
The Low-Carb Fraud
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Don Hagen
By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: "Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight."
The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand. Low-carb diets, from South Beach to The Zone and beyond, are still the go-to method for weight loss for millions. These diets' marketing may differ, but they all share two crucial components: the condemnation of "carbs" and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. Even the latest diet trend, the Paleo diet, is—despite its increased focus on some wholefoods—just another variation on the same carbohydrate fears.
In The Low-Carb Fraud, longtime leader in the nutritional science field T. Colin Campbell outlines where and how the low-carb proponents get it wrong: Where the belief came from that carbohydrates are bad and why it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary. The foods we misleadingly refer to as "carbs" aren't all created equal, and treating them that way has major consequences for our nutritional well-being.
If you're considering a low-carb diet, listen to this book first. It will change the way you think about what you eat—and how you should be eating to lose weight and optimize your health, now and for the long term.
Download the accompanying reference guide.©2014 T. Colin Campbell (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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The low-carb diet threatens our health and our planet we must put it into this nonsense
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very informative
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His work is renowned. I find him reasonable and eloquent in his writings as well as his on screen interview.People mention how he “trash” talks Gary Taubes? I don’t get it. Do people know what trash talk is? Or what one sided argumentation is? If you have read any of his printed books you will see his long involvement in this subject matter. And how easily his references are to fact check. I’m not a vegan. But I find his books on nutritional health to be on some of the most revealing and authentic. The narrator could maybe be more “lively” but for the subject matter I believe he works. Great book!
Did I read the same back as those with a negative view?
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Eye opener!
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not very convincing or encouraging
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I would not listen to this again, so I am grateful it is included with my Audible membership. Still, I did enjoy the book.
It is obvious we are fat, sick, and dying. At the same time, we expect to eat, and eat cheaply, the fat, sick, dying livestock that even a 100 years ago would have been unaffordable to all but the wealthiest. Do not misunderstand. Fat is not the enemy. Carbohydrate will not kill you.
If you go to the grocery store, and pick out three boxes of cereal- even the "healthy" kind, you will find enriched flour and sugar as primary ingredients. For the same $5 a box (which you can likely sit down and eat in the same sitting) you can buy 30 measure cups of Old Fashioned Oats- and that is enough for 90 (1/3 cup, 100 calorie portion) servings. Add 1/2 a cup whole dairy milk (not low fat, not plant based crud) and a whole apple, and you have, for a $1 an whole, entire meal.
Dr. Campbell's dogmatic adherence to whole grains, plant based eating is useful. It is also affordable. I especially enjoy how he defined the standard American Diet, which is, by the USDA's own definition not low fat. Nor is it healthy.
A ketogenic diet has been used as a medically supervised method of control for epilepsy. But it is expensive, unhealthy, boring, and devoid of micronutrients. Strict adherence to the diet is not possible outside of a science lab, or your own kitchen. Yes, it causes weight loss, and it does so by messing up your sense of taste and smell, which reduces appitite. At the same time, you can, by strict adherence, end up with scurvy. Our bodies require Vitamin C, and we can only get it by veggies and fruit.
It all comes down to stop eating and start moving. Our grandparents ate everything, valuing meat and fat, but, it was not an every meal thing. Bacon, eggs and toast were the gold standard on the farm because a man needs a 1,000 calories to throw bales of hay, wrangle cattle, and swing a scythe until dinner. Then, it was whole grain bread (because flour is expensive, and sifting out the bran reduces volume while increasing time and labor) and hot, thick stew, based on legumes and grain (think split pea, chili, or minestrone) with leftover breakfast fat. After another five or six hours of work, it was a light supper, maybe bread soup and some stewed prunes. On a Sunday, it might be a cup of cocoa, served with a rich muffin- which was a much smaller portion than the bakery, and all twelve muffins used one ounce sugar and a tablespoon of butter.
I think reviews here are being unfair because the critic is biased. We all want cheap, easy food, and we don't want to walk to the back of the grocery store to buy a gallon of almond milk. Instead of harassment, let's focus on not how the author presents the truth, but, if we accept it.
Argumentative w/o Apologetics
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An OK argument to become vegetarian
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worth a listen
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Short and simple.
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Fantastic!
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