activity and food intake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33249\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4.jpeg-14_11zon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33249\" title=\"Large intestine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4.jpeg-14_11zon.jpg\" alt=\"Large intestine\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4.jpeg-14_11zon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/4.jpeg-14_11zon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Your gut biome may be responsible for your weight gain.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refined carbohydrates <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6336830\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may also change<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> how the body stores energy and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7154186\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">uses fat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to access the energy it stores. Through the gut-brain axis, they can regulate appetite as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In short, refined carbohydrates increase your risk of obesity by:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affecting the microbes in your gut<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changing how your body stores and uses fat<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interfering with your appetite<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inflicting lasting changes that you can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5837012\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pass on<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to your children\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These theories and facts cast a new light on the low-carb vs. low-fat diet question. Observing a low-carb diet may save you \u2014 and possibly your children \u2014 from the health complications of obesity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A New Way to Lose Weight<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the low-fat diet\u2019s reputation is taking a hit, low-carb eating doesn\u2019t work for everyone, either, and it can be hard to sustain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve tried low-fat or low-carb dieting (or both) without success, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/test-kits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plenity weight loss device<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> may be for you. Plenity helps people eat less without impacting the gut microbiome. Plenity is an entirely new way to lose weight because it&#8217;s not a medication. It\u2019s a device that delivers a fiber-type substance called cellulose to the stomach, where it expands and helps people feel full and desire less food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>eDrugstore\u2019s Plenity Welcome Kit<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help you start your weight loss journey on the right foot, we have knocked 15% off the price of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plenity starter kit<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get a month\u2019s supply of Plenity and take three capsules with water 20 minutes before lunch and dinner. That\u2019s all there is to it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll deliver your order quickly and discreetly, and you\u2019ll be on your way to feeling healthier and looking great before you know it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights\u00a0\u00a0 The low-carb vs. low-fat diet question may have a surprising answer. More and more Americans are obese despite eating less food and exercising more. Processed foods alter the microbes in the gut, predisposing the body to obesity. People may pass on their obesity-proneness to their children. 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