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It's the first link that pulls up when you google " is low carbs dead." I couldn't care less that WW was mentioned. There are other more recent articles....
The low carb diet is generally dead, The Zone and Atkins type day in and day out where you count all your macronutrients like a freak. Low carbs with intermittent fasting seems to be catching on with with some people...................
Why do you insist on making claims as if you as at the forefront of science and nutrition when you are actually a ways behind?
Low carb diets are not, and will probably never be dead. They remain the preferred method of choice in the body building and weight loss communities. Your new found love, intermittent fasting, is no where near as popular as the low carb approach.
I didn't read all through this thread but my question is...how many carbs should you have a day? Is it based on age, weight, or what. I find it hard to stay under 40 a day.
I didn't read all through this thread but my question is...how many carbs should you have a day? Is it based on age, weight, or what. I find it hard to stay under 40 a day.
Depends on the specific diet you are following as they each have their own guidelines. I can tell you that the one I follow (which is really carb cycling designed for bodybuilders and athletes) wants you under 30g a day during the cutting/weight loss phase. That level is then adjusted upward in the muscle building and bullking phases to account for the increased levels of energy required.
Atkins advises under a 20 a day for the first two weeks and then add back a daily 5 more each week after that. You then stick with the weight loss you're comfortable with and as you reach your goal weight figure out how many you can eat per day and neither gain or lose weight. This can be at different levels for different people so there's no firm rule.
It's not as hard as it seems to stay below 40 if all you eat are meat, veggies, nuts, eggs, cheese and a few berries, which is what I do. Most of my carbs come from vegetables.
Well I checked the American Diabetes Association's website for articles about carb counting, and two other sources written by medical nutritionists who work with diabetes. I did this because diabetes requires specialized eating habits to limit/control insulin levels, and carbohydrates have an impact on insulin. I figured if anyone would know what's a healthy intake of carbs, the ADA would. And I checked the non-ADA sites for comparison.
All three of them recommended *for people who are NOT trying to lose weight, who are trying to maintain an already healthy body* between 45-60 grams of carbs PER MEAL, assuming 3 meals per day with no snacks.
The average total consumption recommendation was 165 grams per day.
So if you're trying to lose weight, you'd adjust downward from 165. You need to have between 25-30 grams of fiber every day, which means you *must* have *some* carbs every day, in the form of foods that provide fiber. There's really no getting around that, if you want to be healthy while you're losing weight, so a "no carb" diet would be unhealthy, solely because it would require that you don't get any fiber.
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