Low carb Diets - A dumb choice?

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This Post is an Add on to Liz’s Featured article about “Low Carb Diets”

The latest Research from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has highlighted a serious problem with Low Carb Diets…..Diets like the Atkins Diet.

Side Note: We had a friend of ours attempt the Atkins diet for a few weeks, and while he did drop 4 or 5 quick kilos he put the weight back on just as fast as it came off once he stopped…he’s now counting calories on the weight watchers diet….Mr Yo Yo

Back to the research - A group of people all on Low carb Diets were given some sort of mental processing test….and the results were not that surprising…..Their test results were much lower than people who were on a healthy low fat diet?

I’ve been on the Atkins diet before….on the surface it seems appealing because you can have all these high fat yummy foods…if you cut out the carbs. I remember finding it hard to focus at certain points during the day…..not good if you have a job that requires your brain.

So the next time you find yourself on the bus or the train scratching your head trying to complete the crossword puzzle - get off at the next stop and inject some carbs back into your life.

K

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