So how is eating potatoes, rice, citrus, working out for people?
Some medically inclined folks, including Ray Peat (raypeat.com), also including Kurt Harris (archevore.com eating plan formerly called PaNu), have eating suggestions that include certain definitely-carby fare.
Peat's suggestions are all about hormones, not carbs, so he's got a different basis for his views. He is not a starch fan, but for reasons you'd have to read his articles to grok, recommends or at least allows potatoes, wholemeal corn, and citrus.
Harris's ideas are more a concept model than a specific, so he doesn't really emphasize anything except whole foods, quality 'core' foods of animal products, and that some people do fine with up to 35% carbs, which he suggests be from starches such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, white rice, wholemeal cornmeal, plaintains, bananas, and that citrus fruit is probably one of the better ones.
Ray and Kurt have different reasons but they do overlap on the potatoes, wholemeal corn and citrus, I notice. They both seem to agree that a strongly grass-fed animal-foods diet (including dairy) is the base. And to avoid grains.
I only briefly experimented with a little Peat eating, mostly to the degree of occasionally having coconut-oil-fried salted potatoes, fresh squeezed orange juice, and milk, all of which had been completely out of my life for years. (Trivial sidenote: times I've been off lowcarb, I haven't eaten the foods I loved best that it prevented, like those, but instead crapfood; why is that...)
Since several people have now been on a semi-lowcarb eating plan that includes starches -- the arguably safe starches -- I am curious:
Is it working for you?
Have you lost weight, or was that not your goal anyway?
Have you gained weight, enough to see as a problem not just re-nutrient-ing?
Do you feel ok?
What do you think about the above foods in the diet (which de facto will make a plan semi-low carb unless they are miniscule)?
PJ
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