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The answer is: If you wish to restrict calories,
that's fine. However,
you must keep it in your mind that
in this case you will have no
advantage
using "low carb low calorie" diet comparing with low calorie
balanced
diet.
At least not during the first 10 days on a low carb diet.
Clinical studies conducted on healthy volunteers
eating same calorie
diets, revealed that while
"low calorie low carb" ketogenic diet caused
weight
loss about 500 gram (roughly one pound) a day,
300 grams were due to
pure
water. "Balanced diet" dieters lost modest 300 gram but only 120 gram
of water.
Amazingly, fat loss was roughly was the same 180
grams a day on both
diets and protein loss
was even slightly higher on ketogenic low
calorie diet
- 3.8 grams a day versus 3.4 grams on
balanced low calorie diet.
What happens on a long run? It was shown that
after 8 weeks on ketogenic
diet, dieters
dropped more weight, serum triglycerides, cholesterol,
and
insulin production than dieters
given low calorie diet.
The bottom line is:
1) The beauty of low carb diets is that you don't
have to reduce or
even count calories as
well as carbohydrate
2) "Low carb low calorie" diets don't have any
advantages comparing with just low calorie balanced diets
3) Low carb diets work best on a long run
Sources:
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 58(3):
722-30 1976
Bulletin of Medical Infant Hospital Mex. 37(4): 667-77 1980
Annals of Internal Medicine, 63(4): 604-12 1965
Acta Paediatrica Hungarian Academy of Science, 20(1):99-103 1979
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