Eat Low Carb, Gain Weight

Posting Date: 08/17/2004

Dr. Dean's Comment: The bottom line in this article is that if you want to lose weight long term, and that should be your goal, lo carb is NOT the way to go. This study found that typical lo carb foods are a recipe for weight gain and that those who increased fruit consumption (lo carb dieters shun fruits) and lowered fat consumption (lo carb dieters consume more fat) weighed less in the long term. Sorry but lo carb dieting is just a fad and no better than all the other fads we have been through.

Modifications in food-group consumption are related to long-term body-weight changes1,2,3

Vicky Drapeau, Jean-Pierre Després, Claude Bouchard, Lucie Allard, Guy Fournier, Claude Leblanc and Angelo Tremblay

1 From the Division of Kinesiology (VD, LA, GF, CL, AT) and the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Laval Hospital Research Centre (J-PD), Laval University, Québec, Canada, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (CB)

Background: Dietary patterns play an important role in the control of body weight.

Objective: The aim of this study was to verify whether changes in some dietary patterns over a 6-y follow-up period would be associated with weight changes.

Design: A sample of 248 volunteers of the Québec Family Study were measured twice (visit 1: 1989?1994; visit 2: 1995?2000). Body weight, percentage body fat, subcutaneous skinfold thicknesses, and waist circumference measurements as well as 3-d dietary and physical activity records were obtained at each visit. At visit 2, all participants filled out a food-based questionnaire examining changes in the consumption of 10 food categories. To further investigate the relation between changes in food-group consumption and body-weight changes, a total of 51 food subcategories were identified from dietary records.

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