The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)

January 17, 2008 presentation by Christopher Gardner for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series. The case for low-carbohydrate diets is gaining weight. Christopher Gardner, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, has completed the largest and longest-ever comparison of four popular diets using real-world conditions, which he discusses – the lowest-carbohydrate Atkins diet came out on top. Stanford University School of Medicine: med.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

25 Responses to The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)

  1. Freedish911

    @IskurBlast

    i got into ketosis in one day…im 5’11 180 and exercise everyday and before getting into ketosis i ate mostly lean meat vegetables and occasionally grains…and desert at night …
    for me the hardest part was feeling EXTREMELY tired/low energy at night because i that bowl of icecream/peanut butter…but i imagine it would be even harder for a heavier person who is more addicted to carbs

  2. IskurBlast

    @vzamaze

    I agree with Dr. Gardner. Ketosis is simply too hard for the body to achieve in this day and age. Most people cannot do it. This study wasn’t about the diet followed to its ideal. It was about what people can reasonably accomplish.

  3. IskurBlast

    Great video its nice to see some really honest science.

    This video is rather old and what Dr. Gardner has done further with this study as a base as far as genetics and diet goes hase been quite interesting.

  4. ObesityMyth

    John Denver !

  5. liptos

    @tune5k maybe to avoid copyright infringement?

  6. 2trey4five

    Thanks Dr Gardner for following the scientific method rather than rationalizing the data into what you want to believe. A lot of people would be healthier if public health policy studies were conducted this way back in the 1950s-1970s when the lipid hypothesis was created by cherry picking uncontrolled data. Too much insulin is probably the cause of many health problems today, but we need more studies like this to prove it.

  7. DarthVaygr

    Great talk!

  8. Stonewalljackson7

    and your source?

  9. mottdog2002

    No they didn’t actually. many live into there 100′s

  10. tune5k

    why is this shit partially blocked off around 5 1/2 min?

  11. losebellyfatquickly

    Great video you have !!!! Its nice to have learning like this :) thanks and take a look at my videos :)

  12. polymorphously

    “If they all reduced the amount of calories they say they did, they all would have lost 40 pounds. So they exaggerated.” Well, no. Reducing calories reduces basal metabolism. For some people, it reduces basal metabolism quite dramatically.

  13. topheramazz

    dont know where u pulled that out of- but ok.

  14. Stonewalljackson7

    I did check it out, took the test and it said i’m a carbo type. and recommends exactly the diet i’m on.

  15. Stonewalljackson7

    The inuit have a relatively short life span

  16. topheramazz

    @Stonewalljackson7
    check out “metabolic typing” by wolcott
    it will explain alot about how certain cultures eat certain foods and thrive.
    inuit indians consume mostly meat and fat and very little carbos- and have exceptional health and longevity.

  17. Stonewalljackson7

    coastal oki,s ate fish not the inland oki,s

  18. Stonewalljackson7

    You must be exceedingly stupid then

  19. tobarstep

    You’re using the standard vegetarian definition of meat. They ate a great deal of fish, which is meat. Just not “red” meat.

  20. tobarstep

    Waterbury and Berardi are both smart guys. In fact, I do have books by both of them. They’re both first and foremost businessmen though. They’re both selling you something as their primary objective.

  21. Stonewalljackson7

    wrong, the average person in okinawa pre 1950 consumed only a small percentage of meat in their diet.

  22. jwin74

    okinawans, the pork farmers of japan? a diet high in lard.

  23. Stonewalljackson7

    dumbass

  24. Stonewalljackson7

    wrong, the okinawans ate a high carb diet with virtually NO obesity, or diabetes, we ARE eating too much junk carbs.

  25. Sardious

    Yet still lost weight. Fat is mor calorie dense so a pound of say backon has a lot more carbs than a pound of potato. Still this study was on weight loss and Atikins people still lost weight and did not get the high LDL that we always thought they would.

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