Case Reports and Reviews: Open Access

Effective Proposal of Food Pyramid for Understanding of Low Carbohydrate Diet (LCD)

Hiroshi BANDO

Abstract

There have been several types of dietary approaches, such as low-fat diet (calorie restriction, CR), Mediterranean diet, and low carbohydrate diet (LCD). LCD was started by Atkins and Bernstein, and LCD in Japan was initiated by authors and collaborators. We proposed petite-LCD, standard-LCD and super-LCD for practical use through the activity of Japan LCD promotion association (JLCDPA). Furthermore, seven golden rules for LCD and food pyramid for LCD were presented, which were also beneficial for patients and usual people for providing educational information. Our experience would be hopefully to become some reference for future practice.

Keywords: Food pyramid; Low-carbohydrate diet, Japan LCD promotion association, Non-communicable diseases