Lisa Olivo, Associate Editor01.21.16
When he first started out as a personal trainer in 1990, Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, was alarmed by the new low carbohydrate diets that were popularized at the time. Before the Atkins Diet was world famous, the idea of eating all fats and proteins seemed like a dangerous concept.
“My clients would come to me and say, ‘Look, this low fat thing isn’t working for me … I’m going to try Atkins,’” he explained. “And we’d go apoplectic. We would go, ‘You can’t do that! That is the most unhealthy diet in the world! You’re going to eat all that fat, and your cholesterol is going to go up, and you’ll diet of a heart attack!’… But they did it anyway. And guess what? They didn’t die.” In fact, these clients reported a reduction in belly fat, cholesterol, triglyceride levels and blood pressure, as well as an increase in energy.
Dr. Bowden began seeking out research supporting a low-fat diet and was surprised to find that it didn’t exist. However, research to the contrary was becoming more common. In one study (
“My clients would come to me and say, ‘Look, this low fat thing isn’t working for me … I’m going to try Atkins,’” he explained. “And we’d go apoplectic. We would go, ‘You can’t do that! That is the most unhealthy diet in the world! You’re going to eat all that fat, and your cholesterol is going to go up, and you’ll diet of a heart attack!’… But they did it anyway. And guess what? They didn’t die.” In fact, these clients reported a reduction in belly fat, cholesterol, triglyceride levels and blood pressure, as well as an increase in energy.
Dr. Bowden began seeking out research supporting a low-fat diet and was surprised to find that it didn’t exist. However, research to the contrary was becoming more common. In one study (
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