On today's episode of JIMMY RANTS on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy takes a deep dive into a new study by Dr. David Ludwig.

“I’ve heard all my career that a low-carb diet is just another version of a low-calorie diet.”

 - Jimmy Moore

When I first got into the nutritional health community, I remember hearing people who were advocating for the Atkins low-carb diet talking about it providing a metabolic advantage over other diets. What exactly was the advantage? There was an increased total energy expenditure (TEE)—the number of calories burned—of about 150-200 calories a day when you eat a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Flash forward to 2020, now we have a new meta-analysis research paper that confirms it. ⁣
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In this episode of JIMMY RANTS on The LLVLC Show, I read from a study conducted by Boston Children’s Hospital obesity researcher Dr. David Ludwig and his team published in the December 3, 2020 issue of The Journal of Nutrition. It’s a response paper to another meta-analysis that claimed low-carb diets decrease TEE. But the average duration of the low-carb diets in those studies used in that meta-analysis was just four days. ⁣
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So Dr. Ludwig reanalyzed the numbers while adding in some longer duration studies of low-carb diets on TEE. What he discovered in his research was an important factor for people attempting to eat low-carb on why they work. Get the full details about what was found in the study in today’s episode! ⁣