This one goes out to my acute and cardiac PTs! The debate about low carb vs high carb (or just balanced carbs) continues to rage on social media and podcasts. A new study highlights some potentially harmful data for those on a low carb / high fat diet and higher rates of cardiac events. Enjoy the video, the transcript is below, and here's the publication. 

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   Transcript:

Good afternoon, everyone. I am Dr. Wells from Nutritional Physical Therapy. I'm here in St. Augustine Beach.

Just had a beautiful rainstorm and now it's finally (0:08) cooled off. Anyhow, just wanted to give you guys an update on a new research article that I read (0:13) about. This one is titled Low Carbohydrate High Fat Diets and Their Associated Cardiovascular (0:21) Risks.

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By Dr. Sean M. Wells, DPT, PT, OCS, ATC/L, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, CNPT, Cert-DN

The Holidays Are Coming!

We have Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Passover/Kwanza, and New Years coming. Data show that most Americans will on average gain about 0.4% of body fat during this time, most coming just after Christmas. While 0.4% does not seem like much fat, consider some quick math: a 175 lb man would essentially gain 3/4ths of a pound during the holidays. This small weight gain seems insignificant unless you add this weight gain with other gaining periods in the year, and compound the weight gain every holiday season. In other words, consider if this 175 lb 20 year old gained 0.4% every year for the next 20 years. This would equate to an extra 7 lbs of fat just gained in a few months over 20 years!

How does any of this matter for physical therapy practice? Time and time again my team and I are asked, how can we as physical therapists (PTs) educate our clients to lose weight? We are also told: I ...