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Message Subject Low Carb diets always make you gain weight in the long run. Here is why.
Poster Handle Bonafide
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In response to the OP's example of Japanese obesity vis-a-vis the U.S., and why the Japanese are thinner on average, a quick search online of the "average daily caloric intake by country" yields the (what should have been intuitively obvious) answer. The Japanese eat far less calories on average then Americans.

Low-carb diets have never been starvation diets, just the opposite in fact. Fat and more specifically protein yield much higher satiety than carbohydrates. It is actually surprisingly difficult to gain weight on a very low-carb, high-fat, high-protein diet, in spite of the caloric density of fat vs. carbohydrates.

A few simple points:
Low-carb diets effectively eliminate glucose/insulin spikes.
Low-carb diets result in higher levels of satiety for the same caloric intake.
Low-carb diets yield a higher loss of body fat vs. lean tissue compared to low-fat diets. Someone losing 5 lbs on a low-carb diet will generally enjoy a much higher percentage of the weight lost being body fat while preserving lean tissue, compared to a low-fat dieter losing the same amount of weight.

I won't post the studies but they can be easily found if you care to look.

Your examples with regard to "your friend who drinks 10 sodas a day", the overweight vegans pouring olive oil on their salad, and even with Atkins himself are irrelevant(Not to mention inaccurate). Genetics play a factor and always produce outliers. Pointing out one or two specific examples of those outliers proves nothing. You must look at research done on large data sets, preferably legitimate scientific studies.

By the way, Atkins actually weighed 195 lbs upon admission to the hospital and gained a considerable amount of water weight due to a combination of water retention and IV fluids supplied to him. Yes, it is very possible to retain 60lbs of water weight in this situation and is not uncommon. ~260 lbs is the weight you commonly see thrown around which was not his true normal body weight before he died. Furthermore, he did not die of Myocardial Infarction as most people think, but in fact from "blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma" (He slipped on ice and hit his head). People seem to get some intense satisfaction from saying "See? Atkins was fat and he died of a heart attack, isn't that delightfully ironic?". Spending 30 seconds to research whether that is true or not might rob them of said satisfaction, and so why would they bother?

As a very high level summation of the many studies conducted on this topic, in *general* most people fare better on low-carb diets with regard to almost all relevant factors: amount of weight lost, *type* of weight lost(profoundly important and too often ignored), general feelings of satiety, cholesterol, blood pressure, insulin resistance, etc, etc, etc...
 
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