Thu, Sep-17-09, 20:38
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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There are people in the world who have done well on a high carb, high fat, sufficient protein diet. But they ate that way from childhood. Whether the damage of a lifetime of SAD can be reversed through this same diet, that's another question. That's assuming there actually is any damage, I guess. It could just be a matter of genetic expression, in a lot of cases.
The theory that all carb is poison, to all people, doesn't sit well with me. Taubes points out that you can't assume, just because adding vitamin c to the diet may prevent scurvy, that insufficient vitamin c was the cause of scurvy in the first place. Switching to a very high fat, moderate protein diet reversed some "toxic" effects. Borderline high blood pressure, back pain, gut fat, etc. But I don't know for a certainty that it was the presence of the carb in my diet, or the (relative) absence of saturated fat, or the presence of trans fats, or omega 6 fatty acids, or the lack of any one of the nutrients rightnow is experimenting with. Even going back to the vitamin c, if carbohydrates cause the body to waste the stuff, this may just mean we were meant to eat carbohydrate foods that happen to be relatively high in vitamin c. That a diet that approximates the fasting metabolism is sparing of certain vitamins is after all pretty much a necessity after all, otherwise we'd die of deficiencies long before starvation.
That's what I like about eating a near-carnivorous diet; my biggest dilemma is whether or not I should eat the bones.
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