Light Bulbs and Low Carb Diets

Researchers from the University of Connecticut and SUNY Downstate recently had one of those rare moments of scientific discovery -- while reviewing the medical literature about low-carb diets, something suddenly became very clear, the list of things carbohydrate restriction improves happens to be the same list of features a patient presents with in the diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome.

It was a classic light bulb moment -- one that is destined to radically alter the clinical management of Metabolic Syndrome, a cluster of metabolic markers that increase the risk of diabetes, stroke and heart disease: obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL ("good" cholesterol), high blood sugar, high blood pressure and insulin resistance...

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100 Years before Atkins..

Over 100 years before Dr. Robert Atkins penned his hugely successful New Diet Revolution, an Englishman by the name of William Banting described the almost effortless weight loss he experienced after adopting a low carbohydrate regimen. Banting, who was so "corpulent" he had to walk down stairs backwards, had consulted numerous practitioners in a desperate attempt to halt his ever-growing waistline. None of them helped in the slightest.

Lady Luck was smiling on Banting when he eventually met Dr. William Harvey, an ear specialist who placed Banting on a meat-rich, low carbohydrate diet. What followed surpassed Banting's wildest expectations - after unsuccessfully trying everything from rowing to "Turkish baths", Harvey's low carbohydrate regimen helped Banting shed fifty pounds! The newly-trim Englishman was so overjoyed he wrote Letter On Corpulence and distributedthe initial printing for free.

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Letter on Corpulence by William Banting

OF all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of obesity, and, having emerged from a very long probation in this affliction, I am desirous of circulating my humble knowledge and experience for the benefit of other sufferers, with an earnest hope that it may lead to the same comfort and happiness I now feel under the extraordinary change,-which might almost be termed miraculous had it not been accomplished by the most simple common-sense means... {Read More Here..}