On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Adrienne Smith wrote:

>  Are you suggesting that I was ridiculing someone??  I merely clarified that
> I was looking for actual references or opinions to back up Sears' assertion.

The trouble is that many of the studies of ketosis are in the
context of near-starvation diets, which is a confounding
variable.  There have been rather few studies of eucaloric or
just moderately hypocaloric diets comparing ketosis to other carb
intake levels.  One is the Charlotte Young study, the results of
which contradict Sears.

Charlotte Young, Weight Loss on 1800 kcal Diets varying in
Carbohydrate Content. Am J of Clin Nut 1971 290-6.

Group     #  Carb    Protein Fat     Weight    Fat          LBM
             (g)     (g)     (g)     loss (kg) loss (kg)    loss (kg)
High      1  104     115      103     8.5      6.6          1.9
          2                           13.9     10.2         2.7

Medium    1   60     115      122     13.4     9.9          3.5
          2                           11.6     9.9          1.7
          3                           11.8     10.9         0.9

Low       1   30     115      133              Not measured
          2                           15.3     14.7         0.6
          3                           16.0     15.0         1.0

As you can see, the people with the lowest carb consumption, at
ketogenic levels, lost the least LBM.

Ironically, Young (now deceased) also repeated the concerns about
ketosis, in the text of this study.

Todd Moody
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