Cliff describes why reducing carbohydrate to lower than the current recommended dietary guidelines may be of benefit.

1. How you can Benefit from a
Lower-Carb Diet
Presented by Cliff Harvey ND

2. © 2014 Cliff Harvey
It was 1998…
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3. …and we were taught certain things…
Carbs =
Protein =
Fat =
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4. “13. That energy balance be
maintained by consuming a
diet containing at least 55%
total energy from
carbohydrate”
(FAO, 1998)
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5. Does this
recommendation make
sense for most of our
clients?
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6. Why would you prescribe high
amounts of an (almost) pure
fuel substrate to someone that
isn’t:
a) Able to utilise that fuel
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and
b) Isn’t very active?

7. Early Experiments with LCHF…
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Quack
Heretic!
Murderer!....?
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9. Our Current Dietary
Guidelines Aren’t Working
(We’re looking
at the wrong
stuff!)
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10. National Center for Health Statistics (US). Health, United States, 2008: With Special Feature on the Health of Young Adults.
2009 Mar. Chartbook.
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11. Current dietary guidelines:
• Overly focussed on calories
• Not focussed on quality of food
• Confusing for lay-people
• Lack scientific credibility (i.e.
vilification of fat and sodium)
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12. "A calorie is a calorie" violates
the second law of
thermodynamics
Feinman & Fine, 2004
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13. Qualitative, ‘real-food’
(Paleo, Primal,
Mediterranean Diets) show
positive outcomes for
weight-loss, diabetes and
cardiac risk factors
irrespective of calories
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14. Ad libitum LCHF
diets perform as
well or better
than calorie
restricted diets
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15. Total fat content of the
diet and saturated fat
have little correlation
with mortality or
morbidity
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16. Sodium reduction to the
recommended level
appears to worsen
outcomes
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17. If this isn’t working… Should you try this?
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18. Why Lower-Carbohydrate?
Lower Carb Higher Carb
Safe and Appropriate Range?
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How You Can Benefit from a
Lower-Carbohydrate Approach
Improved body-composition
Eat as much as you feel like!
Improved stability of energy
Increased cognitive ability
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20. Finding ‘Carb-Appropriate
Nutrition™’
Points to Consider:
• Carbohydrate intakes are activity dependent
How active are you?
• Carbohydrate intakes are ‘metabolic-state’ dependent
Are you in optimal metabolic health?
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21. Am I Metabolically Disordered?
(Thanks Gary Fettke!)
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Walk towards a wall
= All Good!
What hits the wall first?
= Metabolic ‘Disorder’

22. Body
composition
Observed and
Perceived
Wellness
Ratings
Blood Profiles
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23. If you’re
metabolically
disordered you
are starving…
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24. Functional
Tissue
(i.e.
Muscle)
Adipose
(Fat)
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25. Fat cells can become so good
at storing nutrients that the
rest of your body is
starving…even though you are
putting on fat!
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26. Is being satiated and
stable the natural state of
the human animal?
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Wheat
Sugar
Gluten
grains
Other
grains
Legumes
Tubers
Fruits
Step-wise restriction of foods based on metabolic state
Start here
Or start here…

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What’s the ‘Real’ Difference?
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29. © 2014 Cliff Harvey
The Commonality of all Good
Diets
NATURAL
WHOLE
UNPROCESSED
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30. Learn more about LCHF and
Performance Nutrition
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