New Obesity Hypothesis - A Talk by Dr. Michael Eades

cristi (70)in #obesity • 6 years ago

Michael Eades, author of Protein Power, and a long time advocate of low-carbohydrate diets, has recently given a talk at 'Low Carb Down Under' and these folks posted the talk on their Youtube channel.

Dr. Eades, like me, has a background in Civil Engineering (Bachelors Degree), but unlike me, he also has an MD from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences.

Then:

"In 1996, Dr. Eades co-authored (with Mary Dan Eades, MD), their first joint book project 'Protein Power', which became a national and international bestseller, selling over 3 million copies and spending 63 weeks on the NY Times Best Seller List." [source]

In this talk Dr. Eades takes an interesting approach for obesity. If you're into this stuff, enjoy the talk.

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6 years ago in #obesity by cristi (70)

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kiwideb (67) 6 years ago (edited)

Fascinating presentation. His final recommendations were no surprise:

Cut the carbs
Avoid linoleic acid
Eat at home more
Eat more saturated fats

But what I learnt, even though I couldn't totally follow the chemistry, was:

Saturated fat --> Return electron transfer --> keeps nutrition in circulation instead of in the cells --> Reduces hunger
Linoleic acid --> No return electron transfer --> all the excess nutrients into the cell --> doesn't reduce hunger, effectively ACTS LIKE supercharged carbs, more obesity

When carbs are eaten with saturated fat, requires way less calories to reach satiety, then carbs with unsaturated fat.

So to answer his initial question - why did carb consumption suddenly skyrocket around the early 80s? - his hypothesis is that it was driven by the increase in vegetable oil consumption around that time.

Any major points that I missed, or got wrong?

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