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It's almost like you didn't read the article. Which is too bad, because it's probably one of the best weight loss articles I've ever come across.

rubashov 15y ago
I thought the article wasn't very good. It goes on at length with the only takeaway being that fat people have a very hard time maintaining weight loss and we're not sure why.
- kenjackson 15y ago
  Really, that was your only takeaway? <shrug> OK. And note, your synopsis is not even correct. It's that people who have lost (a certain amount of) weight have a hard maintaining weight loss. There's data to indicate what some causes might be, but nothing conclusive yet.
Shorel 15y ago
In the article they reference low fat diets and calorie counting, in every single study cited. In fact, the word carbohydrates appears only once in the whole article. In Taubes book calories from fat != calories from sugar. It's not hard to see why they reach very different conclusions.
- kenjackson 15y ago
  Reread the article. Some quotes to help you process it: "There is no consistent pattern to how people in the registry lost weight — some did it on Weight Watchers, others with Jenny Craig, some by cutting carbs on the Atkins diet and a very small number lost weight through surgery." "Fat, sugar and carbohydrates in processed foods may very well be culprits in the nation’s obesity problem. But there is tremendous variation in an individual’s response." The article isn't about good vs bad calories. It's about your body's fundamental changes in response to weight loss. "For instance, a gastric hormone called ghrelin, often dubbed the “hunger hormone,” was about 20 percent higher than at the start of the study. Another hormone associated with suppressing hunger, peptide YY, was also abnormally low. Levels of leptin, a hormone that suppresses hunger and increases metabolism, also remained lower than expected. A cocktail of other hormones associated with hunger and metabolism all remained significantly changed compared to pre-dieting levels. It was almost as if weight loss had put their bodies into a unique metabolic state, a sort of post-dieting syndrome that set them apart from people who hadn’t tried to lose weight in the first place." Read the article. Don't skim it. Actually read it.

rubashov 15y ago

I thought the article wasn't very good. It goes on at length with the only takeaway being that fat people have a very hard time maintaining weight loss and we're not sure why.

kenjackson 15y ago
Really, that was your only takeaway? <shrug> OK. And note, your synopsis is not even correct. It's that people who have lost (a certain amount of) weight have a hard maintaining weight loss. There's data to indicate what some causes might be, but nothing conclusive yet.

Shorel 15y ago

In the article they reference low fat diets and calorie counting, in every single study cited. In fact, the word carbohydrates appears only once in the whole article. In Taubes book calories from fat != calories from sugar. It's not hard to see why they reach very different conclusions.

kenjackson 15y ago
Reread the article. Some quotes to help you process it: "There is no consistent pattern to how people in the registry lost weight — some did it on Weight Watchers, others with Jenny Craig, some by cutting carbs on the Atkins diet and a very small number lost weight through surgery." "Fat, sugar and carbohydrates in processed foods may very well be culprits in the nation’s obesity problem. But there is tremendous variation in an individual’s response." The article isn't about good vs bad calories. It's about your body's fundamental changes in response to weight loss. "For instance, a gastric hormone called ghrelin, often dubbed the “hunger hormone,” was about 20 percent higher than at the start of the study. Another hormone associated with suppressing hunger, peptide YY, was also abnormally low. Levels of leptin, a hormone that suppresses hunger and increases metabolism, also remained lower than expected. A cocktail of other hormones associated with hunger and metabolism all remained significantly changed compared to pre-dieting levels. It was almost as if weight loss had put their bodies into a unique metabolic state, a sort of post-dieting syndrome that set them apart from people who hadn’t tried to lose weight in the first place." Read the article. Don't skim it. Actually read it.