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Vegan Eco Atkins?! Getting Rid of the Blubber W/ Seitan Sausages & Soy Burgers. You CAN Lose Weight & Get Health(ier) on a Gluten-Laden "Vegan Paleo" Diet

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YamYol :D - The perfect diet food *rofl* ➲ "delicious" gluten-laden Seitan Sausages are apparently still healthier than pizza, burgers and fries. Let me ask you a question: Do you believe that there is a such a thing as a vegan Paleo or Eco Atkins diet? No? Well, me neither, at least until, I read about the latter, i.e. Eco-Atkins , in the title of a long-term (6-months) weight loss study by David J A Jenkins and his colleagues from the University of Toronto that was recently published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal BMJ Open (Jenkins. 2014). If you take a look at the actual macros of the alleged "low-carbohydrate vegan diet", it's ~40% carbohydrate content and its relatively high protein content (~23%), as well as the focus on high quality plant food this whole thing does yet rather look like "vegan Paleo" than "Eco Atkin". The actual diet looked more like "Vegan Paleo" w/ tons of soy & gluten Vegan paleo with ...
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5% Calorie Restriction & Longterm Dieting Make You Fat & Insulin Resistant. Plus: Model Predicts Weight Loss Based On Number of Weight Lost & Diet Pill Use On Previous Diets

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Image 1: "Bikini Body Now!" , headlines like this and the unfair suggestion that by following diet X or taking supplement Y you would make it onto the cover of a magazine like that are part of the problem why diets fail, people get discouraged and caught in the diet trap. The issue of yoyo dieting and the existence and non-existence of a body weight or body fat set-point has been an issue in more than a handful of SuppVersity posts, already ( click here to read more). None of the studies I cited (and not even one of those I have read) did yet provide a conclusive and experimentally verifiable answer to the question whether or not there is such a thing as a "set point" and how or even if dieting influences the latter. What common "wisdom" would suggest, though, is that dieting will ruin your metabolism, so that both the post-dieting weight rebound, as well as future problems with losing weight would be programmed. So the question is: Can you diet...
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