Low-carb AND Low-saturated-fat diet??

[Nancy]

What do you guys think of this diet --- chicken or turkey (skinless),
soy products, green vegetables, and avocados? Too many diets lower
carbs at the expense of upping saturated fat, but I say we avoid them
both.

=== Nancy

[Nunya B.]

"Nancy" > wrote in message
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> What do you guys think of this diet --- chicken or turkey (skinless),
> soy products, green vegetables, and avocados? Too many diets lower
> carbs at the expense of upping saturated fat, but I say we avoid them
> both.
>
> === Nancy

It's very Phase 1 South Beach-ish.
--
the volleyballchick

[Nunya B.]

"Ignoramus3242" > wrote in message
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> On 26 Oct 2005 05:51:42 -0700, Nancy > wrote:
>> What do you guys think of this diet --- chicken or turkey (skinless),
>> soy products, green vegetables, and avocados? Too many diets lower
>> carbs at the expense of upping saturated fat, but I say we avoid them
>> both.
>
> You can as well skip soy products. You have plenty of foods that are
> high in fat, low in carbs and yet having relatively low saturated fat
> content. Think about fish, poultry, and nuts, as well as avocados and
> vegetable/olive oils.

Soy products are a healthy source of protein, carbs, good fats, and fiber.
No need to skip them unless you have a medical condition that
contraindicates the use of soy.
--
the volleyballchick

[Doug Freyburger]

Nancy wrote:
>
> What do you guys think of this diet --- chicken or turkey (skinless),
> soy products, green vegetables, and avocados? Too many diets lower
> carbs at the expense of upping saturated fat,

That's low total fat rather than low saturated fat.
It ends up low-carb, low-fat, high-protein and that's
neither as effective per-calorie for fat loss nor
as healthy. In the 1980s folks died from extremist
high-protein diets though this isn't an extremist
one.

Still, for the same total calories medium-protein
low-carb high-fat beats medium-protein low-carb
low-fat. The hormone that drives this is glucagon.

> but I say we avoid them both.

If what you'd written included plenty of polyunsaturated
fats my reaction would be <okay, well within the Atkins
parameters, whatever>. Since polyunsaturates are
beneficial more of them at the expensive of saturates
is fine. Some drizzled walnut oil one day, dipped
safeflower oil the next, sprinkled olive oil the day
after that and it's a fine system.

But that's not what you wrote. What you wrote is
low-carb, low-fat, high-protein, known to have problems.
So why exactly would you recommend such a system?