If you speak swedish, read the article and form your own opinion.
August 30, 2011
The ultimate impact on the environment- be a size zero!
I saw a good article in the swedish newspaper DN today, it's about the diet LCHF, low carbon high fat. Some people replacing carbohydrates to protien and fat in there diet, to get thinner I guess. In some way it's really logical. Carbohydrates are converted to fat in the body and gets stored to our thighs, hips and bellies. The thing is that the production of fat and protein is very bad for the environment. To eat beef instead of lentils, butter instead of oil and tomatoes instead of carots etc have a very negative effect on the environment. The auther writes: "one review also shows that several of the studies that Swedish proponents of the diet refers to is sponsored by the U.S. meat industry and other businesses that have an interest in people moving to LHCF."
If you speak swedish, read the article and form your own opinion.
If you speak swedish, read the article and form your own opinion.
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It is always good to question who is the financier of a scientific study and why they are involved in the financing. Did you react in the same way when the Bread institute (Brödinstitutet) presented a study on how many of the Swedish citizens are ignorant to the beneficial effects of bread to human health a couple of weeks ago?
ReplyDeleteYou, like many others, seem to have misinterpreted what LCHF is. It does not (unlike Atkins and ISO) ordain more protein than for example the Plate Model (Tallriksmodellen) created by the National Food Administration of Sweden (Livsmedelverket). It's in the name: LOW carb, HIGH fat. One replaces the carbs with fat, not protein!. And the protein does not have to come from meat. It is definitely possible to eat a vegetarian version of LCHF!
Another misconception is that LCHF is a weight loss diet. Its not. But, if you are overweight, you may lose weight. And if you are underweight, you may gain weight. If you have a normal weight, you may keep it right there. The LCHF food helps the body find its most healthy weight, it is "weight normalizing".
This misconception of LCHF as a weight loss diet is probably the reason why you are under the impression that carrots, for instance, are not ok. They are, when you are not trying to lose weight. So are lentils and beans, but maybe not in great quantities. Although one often have to go lower on carbs during the period while one is trying to lose weight, please note that it is LOW carb, not NO carb.
LCHF does include oils! But it also says that animal fat is not dangerous to our health (why would it be, when our own bodies store fat as animal fat rather than in the form of vegetable oil?). Even (most types of) cholesterol is beneficial - and crucial to cellular functions - therefore the body creates it by it self if one does not eat enough of it!
Some oils (corn, sunflower seed), are not advised in LCHF because of their high value of omega-6 fatty acids (which are inflammatory in high quantities), but oils like olive, rapeseed and coconut are all fine.
Finally, I would like to inform you that LCHF advice clean food (with as few unnecessary additives as possible), locally produced and organic whenever possible!